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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 11, 2017 13:58:16 GMT
Last weekend was my BFF's mom's funeral.  She was an avid scrapbooker and crafter and she was an eager travel companion on many, many of our adventures. I helped BFF and her family put together photo boards for the visitation prior to the service and also a slide show of photos. We looked and looked through so much of her stuff searching for some of the many, MANY completed pages and projects that we KNEW she had made so we could share them with family and friends and aside from a few finished mini books we came up mostly empty.  Sigh. There had to have been at least 50 12x12 albums in her stuff--all EMPTY.  We had no idea where in her three rooms full of crafting stuff her finished pages were stashed. So anyway, my long winded PSA is this: if you scrapbook and want people to look at and enjoy your pages and albums after you're gone, please leave them in a place where your loved ones know where they are and will find them! Especially if you're like me (and obviously my friend) and tend to make the pages and rarely get around to putting them into albums. Also, if there are printed photos that are important to you and your family, those should also be somewhere easily locatable and not stashed away in some "safe" place. BFF's dad was pretty distraught because he didn't know where their wedding photos ended up. They're in the house somewhere, but he had no clue where. PSA over, that is all. |
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Post by sleepingbooty on Sept 11, 2017 14:08:53 GMT
Condolences to your friend and their family, crazy4scraps. It must be heartbreaking and stressful to go through the realisation that you have no clue where precious photos are in the immediate aftermath of a loved one's passing. I can only imagine the sense of panic and despair when you can't find them and are running out of obvious places to look. In an attempt to find some consolation by looking at photos of and scrap pages made by the person you just lost, you discover you can't locate them and have no idea when/if you will.  Thank you for the PSA. I have nowhere to hide these important photos since we have limited living space but I'm still logging your experience in a corner of my brain just in case I ever have my own craft corner. I hope your friend's father soon locates those important memories... |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 14:16:15 GMT
Oh gosh how sad. Sending cyber hugs.
My completed pages are in a stack in the living room--reminding me to stop buying supplies and start buying albums! This is a good reminder to do just that!
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Post by JaneB on Sept 11, 2017 15:07:32 GMT
My condolences to your friend, the family and you.
The reminder is a good one. While last year and this year have photo books, that's it. Everything else is on my computer. My husband might know where to find them but he won't like my organisation!
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 11, 2017 15:07:37 GMT
Thanks, sleepingbooty. We're all just devastated by the loss, and that feeling was only compounded when we realized we weren't going to find them in time. BFF and I will likely turn most of it up eventually when we go through all of her stuff, but it still would have been nice to be able to have them available for the various family and friends who all came together for the service. Which reminds me, related PSA #2. If you have scrapping/crafting stuff that you've paid a good amount of money for and your family has no clue what the stuff is worth, PUT IT IN YOUR WILL where you want it to go! When we were looking through photos at BFF's parent's house, her dad said something to the effect of, "All this stuff can't be worth that much. After you girls take what you want, I'll just drop the rest off at Goodwill..."  BFF and I just looked at each other and she said, "No dad, it's actually worth quite a bit, and we'll do what we can to sell whatever we can't use." DH and I have another friend whose sister was a big time scrapbooker who passed away unexpectedly a couple years ago. She had no spouse or kids, so her family was left trying to figure out what to do with her scrapping stuff which included a LOT of expensive CM tools. None of them had any clue what the stuff was worth, and they were going to drop the lot of it off at Goodwill. I told them to find one of her friends who scrapped with her and have that person either help go through it or take the stuff and decide what to do with it. People who don't scrap or craft don't have the first clue how much all of this stuff is worth! |
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Post by LisaDV on Sept 11, 2017 15:40:50 GMT
I'm so sorry for your loss and for your bff's family.
Thank you for the PSA.
I'll add important paperwork should also be easily found.
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Post by grammadee on Sept 11, 2017 15:52:42 GMT
My sympathy for your loss and that of you BFF. I hope you find her pages so you can go through them while you put them into the albums...
I scrapbook the now, and while I am a pretty disorganized person, my pages are put into albums pretty quickly after their creation. I write a date at least once on every 2 page spread, and put them in albums in chronological order. What I haven't done consistently is label the albums by year and season, but "only" have the most recent couple of years to do.
When I am gone, have fun looking for almost anything else in my house, but my scrapbook albums are front and centre and easy to find!
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 11, 2017 16:28:19 GMT
my sympathies to your BFF, her family, and to you.
