This layout is about how we used to go to the portrait studios at the mall to get our family photos and now we just set the self timer and get real life family photos:
A while back I got a pack of Echo Park's basics patterned paper, it has stripes and dots and basic designs in several colors and I love it. This kind of patterned paper is the best since it is timeless.
I'm planning to do a Katie Nelson type January Scrapbook Round-up, but in the meantime, I wanted to round up my favorite photos from January. Excluding photos that I took of scrapbooking layouts, I took about 1600 photos in January. Most of the photos were taken during our family ski trip to Ober Gatlinburg. I didn't take a lot of everday photos, I'm guessing that is a bit of a reaction to the high volume of daily photos I took during the December Daily process.
Here are my favorite photos from January 2012:
If I'm counting right that's 130 favorite photos from January, so if I had to choose one favorite photo from January I'd pick this one:
It was my in-laws' 70th (yes seventy years of marriage) and our 13th anniversary. I got this self-timer photo of all of us. Why I love this photo even though it isn't perfect: It was an important day that we didn't have a big deal party for - just a small little family gathering; we all are looking and look happy and it also shows a bit of how my in laws' house looks; so I know there is flash reflecting in my inlaws' glasses, but their eyes are still visible; and I haven't gotten a photo of just the six of us in a long time.
Looking forward to February, I'm going to focus on taking more everyday type photos, more photos that show what we are doing from day to day, and more photos that show relationships. I want to re-focus on being more intentional about the types of photos I am taking. That said, I am happy with my mostly travel photos from January and happy that I did get some everyday type photos taken too.
Here is my FEBRUARY PHOTOS TO TAKE LIST:
1. Valentines Day: Hearts. Red Things. Hugs. Whatever the kids bring home from school related to Valentine's Day. People together posed and candid interacting photos.
2. Work: Photos of Charlie and I together inside and outside of our office. Some kind of photos that relate to some of the plans and goals we have. I'm starting a new lunch group so I'd like to get a photo of that too.
3. Home: Details and things that I thing will change in a short amount of time. I think I might replant my herb garden and then take some photos of that.
4. Celebrations: Mac's Birthday - he is turning 10! Cake, presents, friend, party, Mac holding up 10 fingers, a photo of him and I, blowing out the candles.
5. Vacation: We're taking another little trip this month, no doubt I'll take a 1,000 photos in a few days, but I enjoy taking them and I like to have lots to pick and choose from later.
6. Accomplishments: Mac has a karate belt test coming up; I'm going to documentment my weight loss journey in conjunction with the MMEW (Move More Eat Well) class, Allison reading, and Charlie playing drums. Maybe some photos of school work and the kids doing school work.
7. Everyday Things: Breakfast. Business Lunch. Family Dinner. Family Game Night. Bowls of Popcorn. Daily Routine List / Calendar. What we are Reading, Watching, Listening To. Everyone's shoes all lined up together. The Contents of My Purse. The Contents of My Kids' Backpacks. The Contents of Charlie's something - maybe truck trunk.
8. Family: A photo of the whole family together; a headshot & full body photo of each family member. A full body photo of each family member next to a blank exterior wall so that I can put text over the photo later for journaling.
9. Photo Play: I'd like to surf Pinterest and some other photography sites for interesting photography techniques or poses or subject matter or way to stage photos. I'd like to do some creative photography and learn some new things to do with my cameras.
10.Places. Places we go around town all the time. Home - us in our home in different places than where I normally take photos, but also in the go-to photo spots in the house.
Here are some links to other "Photos to Take" lists and inspiration:
1. My Pinterest "Awesome Photos" Board.
3. Creating Keepsakes' 10 Can't Miss Photos to Take Every Month List.
4. My Pinterest "Picture Taking Ideas" Board.
6. Manual Photography Cheat Sheet
7. Low Light Photography Tips and Tricks
8. How to Pose to Look Thinner in Photographs
9. 10 Posing Tips for Group Photos
If you have any great photos, picture taking lists, or photography tips links, please leave links in the comments, I'd love to check them out and brush up on my photography skills this month.
This is sort of a Katie Nelson {otherwise known at "Katie the Scrapbook Lady" - I generally love all Katies but Katie Nelson is an extra special Katie} style Round- Up, but I'll have my official round up on the blog next week; in the meantime here are 12 things I loved in January 2012:
1. Project Life. I need to post my weeks from January - that post will be up sometime next week - but I must say that I am completely loving Project Life and, specifically, the Clementine Core Kit - it is eye candy, love it. I also love seeing everyone else's Project Life Albums - it is creating a real commonality and community amongst scrapbookers and crafters. I love seeing how different and how the same people's lives are. Love it.
