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• Include photos of your various items with prices and ordering information.
• Provide information about your workshops and classes with photos.
• Simply have a record of your crafted items; this adds interest for anyone who enjoys your work.
• Include press releases, news clippings, programs, in addition to photos of your work.
• Use this as a record for your family of this portion of your life.  Even your clients will find it interesting to learn something about you.
• Compile a book of the shows where you display and exhibit.

How can you display your photos and clippings?

• Use a scrapbook and incorporate scrapbooking techniques to add interest.
• A photo album will work well in many cases.
• Create a journal type book, with writing  and sketches about your wares and events.  These can be  media clippings or something you do.
• Keep a photo album/scrapbook of each item you make with notes about it.

What suggestions fo you have for creating scrapbooks that will add interest and promote your crafts?

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Promoting Crafts With a Scrapbook

Also, in my head (see why there’s not room for much else in there?), I’ve enlarged and framed all those classic pictures to reflect the time of our lives, and, we have a set of DVDs made from our home movies.

In reality, those shoe boxes and hard drives full of family pictures are right where I left them several years ago, and, I have no idea where to begin to do something with the miles of movies we have.

Thanks to the scrapbooking craze (”scrapbooking ‘guilt’ to be discussed at a later date), my stacked pictures have free access to corner rounders, personal croppers, and, mounting squares, but, as far as I know, they’ve never taken advantage of any of them.

They have more accessories than Barbie, but, they are completely unmotivated. So, I guess it’s up to me.

It’s probably something that every parent struggles with at one time or another, but, the added layer of a career pretty much ensures that there’s just simply no time to do it.

I did manage to get most of the picture envelopes labeled and filed chronologically a few years ago, but, then we moved to a digital camera, and, now, I have Digital Picture Paralysis (DPP).

Online albums? Digital Scrapbooking? Print? Don’t print? Store locally? Store on the Internet? Integrate non-digital pictures by scanning? What about video? Don’t forget all the old pictures from you childhood. File by year? By event? By child? Arghhh!

I have got to get these things in order, somehow, but, even if I had the time, I don’t know where I would begin. I think I at least have all the photos in the same location, but, in order to get something done about them, I’d have to set up a space and be able to leave it up for a while to work on it.

That would probably lead to another entry about why the house is never tidy, and, I’d have a hard time keeping all the stuff away from the kids, anyway.

I think I have decided to begin with my printed pictures, and, just do it. I have been buying a few photo albums at a time, and, abandoned my scrapbooking ideals for the moment. At the very least, should I ever be able to resume scrapbooking, my pictures will be in order.

I decided to start with the birth of my oldest child, and, move forward slowly. While I do have pictures from my childhood, those can stay at my dad’s for a while, and, the ones from before kids can stay in the shoe boxes for a while longer.

I’m going to start with 3 envelopes of pictures at a session, and, just put them in there. That should be a small enough endeavor that I can put everything away after each session.

I’ll have to get over my desire to label every single one of them, and, tuck in associated memorabilia, and, wonder what to hold back to get framed, etc.

Any hints about how to find time for photo albums?

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Finding time to make family photo albums