I'm putting together a scrapbook of sorts to capture some of our vacation memories. I'm reasonably certain that I will NEVER take on another such project.

Why, you ask? Well...

For one thing, it's darned expensive. I'm constantly needing something more, or something else. And none of it is very cheap. I can totally understand why things like "project life" are so popular. At first passing, to a scrapbooking "newbie", it sounds pricey, but in reality it's not.

For another, it's very time-consuming. It takes quite a bit of time to go through the pictures, and then sort through pages and papers, and then find the coordinating journaling cards, and finally put it all together into a good-looking layout. (Not to mention actually writing out the journaling cards!)

And, finally, for me, it's draining. I'm using up all of my creativity on it. It's not always easy to comeup with good layouts, and it's certainly not always easy to come up with a series of good layouts that have "flow" from page to page.

I'm seriously considering other options to capture our future memories.