Hello Everyone.... I am about 4 years behind on organizing pictures into photo albums and feel overwhelmed and don't know where to begin. I need some suggestions from the scrapbookers out there or any of you who are just really good at this. Where do I begin? Also, any suggestions on where or how to store the homemade mothers day cards, hand prints, sweet pictures etc. I do try to only save the schoolwork that is original work by the kids (not poems copied off the board) and I have bought a school years memory book. But any other tips would be very apprecited!
B.,
I would start out trying to organize your pictures into the categories that fit you and your kids. You can store them in shoe boxes or you can get photo boxes from AC Moores or Target. Once you are organized starting to scrapbook is so much fun. And with 3 boys you are bond to have a ton of great memories. Have fun! Let me know how it turns out
Well, you can start out by organizing the photos by categories and putting them into a box. Label each box with the child's name. Go through the photos and pick out the one's you really like and put them in the box. The others your not sure of or don't want keep in sepereate piles. When your done with all the photos (and this may take a while) what I like to do is group them by age. Starting with when the child was the youngest. You can also seperate the photos into trips, school outings, vacations and holidays. Once you have everything seperated and grouped by category, you can begin putting them into the albums.
Hope this helps!!
Get a laminator (I think that you can get them fairly inexpensively at Staples, etc.) and a couple of those big folios that hold kids' art work. We've gotten them through the HeartSong catalog. Good luck and take it slow! That's a big job!!
C.
I have been scrapbooking for 10 years now, and the best advice I can give is to get yourself a bunch of photo boxes (I got a number of them from Target a little over a year ago for $1 each). I labeled them for each child. My oldest daughter, 13, has 3 boxes. Baby, Preschool, and Schoolage. My son has 2, Baby and Preschool, and my youngest has 2, Baby and Preschool. I started from the youngest and worked my way up to the oldest. I also have a box for each holiday we celebrate, one for birthdays, one for family (that is just our immediate), one for extended family, and one for friends. I sorted the pics out by figuring what "theme" scrapbooks I wanted and went from there. Also, don't let yourself get overwhelmed. Do just 15 minutes to a half hour a night. If you are able to get a block of child free time (like a few hours) and want to jump on it, that is fine, but don't pressure yourself. It will get done, sometimes it just takes babysteps.
As for the school work and memories. I take pictures of 3D things the kids make for me, I save the cards, and will put them in the scrapbooks too, just make a pocket for the particular holiday and put them in it. For schoolwork, we only save one a month, sometimes less for the scrapbooks. We give drawings and such away to family members too.
HTH,
K.
