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.

Leela - the rmt is an acronym for my business. I'm from the Skagit Valley originally, so Mt. Baker and all the North Cascades are my favorite places. In fact, I've never set foot on Mt. Rainier (too crowded), although I have skied at Crystal a few times. TG - Thank you for the anniversary wishes. With wife's birthday falling on the 9th and Valentine's Day and our anniversary falling on the 14th, most years it's all rolled into one. I have success! The second piece of trim with leg for the closet cabinets actually fit this time. Making a second one was a blessing in disguise because I was not completely satisfied with the shape of the leg on the first one and I tweaked it a bit. It looks more pleasing to my eye now. I also got the counter top glued up yesterday and will start sanding and finishing it today (if I can finish my work and stay off GW long enough, that is).

Violet - Hmm, it seems my computer screen isn't large enough because stories is the last thing showing on mine. Does it have anything to do with the stylish overlay? May - When I click on my name there's a tab for Your Houzz, but there's only my ideabooks showing. To the right are the tabs, Ideabooks, bookmarks, activity, messages, purchases. Ravencajun - On the HD main page on the top left under the Houzz discussion and Gardenweb discussion you will see it says garden forums and home forums, click those links to see a full list of each. Yes, I can see that from my bookmarked page and can get to the other forums. The problem I'm having is finding those forums from the main Houzz page when I'm on my phone.

I have tried to help people find stuff. People have helped me before and I appreciated it. Now, It just seems lets bash Houzz. Houzz is bad Garden Web is good. If it can't be like it was 5, 10, 15 years ago, it is bad. If Houzz hadn't of bought GW, you might not have it at all. What you are complaining about is not that much different than before. It is just a different way of looking at it. I hope you have a better day and try to stretch your wings to learn new things and new ways of looking at them.