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I finished the last 5 pages for our December Magic Cruise Scrapbook earlier today. New total = 116. I had mentioned that I intended to work on a project or two with our pins. Since it involves paint and Luke is helping, he wants to wait until it is a bit warmer so we can work on the screened porch in case of a paint spill. Maybe until then I should finally start work on m scrapbook for my teaching years. But that is going to require some organizing first, which is why I've been putting it off.
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Ok, having checked with the store where I pick up my digital photobooks from, I'm working on another one, as I can order it, then pick it up when we get back from Disney, as they'll hold them for up to six months!
There's another deal, where you get half prices additional pages and as more of the book is now additional pages, that will be quite the saving! I've done another 19 pages to get me to 233 pages.
By the way, I now have the Disneyland Paris book and it's not as good as I was hoping - remember, this was the first one I'd done using photos of traditional paper, so I need to get some better quality photos of the paper before attempting anything like that again, which is a bit depressing. Thankfully I have various non-Disney vacations to work on in the meantime....
Great work, Cheryl! Bummer that the Disneyland book didn't turn our as well as you had hoped.
At least I know now and can do something about it for the next book. It just means a lot more photography of papers when I get back, which is a pain.
On the plus side, I've finished my latest book and put that through for processing. I did another 27 pages to finish it taking me to 260 pages. I cannot believe it, but this book was 114 pages! At least with the offer, instead of it costing me £80, it was only £54!
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I haven't been posting here (or scrapbooking!) in a while but, since I'm having my rotator cuff surgery March 11, I realized I needed to get things done now in case I'm unable to do any for a while afterward.
So, I finished 11 pages in DS15's Eagle Court of Honor book--woohoo! I have to do just the back page to finish that up. I need 3 more pages in his Eagle project book, and that'll be done. I looked around and saw that I had FOUR albums that were only a few pages from being complete (those 2, DS19's California album, and my 2014 cruise album), so I'll try to finish those up before the surgery.
Anyway, I'm now at 65 pages toward my goal of 300. That would be....about 22% of my goal, with the year at 15.5% done. I hope I can still do some scrapbooking fairly soon after the surgery, but that's very iffy, so I won't be ahead of the game very long.
Anyone else been scrapbooking, or have crops scheduled for the weekend?
No actual pages scrapped today per se, but I spent an hour or so pulling and sorting photos from my years teaching, cutting out articles from school and local papers, and weeding through administrators' evaluations of me. I think I have found all the materials that should be included, so now the task is to procure some papers and an album that will do the memories justice.
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Sounds like good prep work, Cam! Are you retiring? I had fun putting together an album of my USAF career the summer before I retired, and I got together all my certificates of appreciation, professional ed diplomas, letters, and similar things to get the ball rolling.
Rushing to get as much done as I could before my surgery, I've finished 5 more pages in DS15's Eagle album. I only have the final page, "trail to Eagle" to complete, and that should be fairly simple. If I can carve out one hour tomorrow, I should be able to get it done.
That puts me at 70/300, not too bad for so early in the year. I hope I can work some more within a couple of weeks of my surgery, as long as I don't have to lift anything, but who can say. Anyway, that's a bit over 23% of my goal, with the year not quite 19% done, so it's a comfortable cushion for now.
Finished 15 baby book layouts and have them in the book and the book to DD#2 yesterday. All ready for baptism on Sunday! That puts me at 19 % of my goal at 19.45% of the year over. I am on track!!
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I've done another 19 pages to get me to 233 pages. 
Thankfully I have various non-Disney vacations to work on in the meantime....
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