I still know how to scrap…

yup, I do. :) Took 3 days of limited time on the computer but I did it. I created a page just for fun. :) You can find all the credit info here.

I am LOVING my new organizational system. I even figured out a way to use it to keep track of what I’ve used in the LOs I’m working on for a credits list. That’s always such a struggle for me. I think I spend just as much time after the LO figuring out where I got everything from as I do creating the LO itself. Not anymore. :) For anyone interested, this is the system I’ve come up with that seems to be working well for me.

I added a top level category for scrapbook pages. Eventually I plan to have sub-categories for my different albums: the neats, AAM, travel, etc. to keep all my full-size printable LOs in and then also a sub-category called web-files to tag the web-size versions of the LOs as well. But for now I added two categories/tags in that section for ‘in progress’ LOs. For me 2 tags should be enough because I typically try to finish a page before moving on to the next and rarely if ever have I had more than 2 pages in an unfinished state at the same time. So as I drag items over into Photoshop to use in a LO I tag it with the ‘in progress 1′ tag. Then when I’m finished with the LO I just click on that ‘in progress 1′ category and I can see all of the items that I used on the page. If I can’t get the credit info from just the file name I’ve found that if you right click on an image there’s an option to ‘go to file’ where it takes you to the folder that it’s from and then I have the designer info, kit, etc all right there. Voila! :) Gotta love it. HUGE time-saver for me. Plus I know I used items on this LO that I never would’ve came across in my old organization system. I LOVE mixing elements from all different designers so for me this is heaven. If you haven’t tried this software yet you really should. There’s a 30 day free trial and I think there’s actually a discount in the trial to buy it for $35 instead of the regular $39. SOOO worth every penny from what i can tell already in the 5 or 6 days I’ve been using it. :)

OH, in other happy news. I got my hair cut and colored yesterday and I love it! I was trying to grow the top layers and the bangs out like Sandra Bullocks hair in the Lake House. Remember this post? Well, I am NOT cut out for having long bangs OR long layers on top. Just looks lifeless and boring on me. I think my hair is too fine, or too thin, or something like that. So I had Kelly cut me some short piecey bangs (like what I had in this post) and shorter layers through the top (also like in that photo) but the overall length is still getting longer and I can STILL pull it up in pig-tails if I want to. Which I kinda like to do lately. Makes me feel younger and more creative. Crazy huh? LOL Anyway, no pictures to show of the new do but I’m sure I’ll get plenty next weekend in Chicago. :)

Kay, I’ve been trying to catch up on emails before getting to work this morning. Still having major issues with my hotmail so if anyone has emailed in the past couple of weeks and not heard back from me please email again. I’m considering changing my main email to my charter address but I think I’m more limited there on the size of files I can receive. I have the upgraded hotmail account so it’s so frustrating that I can’t seem to use it without having to manually check that junkmail folder every day for fear of missing something important. And if you know me at all you know my memory is not one of my strong points so missing a day or two happens far too often, especially with more limited time on the computer lately.

And, I’ve been tagged twice to post 5 wierd things about me so I promise to post again (hopefully later today) with my answers. Thinking about actually splitting it into 5 separate posts thinking that might get me blogging more often and my wierdisms are probably worthy of a post each. ;)

Happy Friday to ya!