They're both good PSAs... on the one hand, I kind of don't want to THINK about the total amount of $$$ that I have sunk into my craft room (I'd probably be appalled at the total number) but on the other hand, if anyone DID need to know-- in a case of a death, or an insurance emergency-- I would have no idea. So, that's something I probably should tackle. We don't have any kids, so I really should put together some paperwork with suggestions of what to do with the stuff, or who to contact about it that could help distribute or sell it.
I hope you can find the layouts- Mine are partly in scrapbooks, and partly in storage boxes, because I'm in the middle of re-organizing them by topic. Problem is, I've been in the middle of that project for about 2 years now. I should just sit down and finish it!! I also have a TON of layouts partly / mostly finished, without any journaling. I don't know what I'm waiting for; maybe I think I need to write something extra-profound on them, or something, I don't know. But I need to complete that project, too.
Very good PSAs for crafters.
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Post by papersilly on Sept 11, 2017 17:18:07 GMT
Which reminds me, related PSA #2. If you have scrapping/crafting stuff that you've paid a good amount of money for and your family has no clue what the stuff is worth, PUT IT IN YOUR WILL where you want it to go! When we were looking through photos at BFF's parent's house, her dad said something to the effect of, "All this stuff can't be worth that much. After you girls take what you want, I'll just drop the rest off at Goodwill..." BFF and I just looked at each other and she said, "No dad, it's actually worth quite a bit, and we'll do what we can to sell whatever we can't use." DH knows to let my sister and nieces take what they want first. whatever is leftover, he is to pack up and ship to a rural elementary school overseas. i've sent boxes of books to this school for their early reading program and i'd like them to have my craft stuff (and i have a room full) for art projects that the school can't otherwise afford to fund. |
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Post by anniefb on Sept 11, 2017 18:02:46 GMT
Sorry for your loss and thanks for the reminder!
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Post by Deleted on Sept 11, 2017 18:35:57 GMT
That is really strange. Can't wait to find out where you find them!
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 11, 2017 20:50:28 GMT
Thanks, sleepingbooty . We're all just devastated by the loss, and that feeling was only compounded when we realized we weren't going to find them in time. BFF and I will likely turn most of it up eventually when we go through all of her stuff, but it still would have been nice to be able to have them available for the various family and friends who all came together for the service.
Which reminds me, related PSA #2. If you have scrapping/crafting stuff that you've paid a good amount of money for and your family has no clue what the stuff is worth, PUT IT IN YOUR WILL where you want it to go! When we were looking through photos at BFF's parent's house, her dad said something to the effect of, "All this stuff can't be worth that much. After you girls take what you want, I'll just drop the rest off at Goodwill..." BFF and I just looked at each other and she said, "No dad, it's actually worth quite a bit, and we'll do what we can to sell whatever we can't use." DH and I have another friend whose sister was a big time scrapbooker who passed away unexpectedly a couple years ago. She had no spouse or kids, so her family was left trying to figure out what to do with her scrapping stuff which included a LOT of expensive CM tools. None of them had any clue what the stuff was worth, and they were going to drop the lot of it off at Goodwill. I told them to find one of her friends who scrapped with her and have that person either help go through it or take the stuff and decide what to do with it. People who don't scrap or craft don't have the first clue how much all of this stuff is worth! When I go on vacation with my family, I always put the name/phone number of my good scrapping buddy on my craft table with an in case of emergency note. She would know what to do with it. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 11, 2017 21:21:17 GMT
That is really strange. Can't wait to find out where you find them! Actually it's not when you consider she had three rooms FULL of scrapping and crafting stuff in various boxes, bins, drawers, cabinets and bags.  Let's just say that shopping was her therapy! BFF and I have a big job ahead of us to go through it all. |
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Post by crazy4scraps on Sept 11, 2017 21:30:25 GMT
BFF knows where my albums with finished pages are, I'm pretty sure my DD knows too. As for all my stuff, DD gets it all, and anything she doesn't want can be donated to the elementary school. I want it to go to kids who can use it for art projects.
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 11, 2017 23:26:31 GMT
Mine are all stored on two large ladder shelves in the family room. They are visible to everyone. Books I am currently working on are in my scrap room.
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She was an avid scrapbooker and crafter and she was an eager travel companion on many, many of our adventures. I helped BFF and her family put together photo boards for the visitation prior to the service and also a slide show of photos. 
Sigh. There had to have been at least 50 12x12 albums in her stuff--all EMPTY. 
We had no idea where in her three rooms full of crafting stuff her finished pages were stashed.
Let's just say that shopping was her therapy! BFF and I have a big job ahead of us to go through it all.