I have spent awhile today trying to make a master plan for a scrapbook I'm going to start work on soon. Mom recently bought me a good bit of scrapbooking supplies for when the baby comes... a pretty white album with baby shoes on the cover, and pre-made baby-themed sheets and all the little decals and titles you need to make a baby book.

This is all great and I really appreciate all the cute new stuff, but I'd prefer to not suck by the time I start on that. So I decided to get some practice and scrapbook all of my favorite photos of Matt and I from when we first got together, through the wedding and up until the baby comes (my mom also got me a very cute "Expecting" sheet and embellishment set to use with photos of me when I'm even rounder, so I get some pregnancy photos in there). Being the control freak A-type personality that I am, I can't just go nuts with the paper and scissors and glue right off the bat - no, I have to plan.

Got to make sure it's not too repetitive, I won't run out of things to say, I don't miss anything, and I actually have facing pages for my cute sheet set. It would suck if I had to stick something in later and it bumps all the pages up by one and my pregnancy sheets aren't together. They're very cute together... but perhaps not with other pages (there's a few odd colours in there).

Silly me, what do I use to try to plan? Microsoft Word! Sure, why not? I feel like a sucker for punishment today!

It's crashed on me three times already. Once because I tried to change the page size while the printer was unconnected (why it needs the printer for that, I have no idea), and twice when I was trying to move photos (once was accidental... I knew not to do that from the last crash but I accidentally clicked and dragged and down it went).

There has got to be a better way.

I may go to Powerpoint, which I hate even worse, but at least I can move photos without the whole thing dying horribly. I almost feel like I've have enough Microsoft today though. What I would really love is some software like Futureshop's Photobook planning site... it seems a lot easier to move photos and insert text, and it's got template suggestions and shows me clearly what pages are facing each other. Does anyone know of anything like this for MacOSX? I found PhotoPrinto, which integrates with iPhoto (huge bonus!), but I read a review of it somewhere that makes it seem like maybe it needs more computer than I really have.

Suggestions, anyone?