SMASH Book/ Collage Week - Day 1

Today was not the greatest day for working on stuff because I had appointments and I was really struggling with my moods. But I got some stuff done!

Yesterday, I pulled out all the supplies that I currently have access to.

I started picking out stuff for my first spread I want to do. I knew I wanted to do something fruit- related because I got some cute things from my cousin, Amber a few months ago. I gathered the things she gave me, plus some images of fruit I had cut from magazines (also a donation from Amber). In fact, the SMASH*book was her Christmas gift to me; isn't she great?! There was an image I kept remembering of Annabelle from almost 4 years ago on July 4th, in which she's wearing a watermelon dress; that let me to decide on making the spread about my sweet Annabelle. 

Nearly all of our photos are on our external hard drive, and they are very disorganized. I spent over an hour organizing them by year and month last night. And another hour or two again today. I don't have them all organized, but I think I found most of the photos I want to use. I was going to print them, but I recently started using Mitchell's computer because it can handle the games I like playing, but it can recognize our new printer! So I need to hook up my old computer to the external hard drive to print the photos. That, however, was beyond my energy level today, so I'm saving that task for tomorrow. I originally wanted to try down a page per day, but I don't want to push myself too hard and end up giving up right away.

I'm grateful for the support I've received on Facebook from friends; between today's struggles, I almost did give up, but I remembered all the support and decided to stick with it. I do feel excited to show more progress.