2. The Eureka Optima Lightweight Vacuum. It was an impulse buy for me as we already have two or three other vacuums in our house, but I thought it would be awesome to have an "upstairs" vacuum and it is. Totally awesome. Not only that, it is very easy to use and my kids love using it so they actually beg to let me let them vacuum. Mac did both of the cars this week and he loves to vacuum my very messy floor in the scrapbooking room - he seriously loves it and always make a little comment that goes something like: "Wow Mom, you must really be working at scrapbooking because I just vacuumed in here two days ago and this place is a mess! Just look at all this stuff!" And he happily vacuums up the tiny little bits of paper and thread and those things from the self adhesive tabs. So awesome, this vacuum was a bargain and it is a work horse, I love it. Highly recommend, especially if you are a bit like me and believe you can never have enough vacuums.
3. The Millionaire Fastlane by MJ DeMarco. This is actually a favorite for my husband, he read it cover to cover (I guess - he actually read it on his ipad - so what is that? cursor to cursor - I don't know) and plans to give it a second read. He wants me to read it, so its on my "I'll read it within 2 weeks list", I first heard about it on Tim Conley & Izzy Hyman's podcast The Foolish Adventure, so I was familiar with some of the concepts, but apparently it deserves an actual sit down read - maybe the weather will be nice and I'll take the ipad into the hammock for some quality reading time (need to carve out a few hours sometime soon).
4. My Canon Point and Shoot Camera. I have it with me all the time and I love the self timer feature and it took thousands of pictures on a recent ski trip that my family took and that thing stood up through snow maker machines - even though I wouldn't necessarily recommend using it in snow maker conditions - I couldn't resist getting those photos and it was and is totally awesome. Love it. I should say, it is actually my daughter's Canon - I bought a new one for me but it didn't have the self timer feature - but the new one is pink & hers is red so I think I can probably convince her to trade with me - and the pink one has less buttons so I think she'll love it more, both are great cameras - I just happen to adore the self-timer feature.
P.S. The red one (Canon PowerShot A3100IS) is actually slightly larger than the pink one (Canon PowerShort ELPH 100 HS) in real life.
5. Covergirl Concealer. Not only do I enjoy the commericals with Ellen and Sofia Vergara from Modern Family, but it is awesome and I think it works better than any other concealer I have ever used. And you don't have to mess with that wand thing. I love it. It is the first time I have ever thought a concealer actually worked well without looking weird. It is awesome.
6. Gretchen Rubin's The Happiness Project One Sentence 5 Year Journal. How clever and it is so cute. I bought one a couple weeks ago but haven't written in it yet because I was midway through January - I think I'm going to put it in my nightstand drawer and write in it everynight before bed. Totally do-able and totally awesome and it is cute to boot.
When I was searching for the Happiness Journal link, I found this 5 Year Mommy Memory Journal - what an amazing concept, I wish I would have had one when I first had my babies - all in one place, just one line - so simple and clever and totally do-able for a new mom.
7. The Schwinn Eliptical Stepper. Our Nordic Trac broke about a year or so ago - it literally fell apart while I was using it - but I did put some serious time on it so I'm not complaining; but when we went to buy another stepper the Nordic Trac steppers seemed too big and too expensive, the Schwinn had less features, but was smaller and half the price. Its is holding up really well and between my husband and I it gets 2+ hours a day of use. If you actually use a stepper, go for quality - but it is nice when quality comes at a bargain price.
8. Blue Ultra Fine Tip Sharpie Markers in boxes of 12. I used to only buy the black ones, and then I bought the multicolored ones - but there are certain colors that I seriously never ever used - who needs a pastel yellow sharpie? So I bought a box of the blue ultra fine tip Sharpies and I love them and use them in my scrapbook journaling all the time, its a nice alternative to black and I love this bold but happy shade of blue.
9. Judy Blume books, specifically the Fudge Series. I remember reading and loving Judy Blume books when I was in 3rd, 4th and 5th grades and I've been reading the Fudge series with my son and he absolutely loves them. Judy Blume really knows how to connect with a young person's mind and feelings; and its a nice reminder to me of how it feels to be that age - it is a good communication starter for me and my almost 10 year old and it also provides a nice way to laugh together at something simple and good and something that doesn't have some sort of screen attached to it. Judy Blume wrote some seriously entertaining and quality books for young people.
