The ol' Hubsters told me the other night that he didn't like my new project because it's taking my time away from the blog. 

Then today I had (another) conversation with the boss that now makes me one conversation away from being laid off.

So I thought "Hey, now I have more free time to work on my new project AND work on the blog."

Do you want to see a sampling of my new project?....

It's a photo album!

Digital cameras are AWESOME!  You can take hundreds and hundreds of photos a month, download them onto your computer, look them over and maybe even show them off to someone once or twice and then that's it. 

The photos of our precious children are just stored.  That's it.  Nothing more.  Just stored.

I grew up in a household with several photo albums and I bet they were gone through at least once year.  My grandparents had photo albums, too.  I loved to look at the pictures of them as youngsters and to see what life looked like back then.

I dabbled in scrapbooking but it was too expensive to keep up with and I don't have much of an imagination to pull off the really cool pages.

The standard albums I grew up with don't exist much.  You know the kind that is roughly 8.5 x 11 and you peel back the clear shiny plastic and stick your photo down.  It seems all there is anymore is the pages with a standard sized slot for two pictures, typically 4x6, and that's it.  They are so BORING!

In surfing the web and with blog hopping I decided to make my own digital scrapbook. 

I am using Microsoft Power Point and few websites for free downloads...

HERE and HERE

I plan on making a book a year and once all my pages are complete I'll upload them in Costco's website and have a 12 x 12 photo book made. 

I am so excited.  I can't wait to finish this years and then hopefully start on one for 2009 and 2010.