Current project(s)

I just bought 2 stamps and a die from a stamp store in my area I never heard of, and she's been here for 4 years. Makes me wonder what else I've missed.
It's called Dolce Impressions. She said she does mostly online orders. www.dolceimpressions.com
So on this rainy Saturday I'm going to go play in my room.

I love threads like this! It helps me write down what I'm actually doing. I have many projects half done and basically in limbo.

I started a redo of my wedding album and it is 3/4 finished. I am unmotivated to finish it because other projects are more interesting. I will say I am very happy with the redo. I looked at it the other day on our anniversary and it is beautiful now, just very unfinished - mostly the reception.

I started my years living in Arizona and am about 80% done. The photos that are left, a big stack actually, did not have paper and embellies that seemed to fit when I was working on it. I'd like to finish it up and put it away. I have 2 completed 8.5x11 albums of it already.

My DGD photos are ongoing and overwhelming. Yesterday I moved all of her albums back to my house because her parents wanted to use the shelf for her art projects. She is 2 years and 4 months old. I have TWENTY completed 8.5x11 albums for her and have not finished half of last year! I want to slow down on her photos but I can't. Capturing her growing makes me so happy. Her pages are so fun to work on. I am going to mix up her photos with other stuff and try to make a dent in both.

My DS2. I scrap for him and Ds1. I don't scrap for myself anymore. Everything goes into either their books or DGD. He moved to Indiana, moved back, then moved to California. He sends me photos because he knows they make me happy. I want to scrap them. It helps me preserve his story and makes me feel closer to him. When I do birthdays, for example, I scrap for all 3 of them. Of course usually DS2 is only present on facetime so he may only get one page where someone else may get 10 pages! Last crop I did the last of his 2019 layouts and really enjoyed it.

DS1 started watching baby videos of himself, now that he has a toddler. Capturing that time is amazing to watch now, bad quality not withstanding. That's how I feel looking at my scrapbooks. Like I have captured history to enjoy any time I want. I printed up a little bit about George Floyd and the trial. I am putting it in DGD's book. Someday she may be amazed at how things were when she was little. I just found out women weren't allowed to run in the Boston Marathon until I was in high school. I never knew that!

Ok I rambled. But these are my obvious projects. So many. I have many many more to work on, but those are the ones on my radar.

I am getting ready to start a small album when LOAD starts May 1st. Have the book and protectors. Collecting photos, papers, other items.

Need to make a bunch of cards, which I should do this week so I am not in a panic in May when the actually NEED to be sent.

I want to play with my new dies and stencils I just picked up yesterday. The kite dies, I printed an 8x10 of dgs flying a kite, so can probably start there. Maybe I can use the others on my cards?

Signed up for Shimelle's half & half class, and am enjoying her videos, but have not attempted to apply any of them yet. Have printed off the PDF's which I am keeping with the sketches I have yet to take on.

Oh, Linda, you said ACTIVELY WORKING ON? All in my head so far...

This weekend I’m working on my April OLW prompt, also added the Pieces of Me portrait challenge to my album.

Also trying to finish all my in progress WITL albums and setting up my album for this year. It’s super fun and I’m finding it highly motivating. Can’t wait to do this project again this year. Really loving Ali’s mini kit this year.

I’m working on a themed album and it’s a big one. I’m thinking about setting it aside for a while so I can scrap other topics for a while. I’m getting a bit bored of the theme and since I’m doing batch scrapping I’m not really getting any sense of accomplishment at this point.

I'm working on my 2021 pl album more than anything at the moment. I had been focusing on getting the pocket pages caught up a bit and let the 12x12 pages slide so now that I'm motivated to work on layouts again I'm trying to fill the gaps.

I've also been slowly working on finishing the last few pages needed for my 2019 pl album, which now only has one page left to go. This is another one I'm hoping to finish with Shimelle's class.

I haven't worked on a thing since our grandson arrived 3 weeks ago. But, that's ok. We are having so much fun! I'll have a pile of projects to do after he leaves in another week.

I need to get prettied up and have DH take some photos of us doing his school work. I am NOT smarter than a 7th grader. Who the heck remembers what a prepositional phrase is? And there was no DNA to study when I was a 7th grader 50 years ago, LOL.

I’m mostly working on pages of my granddaughter. I’m trying to stay current with her but also going back and filling in any gaps I find. I’m enjoying using Scrap-room kits and bought the new Fairy line from Doodlebug as well. 

I tend to forget what I already have and order duplicates - dies and punches mostly. So I've made a binder with samples of all my punches and am currently working on my dies. Alphas and numbers are done. Next up, basic shapes.

On the bright side, my daughter LOVES when I order duplicates because they end up in a goody bag at her house!