Okay, I am having a problem and I hope I can get some advice from you great people. When I first started digital scrapbooking I didn't have any pictures because I was done with my scrapbooking so I asked my sister for some pictures of her son that I could scrap. I didn't get pictures from her for a long time so I stupidly agreed to help my MIL by doing scrapbooks for her kids pictures for their Christmas presents this year, about 20 pages per person. I also agreed to do scrapbook pages of her trip to Alaska with my FIL and his sisters so that she could give a scrapbook to her sisters-in-law for Christmas. Also, in April my grandmother died and I wanted to do some sort of tribute to her cause she was such a great woman and I thought how cool since I just started digital scrapbooking, this tribute could be sent to all my family members so I decided to send out an e-mail to a few family members and ask for pictures and stories so I could do some pages as a tribute. I was thinking I would be doing about 10 pages at the most, but was surprised to get 300 pictures!!!! Then, soon after I got these pictures, my sister finally gave me quite a few pictures of her son and herself. I have done probably 160 or so pages since march when I started digital scrapping, which is tons more than I could have done paper scrapping, but I just kept feeling like I wasn't making any headway on finally getting these pages done. So this past weekend I decided to figure up how many pages I still needed to do by Christmas and I came up with 238 pages!!! Oh my gosh, how am I supposed to get all that done when I have started to feel burned out with scrapping because I have been doing it so much lately. I keep thinking that it will all be done by Christmas and then I can relax, but I haven't been able to motivate myself to sit in front of the computer to scrap since Saturday. What can I do to encourage myself to get going and how can I get all those pages done, while still feeling like I am not doing a half baked job because I want to go faster (and remember that most of these, except the Alaska trip pictures, will also be going into my own scrapbook so I don't want ugly pages or pages that are the same over and over)? Maybe it is just too much to ask for that I can accomplish this.
I was also thinking that if I could find TONS of cool page bytes (pre-made pages) I would be okay with using those to help the process go quicker so if anyone knows where I can get lots and lots of cool looking page bytes, I would be grateful for the information on where to find them. Thanks ahead of time for your help.

Shawnery

Well here are a couple of my thoughts, take them or leave them. You could use sketches and do pages with different kits. That might make things go more quickly. Page bytes sound great but I not in the know about where to get lots of them LOL I'm a slow scrapper and 238 pages by Christmas would just not be an option for me.

Have you thought about pushing out your deadlines some? Which projects mean the most to you and do you really want to get done by Christmas? Would you feel okay about pushing your grandmother's tribute album date out until April when you could present it to your family as a 1 year memorial of her life? Does your sister really think you're scrapping pictures of her DS for christmas?

Mostly these are questions you should ask yourself. Don't feel that you need to respond to me about them. Just help yourself find what YOU really want to do with your scrapping time.

Good luck!

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