April 10, 2008

I have joined an online scrapbooking group. There is a challenge going on in this group to help us use what we have in our stash without spending money on new things and get what we have organized. One of the things they were talking about on this group is making page kits ahead of time so you've got several layouts just waiting to be made.

I decided to give the page kit thing a try. Tonight, I put together 10 page kits with pictures. I started with the pictures. This is usually how I start a page anyway. I pick my card stock and paper colors according to my pictures, so I figured this was the best way to go for me. Now, I have 10 pages waiting to be created. It took me about 2 1/2 hours to do this because I went through almost all of my stuff to add things to the kits. I put more than what I'll need in each kit because I like to change my mind and I like to build as I go.

As I was doing this I decided I really need to purge a couple of my boxes and I need to do something different with my ribbons. My daughter and I just went through the ribbons not long ago and straightened them up and they are already a mess again. So, hopefully this weekend I'll be able to get that accomplished.

Other things that happened today: Our dishwasher finally came (the right one), Michael finally got his truck back, and I had a very enjoyable conversation with my MIL.