| Date |
Activity |
Time Cost |
Money Cost |
| 2/1 |
Dig through 5 boxes of photos to
find photos that you want to use. Get side tracked when you find the
pictures of Aunt Bertha's birthday party and cannot remember if you sent
her a set of duplicates or not. Call Aunt Bertha to check. |
1 hour |
|
| 2/1 |
Place envelope of photos on
kitchen table to sort through later. |
2 minutes |
|
| 2/3 |
Clean jelly off of photos that
two year old got into. |
30 minutes |
|
| 2/3 |
Pick out good photos from
envelope to use for your layout. |
10 minutes |
|
| 2/8 |
Stare at photos trying to be
inspired after the kids are in bed and you are exhausted from a day of
chasing them around. |
30 minutes |
|
| 2/9 |
Look though magazines for ideas
after the kids are in bed. |
2 hours |
|
| 2/11 |
Look though magazines for ideas
after the kids are in bed. |
2 hours |
|
| 2/13 |
Look though magazines for ideas
after the kids are in bed. |
1 hour |
|
| 2/16 |
Look though magazines for ideas
after the kids are in bed. |
1 hour |
|
| 2/16 |
Surf the Internet looking for a
layout idea and find one after the kids are in bed. Print out the idea. |
3 hours |
|
| 2/17 |
Look through your disorganized
supplies for the supplies you need while the kids nap. |
2 hours |
|
| 2/17 |
Realize that you
need to make a trip to your local scrapbook stores and get the supplies
you need to make the page that you have planned. |
5 minutes |
|
| 2/17 |
Plan a trip to the local
scrapbook store on your next "free day". |
5 minutes |
|
| 2/19 |
Get the kids dressed, pile the
kids in their car seats and go to the local scrapbook store. In the car
remind the kids not to touch, not to tear off stickers and not to climb on
the wire shelving. |
1 hour 30 minutes |
|
| 2/19 |
Look around store while kids
behave fairly well. Realize that the stores does have everything you want/
need and you will have to go to a second local scrapbook store. |
45 minutes |
$27 for supplies that you don't
need for your layout but are "REALLY cute". |
| 2/19 |
Stop at McDonald's for Happy
Meals as a bribe for your kids. Let the kids play in the play area, hoping
they will behave at second scrapbooking store. |
1 hour
and 15 minutes |
$8 for Happy Meals and a Super
Size Diet Coke. |
| 2/19 |
Arrive at the second
scrapbooking store at nap time. Carry two-year-old around store because
she is "too tired to walk" while four-year-old dismantles
sticker display. Get the supplies you need to make your layout. |
45 minutes |
Frazzled nerves, a sore back and
$2 for sticker in addition to the supplies you needed. |
| 2/19 |
Get home exhausted but satisfied
that you got your supplies. Ask your husband if he will take the family
out to dinner- you are too tired to face cooking. |
1 hour and 30 minutes |
$45 for your family of 5 |
| 2/23 |
Get out your supplies and work
on the page design after kids are in bed. |
20 minutes |
|
| 2/24 |
Crop photos and work on title
while kids nap and after kids are in bed. |
35 minutes |
|
| 2/25 |
Take layout to a crop at your
consultants house and finish it. Eat M&Ms and tell the other croppers
about your eventful trip to the local scrapbooking store last week. Think
about starting your next layout but realize that you don't have the
supplies you need to create it, they are at home. |
One hour to pack supplies, 30
minutes driving, and 30 minutes to UN-pack supplies. |
$3 for M&Ms to take to the
crop, $10 for the crop and a promise to let your husband sleep late in
exchange for letting you go to the crop |
| |
Total Cost for one
layout: |
22 hours |
$100 in addition to the
actual supplies needed to make the page |
