More Digital

On to September to November 2003
I figure I will go with the momentum here because if I stop it could be another year before I get going again. I have my moments when I ask myself why I am doing this. Especially at 4am!
Do you scrapbookers have those moments?
I know you do....
....it's not like the kids are hounding me daily to get their lives into an album...
But one day...maybe....my grandkids may just find it all amusing.

 

 

 

and another from July that I just finished up (how to use nine photos on one page).

 

On to October...

 

And I am stopping here and posting this now because i have just discovered all the digital photos we took with our first digital camera in early Dec 2003....and there are a TON of them.

Just when I thought I was sooo close to moving on to 2004.
sigh
I need a few hours to sort through them all....

Digital Efforts

I have been working away at photos from the year 2003. We did a lot of things that year (like any other year) and I photographed them all, so there are hundreds of photos to cull through! I have been scanning a good portion of them.

When I started working on 2003, I was learning digital scrapbooking so I decided that the year 2003 would all be digital. I am looking forward to seeing how the album looks when it is all done. I am especially looking forward to finishing the year 2003 because I have been at it now for ....over a year! At this rate....
I won't think about that!

Dec 2003 is when our household went digital and from then on all the photos are on my computer....somewhere. So no more scanning and fixing in Lightroom after that. YEAH!

I set my goal for 2003 and so I will finish it. I am stubborn that way. Hopefully I will get better at it as I go..... In the meantime I will try to do a little paper scrapbooking of the more recent photos.

So here you go.
A digital glimpse into our lives from June to August 2003.

 

A two page spread of Marks summer spent in the trenches and "gettin down and givin the sergeant 20 or 40 or 100 push-ups.

 A two page spread incorporating all the photos from a five day trip to a family reunion in Kenora Ontario.

Winnipeg

Waskesiu - a two page layout with 11 photos.

Mark graduates from Basic Training Aug 23, 2003

 phew!! I am done the summer of 2003!!!

Some digital pages from 2010 - I am putting all my 365 photos into a monthly calendar.

 

And a brief reminder from January 7th 2010  just because I think we all need to stop for a brief second and appreciate the weather...... because we all know it aint gonna last!

Awk! She scrapbooked a page!!

I know, it has been months. I was planning on sitting down at the computer and working my way through Chapter 10 of Scott Kelby's Lightroom 2 book for Digital Photographers tonight. The guys are off to a movie tonight - Dave, Harold and Ken (Robin Hood)
But I have been, seriously,  on the computer for 10-14 hrs /day for the past two weeks, either at work (SHR)or at play(home/web site).
Soooo I pulled out some of the stuff I haven't seen for three months and made a simple page ~ Content.
Which aptly describes how we feel on the beaches of Mexico.

Then I went on the computer and made a digital page... just because one of these days I really have to finish scrapbooking the year 2003 (which I am trying to make all digital).... so I can move on to 2004..before it is 2015!!!

Now.... I will work on Chapter 10 Creating a slide show in Lightroom.
Or maybe go to bed....

Don't forget to check out the new web site

A few more 2003 pages

2003 - moving right along

 

How to get 17 not so great photos from 2003 on four pages.

Buy a new scanner because the 6 year old one has too many scars on the glass.

Scan, scan, scan.

Crop, fix and adjust in Lightroom.

Create in Photoshop.

Send to Costco.

Done.

Today's quote...

“Let us pray much for humility, and especially for humility in our days of peace and success. When everything around us seems to prosper, and all our plans work well, – when family trials and sicknesses are kept from us, and the course of our worldly affairs runs smooth, – when our daily crosses are light, and all within and without are like a morning without clouds, – then, then is the time when our souls are in danger!”

~ J.C. Ryle

Expository Thoughts on the Gospels: Luke, volume 1, 359.

back to 2003..... Babies and weddings...

Allison up at Table Mountain learning to snowboard March 2003

Paul's 17th birthday, Jan 6 2003

Paul joins the reserves. It was a short lived experience, for which I am thankful.
Chalk it up to experience. Jan 2003

I am waiting patiently for the phone call but so far no baby.
So to pass the time I have started the 2003 album. Oh I feel so far behind....

Not done the wedding album yet.
Thankful for a whole day to scrapbook today - yup the WHOLE Day! I was up at 6am!
SIX pages.

Here it is again - the opening page of my grandchild's first album.....

Today is Labour day - has anybody told the child this?????

And one more weddding page made with real glue and paper...

Bride's Arrival

Love this photos of the back of Allison's dress as we scurry to get her out of sight and into the back door of the church - such fun!

And as if my days weren't full enough, I have started another blog - My Life in 365 Days. I wanted to challenge myself and hopefully improve my photography skills so I am taking a picture every day for 365 days. Go check it out and leave a comment.
No lurkers... :)