Look who we got to visit today! My nephew Liam is home from the hospital and he is beautiful!
Looooovvvveeeee the way babies smell!
I have just spent the last hour reading the last 35 emails in my mail box ( I have lots more to go still) and I am so thrilled with all of the fantastic ideas you have left about how to organize your photos. Thank you so much! I had tagged my photos in the past and then my computer crashed and I lost all of the tags. I also work between two computers and two external hard drives so I don't think an organizer type program will work for me. I love the idea of changing the end of the photo name once you have used it - I never thought of doing that! I do individual books for my 3 children plus annual family books. There may be a certain photo that I want both in their individual book and in the annual family book so I think I will add on to the end of the "scrapped" photo _a for Abby's book, _b for Brady, _j for Joshie or _f for family book, that way if I end up using it in both books it will have _a_f. I think it is also all about discipline isn't it?! Forcing yourself to do it each and every time :)
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Thank you....continually for these kits!
As for my scrapping organization...I love it! It's a no-fail, easy to do way of scrapping and keeping this together. I scrap by theme. therefore, when I download my pcitures, I immediately go through them to delete the ones that aren't good, duplicates, etc. Then I label that folder according to the year_event. I copy this folder onto my external and leave a copy on my computer. I then go into the one on my computer and delete most of the pictures. I keep only what I think I will use in one layout. This way, when it is time to scrap, I can go into my main folder and choose which event I want to do. Of cousre, once it has been scrapped, i delete that folder as the original is already stored on my external hard drive. I keep all my digital files and jpgs in separate folders on separate external drives in case one drive was to crash. I'm also looking at storing my photos through heritage makers (which has unlimited photo storage and book printing options far superior to Shutterfly. Let me know if you want more information.) Thanks for your honesty and your talent. I love your blog and I love this project!!! I'll post layouts soon.
Posted by: SaraSusyBob | March 02, 2008 at 10:17 PM
WOW - what a beautiful baby boy!! Glad that he's home from the hospital and doing good!! Thanks for your continued goodies to these wonderful kits!! Hugs!! :)
Posted by: Melody aka pebbles7195 | March 02, 2008 at 10:24 PM
Thanks for the Cs! I like changing the file name idea. I scrap chronologically because I'm OCD! I'm working on May of LAST year now. GOtta get a move on!!!!
Posted by: Stefani | March 02, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Your new nephew is gorgeous! I miss having newborns!
Thank you for the ABC kits!
Posted by: Amy (starwarsgirl06) | March 02, 2008 at 10:52 PM
Liam is SO cute! I would have to say he is even cuter than the papers, and that's really hard to beat! Thanks for being so generous and sharing your incredible talent with us. Now, if I could just jump in and get started!!!!
Posted by: Sheri | March 02, 2008 at 11:12 PM
Thank you again. Liam is adorable!
Posted by: Terebene | March 03, 2008 at 01:39 AM
What a little cutie. Can't agree with you more on how sweet little ones smell. :) Then they grow up, LOL. Thank you for more wonderful papers.
Posted by: Tink | March 03, 2008 at 06:08 AM
Oh my, Liam is an so absolutely adorable. The LO is super.
I like the idea of changing the name at the ned of the photo best. I have one HD to hold all original photos (this is a safety feature in case something happens to the other set). I then store a duplicate set on another HD (these are the ones I change the names on and work with). I also keep a folder with all the layouts I have done - these also have the file name of the photo in their title just so I can easily find the photo I used if needed.
So really what I end up with is three copies of the photos but I feel safe knowing I have all these backups. Very often of course the ones used in layouts have been altered in some way but as log as I have kept the PS Layered file, the photo can be accessed with no problem.
Thank you for taking on this project, you have really inspired me to make some ABC layouts for my family that will leave a lasting legacy of memories for them. Thankfully you are not rushing through the alphabet. I am just begining the B layouts I am slow to scrap so love seeing what others have done (it gets my creative juices flowing). I am hoping to catch up and by Christmas should have some wonderful albums to share with family, thanks to you.
I am so thankful to be able to walk this journey with you and all the readers.
