My First New Year's Resolution for 2010

the three photo albums of my first Europe trip

Recently, I went through the 3 photo albums I made more than a year ago, of my first trip to Europe. When I was creating them at that time, I was detached and too tired to appreciate the end result, like it was just another thing in my to-do list to cross out. Probably because I got tired of editing and seeing the same photos when I was choosing them for print, and when I was doing the layout for each album page.

the Spain album, opened

Surprisingly, when I checked them out again last week, I actually liked what I saw. I wrote my captions for many of the photos, no scrapbook decors you buy in the store but the trip mementos attached (museum tickets, metro tickets, bus tickets, train tickets, restaurant napkins with words in the respective country's language written on them, cards, receipts, etc.).

the Portugal and southern France album with
my Eurolines bus ticket attached to the page divider on the left

the Vatican pages with a ticket to
the Musei Vaticani attached on the right depicting
Adam and God from Michelangelo's work in the Sistine Chapel

Florence, Italy photos and the Trenitalia train ticket to
Venice attached on the right

I've decided that in the course of the next many months, I must slowly but steadily create a few new photo albums again for photos from my succeeding trips, as well as family pics; all of them shot from 2007 onwards. I find I have tons digital photos from travels and with family/relatives that I haven't printed and posted to photo albums (not the online kind) or put in photo frames/holders.

This year I have several family and relatives from overseas who've come and will come to holiday in the Philippines/Asia. So that would add significantly to the photos I need to have printed out. As you might have guessed already, my family live overseas, and a lot of my relatives aren't Philippine citizens or residents.

I've also already bought some Ikea frames from my last trip to Canada, and I hope to get in November (rubbing my palms together here.. Lol!) a starburst metal picture holder you hang on the wall (from Ikea again) which I saw but failed to buy last time in Vancouver.

I know it's kinda early, but since I have tons of pictures to go through, I already know my first new year's resolution and I look forward to fulfilling it. Hehe!