I got it! It IS beautiful. I'm so happy to have it for the year 2000. I believe the question of price came up on one of the other strings....a 12X12 album-$36.00

DON'T GIVE UP!!! I just put my mom's wedding photos in a new CM album. She almost cried. My dad is now gone and she cherishes her photos. The B/W photos had been removed from her album in Cuba and sent to her several years after we had left the country. There's a pin hole in the upper left corner of all the photos from where (i guess) a book worm got through and they are all yellowing. I'm having her write what she remembers of that day and each photo on lined pages in the back of the book. This is something I and my DD will treasure forever!

Dear Tanya, You should trim the paper to fit so that it least disturbs the pattern. If possible making it as unnoticable as possible, by trimming all the edges alike. Once your pictures are mounted more than likely the background will not be as noticable and thereby hiding the part you had to trim. As for journaling on the paper, if the pattern is really noticable I would attach a plain but matching color solid piece to do the journaling on, but it is possible to write directly on pattern paper. Penny

I started back in 97 when my dd was born- today she turns 9! I did her baby book and it was ok. Then I discovered Creative Memories and all the stuff out there. I redid her pages- thanks to double prints- and it is much nicer. I used to use a 3-ring binder and page protectors from office supply store. I used solid paper as my page. I used some stickers and a little journalling. I have since taken all those pages and put them into CM albums. Now I use the regular white pages and use the colored paper for frames or accent strips. To organize and make things go faster I use an easy method. I have a binder with sleeves in it. When I develop film I separate in dated or event order. Then I divide by what pics would fit on a page. I drop those pics into sleeves. Then I take paper that matches the pics and drop it in the sleeve. I may put some stickers in there too. Then when I go to scrap, I just grab a sleeve and work that page. I have already picked out the stuff for the page, just need to assemble. Unfortunatly, I have a digital camera now. It was so easy to develop film and then sort out the pics. Now I have to download onto a CD, take to a place or use an online service. I have not done this yet, which explains why I have over 600 pics to print, and at least half I need doubles of- one for my dd and one for my ds albums. One nice thing about digital is that I can print only what I need, so I may print all my dd birthday pics for her album, but only print a few for my son to have in his. Hey soggy6- aren't you the one with the pool that had plaster then switched to ptec after a crack or something? Are you going to, or do you know about, the event at Newburg Hall down by Sac State on 4/29? My CM gal and her friends are having an all-day event. After spending last year doing the build, it will be nice to spend a day scrapping. I am taking all our vacation pics- the ones before we had kids- and getting them all into albums. Won't be super fancy like my kids books. The goal is to have them in an album instead of not.