Home Alone

[liralen]

John and Jet are at the Bible Vacation School. It goes from 6pm until sometime around 8 or 8:30? I don't know. I just know that I'm home alone, and it's amazing to be able to watch what I want and actually THINK about the scrapbook I want to make about our trip out East and back.

I bought a simple scrapbook, just pages with protector pockets and I have a ton of paper and the pictures at home. I also got a few acid-free/photo safe pens. I may have to buy some kind of glue that's photosafe, too, or something. Most of the photos I'm using are prints from my digital photos so making copies won't be a problem. A few are photos from John's rolls of real film, so I want to be more careful with those.

I'm cheerfully trying to lay out the pages before I do anything approximating glueing things, and figuring out what pictures I need out of the ones that I haven't printed, yet, but it's kind of hard. I may need to just print a thumbnail of EVERYTHING and use that for a quick mockup of what I want all the pages to look like. Of course, never having done this before it may result in my taking YEARS to do one book of one trip. :-)

My cold has gone away. I used the air cleaner in our room last night, and I slept nearly 12 hours between a daytime nap and last night's sleep, and my head cold is nearly gone. Jet's is still around, and I'm a little worried, so I'll probably put the air cleaner in his room tonight.

Comments

[palinade.livejournal.com]

You can use double-sided tape, too, if you can't find archival glue.

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

I appreciate the information and went out and got some at lunch time, a low acid variety that said it was photosafe. Yay!

[silkiemom.livejournal.com]

Yay! Scrapbooking!

Many craft stores carry scrapbooking supplies, like photo-safe glue or tapes. I use tape runner, which dispenses a strip of tape that has little breaks. Some people use photo splits, which are pre-cut pieces of double sided tape. If you know somebody else nearby who does scrapbooking, you might ask to see what they use, and try that. It's nice to try things before you decide. :)

Anyway, have fun!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Yay! Thanks. I appreciate knowing the options. There was actually a local scrapbooking store! They had a whole carosel to choose from, so I did. whew.