Posted by: Laser | March 03, 2008 at 06:48 AM
Thank you for the beautiful skip-papers, and that photo of Liam is sooo gorgeous ! Just want to hug him, and that smell, you are so right ;-) It really is a shame they grow up so fast LOL As for organization of your photos, no tips from me, I am just too chaotic and found that I scrapped the same photos more than once too :-)
Posted by: BrigittevT | March 03, 2008 at 08:01 AM
What a cutie pie he is!!! Thanks so much for sharing your continuing kit. I scrap chronologically also and I also do a book for each of my three kids and one for me each year. I store my original photos on dvd and I have an account with SmugMug. It's unlimitied storage for $40 a year and there aren't any pesky ads to deal with. I feel pretty safe knowing I have an external source of backup besides me LOL... I keep the photos I'm working with on my ehd and alter them as needed because I have the two backups of the originals. I like the idea of renaming the file when it has been used. That would be very helpful.
Posted by: Susan | March 03, 2008 at 08:17 AM
what a beautiful baby! congrats to your sister's family! and thanks to you for this great project!
Posted by: Chrissy | March 03, 2008 at 08:24 AM
wow what good ideals...i am still new so thank you for the papers and the tips!
Liam is soooo cute!
Posted by: Charla | March 03, 2008 at 09:27 AM
I'm so happy that your nephew is home. He looks so beautiful.
Posted by: Karen | March 03, 2008 at 09:40 AM
Liam is so cute. That picture just makes you want to reach out and hug him. YOur right about the smell of a baby. I miss that with a 17 and 13 year old. Now all I smell is sweaty kids. Hope the frame Liam is in becomes one of our goodies! It is as cute as Liam. Thanks for this whole Run Skip Jump project. It rocks!
Posted by: spanielmom | March 03, 2008 at 10:04 AM
Beautiful baby! Love the papers.
I have my photos on its own drive. I have folders for each year(labeled 2006, 2007, 2008, etc.)with monthly folders in that (labeled 200801, 200802 ~ for January 08, February 08, etc...). I then have folders inside of the months labeled the date and event (December I had over 1,000 pictures!). The labeling for this is something like this: 122407 Christmas Eve Kids PJ's, etc... (December 24, 2007 would be the date); 010408 movers pack house (Jan, 4, 2008) This makes it easier to find the photo and even remember what happened during the month!
I have a notepad that I use to jot down the location of pictures I like from each event and scrap them as I come to it. I am way behind on scrapping; I have only been digitally scrapping for 2 years...lots to catch up on!
I also do a monthly "news" double page spread just to highlight what our family did over the month. I then take my favorite events and do a separate page(s) on that. Some months I have a lot of pages, other months I just have the double page news spread. I really love doing this.
Posted by: ckm | March 03, 2008 at 10:11 AM
Liam is so adorable, glad he's home. Baby's do smell so good. I'm expecting my 3rd and I am so anxious for the little one to get here, but I have a ways to go (Sept. 21). And I have so much to do before then, alot of organizing to make room for him or her.
I just love these kits you are doing!! Thank you so much for sharing. I have none of my digital stuff organized, everyone has some great ideas. I have an external HD with all of my photos and digital kits on it, but I really need to backup everything. I just can't decide if I should buy another HD and put everything on there for safe keeping (unplugged) or should I backup onto dvd. Don't know what I'm gonna do. Any suggestions? It scares me to death the thought of losing my pictures.
Posted by: Btrflywmn | March 03, 2008 at 11:43 AM
thanks so much for the C papers,
your little nephew is adorable
Posted by: HarleyGirl | March 03, 2008 at 02:02 PM
OOHHHHH SO ADORABLE!!!!!!
Can't wait till Sepi for my first grandchild!!!!!!
TY so very much for these FANTASTIC BG's!!!!!!
HUGS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: Sharon aka Scrapcat4914 | March 03, 2008 at 04:56 PM
He is Adorable. I love the frame you chose and thanks so much for your wonderful kits. I love playing with them. As soon as I get some LO's finished I will send them to you. Life is starting to get busy with the spring time approaching. And I'm not going to complain. Thanks again for your wonderful talent and love. xxxxx
Posted by: Christina | March 03, 2008 at 10:33 PM
Wow your nephew is very cute. Had to comment about him when I saw the picture.
Posted by: Cynthia S. | March 04, 2008 at 06:14 PM