My roundup is now “in the books,” as you say when referring to something being complete. However, it’s not actually in a book yet… that part will come later when I get my photo book printed for the year. April is documented, though! I used my own roundup prompts to inspire me to create a two-page summary layout for the month. I will create a few more pages about our trip to Kanab, but I love that most of my month is represented here.

I have been writing blog posts for years and creating video tutorials that help develop memory-keeping skills. I thought it would be helpful to put together a list of my favorite resources to share.

National Scrapbook Day is on Saturday and I have 6 new items in the shop and they are super colorful and fun. I love the theme of photography and Instagram is my happy place. These are so versatile and I know I will be using them a lot.

It’s time to do a month-in-review of April. I love to take a memory inventory at the end of the month and document it all to add to our family albums. This is my 17th (SEVENTEEN!) year of doing monthly roundups. I started this routine in January of 2006, and it’s my most helpful tool for meaningful and easy memory keeping.

I put together this questionnaire back in 2002 and sent it to all of my family members on both sides of our family. They all filled them out and returned them to me via email. I still have all of their responses saved. It would be fun to send it out again after all of these years and compare the answers.

April is ending in just a little over a week, so I'm here with a check-in to help you get ready for the monthly roundup! I'm finding it helpful to take inventory of my photos and memory keeping before the last day of the month hits. Then I still have time to capture some great moments before it's too late.

A challenging but gratifying project is to document your own baby years and memories. If you have your own children, you may find yourself only focusing on their memory keeping. But your story is important and definitely worth documenting!

I had so much fun designing the baby collection, and I knew I needed to add a whole lot more to cover pregnancy and more baby memories. I’ve been surprised at how hard it is to find these types of designs for scrapbooking. I’m excited that the expecting cards and 40 weeks cards also come in transparent background.png files so they can be used as stamps as well.

I’ve got the month of March all wrapped up and I love the month-in-review approach more than ever! If you aren’t familiar with my monthly roundups, check out this post. There is even a video tutorial included! I had a lot of great photos from March, so a two-page spread was a great format.