This may be a repeat...

but I've recently printed A TON of photos to scrapbook and

I wanted to share my process for sorting them all..

[Much thanks to Shirley for giving the prompt and spurring me on to complete this page!]

First off - most of my photos are taken on my phone so I do my best to edit them on the phone prior to uploading to my computer...

[and honestly, there are times when I send them to print directly from my phone.]

Once uploaded to my computer, I do my best to sort my photos into files based on

year - month - and then maybe a sub-folder for each event...

Then I pull everything I want to print over to an album in Walgreens...

[Again - I name these [Walgreens] folders by year - month the photos were TAKEN.]

I review each photo in the order and remove the duplicates,

edit the ones where portions may be 'cut-off', etc.

Then I print -

[and even with ALL OF THAT I end up with photos that don't go in my scrapbooks...]

Once printed, I sort the photos into stacks based on

time /event, topics I want to scrap... stories I want to tell...

I write each topic on the outside of the box or envelope they came in...

As I complete the scrapbook page I mark it off....

if there are leftover photos they might be sent to a relative...

and, if not, then they go into a stack to file in box by person / place/ thing...

This is what works for me - it keeps me from printing duplicates [most of the time - ha.]

And it helps me keep track of the stories I want to tell...

I 'attended' a zoom crop this past weekend with some gals from New England [ again - have NO IDEA how I linked up with them - but] they're a fun group and we had people there from sea to shining sea. SO FUN.

And I get SO MUCH more completed if I'm chatting with others who share the joy of scrapbooking and creating! I'll share some of my pages in a minute - but want to say that I got ALL THE PHOTOS [from our trip to the PNW] in that far right box into pocket pages! YAY.

Next step will be journaling and embellishments!