Welcome to the 2024 Planning Party
Let’s make scrapbooking an essential, soul-filling part of every week. Learn our time-tested strategies to slow down and carve out time for your memories. It all starts with a well-crafted plan.
To get the most of our your experience and contribute to a collaborative environment, you’re encouraged to leave comments and ask questions.
The live components of this year’s event have ended, but you may access all the materials through the end of 2023.
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Our first Planning Party was held in 2017, making this our 7th annual event.
This is my first time attending! I am so excited to participate in this event!
This is my first time attending the Planning Party! So excited 🙂
Welcome Sara and Yvette! So glad you are joining us.
I think this is my 5th Planning Party
That’s awesome!
This is my 4th event. My favorite.
Woohoo!
Yes, 1st time
Wonderful.
Yes. This is my first time participating.
Yay!
No but my first time I didn’t really participate so in some ways yes!
So glad you are here. You’ve got this!
My hope is I can follow the Planning Party even being so sick this fall.
Yes, If I can figure out how to be in the right place at the right time.
I believe in you!
This is my 2nd time – the first time actually participating as I am making it a priority this year. There is so much I want to accomplish in the next year and want to be realistic. Looking forward to it!!
That’s exactly what we’ll help you do. So glad you are here.
Yes
Excellent. I hope you have a wonderful time.
Yes—my first time! 😊
Welcome, welcome!
first time!
Yay, so glad!
This is my first planning event, and I am delighted to attend! I’ve filled out the Focus Finder earlier in the year and found it to be helpful, so I’m expecting more great guidance here. Thank you so much!
Most welcome! The Focus Finder actually comes into play in Training #2.
Yes, this is my first time. 🙂
This is my first time
Looking forward to the process
Yes, this will be my first Planning Event.
Yes, this is my first time.
This is my first time.
Yes this is my first event
I have been attending the Planning Party for several years now.
Grateful for you.
I believe this is my first time, but I do remember having parts of this workbook filled out previously.
Can’t wait to see you finish Glorianne!
While recently tidying up my creative space, I managed to find my ‘Scrapbook Your Way Workbook’ that I’d received at our in-person retreat in Illinois. If I look further back in my files, I’m certain I’d find an even older version, but that one (planning for the final month of 2018 and all of 2019) is the only one I have that’s been properly bound into a ‘notebook’. I eagerly await Simple Scrapper’s Planning Party every year. While back to school’s stationery accumulation was once the primary season to set my heart aflutter and ablaze, Simple Scrapper’s Planning Party has now become my overall favourite time of the year (cue Andy William’s version of ‘It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year’!).
Oh maybe we need a playlist!
I love the planning party. It’s my favorite theme here at Simple Scrapper.
🥳 🥳 🥳
This is my very first time at the Planning Party. I was an avid productive scrapbooker for decades, when my children (now 26 and 29) were young . I just seemed to have a “flow” to things. I lived and experienced, I printed photos, and I got it all “in the book”. Now, as an empty nester who is also a caregiver for my disabled husband and a babysitter to my 3 year old grandson, I find myself setting aside storytelling and scrapbooking because I am “too busy”. I really want to change that. Scrapbooking and documenting was part of what made me so happy! I have dabbled in journaling, memory planning, etc. for the last couple of years, but I am too the point that I just need more direction about what might work best for ME. That is why I am here.
Welcome Stella! It sounds like you’re in the right place. You might use some of your brainstorming to think about a single, small project that would make you happy… leaning on your experiences about what worked well (and what didn’t) the past couple years. Sometimes you just need a clear point of focus to get the ball truly rolling.
this is my second
Welcome back. 😁
This is my second planning party. I look forward to taking full advantage of this event. It clears my thoughts about my memorykeeping and primes me for a successful year. Putting it down on paper makes it a commitment.
I love the idea of “priming” and the things we can do for a smoother ride.
I’m excited for the possibilities this workshop will have for me.; to help me get back to something that I love doing. The community sounds like it will be inspiring, helping to motivate me to keep going in spite of the busy days.
That’s definitely our specialty!
This is my first planning party. I can’t wait to get back on track and create a plan that works.
