April 2022 goals/plans/accomplishments/progress

Here is my list for Apri. Lots of things that won't take a ton of time, I just need to do them. I'll add to it as I think of things.

--organzie scraps so that they are usable
--get box of photos to send to Legacy.
--send photos to Legacy.
--make Easter cards for my sons
--March PL
--April OLW
--Make 1 layout
--work on stamp binder
--make 32 cards for Spring Swap
--mail cards for swap
--organize chipboard 

Keep current with 2022 weekly project life type album
I have been doing great on my PL album, but I’ve been “stuck” starting the other two albums I want to do and I just need to do one page in each to break the ice.

One album is an all about me one with AE pieces of the past, home, and me stamps as jumping off points.

The other album is one dd1 said she’d love if I did- taking older photos and some newer ones and making an album about things that are our our family’s “things” - like special vacation places, traditions we have, old toys and games, that kind of thing. She said she’d love to have all those types of memories together with my perspective.

I’m excited about both these projects but just need to START.

I am hoping since I have one long weekend this month I'll get things done

1. Set up and try my Brother Scan N Cut
2. Make Journal Cards from my pins on Pinterest
3. Make 10 cards for my stock pile
4. Paint at least 10 rocks for hiding around town (happy rocks)

for the month of April, my plan are the following:

-April Mini book (Jan-March done)
-A4 Scrapbook Layout
-12x12 Layout (few more pages and my album is done)
-PL pages

I have one more stinkin' page left of my Florida Fall Break album so I'll wrap that up this month. I was really hoping we'd make some fun memories over Spring Break to scrap next month but I got sick Friday, it was cold and snowy this weekend (!), is supposed to rain almost every day next week, and then my kids will be with their dad next weekend. Sigh.

This month my primary focus is going to (hopefully) be getting some love/spark/mojo back for scrapping. I've been doing this without a break since 2003 so I can't imagine not doing it... but at the same time, I'm bored with how & what I scrap. I'm shaking things up with the way I do PL this year, which is helping, but I also want to explore mixing & matching supplies (which is the biggest drawback for me to digital scrapping as I can't just lay them all out in front of me and see what goes together) and making my own kits a la Shimelle's BOBW + focusing on creating more "everyday"/moment scrapping (which is my fave) vs. event scrapping. I don't use Ali supplies but I like the broad themes of her kits and am thinking of making a list of her recent themes and then brainstorming ways to scrap about/around those themes that speak to me.

If there's time, I'd like to start helping my BF go through his photo collection which, as far as I know, is all stored on the cloud but otherwise not organized or sorted and rife with duplicates, blurry shots, etc. Knowing him, there are likely dozens upon dozens of the same or nearly the same landscape photo that could be deleted.  I'd also like to begin helping him get down the stories that go with the photos but I don't know if that will mean actually scrapping them or just jotting down some notes and then having those years printed as Shutterfly photo albums with some captions here & there. 

Take more pictures every day
Finish March PL 2022
Organize my quickly growing stamp collection
Start Work on PL2021

Pick a week for WITL.

I want to order March pics. Though, for a month with multiple birthdays, and several events, I have just sixty some photos, many not getting printed.

I want to work on my high schooler's senior year layouts.

I really just want to make time to scrapbook.

Well my crop this weekend was cancelled for lack of participation. This is the second month. Another crop for NSD is cost prohibitive for me $50 and no meals for a day crop.

Thank goodness I get 3 days of scrapping at Expo at the end of the month.