Needing that perfect thing for a photo or story . . .

Yes!


These are usually the layouts that get put off because I know I need something, and not just anything will do, but then I don't know exactly what I do need.

This probably won't help but my son was growing out his hair "an afro" and finally decided to cut it all off 1 day. I did a simple LO on it. 

This is me, all the time!!

Some photos/stories I just really want in my book, for the journaling aspect or some other reason. I want to write it down and "get it in there" before it's no longer fresh in my mind. I've lost so many details, and passion/emotion in a story by waiting too long to document it. And, actually, circumstances have changed my view on a particular story over time, and I want to write it as close to how I experienced it at the time, not through how those relationships or circumstances are at the time that I do end up documenting it, months or even years after the fact.

What I have done a few times, is just make the page with what I've got. That way, if I never find that perfect something, that story is still preserved. If I ever DO come across what I was looking for, or the perfect whatever that goes with that page/story perfectly, I just reprint the picture and re do the page. Most of the time I re-use the majority of the original page....just adding that extra piece in. If that won't work, I'll take it apart and use as much as I can. But that way, the "oh so important" picture/story is not forgotten, even if I never find the "thing" that I want for the layout. That truthfully, nobody else besides me would know it's missing, anyway.

No ideas for you but I can commiserate I am trying to figure out paper to use for some pictures taken at Joshua Tree where my son is climbing rocks. So lots of blue sky, rocks and some Joshua Trees thrown in. Most if the outdoor lines I see are too cutesy and he is 13 so that just doesn't work