10. Stacy Julian's books on scrapbooking and her class Twelve at BPC. I have been cranking out the layouts this past month and I think a big part of my creativity spike can be attributed to Stacy Julian's Twelve Class; and I have owned her books since they came out, but I still refer to them now and again and they are still inspiring when I pick them up, every time. If you wish you were scrapbooking more or would like to start scrapbooking, these resources will get you there.
11. The CHA Hexagon Trend. I am loving all the hexagon patterns that were shown at this year's Winter CHA 2012 in Anaheim, California. I think all scrapbookers should own some hexagon nesting die cut shapes, or if you can't commit to the hexagons - I think I will always love the circle nestie die cut shapes, I don't think circles will ever go out as a trend - circles are awesome and timeless as a design element for scrapbooking.
12. Anything Hello Kitty Themed. Hello Kitty was popular when I was a kid so it is so awesome that Hello Kitty has made such a comeback for my daughter's generation and also awesome that she also thinks Hello Kitty is so cute; its a girl thing - and its cool to have a thing like that's just for us girls. And we've been bike riding this month since Allison got her training wheels off on Christmas Eve, this bike bell would be pretty cute - right?
Ok that's my January Things I Love List. I am thinking that I'll print this out and include it in my Round Up Scrapbook Notebook. Do you do the Scrapbooking Round UP?
Santa Came Early...
{which made me realize I need to brush up on my photography skills before Christmas Day!}
...And blessed me with an overly cooperative daughter who - on her own - dressed up in a Santa Dress and posed for photos:
And I was able to get dozens of adorable photos of my daughter in her Santa dress and even under the tree - she actually set up the shot of pretending to open a present!
BUT!!! I realized when I looked through the pictures that there are things that I would change about these pictures if I could. So I am going to do a little pre-Christmas photo optimization preparation! For example - in the two lower photos there is a lot of wires in the one of the left but I blurred them out in the photo on the right - easier would be to just remove those wires in the first place. And I could probably do some reading about exposure - especially in low light / high action settings like we will experience on Christmas.
I use Google's Picasa for photo management and I use the text feature to write the date on the photo I choose for each day of Project Life so that if I only print once a week or even once a month - I'll remember where each photo will go in my album. Here are some examples of this week's photos so far:
Sunday's photo I probably would not have taken if I were not a scrapbooker, but the search for the perfect Icee took a full hour on Sunday and I thought it was worth a photo (or 4 - but I'll just include one in my Project Life / Project 365 album).
Monday's photo I found on my daughter's camera. Yes, that is the Donny Osmond Barbie Man, and swoon.
Tuesday's photo I did with the self timer and then created a collage in Picasa in 4x6 shape so it will fit in the album. My husband and I actually had a breakfast date this morning.
I am also writing out the journaling every day and saving bits of stuff from everyday life and I put those bits directly into the photo page divider thing.
I'm trying to keep up daily but not make this project too much so that I will keep up this habit long term.
I recently took the Ella Publishing Boot Camp and a few of the exercises by Maggie Holmes were instruction in PhotoShop Elements 9. I have owned this program for a long time but I have been afraid to use it, the video instuction in the Ella Boot Camp was very informative and made me comfortable with at least going in to the program to do some more editing on my own with some of my photographs.
Tonight I made a layout based on a Sketchy Thursdays Sketch and then edited the photograph of it in PhotoShop Elements.
So my questions for you, dear blog-reader:
1. Do you upload your layouts to the internet?
2. Do you scan or photograph your scrapbook layouts?
3. Do you edit the photos of your scrapbook layouts before uploading to them your blog or internet sharing site?
4. Can you give me some tips on making my layouts look better on my blog?
Thanks!
Katie Scott.
Just under the wire {I think} to get this in for the Ella Publishing Boot Camp prize drawing:
Hello Blue Eyes!
Another Ella Publishing boot camp drill exercise: To practice the urban action - and because my home printer is just about out of ink; for the urban action layout challenge I made a layout using a photo similar to the one I used for the urban action layout exercise - and then scanned it in and applied the urban action to it - the lower version is the urban action.
I edited this photo in Picasa and also in PSE using Maggie Holmes's instructions for Urban Actions. My photo taste-tester Allison said that she prefers the Urban Action photo.