Welcome to the party!
I think I have tried to do the planning party more than once before. This past year I didn’t get to do any scrapbooking. I had plans but tending to others needs made it hard for me to do my projects. I’m a care giver for my Mom as well. I have so many that I want to do! I hope to get my thoughts out and focus on one at a time this next year.
Caring for others takes a lot of energy and I think you’re on the right track. Small successes often have a ripple effect for your motivation.
I attended last year – this will be my second planning party. Looking forward to it!
Welcome back!
My first time and I really need some guidance for regularly doing what makes me happy. Also a caregiver for my elderly hubby (child bride) so its difficult to make fun time for myself and my soul.
Definitely focus on the happy part! We’re here to help you along the way.
Yes! So excited to be here.
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Yep. This is my first time. I’m excited to get ideas to become more consistent and find what really works for me!
That’s exactly what we love to help with. Welcome!
I’ve signed up before and life got in the way. Hoping this year to be all in!
You can do it!
I believe this is my 3rd planning party. I am looking forward to reevaluating and resetting my scrapbook goals and plans for 2024. 2023 was kind of a whirlwind and I definitely feel I need this planning party more than ever!
Hope this adds some calm to the whirlwind year.
I think I attended last year. I’ve been on/off due to illness, caregiving, an awful job and not a shred of time for myself.
I finally retired September 29th and haven’t done a thing scrapbook nor story telling etc. unfortunately. I had two good weeks then got really sick.
Still sick but I’m committed to doing this and just printed the Workbook to get started tomorrow. I can’t attend the program tonight because I’m at
Bell Choir practice at my church. I’m determined to get things moving in the right direction. I can’t wait to make and tell and all the things!
Be patient with yourself. You can be a successful memory keeper with just one small project. Any step forward is the right direction!
Yes. my first time. I have been in a creative slump the last couple of years and I memories (and supplies) are piling up!
We’ve got your hand and are pulling you out of that slump!
First time here too. I think I signed up last year but was too busy. I need some structure and guidance in order to prioritize scrapbooking.
Yay, that’s exactly what you’ll get here!
I was here for the first one in 2017 and for several since! Thrilled to be here again! 🙂
So fun!
This is the first time I am attending this event.
I am a long-time scrapbooker and always felt pretty good about my projects. I completed several albums and was excited to leave my books to my two children one day, so they could remember all the wonderful things we did together as a family. However, I lost my son to suicide in 2016 and my daughter has had a really hard time moving on with her life and says the scrapbooks make her sad. I am hoping to find motivation and reasons to start scrapbooking again, now that what I thought was my reason has gone. I’m struggling to figure out what to take note of on this unexpected path of my life. I just retired from 36 years of school-teaching, so I am hoping to make time and mental space for this activity that I used to love. I’m hoping this event will jump-start my creativity.
I’m so sorry for this enduring grief. I hear a sense of hope in your words and am so glad you are here. I want to offer permission to think about scrapbooking in new ways and consider projects that may not look anything like what you did before.
Thank you! That’s what I’m hoping for!
Yes, first time attending and finding it very enlightening! Love the podcast 🙂
Wonderful. So glad you are here.
This is my first time. Love listening to your podcast in Australia.
Thank you for listening!
This is my first time.
Yay!! Welcome to the party.
This is my second event I think after being in the community for a couple of years now. I am so excited for this year!
Me too!! So glad you are here.
This is my first. Having to watch after the fact, but participating none the less
Bravo on your persistence! Sometimes we can’t always do things perfectly, but that doesn’t mean we can’t move forward.
This is my first participation in this Simple Scrapper Planning Event 2023!
Yes, so awesome. I hope you’ve had fun.
This is my first time – and I actually did all the worksheets!
Yay!!!
I think I may have gone the first year, and partial ones after that. I do remember filling out worksheets.
That you came back is what is most important. You’ve got this!
first-timer here, i recently started listening to the podcast which i have really enjoyed and heard about the planning party there—i was intrigued and here i am! i’ve been wanting to make more time for unfinished projects and getting in more scrapping time in general. i’m looking forward to diving in!