These complete posts celebrate completed tasks that have been on a to do list for a long time, and analyse why they were not completed earlier.
Introduction
When I was discussing ideas for my father in laws birthday present it was suggested he would like a diary to record all the details connected to the community garden where he is chief gardener. For some reason instead of buying a gardening diary I interpreted this as a history of the garden and as my mind is currently on scrapbooking that is what I decided to make.
I intend to make a scrap pages for all my photographs and make them into a book for each year. However I’m not as quick as I’d like at completing the pages and haven’t finished a year yet, so it was a challenge to produce 50 pages in 4 months particularly as the content varied from photographs, web pages and physical documents. You can see a flash version of the whole book below.
The details
Task: | Create a book containing scrap pages describing the creation and ongoing story of the Grace and Flavour community garden |
Why complete it: | A birthday present for my father in law |
Duration to complete: | 4 months |
What needed to do: |
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What caused delay: | I actually think creating 50 pages in 4 months is impressive, however the two activities that took the most time was collecting the information as it came from a variety of sources and working out how to fit a lot of text on to some of the pages |
Benefits of completing | Able to give a very personal and unique gift to my father in law at a surprise party in the community garden |
Improvements | Using templates, whether I’d created or bought them, helped save a lot of time so I should create templates from my favourite layouts |
The majority of digital scrapbooking items came from Scrapgirls with some from Peppermint Creative