Credits: Kraftwerk by Mandy King and Seatrout Scraps
Some Nani Scrap-Facts
*iNSD is an important holiday to me now because I’ve been digi-scrapping for over 7 years. I started digital scrapbooking around mid-year the first year I lived in Toledo.
*I’m always catching up in my scrapbooking. At the end of last year I finished 2008 and currently have folders of photos to be scrapped for 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014 and the current year’s folders. I don’t count the current year as behind, but I still have subfolders of pictures in all 4 previous months this year.
*I have an annual goal of scrapping a page every day. Some days I don’t scrap or at least don’t finish a page and other days I finish a few pages. It all depends on the page and what’s going on otherwise on any given day how many I can finish. I keep track of pages done by the month and tally up, hoping for at least 365, 366 in leap years, at the end of the year.
*In 2013 I was terribly behind and discovered that rather than always going the farthest back and trying to catch up one book at a time, I worked much better choosing the month it was at the current time from any year. I wasn’t feeling scrapping July 2008 in January, but when it didn’t matter what year but I only scrapped January I suddenly had all the January folders for every catch up year done at the end of the month. That’s why all the years are done to June now.
*This year iNSD is the same day, May 2, as the ten-year anniversary of my first date with David. That also happens to mean it’s Rich’s 50th birthday! In the note I left on his Facebook page I told Rich he gets all month to celebrate and we needed to have a celebratory dinner with our spice! That’s a scrapbook fact because I’ll definitely have my camera on hand for that dinner!
*I scrap “Tomboy Style.” That has a lot to do with me being a grown up tomboy so many of my subjects and my personal taste have a tomboy flair. I like the linear edges, cooler colors and themed elements, but I also like to add an occasional pink or flower here and there. I’ve even been in the mood to do a mega-flower layout once in a while.
*I love pages with lots of journaling and a story to tell or interesting facts.
*I think it’s important to be in my own scrapbooks. I get in photos when I’m with friends and family. I have the photo albums and memory books of my great grandmother, both grandmothers and my mom. I know I wish that they had left a little more of themselves with the photos they kept and notes they shared. When I’m not here to personally share my books, there will be a little about me in what I’ve left. The future generations of my family will either be glad to see and read it or they’ll think I was incredibly narcissistic. I kind of hope it’s the former more than the latter.
