Post by tduby1 on Oct 15, 2014 11:23:41 GMT
Do you scrap to document or as an art? Or as combination as both? I do it as a combination of both and I am so thankful for the documentation aspect of it.
Recently my mom experienced a medical crisis that has her and my dad scrambling to divide things up amongst me and my 12 siblings. Mostly their properties, which will go to the least financially set/ able of us.
I didn't get a property, lol. I got a task instead. Currently in my possession are all of my mom's photo albums. 25 large, thick albums. She asked me to divide the photos up between us by who is in the picture. Oh my word! I have always loved her photos, even as a young girl lugging out the albums and looking at the photos but my mom was horrible about organizing them and labeling them. Photos from the same time period and even same event are spread amongst the books, slipped in here, there and everywhere. I find myself wondering, "was this at Disney, Sea World or maybe Busch Gardens". "Hmmm, I would guess this was 80, but it could have been 81 or 82."
One Polaroid instant she has labeled as me as an infant, labeled probably 20 years after the fact and one of the few labeled. I KNOW it is my sister who is 7 years younger. First of all, she is in a car seat! She didn't have car seats for us older kids. Secondly, she has multiple albums of instants of my little sis as an infant but none of me. In fact, you can clearly tell, she didn't even receive the instant until Christmas Day 1978 when sis was 1.5 mos old, as that is when the instant photos started. I pointed all this out to her, as we argued about whether it was sis or me and she responded with, "I don't care about all that! It's you, I know my babies!" So that is that! (I crossed my name out and put the photo is sis' pile anyway).
But all this has made me thankful for my system. I got my first camera at age 8 a cheapy but I was diligent about nagging my parents to take and pick up my film from the printers in a timely fashion. Even then my photos were always labeled as soon as I got them, in my little 8 year old hand writing by date, event and who was in the photo. Back then I placed them in photo albums by event. I have since removed them and filed them in photo boxes by event, with notecard dividers that contain all the info about the event as well. My digital, photos are labeled and filed on my computer in the same way, then backed to cds and then again to hard drive hi, I am Tduby1 and I am anal.
My plan is for my kids to receive their albums (12 completed, 4 in progress, each at this point) with a custom made book shelf to house them, as a house warming gift when they purchase their first home.
hopefully, when I am 70+ they will not have to argue with me about who is who! or spend weeks sorting out my pics.
Recently my mom experienced a medical crisis that has her and my dad scrambling to divide things up amongst me and my 12 siblings. Mostly their properties, which will go to the least financially set/ able of us.
I didn't get a property, lol. I got a task instead. Currently in my possession are all of my mom's photo albums. 25 large, thick albums. She asked me to divide the photos up between us by who is in the picture. Oh my word! I have always loved her photos, even as a young girl lugging out the albums and looking at the photos but my mom was horrible about organizing them and labeling them. Photos from the same time period and even same event are spread amongst the books, slipped in here, there and everywhere. I find myself wondering, "was this at Disney, Sea World or maybe Busch Gardens". "Hmmm, I would guess this was 80, but it could have been 81 or 82."
One Polaroid instant she has labeled as me as an infant, labeled probably 20 years after the fact and one of the few labeled. I KNOW it is my sister who is 7 years younger. First of all, she is in a car seat! She didn't have car seats for us older kids. Secondly, she has multiple albums of instants of my little sis as an infant but none of me. In fact, you can clearly tell, she didn't even receive the instant until Christmas Day 1978 when sis was 1.5 mos old, as that is when the instant photos started. I pointed all this out to her, as we argued about whether it was sis or me and she responded with, "I don't care about all that! It's you, I know my babies!" So that is that! (I crossed my name out and put the photo is sis' pile anyway).
But all this has made me thankful for my system. I got my first camera at age 8 a cheapy but I was diligent about nagging my parents to take and pick up my film from the printers in a timely fashion. Even then my photos were always labeled as soon as I got them, in my little 8 year old hand writing by date, event and who was in the photo. Back then I placed them in photo albums by event. I have since removed them and filed them in photo boxes by event, with notecard dividers that contain all the info about the event as well. My digital, photos are labeled and filed on my computer in the same way, then backed to cds and then again to hard drive hi, I am Tduby1 and I am anal.
My plan is for my kids to receive their albums (12 completed, 4 in progress, each at this point) with a custom made book shelf to house them, as a house warming gift when they purchase their first home.
hopefully, when I am 70+ they will not have to argue with me about who is who! or spend weeks sorting out my pics.
