Janet
05-05-2004, 04:23 PM
Hi all,
I've been lurking awhile and decided it's time to introduce myself. I've always loved the idea of scrapbooking, but I'm just not a craft-type person. I also love working with photos and have been working steadily to archive all of our family photos, and I've been working to get down my parents' stories and my in-law's stories. Both sets of parents are rapidly approaching their 50th wedding anniversaries and I want to get their pics and stories down somehow as a gift...and to do a slide show for whatever parties we throw. And, since so many images have been locked away for years in slides, I've gotten a slide scanner for the thousands of photos on both sides of the family. That, in turn, has turned into a home based business that I've started to get off the ground, Snow Moon Imaging Services which I find incredibly rewarding. It's great to be able to help people get those images into a more usable format. Some of the images I've been working with have been "locked up" in slide format for 50 years!
My husband and I can't have kids, and I think I've finally come to terms with that. If we had kids, we wouldn't be doing all the various things we are doing! I volunteer with Samoyed Rescue, we have 5 Samoyeds of our own (one I need to get out in the show ring and another I really should find time to do obedience and/or agility), I dabble with genealogy (my and my husband's family and helping a bit locally with look ups) and I work/volunteer for our local historical society as registrar/archivist. One of my many loves with history is oral history...basically going back to getting people's stories down.
One day I typed in digital scrapbooking into a search engine and took one look at what you guys are doing and decided THAT was the answer to my lack of "craft skills". I'm SO glad I found you guys! Now to get off of here to let dh get back to upgrading my computer now that I've gotten hooked...
Janet White
Colorado
I've been lurking awhile and decided it's time to introduce myself. I've always loved the idea of scrapbooking, but I'm just not a craft-type person. I also love working with photos and have been working steadily to archive all of our family photos, and I've been working to get down my parents' stories and my in-law's stories. Both sets of parents are rapidly approaching their 50th wedding anniversaries and I want to get their pics and stories down somehow as a gift...and to do a slide show for whatever parties we throw. And, since so many images have been locked away for years in slides, I've gotten a slide scanner for the thousands of photos on both sides of the family. That, in turn, has turned into a home based business that I've started to get off the ground, Snow Moon Imaging Services which I find incredibly rewarding. It's great to be able to help people get those images into a more usable format. Some of the images I've been working with have been "locked up" in slide format for 50 years!
My husband and I can't have kids, and I think I've finally come to terms with that. If we had kids, we wouldn't be doing all the various things we are doing! I volunteer with Samoyed Rescue, we have 5 Samoyeds of our own (one I need to get out in the show ring and another I really should find time to do obedience and/or agility), I dabble with genealogy (my and my husband's family and helping a bit locally with look ups) and I work/volunteer for our local historical society as registrar/archivist. One of my many loves with history is oral history...basically going back to getting people's stories down.
One day I typed in digital scrapbooking into a search engine and took one look at what you guys are doing and decided THAT was the answer to my lack of "craft skills". I'm SO glad I found you guys! Now to get off of here to let dh get back to upgrading my computer now that I've gotten hooked...
Janet White
Colorado