We are almost there in our journaling prompts series on Life.  This week we continue the theme about Special Memories.

1. Have loved ones sign on one page.
2. Write special memories, thoughts, messages for those same loved ones.

In week 10 of our journaling prompts series, we talk about: Special Memories.

1. What do you want to be remembered for? 
2. Did you create any fun traditions with friends or family? 
3. Who do you think of when you think of the good times in your life? 
4. What do you enjoy most in life? 
5. What are you most proud of? 
6. What memory do you hold most dear?

1. Where is your favorite place to visit? What is it like visiting your favorite place? 
2. What holiday traditions carried over from your childhood? 
3. Have you had any adventures as an adult? 
4. If you do not travel, do you have any dreams of traveling? 
5. Have you had any special reunions with family or friends?

1. What special awards or recognition have you received? 
2. What personal qualities do you think helped you to be most successful in your home life or in the work force? 
3. What special interests do you have as an adult? 
4. What talents & skills have you acquired as an adult? 
5. Have you ever changed jobs? 
6. What are your goals now (adult)? 

Thanks for joining us this week. We are at the half way mark on our 12-part series of Journaling Prompts about Life.  This week we focus on: Family & Friends.

1. When did you fall in love? 
2. What was the courtship, engagement, or wedding like? 
3. What was life like for the young couple? 
4. When did you have children? (Give names and birth order of children. 
5. What did you like to do with your family? 
6. What close friends did you have at this time?

I'm trying to get into digital scrapbooking again. This has been a lot more difficult than it sounds. When I moved from from PC to Mac a year ago, I didn't really think about how I'd access my digital scrapbooking programs including ACDSee, the program that organizes all my digital scrapbooking supplies.

To my disappointment, I discovered ACDSee for Mac can't open an ACDSee for Windows catalog. This meant I'd either have to stay with the Windows version or retag all my png files again (not the jpgs because tags can be embedded in jpg files, just not png files. And note, png have transparency so I couldn't convert them to jpgs).

Of course, the snag to staying on Windows was that I wanted to use my Mac with Lightroom for photo editing and management, but to scrapbook I'd want both the photos and the supplies on the same computer.

Well my new solution isn't perfect but I'll document it for you in case you are struggling with the same thing. I have Lightroom set up on an EHD (note Lightroom can't access a networked catalog, it must be local), including the catalog, thumbnails and photos. On the same EHD is my folder of digital scrapbook supplies and my ACDSee catalog. The EHD is NTFS formatted and my mac is running a driver that allows it to read and write to the EHD.

My Workflow
I prepare the photos using Lightroom on my Mac but export the photos I think I'll need to jpg with all the edits onto the EHD. Then I unplug the EHD and plug it into the PC, open up Photoshop and ACDSee on the PC and pull all the supplies and photos into PS. Ideally I'd like to be able to use the Mac for the scrapbooking/PS piece but that would mean identifying the supplies in advance and copying them to a readily accessible location.

If you have any suggestions as to how I could improve my workflow I'd be interested in hearing them!

Here's the layout: