Digital Scrapbooking Commences

Before I forget, Happy New Year! I might not make it til Midnight so I'll say it now. I've decided to kick off the new year not with drinks and parties, but rather practical work gettng myself prepared for the new year! Starting it off right, like with a sparkling clean bathroom, a made bed, all laundry done (well, almost all) and even some painting projects completed (I LOVE spraypaint!!)

So onward -

Though I have some pinking shears, some acid free papers and other silly things, I don't have the patience or steady hand to do traditional scrapbooking. So now I'm trying my hand at digital scrapbooking.

My first project came by a bit unexpectedly - a friend of mine who shares a mutual crush with Ralph Fiennes emailed me today incredibly excited that he's got a page on MySpace. Well, if that IS his myspace page, he should be embarassed. But then I realized some of my most precious materials are from his Tony Award winning performance in Hamlet at the Belasco Theater in NYC.

I was fortunate enough to not only see it 11 (!) years ago, but got to meet him and get his autograph. So that picture, autograph and ticket stub are among my prized possessions as I'm SUCH a fan of his. Modern audiences know him, of course, as Lord Voldemort or the creepy guy in Red Dragon. I know of him from his Fat Nazi days in Schindler's List.

My next scrapbook projects are varied. The different ideas I have are:

1. U2 Popmart tour (groan, I know but I have SO much stuff!)
2. Switzerland (I have a lot of odd things actually on this)
   
3. Podere Ripucce/Tuscany (might do a movie too if I can figure out how to move videos onto my PC..I need a Mac. Stat.)
4. Toddler me in Thailand
5. Mike Bielecki & 36 Kids (a lot of material here!)
   
6. Spain
7. My mother (saccarin, but I found a lot of neat old photos)
8. My Rememberance box (this is where I'd take pictures of everything n my rememberance box and basically scrapbook it

Anyway - not too bad for a first cut at online scrapbooking.

(clicky on it to see the whole hog detail)