Scrapbooking Moments vs Events

I’m a planner. I get paid to develop strategic plans not only for organisations but for an entire region as well. Planning is in my blood. Before I embark on any project whether personal or for work, I write an outline of the step-by-step process, of what needs to be done.

Even when preparing for my little girl’s birthday party every year and company functions and events in my previous life, you can see me drawing up spreadsheets of what needs to be done, bought and what-have-you’s. It’s me. I will not deny that.

When I started out with this hobby, it was the same. I planned for everything. I wanted to scrap all the “events” in our lives BUT I realised that as I progressed that I do not want to plan for events anymore because I always feel like I’m never finished. I always get overwhelmed by my backlogs. Each christmas, birthday, first day of school, activity that pass me by, the mountain of ‘pending’ photos to be laid out keep on growing.

I have decided (just recently, actually) that I don’t want to be tied down to my pending job (unless it is an order by a customer) or something I need to give to someone special for a particular occasion. What I do now is write my feelings and thoughts in my little black book and find a photo that best suits it and start my layout or perhaps have a photo or a few photos I want to scrap and write my thoughts and feelings but never again will I be bound by my ‘back logs’ even for my daughter’s ABC album that I am doing. Yes, I will finish this album but when, I do not know