August 2021 - Goals/Plans/Progress/Accomplishments

- Complete at least 10 County Courthouse layouts
- Organize my supply of handmade cards
- Complete all the kits I have purchased by not completed yet
- Spend at least 10 hours working on my cataloging of stamps and dies
- Put all completed layouts (2 Iris containers) into alumbs

OMG it’s August!

As usual id like to stay current in my planner. I hope to keep the mojo I’ve had going as July spreads have been some of my favorite.

And I’d like to keep plugging away at the pictures I printed last month.

I have another in person craft class in 2 weeks I can’t wait.

In August I plan to

-finish my #joyinjuly album
-make 5 Christmas cards (still experimenting/dabbling with stamping)
-decide on layouts for my June bike trip
-write down a list of layouts that I want to create

I didn't finish all my July goals so I will be less ambitious this month. To make it look like more I am going to spread them out.

Honeymoon Photobook
- Day 10 (half done)
- Day 11
- Day 12
- Day 13
- Day 14 (traveling home so few pictures)

Birthday Album
- 1st make and print
- 3rd make and print
- 4th make and print

Goals for the month are:

- Keep up with Project Life
- Make 2-3 12x12 layouts
- Make 2 birthday cards (one for mom, the other for my niece)
- Start on some Christmas cards

My oldest (7) should FINALLY be back in school full-time at the end of this month, so I'm crossing my fingers for some more free time during the day.

Already August!

This month I need to scrap the end of (virtual) school pics I took from June. I want to be able to start fresh for the new school year starting in a little less than a month.

I have just recently started our zoo scrapbook. I did go with a 12x12 album. I've decided that I want this to be a very embellished, and to have lots of fun with it.

I want to:
*do the August Sheetload of cards, hopefully using the CTMH stamps and paper I was given
*keep up with Project Life - pictures are on order, so put them in the pockets, embellish, journal and put in anything I kept to add to the pocket
*make at least two shaker Christmas cards
*decide if I want a manual die cutting machine or not (space versus how much I'll use it, that's the issue)

Updated my original post - got some things done so far. The school papers is going to be a big project!

My goals:

* finish up some albums that are nearly done
1. 2019 PL - literally only has one layout needed so I need to stop being a slacker and just do it!
2. 2020 PL - 3 pages left to complete. I'd like to do at least one of these (although all 3 would be better)
* finish the half done page in my current PL album that I put away even though I still need to do the journaling
* continue working through the Allison Davis 6x6 sketches
* finish at least one of the two outstanding Shimelle half and half sketches

Aside from these I want to keep my PL album from this year reasonably up to date. I've only got half a dozen pages at most to be completely up to date and I have journaling done for most of that saved in a word doc, so this should be pretty achievable.

I ordered July prints, and they arrived, so my goal today is to separate two zoo trips (taken that month) into page protectors. Then maybe I'll add background paper, embellishments, etc.

I still need to start/finish the last day of school layouts.

I'm maybe/ probably going to split my pandemic album between two albums, 2020 & 2021. Just one album makes it about to burst.

I have lots of layouts in progress that I'd like to finish, to clear them from my shelves.

Yesterday I sorted July zoo pics into page protectors, then stored them in the album to work on another day.

Finished and put away some everyday layouts. Identified which in progress layouts to work on next.

Started last day of school layouts, but then was promptly beckoned from my scrapping to go check out Lego creations, and one thing led to another, and that was the end of my scrapping for the day. But a good day.


I'm excited to pull the zoo album out again and start picking background paper for each layout.

Also excited to start putting together July pandemic layouts. Probably 2. I'm glad I separated the years. I read through all the layouts I already made, and it's incredible how this emergency has progressed. I'm very happy that I wrote journaling down in the moment because of how quickly things changed week to week and month to month.

I'm going to continue with my pandemic albums until I feel they're done. Just will go with my gut on that one.

Yesterday I ordered 12x12 page protectors, as I'm running low.