The Pictures Speak for Themselves or I Haven't Finished My Journaling

[Mother's Day Kindergarten Program 09-sketch from Page Maps]

As part of my on-going quest to keep as current as possible on my chronological scrapbooking, I jumped into my spring pictures. Spring was cold, damp and cloudy so I didn't have a ton of events to scrap. I spent a full day and evening at the big-box scrapbook store and cranked out everything after Easter.

We saw cold weather for the fishing opener this year. So no cute photos of us in the boat on the lake enjoying the sunshine. Instead here is Olivia bundled up in her winter gear and her Barbie pole. No fish, just freezing wind.


[Fishing Opener 09-sketch by Chris Greiser]

After that comes the birthday pictures. I really held back this year, and ended up with only three layouts for the whole celebration. I'm embarrassed at how many pictures were sent to the storage box, but it seemed like I really didn't get very good pictures even with my new camera.


[Birthday at the Park 09]


[Birthday Party Games 09]

Overall, putting the pages together was pretty quick. This last one with the birthday crown was made with the sketch from the free page kit that that comes with the evening crop session. Now it's been over a month and these pages are still not in the book. You can clearly see the empty spaces so carefully reserved on every page - no journaling.

I know, I know, it should be simple. right now getting the stories written out and printed on nice vellum and coordinating cardstock just isn't happening. But the layouts are nice-I'm hoping the stories will come to me sometime soon. Chance are I won't be able to actually scrap any new pages until these are done.


[Birthday Crown 09-sketch from Archiver's]