I'm not sure why, but I haven't bonded with Photoshop. I remember way way back in the mid nineties my friend Joe showed me Adobe which I think was the pre-cursor to Photoshop, and I remember loving it back then. Then fast forward to 2007 and I went to Donna Downey's Inspired Event and saw Renee Pearson demonstrate Photoshop Elements and she made it look so easy that I bought it as soon as I got home, I think it was PSE 6. I did not love it. Then I recently heard that they made PSE so much better, and probably around 6 months ago I bought PSE 9, but it goes mainly unused and I typically use Picasa to edit my photos.
I did this PSE tweak of a picture using the Ella Boot Camp tutorial by Maggie Holmes:
Maggie Holmes did make it easy to use, but I had the iphone set up with the video so I could be working on the computer; and I don't think I really tweaked my photo to perfection using PSE 9. I did like that I could make certain areas of my photo lighter or darker or more saturated which I can't do in Picasa. Here's that same photo with the Picasa before and after:
Picasa is free and I think PSE 9 was about $100. I think that a good project for me would be to learn more about PSE, but somehow I am never motivated to do so. I would like to learn the burning around the edges effect in PSE and maybe learn more about actions - I guess I'll put that on my list of things to do, but chances are it will remain on my list until I find something awesome about PSE - can you clue me in - tell me something awesome about PSE so I'll start using it.
I'm not sure why, but I haven't bonded with Photoshop. I remember way way back in the mid nineties my friend Joe showed me Adobe which I think was the pre-cursor to Photoshop, and I remember loving it back then. Then fast forward to 2007 and I went to Donna Downey's Inspired Event and saw Renee Pearson demonstrate Photoshop Elements and she made it look so easy that I bought it as soon as I got home, I think it was PSE 6. I did not love it. Then I recently heard that they made PSE so much better, and probably around 6 months ago I bought PSE 9, but it goes mainly unused and I typically use Picasa to edit my photos.
I did this PSE tweak of a picture using the Ella Boot Camp tutorial by Maggie Holmes:
Maggie Holmes did make it easy to use, but I had the iphone set up with the video so I could be working on the computer; and I don't think I really tweaked my photo to perfection using PSE 9. I did like that I could make certain areas of my photo lighter or darker or more saturated which I can't do in Picasa. Here's that same photo with the Picasa before and after:
Picasa is free and I think PSE 9 was about $100. I think that a good project for me would be to learn more about PSE, but somehow I am never motivated to do so. I would like to learn the burning around the edges effect in PSE and maybe learn more about actions - I guess I'll put that on my list of things to do, but chances are it will remain on my list until I find something awesome about PSE - can you clue me in - tell me something awesome about PSE so I'll start using it.
Welcome Scrapbookers and Blog Hoppers!
You should have arrived here on the August Happiness Blog Hop sponsored by Stephanie Medley-Rath's Scrapworthy Lives: Because your Life Is Worth Scrapbooking Blog {click here for the link to Scrapworthy Lives}. More specifically, the stop before mine on the hop was { Tammy's Blog: Your Memory Connection }.
August's Theme is "Buy Some Happiness" inspired by Gretchen Rubin's book: "The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent A Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun." On the subject of money buying happiness, Gretchen Rubin explains: "money, spent wisely, can support happiness goals of strengthening relationships, promoting health, having fun, and all the rest."
Can Money Buy You Love? - the Beatles didn't think so - and neither do I, but can money infuse a little happiness into your relationship? I think so. This layout was inspired by a recent "Modest Splurge" when my husband and I re-instituted our long standing tradition of Saturday Night Date Night. We didn't go crazy, but we did go on a bit of a geek spree at Best Buy and then downtown to the restaurant of our choice and indulged in good food and quality time together - without the kids.
The Page: The page I made for this blog hop seems simple enough, I didn't use any embellishments or even any letter stickers - just a piece of colored cardstock and a few strips of patterened paper. To the casual observer, this is a frugal page. But to me, it represents a splurge. I try to keep my spending on scrapbooking supplies to a bare minimum - I try to limit my purchases to adhesives and page protectors because I have enough scrapbooking supplies to last a lifetime. Most of the time, I am happy using older supplies and papers in my scrapbooking, but occasionally, I find myself in a rut and when that happens I allow myself to indulge in a "Modest Splurge" and that Basic Grey Lauderdale Paper represents just such a splurge that I recently made on a trip to my local scrapbooking shop Whim-So-Doodle in Downtown St. Pete. I bought $30 of patterened papers that I didn't need but I really wanted - it was all impulse shopping - buying whatever I thought was attractive, but I kept a dollar limit for myself and paid in cash - not with a credit card. I didn't know what I'd use this paper for when I bought it but it seemed perfect for the mood I wanted to create with this page.
