Day 17

Day 17, originally uploaded by elinjanne.

I am hanging in there even if I have to resort to digital layouts – and the easy ones. This is a download from Jessica Sprague – and I am still in the pink department.

-still sorting pictures. I knew that 2007 would be a lot of work. The photos used today is from April about that time grandpa got the first Canon 400 and we all went crazy taking pictures. No wonder this little girl is a natural in front of the camera. Well – I am ready to start with May 2007 tomorrow. Hopefully I will be able to choose a few to print before the weekend…

The LOAD challenge…

…is really the most good thing going for me right now. Working through all these photos drives me nuts. I feel that it gets me nowhere. There have been a lot of talk about birthdays and events on the message board. That is not a problem for me. Not so much events – but thousands of everyday moments. And it is so hard to let them go. Ah, but she is so cute…and Oh, I remember that…Some months there a thousands of photos…For once in my life I am really happy I don`t have that many years of digital photos to sort through.

Load day 16

 

It is fun to look through the pictures taken in 2007. Baby Elin was so cute at three. Most of the photos from 2007 are mostly uploaded to FotoKnudsen ( where they are safely stored and printed).  The albums from 2007 is buried deep down and I have not seen them in a long time so I do enjoy my self. But, I have worked on this the whole evening and I have only done 4 days. I am just saying -  a lot of pictures…

A good day for having fun in the snow…

Kristian and Elin enjoy some fun...or not...

 

Ice is okay in all shapes...

 

Grandma is there to overlook everything...

 

The ski-jumper is still fun like it was when grandpa was a boy.

 

Me – I have been looked up most of the day working with my photo-organising. It takes time. I feel like I have used most of the day and I have only worked my way through three months of pictures. And yes – my head still hurts. But I am getting there. I will do this properly – once and for all. Hopefully my computer will hold up.

For today`s Load challenge all I had time to come up with is a digi template downloaded from Jessica Sprague. Since I don`t have much to choose from everything turn out pink. ( Like most of my supply of paper)

Load - Day 15

My head hurts…

…and my head NEVER hurts! I was up at 5 am and worked until noon. And I have been glued to the computer since I came home from work. And it`s not the gathering of the photos from all around the place that makes my head hurt. I can not get my head around the fact that I need to reprint  pictures that I already have in albums, and put them in storage binders.  I am talking about  thousands of photos already scrapped and  hundreds of leftovers – I still need to reprint and make storage binders. I have to rethink this part of the process.

In the meantime every corner of my workspace is covered in stacks of photo. I do not feel sorry for myself. There is only 4 years of digital photos, so I will be alright.

There is still snow and for a short period of time we had some strays of sun today.

It is snowing now but I would not be surprised if the rain is pouring down in the morning. Since I have photos all over the place I made a really quick digital layout for the Load challenge today, using one of Ali Edwards templates.

Load day 14 - Valentinsday

Load day 13…

Load day 13: Forever yours.

…I made my page before going in to work my Friday evening shift. To days page should have been about Friday 13, but I never think much about this particular date. Valentine is no big deal in Norway but I wanted to work with some happines today…

First day with LOM…

…and I just realized that I have to go back to work. I can choose to go now – at  midnight or to get out of bed at 5 am. I really do not want to go out in the cold snowy weather at midnight and I don`t want to get out of bed in 6 hours.  So between bad and bad – I choose early morning ; rise and shine. 

Finally the LOM-classroom opend up. I have been reading and listening to Stacy Julians brilliant ideas. All good. But reading through the message board I realized that I have to start all over again,  organizing my photos. The good thing – I finally understood what my brother have been trying to get into my head for months now. I have said it before – I am a slow learner. It is amazing what you can learn on the message board. One more thing the brilliant Stacy Julian said; get off the message boards and get to work. That might be a good advice, but I do not take orders that easy…

Lains mail today was were fitting. Go Simple and basic. I did. I turned to Cathy Z and printed a template from her design class and it all came together in a few minutes. Lucky thing I got a lot of photos printed today. Looking through them it was one photo that did stand out to me. It is my sister in law and baby Kristian. She is such a great grandma and the photo made me think of my mother and how she embraced being a grandma. I turned the photo to look at the date and it was taken March 29. 2008. That was my mothers birthday…

LOAD day 12

I am ready for “A Library of Memories”…

 

 

…and it feels like I have been for a long time. I have been reading about Stacy Julian`s Library of Memories for a long time. Last summer during her “Have more FUN” class, everyone said this system was the solution for all my problems. I am sure I could have organized my pictures on my own, but who wants to organize pictures? It will be a good thing to have some structure doing this. And I like how she thinks and work with her photos and memories.

I am okay with the printed photos, but I am so bored creating the albums on the computer. And I do not want to talk about tagging. Now I know why students come back to this class over and over again. No way you can do this with the thousands of photos we have on the computer and implement the rest of Stacy`s system in 16 weeks.

Well…I am ready. I have gathered a lot of photos, my workspace is cleaned and I have nothing else planned. Except LOAD…

She is a beauty - but no fashonista...

Good thing I am good with the fast and simple…

Okay, I am still working on organizing stuff in my room. I really like having more space and less clutter.  Love that Wendy Smedley`s class got a slow pace. I think we have reached the planning stage now. Since there is no way I am going to do any renovation in the middle of the winter I have a lot of time to dream and plan. Before doing anything big in here, I have a window that need to be replaced. In the meantime I plan and dream…

Load day 10

Day 10, originally uploaded by elinjanne.

Just a quick one today. I have spent the evening tagging photos – getting ready for LOM. I have a feeling that I need to be more picky about uploading. It is not like the photos is gone if I don`t move them into the catagories and tag them. They will still be out there – to be found if needed.
I better get some sleep. I might need to use the shovel to get out in the morning. It has been snowing a lot today – still does.

I am hooked…

I should never tried digital scrapbooking. It is so easy to get hooked. The good thing – it keeps everything tidy around here. I am done taking everything out of my room. I have cleaned, and moved back in what I need to survive. Just the basic stuff.  I bet someone wonder how the rest of the house looks like. Pretty good. I have gathered all my photos into the living-room, and I have some files and binders to look through. The rest is gone.

Now I am ready to do some heavy planning on how I would like this room to work. And I am ready to start LOM on Thursday. LOM will be the most important thing for me the next 16 weeks. I am optimistic about finishing this within that time-frame. Okay – I am willing to revise that statement in a few weeks…

Here is Day 9 in the LOAD challenge:

 

I can see that I had some “accidents” stiching the paper, but no way am I doing it over again. Guess what…I am having fun so I made one more.

Both made with templates created of Ali Edwards. I don`t have so much to choose from so I guess this will be done over and over again. But – that is one way of learning.

Happy Mothers-day…

Here in Norway we are celebrating Mothers-day. I will not go into what I feel about this celebration – but, mothers should be celebrated every day. There is one smart boy in our family. He ordered a cake delivery for his mother, and the young ones appreciated that gesture.

Cake is always a GOOD thing...

 

Since I am still cleaning my workspace I decided that it would be a good day to try out digital scrapbooking. I have wanted to try for a long time. I downloaded a template from Ali Edwards, because I like her work and they can be used again and again. I used a lot of time to figure out how to do this, and in the end I gave up. I will try again later. I really need to find out how this work. In the meantime this will have to do as my day 8 in the Load project.

 

Tor sent his mother cake - maybe he do miss her...