Scrapbooking 101: Organizing your photographs

When you think of scrapbooking, it can be overwhelming.  You have been wanting to dig those old photos out and do something with them but haven't found perhaps the time, the money or the motivation.  This article is designed to help kick yourself into gear and get organized because the first step to scrapbooking is ORGANIZATION! 

Before your purchase scrapbooking supplies, the best place to start is with your photos.  You are going to want to separate all of your photos into categories.  Try these for starters:

---Holidays

---Subject

---Vacation

---Person

---Event

---Year

---Theme

Then, you are going to start with each category and start organizing them into chronological order.