Here's our story: Charlie and I met in 1995 and quickly fell in love, we were both recent law school graduates with lots of potential and lots of law school loan debt. We had a long courtship and it was four years before we got married, but during our dating years, we took a giant leap of faith by starting a law practice together in 1997. In 1999, as newlyweds, we had lots of time and love - but not much money - just a lot of law school loan debt, a new business, and a home mortgage. We worked hard to get to a financially OK place. In 2002, we started a family and when the children were small, we indulged in a live-in nanny, babysitters, and a housekeeper. We kept up our Saturday Date Night Tradition even when the kids were small and we were seriously busy.
But somewhere around 2008 or 2009, when the bad economy hit, we decided to tighten up the bootstraps and stopped having a housekeeper and started cleaning our house ourselves again; and since the children were getting a little older, we no longer needed all the babysitting. So our new-found frugality led to the End of our Saturday Date Night Tradition. Looking back, I think our marriage suffered a little bit because we stopped taking this time out together, we lost a connection that we once had and our connection then centered only around the house, the kids and work - there was little to no time spent on just us.
Until last week - we brought back Saturday Date Night and it was worth every penny!
Journaling: "Saturday Night - July 23, 2011: The first night in our house alone since Mac was born in 2002 and we had a long over-due date night at Moon Under Water in Downtown St. Pete - Of course it rained! With both kids at a friend's house overnight - we got a little preview of the next stage in life."
Ok, Scrapbookers and Happiness Seekers: Now go check out the last stop on the Blog Hop! { Click Here for Melissa's Blog }
:) Katie.
I flipped through the Becky Higgins Sketches Book over the weekend while floating in my little row boat and found a great scrapbook sketch for two page layouts with lots of photos. Here are three of my interpretations of that one multi-photo scrapbook sketch:
1. My cousin Catherine's wedding:
I had a ton of photos from a film camera - the wedding was in 1999 or 2000, so I cropped some of them and got 11 on one two page scrapbook layout. I trimmed it up with odds and ends embellishments including chipboard words, rubons, transparency butterflies, patterned paper, and dimensional tag stickers. I didn't do a ton of journaling but did write down how I am related to my cousin - so that my kids would know in case they ever wondered when they saw this layout.
2. This doesn't exactly follow the sketch but its pretty close and I fit 10 photos onto 2 pages with this layout. I was on a roll with the older photos - so I pulled out some from the summer of 2008 and found a bunch of my husband and daugther - neither of them were available when I was doing the journaling - if they were I probably would have asked them about the photos to get the story, but I told the story I knew - that I had just gotten back from my 20 year high school reunion and they showed me their silly tricks when I returned:
3. This next is very similar to the one in the Becky Higgins Sketch book - I even found the exact same brown paper with the little green flowers that she used back in 2006 - those scrapbooking yardsales keep me well stocked in premium paper that's out of date; I think this one was Crate Paper and I don't care that its old - it is a very nice heavy weight, it is pretty and doesn't look too dated to me, and the best part is I probably got it for ten cents.
This layout that I made which features my son at age 6 in the summer of 2008 broke my heart just a little because he's so much bigger now that he is 9 and, well, he used to love hanging out with me and while he still does, he does less now than he did then. Plus I realized that I had little in the way of journaling from that summer; I probably have a notebook or something somwhere, but it wasn't handy when I made the layout and I looked at my blog archives from the Summer of 2008 and it was all about scrapbooking instead of about what my kids were up to. So I'm thinking I'm going to start blogging a little more about the current events of my life for future scrapbooking reference for myself.
After I made this layout this morning, I created a Florida Scavenger Hunt, told both kids that we were going on an adventure, and we spent the day out in the world until sunset finding treasure and making memories.
That's 11 photos on that 2 page layout - I'm thinking that maybe I'll do more 2 page layouts; I used to do a lot of them but have been doing 1 pagers for the last couple years. I'm feeling the 2 page thing coming back - not as a trend in the world of scrapbooking - but in my own little world of scrapbooking.
Ok, I'm filing these under the Scrapbooking by Numbers: 10+ Photos and I'm going to make better efforts towards my Becky Higgins style Project Life Album and writing down more everyday about what is going on in the present - so when I scrapbook the pictures I took today someday in the future, then I'll remember all the fun stuff we did and what we talked about. And I'm sure someday, my big kids of 7 and 9 will look tiny to my future self.
