back from lurking

Wanda, it's good to see you back, albiet, not under these unfortunate circumstances. Just get to work on those pages and they'll help to keep your mind occupied. Just matte and adhere. Who needs fancy pages anyway!?! The whole idea is to get them done.

I'm sorry to hear about your health problems. Just keep a positive attitude and know that there're plenty of prayers being sent up for you and the family.

Katrina in KS

Wanda, Keep that positive attitude! It's 99% of the cure. I'll keep you in my thoughts and prayers. Keep on scrappin. Identifying the pictures now will help you when you go back to do the journaling later. I'm like you, I prefer more than one or two picture on a page. I've also went and bought a couple of boxes of envelopes and sorted my pictures into holidays, seasons, vacations and events to help make it easier to scrap them - writing a date and title of sorts on the envelope. Sandy

Welcome back Wanda. I'll keep you in my thoughts and do keep a positive attitude. Be sure to write down some where some of your thoughts on the events, as that is very important too, even if not on the page now.

Teresa in MD

Wanda, welcome back and good luck on your project. I know there is techniques to do quick scrapbook pages, but have not tried it yet. I'm sure the other ladies will point you in the right direction.

Hugs Judy, SA

Welcome back Wanda. I'll keep you and your family in my thoughts and prayers. Keep up the positive attitude! If you don't have your pictures sorted, it will probably help the process go faster. Just remember you're in our thoughts and prayers.

Wanda, I am happy to see you and I will keep you and your family in my prayers also. As you can see, we are in the same situation over here. I have been thinking about scrapping my fight as well as compiling an album for my brother's ordeal. Scrapping does seem to help deal with feelings. Sometimes it is very painful and sometimes it is so warm and fuzzy to recall the events that we have shared. One of my favorite verses is "blessed are those who mourn....for they will be comforted "....and it is so true.

Hugs, Sabrina

Keep up the positive attitude, it makes all the difference. Prayers from this group are very strong too. I am glad to see that you are back. My prayers are with you. Jacqui

Hi Wanda,

Happy to see you posting. I'm keeping you in my thoughts and prayers.

When I went to sort through 15 years of photos I just didn't know where to start. So, here's what I did and I think it worked out well. I tend to take the same photos each year and decided to order each year in order of the calendar. I used 3X5 cards that I turned on end. First I wrote the year on the end. Then I'd write on other cards the occasion, Easter, Kid's birthday, Summertime, 1st day of school etc. I bought photo boxes from Walmart. If I wasn't sure of the year I'd put a question mark on the card when I put it in. As I began sorting the years would sort themselves out as I'd find the correct year. I can take a picture of the boxes if you're interested. I does help me to have them sorted this way.

Lynne

Thank you all for your thoughts and prayers. It means a lot to me, as I have no friends locally. I have the last ten years of pics separated by year in 2 gallon ziplocks, before that it's a crap shoot, and I may not even know the year, in the 16 years of marriage before my daughter was born, we traveled a lot, somewhere different every year, and I have a terrible memory! Do you think it's OK to ID pics as "San Francisco" even without a year? Is that better than nothing? I frankly haven't even considered scrapping my illness. Several of you suggested it and I will have to think about it seriously. I want this done for my daughter, she is 16 and has no interest in family "history" now, but I kow one day she will want to know and I wont be here to answer her questions. Also, her children may want to know one day. Thanks again for your good thoughts

wanda >I have been lurking quite a while, but have celebrated every BD,

I think any form of identification is great like "San Francisco". As you go those bits of info will jog more info out of your brain or someone else who looks at them. It is a great start.

Lynne

Wanda, Yes, I think San Francisco is fine. You should leave a spot to be able to come back and fill in the year if you figure it out later. I do that all the time. Your daughter may indeed become interested later as she gets older. My oldest DD just started scrappin last October and she is almost 30. She just now has expresses an interest in the photos of ancestors and their stories to be able to tell her children. Sandy

I still wish that everyone of the places I got my film developed years ago had put the date on the back of the photos. I have about the same number of years worth of photos to scrap. DH and I have been married 31 years and our oldest is 30. I still don't have all of his baby photos done. Sandy

You are in my thoughts & prayers Wanda.

Sounds like you have a great attitude about it all. Hang in there. We're all pulling for you.

God Bless Trish

Positive thoughts going your way Wanda! big hugs!! I think identifying the pics is a good start and will help you get all the right pics together! good luck!

Linda C

Welcome back Wanda. I'm so sorry to hear of your diagnosis. Keep up the positive attitude. My thoughts and prayers are with you. {{{HUGS}}}

My heart goes out to you and yours, Wanda. Please let me know if there is anything that I can do to help. Send you a few premade pages ready for pictures maybe?

I'm a lurker too. I'm sorry to hear about your prognosis and I will add you to my prayers. I wanted to suggest something that I read about on Cathy Zielske's blog.

Every year she puts all of that years pictures in a regular picture album. This way all of the pictures are ready to view and then she has the freedom to scrap what she feels like scrapping. If you do this then you can work on the pictures that really mean something to you or maybe you can work on specific albums for yourself and your loved ones. I found 2 different sets of albums for this at Costco each set comes with 3 albums for 15.99 and they are acid free and archival safe. Hope this helps.

diana

wanda >I have been lurking quite a while, but have celebrated every BD,

Welcome Diana. Glad you posted. I've been thinking about doing something like that myself. It would make it so much easier to go through them. Especially for me when I get this idea and know I have the perfect photos to go with it, but then can't find them. I already do something similar with the extras I don't scrap. When I do older photos like from Christmas 1980. I do a family LO for my album, then divide the extras between the children. I have regular albums with sleeves for them and date the back of the pictures before putting them in there. My oldest DD has actually taken a few out of her album when she is over getting ready for a crop so she can scrap them. Sandy

I am sorry to hear about your lung cancer. Maybe you could have some family members come in and help you get some of this done. Not only would it go faster, but the time you spend together would be priceless to all of you.