{"id":7505,"date":"2011-07-14T07:00:15","date_gmt":"2011-07-14T11:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/?p=7505"},"modified":"2011-12-16T11:38:43","modified_gmt":"2011-12-16T16:38:43","slug":"365-days-of-bliss-my-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/2011\/07\/365-days-of-bliss-my-method\/","title":{"rendered":"365 Days of Bliss: My Method"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone!\u00a0 It’s Kresta here, with another day of bliss for you on the Sweet Shoppe blog.<\/p>\n

A little while back, there was a thread in the forum about keeping photos organized and more specifically, organizing photos you want to scrap.\u00a0 I explained my method a little in the thread, but thought I would take the opportunity to give a little more detail for you today on the blog.<\/p>\n

I scrap chronologically and create bound books for each year of layouts.\u00a0 I have found that this works best for me.\u00a0 However, I think that my organizational method would work no matter how you scrap.<\/p>\n

All of my photos are organized by date.\u00a0 I copy my photos onto my external (EHD) each month and they are organized into yearly folders, which includes monthly folders, which includes each date I take photos.<\/p>\n

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My “Pictures” folder on my laptop is in a similar format:<\/p>\n

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The main difference is that I put previous months into monthly folders, but keep the current month as separate daily folders as I take the photos.\u00a0 I also have a separate P365 folder.<\/p>\n

Now, here’s where it gets to organizing them for scrapping.\u00a0 I go through my pictures folder each month, or maybe every couple of weeks, and decide which photos I want to scrap.\u00a0 We all know that all photos are not scrap-worthy.\u00a0 So I just try to choose the ones that I really love or the ones that are representative of something I want remembered in our albums.<\/p>\n

Next, I open those photos in PSE.\u00a0 I usually do just one day or one layout at a time.\u00a0 I open a new 12×12 file in PSE and plop those pictures on that blank page with no design to it at all.\u00a0 I save it as a TIF file with the date and a general name (e.g., Claire’s Lost Tooth).\u00a0 Then it goes into my “Need to Scrap” folder which belongs in my 2011 LOs folder.<\/p>\n

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You can see that I’ve even placed some photos on some of Cindy’s Super Sevens templates<\/a> for some of my P365 pages (which I am still soooooo far behind on); I even already did the journaling for those.\u00a0 So all they need is a kit and some tweaking, and they’re ready to go!<\/p>\n

This is the method that I’ve found works best for me.\u00a0 So if I feel like scrapping, I know I can just open up my “Need to Scrap” folder and choose whatever page I can find.\u00a0 Even though I say I scrap chronologically, I guess that’s not entirely accurate.\u00a0 I don’t mind going out of chronological order from within this folder, because I know that everything is saved by date and will eventually get scrapped for my chronological albums.<\/p>\n

I have to admit that this folder has a lot more files in it during this Summer, since we’ve been keeping busy.\u00a0 But I know that I’ll eventually whittle it down.<\/p>\n

Did this help you figure out a way to organize the photos you want to scrap?\u00a0 Do you have a way that works better for you?\u00a0 Would love to hear about it in the comments!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Hi everyone!\u00a0 It’s Kresta here, with another day of bliss for you on the Sweet Shoppe blog. A little while back, there was a thread in the forum about keeping photos organized and more specifically, organizing photos you want to scrap.\u00a0 I explained my method a little in the thread, but thought I would take […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":156,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[134],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/156"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7505"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10218,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7505\/revisions\/10218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.sweetshoppedesigns.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}