Amy's Serendipidous Adventures

Happy New Year Everyone!!!

I love the holidays, but I am glad to be getting back into my normal routine. I haven't scrapbooked since September, so I am looking forward to catching up and doing lots of scrapbooking for the remainder of the winter!!!

Here are my January Goals...

- Catch up the family blog
- Upload photos to Shutterfly
- Back-up family blog
- Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
- Finish Disney journaling
- Organize Disney Photos
- Obtain Missing Disney photos
- Organize Disney digi supplies
- Download Disney digi supplies
- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

OK, busy month...gotta get going....

OK, I know I have been neglecting this blog...I blame it on the season...I will be back with more goals for the New Year soon...LOTS TO DO and the projects are piling up!!!!

For now, I wanted to share a cute find... For more cute CK items, go to Creating Keepsakes Gear and Gifts site on Cafe Press!!!

We went to Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween Party in Walt Disney World on October 14, 2010.

Katie dressed up as Princess Tiana...SO CUTE!

This is a complete joke - I don't know what I was thinking...September and October are a complete wash....too busy! I am hoping to get back on track in November...lol...

Same as last month...

• Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
• Back-up blog
• Journal, journal, journal!!!
• Add dates & embellishments to Katie’s Professional Photos album
• 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book
• Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

Hopefully I will get to some of these this month!!! LOL

It was a pitiful month for traditional scrapbooking, but I did get some digi pages done!

• Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive. – Didn’t get to this.
• Back-up blog – Didn’t get to this.
• Journal, journal, journal!!! – Didn’t get to this.
• Add dates & embellishments to Katie’s Professional Photos album – In progress
• 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book – DONE!
• Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night – DONE!

I just couldn't wait to do a few pages about my baby's first day of PRESCHOOL!!!

A page about one of the benefits for Kaitlyn's Med Fund....

A page about the Childlife staff at Katie's hospital.

I love this kid, I love the topic and I love the layout!!! lol

I would love to know what you think!!!

• Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
• Back-up blog
• Journal, journal, journal!!!
• Add dates & embellishments to Katie’s Professional Photos album
• 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book
• Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

I have been getting quite a bit done lately...I still feel overwhelmed with all that still needs to be done, but I feel accomplished in July.

• Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive. – Didn’t get to this.
• Back-up blog – DONE – 7/12/10
• Journal, journal, journal!!! – Got a few albums caught up, still have a lot more to do.
• 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book – Completed 3
• Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night – DONE!
  

In addition to this, I also completed numerous digi pages, letters and projects for Disney :-) I have to admit that most of my "scrapbooking" time lately has been spent doing pages for Disney...I am just having so much fun with it!!!

A layout about our favorite Hole in the Wall Gang peeps!!!

I just finished a double page spread about the oncology clinic staff at Kaitlyn's hospital. They truly are Angels on Earth...

• Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
• Back-up blog
• Journal, journal, journal!!! I really have to get somewhere with this one this month!!!
• 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book
• Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

I did not get as much done in June as I had hoped to.

• Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive. – DONE – 6/12/10
• Back-up blog – DONE – 6/12/10
• Journal, journal, journal!!! I have about 7 albums that need journaling. I am not moving on to anything else until that journaling is DONE! –Didn’t get to this.
• 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book –Didn’t get to this.
• Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night –DONE!

I am having a hard time getting anything done off my "to do" list because I have been spending so much time creating pages for my upcoming Disney trip. I have found this great site for Disney scrappers...Mouse Scrappers. It is a very active chat forum with tons of digital Disney freebies. I have been having fun collecting Disney supplies and creating pages as the mood strikes me. I love it!

· Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
· Back-up blog
· Journal, journal, journal!!! I have about 7 albums that need journaling. I am not moving on to anything else until that journaling is DONE!
· 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book
· Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

· Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive. – Didn’t get to this.
· Back-up blog - DONE 5/5/10
· Journal in 2006 scrapbooks –Didn’t get to this.
· Scrapbook & journal Christmas 2006 in Christmas album – Scrapbook pages are done, still need to journal.
· Get Katie's professional pictures in an album – All, but 3 are in the scrapbook. I ran out of mat paper. I have to order some more before I can finish the book.
· 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book – Completed 3 for her Leukemia book and multiple for our upcoming Disney trip!!!
· Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night – DONE!

TOO MUCH TO DO, TOO LITTLE TIME!!!

MAY??? Huh??? How did we get to May already??? All of a sudden, I have this anxiety that I am not getting things done fast enough...anyone else have this feeling?

OK, here goes...
-- Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
-- Back-up blog
-- Journal in 2006 scrapbooks
-- Scrapbook & journal Christmas 2006 in Christmas album
-- Get Katie's professional pictures in an album
-- 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

I accomplished a lot this month!!! I finished scrapbooking the 2006 family book (which is HUGE), now I have to do Christmas 2006 in the Christmas album and journal everything...EEK!

-- Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive. – Didn’t get to this.
-- Back-up blog - DONE 4/21/10
-- Scrapbook 2006 photos – DONE
-- 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book – Completed 5 digital layouts, but not necessarily for Katie’s leukemia book. I started working on pages for our upcoming Disney trip :-)
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night – DONE!

