Last night I made a huge accomplishment!! ALL of my finished pages are now in albums. But earlier in the day I was so torn. Do I buy the D-rings because they fit so many more pagesand look nice on a shelf? Or something more like the Colorbok or World Us??? I ended up buying 3 American Craft D-ring albums yesterday, one for each child (pink for Maddie, a periwinkle for Kaycey, red for Cal). I don't really have their albums color coded, though it would probably look nicer if they were, I kind of just have gotten whatever. After putting all the pages I had into the new D-rings, Cal and Kaycey's are already pretty full. Maddie's is the only album not bursting at the seams. None of the pages are in order, but I don't really care about that. Since I don't scrap in order, I figure why put them in order now? I'd have to keep rearranging constantly. They also each have a full postbound album of earlier pages I have done as well. And Cal and Kaycey each have a strictly school related album. I started a birthday album for Cal, too, but have only finished doing 5 of his birthdays. It feels so good to have the pages in an album instead of in a huge pile waiting to fall over. Oh, by the way, there is still a tall pile of pages that are almost-finished-but-not-quite that will join in the other books once the pages are completed. So I lined up the albums on this shelf under the table in the great room. There are two 12x12 D-rings under the table that don't fit on the shelf; one is full of pages that are mine or for me, the other is full of class layouts still awaiting pictures! My dream is to have a big white bookcase thing built that is deep enough to house all my albums and have that on display in the great room. So these are almost all my albums (except one red one currently being used for a class at the store, a 6x6 friend album, and our trip to Disney album. That one is still awaiting many pages to be finished...) yay me!!
Just curious, how do you organize your albums--chronologically, by child, event, holiday, or other? What is everyone else's album of choice??? I felt like that was one of the biggest decisions I ever made!!! : ) Not sure I'll stick with those, but they are relatively inexpensive and they work for now!
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My book of choice is and always will be CM. I just love how they never look uneven or overstuffed. I do family books cronologically and have only seperate books for Christmas, which I bring out each year to share with guests (the guests I have over for the holidays are usually in my books). They love looking and seeing how everyone has changed through the years. When I'm gone I've told my girls they can decide who gets which page.
Wow, that's so exciting. Right now my pages are falling over each other in a pile in the basement storage locker. Really sad. I decided on the Imaginisce ones...not sure if that's my end-all favorite either, but I didn't want 3-ring for mine. I did the American Craft albums for my sister's albums, though, and they look really nice on the shelf, are easy to rearrange, and fit a lot of pages. What an accomplishment!
You sure are motivated after our big weekend. I also used my store credit to buy an album yesterday. Sure does make it disappear fast. I seem to be liking the colorbok perfect scrapbooks. Although I have 4 Stampin Up ring binder albums, one for each of my kids. As far as organization. NOT! Maybe I will follow in your footsteps and get it together.
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