Ha ha! I finally did it! I got those pictures printed off! In 1993 Mom took on the huge task of getting all of our kids photos into albums. I can still remember photos were everywhere! But most of all I remember that they were going to charge her about fifty cents a print to make copies of some of the photos that she wanted in everyone's albums, because of course we all wanted the pic of us playing Hungy, Hungry Hippos! They told her it would be much cheaper to bring in the negative. I can't imagine doing that, but the price would have been much cheaper. Anyway, sorting through a huge box of negatives wasn't meant to be, and then all us kids started graduating from high school and made a big ol' mess of mom's neat albums and the envelope of pictures to be copied ran away. I decided to resurrect the photo project because I have a good scanner and Walgreens.com is a great resource, because I don't have to stand at the photo counter for an hour picking which prints I need. So 309 pictures later (that's right 300+ pics and I didn't scan all of them yet) I am ready to start putting in albums.
What I didn't mention is that most of them are odd shaped, I think they are 3x5s? At any rate, you can't order odd size prints online, so I had to leave white space on a lot of the prints and then I spent an hour last night cropping them. But I enjoy seeing all these pics of me with my sibs! Well see how quickly I get them in the album.
2 comments:
I hope I get to see those albums some day! Sounds like a wonderful project. I am a picture fanatic and if you ever want to come to O-Town and scrapbook, we go to Archiver's Scrap Mania ever couple of months. I keep scrapbooks for the kids and find it to be my favorite hobby. Just ask Nikki (who thinks I am LAME).
I can't wait!! I'll have to ship mine home once they are done!
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