breetheflea
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Post by breetheflea on Apr 19, 2020 22:40:15 GMT
First of all, I haven't been in the mood for journaling...it's usually my least favorite part (and I'm a writer...) but when I get around to it... I'm not caught up on my scrapping (working on late 2018 to now) so if I put "and that was the last time we did blah blah blah before COVID 19" I feel like I'm outing myself that I'm way behind on the journaling or that my albums will have an era or something  Anyone else? If the page is about a yearly event, and it's not happening this year... do I write "until we do it again next year" knowing it's not happening this year? I have a page started for my New Year's Resolution that has fallen apart due to being ordered to stay home. Do I journal that page like optimistic hopeful January 1st me, who was excited to have a fresh start? Or as April 2020 me? And finally, does working on scrapping stuff from last spring or early in 2020 make anyone else a little sad? I haven't seen any threads on this subject, but if I missed one let me know. |
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Post by myboysnme on Apr 19, 2020 23:24:43 GMT
For me it would depend on the layout and photos. I plan to be working on my Christmas photos soon and I plan to journal what I remember about that time and those photos, not compared to now. I will journal them as though it is right after the event.
Now an event that has been impacted by the pandemic I will likely mention it. For example my son took photos of his class having a pizza party and it turned out to be the last in person class they will have together. So I am going to journal that. He remarked none of them knew it was their last time together.
For the new year's resolution page you could go either way or include both - one with your feelings then and a bit about how that can't happen because of xyz.
That said I am not a big journaller mostly because I scrap 8.5x11 and I just don't have room.
Let us know what you end up doing!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 19, 2020 23:48:09 GMT
You could take an approach that allows you to do both. So include journalling as you would have written it at the time... and then as it is now that you're doing the journalling. I would definitely take that approach for something like a NY resolution. But scrapping events from last year I personally would be more inclined to just journal as though it was done in the moment. Personally I'd only be referencing the current situation if what I was working on had been impacted by it.
I just printed off photos for Feb & March PL. There is a set of photos from something that happened at the beginning of March that when I was going through and looking at them was struck with the thought that it feels like a lifetime ago now.
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msliz
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Post by msliz on Apr 20, 2020 1:18:26 GMT
I only journal minimally on my pages, but it's from an "in the moment" perspective rather than a 'looking back" perspective.
I keep a family album for each year, and I'll be introducing the topic of COVID 19 on a few March pages: one layout about when DD had to leave her college, and then a two pager discussing how our life at home has changed. My journaling might discuss how some of my hopes (like seeing DD graduate) have been squashed, what my worries are, and also what I have to be grateful for. I'll probably save it all for that 2-pager because it seems most appropriate for me to put it there, and then I'll move on to other layouts for the year living our new normal at home. I have a holiday layout and a gardening layout planned for April.
I'm not sad scrapping about the happy times that came before. Working with the older photos actually cheers me up a bit because it helps take my mind off my present day problems for a little while.
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Apr 20, 2020 22:58:58 GMT
I write my journaling way after-the-fact most of the time, and I DO write it from a 'farther in the future' point of view, most of the time. I do sometimes actually write in the journaling that I'm writing it farther in the future, because it sometimes changes the main 'aspect' of the journaling topic, if that makes sense. (i.e., visited XX/XX/XX, journaling written xx/xx/xx) not sure that COVID-19 will make it into the journaling about other topics, but if that's what you feel when you write the journaling for a particular layout, I don't see why you can't write what you feel. (I would probably add somewhere on the page, or on the back of the page, that you're doing the journaling during the COVID-19 crisis, so someone years in the future will understand where that point of view came from.) And finally, does working on scrapping stuff from last spring or early in 2020 make anyone else a little sad? yup. I've been working on pages of a trip we took to a botanic garden a year ago, and on the one hand, it's nice to see photos of the place and it's a bit like reliving the experience (which is one of the things I absolutely LOVE about scrapping). But at the same time it SUCKS that we can't go anywhere right now, so it's bittersweet. |
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Post by AussieMeg on Apr 21, 2020 0:25:06 GMT
I think you should journal as you would have at the time the photo was taken, so hopeful January 1st you.  I have read some of my own journaling where I made the mistake of journaling months or years after the photo was taken. Then when I read that journaling months or years after that, it just doesn't seem right. I can't really explain it, but I just know that I wish I'd done the journaling from an "in the moment" perspective. |
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angel97701
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Post by angel97701 on Apr 21, 2020 1:02:10 GMT
I always do journaling as in the moment. I’m keeping notes on our Covid experience and it’s not pretty.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Apr 21, 2020 9:32:37 GMT
And finally, does working on scrapping stuff from last spring or early in 2020 make anyone else a little sad? Yes, so much. When life was "normal" and I feel like I didn't appreciate it enough.
If the page is about a yearly event, and it's not happening this year... do I write "until we do it again next year" knowing it's not happening this year? I don't make my journaling that specific. I tend to write date, location, people there. If I'm writing more, I just write about what happened that day & how I felt that day.
April 2020 me has no place on that page.
I'm not caught up on my scrapping (working on late 2018 to now) so if I put "and that was the last time we did blah blah blah before COVID 19" I feel like I'm outing myself that I'm way behind on the journaling or that my albums will have an era or something  Anyone else? Naw, I'm just writing like I journaled it that day.
No mention of COVID19.
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