Plowing along with my words and photos today…did a few out of order but still planning on getting this all done by 12/31 ! Days 6&7, pretty simple and clean…
Day 6
Day 7
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December Daily 2018-Loose plan & Day 1
Well then… one post every six months seems to be the way we are going lately! Not that there has been a lack of making…there has just been a lack of posting. Lots of making getting done and hopefully I can get around to sharing some here soon.
It’s the first day in December and in the memory keeping world that means it’s time to get started on December Daily. December Daily is a memory keeping project brought to life by Ali Edwards, awesome all around person and memory keeper extraordinaire! I have documented December every year since 2009…tho in truth…last year’s is not complete but I am hoping to correct that this month. For fun, I’ve gathered all of my past albums together and am keeping them in a basket in the family room for the season. It is so much fun to go back and look at prior years and see what we were up to. 
I wanted to get day one completed and posted before I go out of town for a few days to kick things off. I am very motivated to complete this year within a few days of the 25th… I have not decided if I’m going until the 31st or just the 25th. Some years I have and some I haven’t, we’ll have to see. My plan right now is one 6×8 photo with some embellishment and one 6×8 page of text for each day…we’ll see how that shakes out. I’m hoping that only having to work with 6×8 for the main part of the album will make it quicker and easier to complete. I am planning to be almost all digital only adding in tactile elements as I come across them and I’ll probably hold everything until the end and decide what to do with the ephemera then. I have the kits I’m using and templates all ready to go in one file on my computer so I will not have to go hunting each time I want to make a page…we’ll see how that goes! So with out further ado…here is day one:
I will be out of town for days 2-6 so I’ll have lots to share later this week. Happy December everyone!
You can learn more about Ali Edwards and December Daily HERE on her blog.
100 Days project … the warm up
OK, it’s really not the warm up…I thought it started today, not tomorrow. AT ANY rate, I have been doing something creative every day so far in 2018 (I’ve missed one day). I have however, not been documenting it. So to add another layer of complexity to my life I am going to be participating in the #The100DayProject for the first time… I will be sharing my daily posts on Instagram, but I have to say probably not posting every day here, because that would be rather redundant BUT maybe several process posts ? I’m not sure yet. But for NOW 
I give you Halloween ca. 1973. Charlie is in the middle flanked by his sisters. I’ve been working on a Halloween through the years album. The plan is to have as many generations as possible and so far I’ve got some layouts done of our girls, Charlie as a kid, and Charlie and I as adults. I have photos of Charlie’s parents as young marrieds having a halloween party and somewhere there has to be photos of me (because there are so many the odds are in my favor). So that’s been a fun little project on which to work. A bit of warm up for the next 100 days.
I’m anticipating that my something creative will continue to be a mix of knitting, sewing, photo editing and scrapbooking. I’m not sure if gardening will count if it ever finally warms up! We’ll see how it goes.
More memorykeeping goodness
Really, I have been loads of other things besides digi-scrapping but they are just so much easier to share ! Heading off to a girlfriend adventure this week but wanted to share the latest layouts I did for my buddy Janet from Little Feet Digital Designs. So much fun working with her beautiful kits!
Solar Eclipse 2017
I will admit we were kind of eclipse slackers but it was still worth commemorating the event if nothing else than to use the gorgeous images from NASA! Kit: Total Eclipse of the Heart
Teenage Privacy?
I have to admit when the suggestion was made to use the kit Land of dreams, the Whitie Tightie papers AND the A Little Privacy Please embellishments I did kind of pause and think how I was going to pull this all together…then I was scrolling thru my photos in Lightroom and found this photo of Lily from a photo shoot the girls did and bingo… ladies and gentleman we have a moment in time documented!
Beautiful Fall
At what point will the girls not want to go pumpkin fetching with me? We’ll see next week but I thought it would be a fun thing to document from a few years ago… Template: Clean and Simple Templates: Fall Beauty Kit: Summer Fades
Texas
Anyone who knows me knows that I love Texas! It was heartbreaking to see the devastation from the hurricane. Janet designed a Texas Strong kit with templates from her partner Dagi’s Digital Designs and is donating all proceeds to hurricane relief. We also donated to the United Methodist Committee on Relief Fund for hurricane relief as well as Undies for Everyone… because everyone needs clean new underwear.
Hope everyone enjoys the bonus Monday off…it’s rainy here which is great for much needed rain!
Family History Strategizing & digi scrapping goodness
For the past several years, I’ve been working on “The Triggs Family Archives”. Really what this looks like is a giant pile of boxes and slide trays behind the living room couch. We have a mix of printed photos, lots and lots of slides and a box of super 8 movie reels which honestly makes me queasy just thinking about it. I have been picking away at scanning for the last year or two and it is a slow process.
As I’ve been scanning, I’ve been thinking carefully about the end product of all this work and Ive been formulating a plan that looks something like this:
- Slides scanned at 600 dpi, and imported into their own “family history” catalog in Lightroom for further sorting, tagging etc…
- Certain groups of slides will be made into photo books for gifts (ie. my Dad’s Marine Corps slides were made into a book and given to him for his birthday)
- Other various Family slides will be part of digital scrapbook pages, some simple, some more elaborate. I have already printed a number of these pages out and put them in page protectors in my giant mishmash of scrapbook layout albums. I had considered photo books for these photos but the random nature of these photos means I don’t know if I’ll ever feel “done” enough to print out a complete book… so printed layouts for now.
- Physical photos that we have come across are slipped into 3-up photo albums and as much information as we know written on the space next the photo sleeve. Multiple photos of the same event are tucked into the same pocket, this way they are safe and secure while I figure out what to do with them.
Did I mention this is only one half of my family??? There are “The Kilmer Family Archives” that I need to work on as well…different set of parameters for that group of items!
A few years ago, I scanned a page of family photos all taken at the same time / day in 1961 at my Grandparents house in Rochester NY. I made a layout a few years ago with one of the photos and my friend Janet’s “Rooted in the Past” kit from her company, Little Feet Digital Designs. Last month she re-issued the kit and it’s HUGE !!! Honestly I could scrap for months. This iteration also contains Templates from Dagi’s Templates and the whole bundle of wonderfulness is wrapped up under their joint brand: Partners in Crime Digital Designs. I went on a little bit of a digi page making tear this weekend and managed to finish up working with all of the photos from that series! whew! So without further ado…. a completed set of layouts!!
Not bad for a few days work! I’m excited to make more layouts with this kit and get more of our family stories told!
Hope everyone is having a great weekend!
triggsey 