Last night, I came across this awesome blog that I wanted to share with all you digi-scrap enthusiasts. Kellybell Designs has a TON of Disney freebies. She also has a lot of AMAZING Disney kits that I KNOW I will be investing in when we return from our Disney trip this fall. I have spent the last 2 days downloading FREEBIES from her blog...she is SO generous!!!

Click image to check out her blog:

A new Digi Layout...

Same idea as the Birthday book...one picture from each Halloween.

Because I am SO behind with my daughter's pictures, I decided to do a small 8x8 album highlighting a picture from each of her birthdays thus far. It's a fun little project that easy easy to keep up with :-)

I decided to make an autograph book for our upcoming trip to Disney. The price was a lot cheaper than the ones you buy in the park because I used a lot of things that I already had and I think the quality will be much better :-) I used a sketch pad with really nice, thick paper. LOVE IT! I will give it to my daughter when we get there!

Since April is already 1/2 over, I am going light on the goals this month...

-- Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
-- Back-up blog
-- Scrapbook 2006 photos
-- 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

Had a VERY productive month...

-- Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive. – Didn’t touch this one.
-- Back-up blog - DONE 3/13/10
-- Get Katie's professional pictures in an album – Didn’t touch this one.
-- Make a Disney autograph book - DONE 3/18/10
-- Add a page to Katie's Halloween book - DONE 3/18/10
-- Add a page to Katie's birthday book - DONE 3/18/10
-- Scrapbook 2006 photos... hoping to get a ton of this done at the crop weekend!!! – Made GREAT progress, almost done with 2006 (FINALLY)!!!
-- 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book – Did 1 layout.
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night – Slacked on this one. I need to get back to this.

Big plans this month...I have a crop weekend and I am hoping to make the most of it!!!

-- Back-up 2010 photos & video on the backup drive.
-- Back-up blog
-- Scrapbook 2006 photos... hoping to get a ton of this done at the crop weekend!!!
-- Get Katie's professional pictures in an album
-- Make a Disney autograph book
-- Add a page to Katie's Halloween book
-- Add a page to Katie's birthday book
-- 5 Digital Layouts for Katie's Leukemia book
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

WHOA!! I had a pretty productive month despite the fact that I was busy, busy, busy...

-- Back-up 2009 photos on DVD - DONE 02/28/10; I now have a second external hard drive for backing up my backup drive so that I do not have to worry about backing up to CD’s or DVD’s...that is just a PAIN IN THE BUTT! This is MUCH easier.
-- Back-up blog - DONE 02/03/10
-- Back-up 2009 video - DONE 02/28/10
-- Scrapbook 2006 photos – Still working on it.
-- Photobook from Cape Cod 2009 - DONE 02/28/10. I had a coupon for a free 20 page photobook from Shutterfly that motivated me to get this done!
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night – I did not accomplish this, this month. Too busy this month, but I am hoping to make up for it in March! CROP WEEKEND IN MARCH...CAN’T WAIT!!!!

-- Back-up 2009 photos on DVD
-- Back-up blog
-- Back-up 2009 video
-- Scrapbook 2006 photos
-- Photobook from Cape Cod 2009
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

-- Back-up 2009 photos on DVD
-- Back-up blog - DONE 01/03/10
-- Back-up 2009 video
-- Photobook from Cape Cod 2009
-- Stories in Hand – Jessica Sprague class – Started ongoing project in which I answer one question weekly..
-- Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night – MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

OK, so I didn't do as well as I had hoped in January. But I did do a lot of power layouts and I hope to get a lot of actual pages done in my 2006 family book over the next few months.

I am dreading the "back-up saga". I have asked hubby for a second "book" to back up my back up so that I no longer have to burn to DVDs. I just have WAY too many photos/videos and it takes me WAY too long to back them all up to DVDs. It's kinda crazy, really. So, I am hoping that I will have that over the next few months and I will no longer dred the backing-up...lol.

Here's to a more productive February!

I would agree that it shouldn't be? But, is that how I really feel?

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Page supplies by Creative Memories

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Since I have gotten away from setting goals, I figure January is a great time to start that back up again. Here are my scrapbooking goals for January...

· Back-up 2009 photos on DVD
· Back-up blog
· Back-up 2009 video
· Photobook from Cape Cod 2009
· Stories in Hand – Jessica Sprague class
· Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night

I am looking forward to a very creative new year!!!

Although I am NOWHERE NEAR where I need to be with my scrapbooks, I still feel like I accomplished quite a bit in 2009. Mostly, I am excited about learning Adobe Photoshop and getting to the point where I can put it into practice...right now, I still feel like I am dabbling in it.

Let's see what I can accomplish in 2010!!!

Scrapbooking Goals for 2010...
· Genealogy Research
· Continue to learn Adobe Photoshop
· Scrapbook at least once per week, Friday night.
· Get caught up with my family albums (I think this one is a joke, but it's on there anyway)
· Maintain journaling/blog
· Stories to Tell – Jessica Sprague class