Take A Picture, It'll Last Longer

I think I have owned most of the scrapbooking supplies shown below for at least four years. There are more too that are not even shown here. I took a lot of pictures on a trip to Europe in 2005 and I came home thinking I would make a beautiful scrapbook of my trip so I bought all the supplies. I knew I would get around to it someday so I have moved all the supplies from my old house to apartment to another apartment and to my house now. And now, I am finally getting around to doing something with them.



The biggest issue for me was getting all my photos printed. And by now, it wasn't just pictures from one trip. It's wedding pictures, Rex pictures, vacation pictures and everything else from the last 4 1/2 years of my life. I didn't want to deal with getting 500+ photos printed because that meant a LOT of uploading to Walgreens website. I had the good sense last week to check on the prices Apple has for printing services (no uploading- just order straight from iPhoto) and they were so cheap! Shipping was only $2.99 and the pictures were delivered two days after I ordered them. The next issue was photo albums. I had a couple but needed more. The local arts/crafts/hobby store had all their scrapbooking supplies on sale for 50% off so I picked up the rest of needed. Final problem- a place to work. Rob solved that one by making a huge work table in our office for me.



As you can see by the plan sets on the table, Rob was the first to use the new desk. But after all his hard work, I'd say he deserved it. I still have to move in and get all my stuff set up but I can't wait to finally get my photo albums put together!