Have you started any large projects recently?

My biggest recent project is trying to make sense of the files on my computer. They are a DISADTER. Duplicates all over, some things appear to be missing, until recently a huge chunk wasn't backed up properly (I fixed that first.), originals and altered photos all over. Some copies have basic camera labels like P08758959 or IMG 875767848 but some have dates and names worked into the file name so I wouldn't forget.

I was doing really well on it until about June, and then summer took over. Once school starts again, I'll get back to it on a more regular basis because I still have a lot of work to do.

I returned to a large project that I had started about two years ago, but had to drop it due to health issues for a year or so. I'm waiting on surgery for that issue, so I figured I'd try and add to the project, although I won't get it completed this time either.

I've been working with the Shadow Box Frame from Foundations Decor and hoping to complete the inserts for each month of the year plus the birthday one. I've got 9 months done now, with December, January and June plus the birthday one left to do. Hoping to get the January one done before I have to give it up again.

Trying to organize the photos on my computer... ugh.

I have never had the urge to document my wedding-- non-traditional, broke college students low budget Hawaii wedding (and only have about three blurring photos of my reception two weeks later) but I found a paper line that might work so I ordered it. Now will I ever actually make the album? Who knows...  

I'm labelling the (digital) photos from a trip DH and DD24 took back in 2012 to DC. They were only there 4 days but they packed a lot in (it was a tour group). Then I need to plan out the album so I can order photos.

the slightly bigger project that is part of is making sure all the digital photos I want to scrap are printed. There's a second DC trip from 2018 I know I need to deal with and I think a couple of smaller trips various kids took.

And the bigger project - is labelling all of my digital photos.

The BIG overarching project is finish scanning, labelling, and organising ALL the photos - mine, my mum's, my granny's, my gr aunt's.... so I won't be passing down the mess that I inherited

I'm halfway through my wedding album. Even though it was just a year ago, so much has happened since then (not bad just lots of life things) that I'm not particularly motivated to finish it. I'm also trying to focus on having extensive journaling on most of the pages so sometimes I'm just not in a journaling mood. I did work further this past month on my Countdown to Christmas album from last year and am up to Christmas Day. I really dislike scrapping Christmas Day, though, and I need to tackle our at-home Christmas Day as well as our Christmas Day gathering with my family. 

I'm also debating what to do about my childhood - college photos. I don't remember a lot but I could jot down a sentence or two about some of the photos; I will probably do them pocket-style to save time. Maybe I can add in a few bullet point journaling pages for those stories that I remember but I don't have photos of? It will require scanning in photos which is why I haven't tackled it yet. My college photos are a big sore spot as I had a very tight college clique with whom I had a falling out senior year so 95% of my photos from those four years are of them... and the other 5% are of my abusive ex. I might just let the college photos go since I'm no longer friends with (or married) to those people & I'm not sure that those years need to be forever memorialized since I have changed so much since that time.

After taking Ali's Stash Class this summer, I finally feel like I'm in a good place with my supplies...but my albums are still an absolute mess! I'm the queen of starting new albums and then fizzling out before I finish them. Yesterday I started going through them, and ended up consolidating 4 seasonal albums (winter, summer, fall 2022 -all 6x8- and spring 2022 -4x8-) into 2 6x8 albums. Then I sat down and wrote a list of what was missing from these albums to make it feel like I had all the important stories from 2022...I think it was only like 4-5 stories which feels totally doable! So now I want to go through all my albums and do this.

I try to keep up on most of my areas of my scrap room that bother me. However, a few years ago, I was watching a YouTuber who put all of her stickers in homemade books so she could use them according to themes and not lines. I thought that sounded like a wonderful idea. I didn't want to use the books, since that would take me months to do, but I decided to put the sticker sheets in album protectors and if there weren't too many stickers, put like ones on the album plastic since the stickers came off them easily. I had 4 very full paper holders full of those plastic protectors. I just didn't use them the way I thought I would. So last week I decided to start putting the sticker sheets/ephemera (added to paper) back into the bags with the paper lines. It has taken me over a week to get everything back and while I was doing that I was also purging. I have already sent a big box of paper to the second hand craft store. My next project is getting all of my extra paper that is stored in a closet out to the second hand craft store. I don't want to overwhelm them with it all at once. If anyone is interested in getting free paper, let me know. I'd be happy to send it all out to crafters. Not sure how to do shipping, or the box, but I am willing to try. (The paper is mostly name brand and pretty thick.)

This is done - just waiting for the photos to arrive