Here we were today in pictures on our Scavenger Hunt Adventure:
And I didn't write down a whole lot other than what I found on our scavenger hunt, but Ally & I did make this little video which I'm sure will jog my memory if it needs a reminder someday in the future when I try to scrapbook a few of these pictures. I tried to upload the video here but ran into some problems, I did upload it to my picasa web album, I really need to do more video - the kids are so completely cute - especially their voices.
Time to Spring Ahead :)
In the world of digital photography, video and scrapbooking - Can you ever back that thing up enough?
Probably no. Computers, hard drives and other back up systems break or become outdated. Many years ago, our computer guy at work warned me: "Don't get too attached to computer hardware" - in other words, he and my husband/inhouse tech-man, Charlie, were going to switch out my computer whenever and frequently - so if I had something I wanted to save, I'd better do it on the network at work rather than on my workstation. They weren't giving me any guarantees about stuff I saved on my C drive. Even with that knowledge, over the years and having my computers switched out who knows how many times, I know that I have lost photos on computers. Gone. Just gone. I'm sort of ok with that because back in the olden days of film and the beginning of digital photography, I printed just about everything my camera shot. Fast forward to today: I take 20 times more photos than I print. Even with a system of printing my photos on a fairly regular basis, there are literally tens of thousands of photos I do not print. Will I ever need them? Probably not, but still, its nice to know that they are "there" on my external hard drives if I ever needed them.
Here's my digital dilemma: I'm working on a different computer this morning so I don't have access to my normal stuff - my external hard drives for most of my photos and scrapbook layouts are in the scrapbooking room connected to my scrapbooking computer. Problem is: The monitor of the computer in my scrapbooking room just died (probably). Charlie is going to work on it today to either fix it or replace it. This all got me to thinking - actually this is not a new thought - that backing up on CDs, negatives, external hard drives, or whatever is probably never good enough. But is backing up in the clouds good enough? I'm not for certain but I do back up my photos and scrapbook layouts, which are traditional paper layouts that I then photograph, in the clouds using www.shutterfly.com, www.flickr.com, and here on www.typepad.com. I even made a Shutterfly hard bound book of my scrapbooking layouts (or at least some of them). Here is a link to the slideshow of my Scrapbook Layouts Shutterfly book:
Click here to view this photo book larger
And here is the link if you can't see the stuff in the above box: http://katiescottscrapbooking.shutterfly.com/pictures/810
What I love about the photo book of my traditional scrapbook pages is that I don't HAVE to go digital with my scrapbooking if I don't want to. (I sort of want to add digital scrapbooking to my skills set, but that's another story). So even if I'm a"traditional paper scrapbooker"I can still enjoy the benefit of the compact size of the photobook and the implied safety of the online backup of my layouts.
Is backing up online enough? Who knows, but it is somewhat comforting to know that if the State of Florida blew away in a hurricane or something, that many of my photos and scrapbook layouts would not be lost because they are on the internet. Will this change in the future? Probably. But for now, I back my photos up online in addition to using several external hard drives. How do you back up your digital photos and scrapbook pages? Please leave a comment, I would love to know.
Side Note: I married Charlie back in 1999 mainly because I thought he was cute; if I could rewind time, I would marry him again, but the reasons would be different - this time one of the major ones would be "he can fix stuff" - my advice if you are not married yet? Marry someone who knows how to fix stuff - especially if you are the type of person who doesn't know how to fix stuff - and by stuff I'm talking technology & computers but also toilets and cars. Just this minute, Charlie is working on his "honey-do" list which is as follows this weekend: 1. fix my iphone, 2. fix my computer, 3. figure out how to make a members only site in ustream - I want to make private training videos for work - actually, I've made a bunch but have apparently made them so private that the people at work are having trouble getting in. So its nice to be married to a tech-y guy. Side Note to that: We watched Dinner for Schmucks last night - so funny & well done - I love that kind of movie & Steve Carrell played an adorable nerd. Yay for nerds.
Ok, back to the story of online backing up digital photos and scrapbook pages: Another place I "back it up" online is flickr. I actually have 2 flickr accounts - I think maybe I couldn't remember my password and created a new account one of the times that I did Lain Ehmann's LOAD Challenge. (See I really am technology challenged.) I was playing with my flickr account this morning and discovered I could create a photoslide show and share it. So here's my attempt at the Flickr Slideshow Share:
I see that its flash so it probably won't show up on my iphone, so here's the link: http://www.flickr.com/photos/37095341@N08/show/.
Now lets see if I can find my other flickr account....
Please share your photo and scrapbooking back up tips - leave a comment - I'd love to learn more about backing up digital photos and scrapbook pages - digital or paper.
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