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Post by refugeepea on Sept 11, 2017 19:45:56 GMT
I don't have a life. I don't travel. Just home stuff that is not going to change anytime soon. At this point, I'm probably going to have 2 or 3 years in one family 12x12 album. That is using divided sheet protectors. It won't take long to finish these albums. Playing with paper is a good stress reliever for me, I enjoy it but there's not much to scrap. I guess it does help I'm still doing the 2014 photos.
What are your ideas for albums that doesn't involve your current life? I've thought of doing recipe and heritage albums. Or some other ideas for using paper and embellishments like altered items? I have quite a few cards on hand already and will probably donate them to a program, but it's not something I love to make.
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Post by kiwikate on Sept 11, 2017 19:53:57 GMT
I like to make mini albums for gifts- baby, travel, etc. Themes I might not use for my own life but still love playing with the papers and collections!
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Post by papersilly on Sept 11, 2017 21:19:27 GMT
I like to make mini albums for gifts- baby, travel, etc. Themes I might not use for my own life but still love playing with the papers and collections! this is a great suggestion! if you love crafting, make albums as gifts or albums that you could just fill with future pics. |
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Post by sleepingbooty on Sept 11, 2017 21:54:40 GMT
First of all, I think it's important someone counters you and tells you you do have a life. It might not be the one you see famous (and less famous) scrapbookers display and document away, but it is a life nonetheless. You don't need to travel far (although I'd encourage you to start planning for it if that's one of your heart's deep desires) or do all kinds of Instagram-worthy things to lead a full (and hopefully satisfying) existence.  Is there an organisation or charity for young mothers near you? They might be open to receiving fully prepped albums for the young mothers to document their babies and children's lives in. Have you thought about challenging yourself in terms of photography and things to try at home to do themed albums and mini books? You could do one of those 1 'thing' a day challenges which would give you 30 or 31 layouts or spreads to make. It could be anything: 1 quote/song lyric/religious verse to reflect upon a day. It would be a wonderful challenge to push yourself to think about life, take pretty photos to illustrate them and then play with paper. You could do specialised recipe books in which you challenge yourself to prepare new (and old) recipes. "Christmas around the world" would help you use all those cute Christmas lines while cooking Christmas recipes from countries and cultures you're interested in (and learning about their ways of celebrating the holidays). Instead of a simple Day in the Life, you could do a "Different Day in the Life" in which you try to switch up your routine habits to try other things for a day. Getting up extra early for a morning walk or workout, eating lunch out if you're used to eating in (or vice versa), buying yourself a bouquet of flowers on your way home, going to the cinema in the evening to watch a movie or playing games with the family, etc. If you've got a lot of Halloween stuff and feel up for the challenge, October Daily sounds like a terrific way to slowly start moving out of your comfort zone without needing to dip a toe too far. Pretty pumpkin pictures, decorating your porch or patio, making squash soup and trying new recipes with apples, going on small walks to photograph nature's colours changing, watching your favourite Halloween movies even if they're not scary, getting a pumpkin spice latte, buying and wearing an autumn or Halloween-themed piece of clothing (even if it's just a pair of socks with an owl print), etc.  I'd encourage you to see and experience your ordinary life differently and document that. If you can't go out into the world right now, let the world come into your everyday. You'll grant yourself so many opportunities to feel like you do have a life and to play with all your paper goodies in the process. I'm a major supporter of smaller-sized albums because they are far easier to handle and finish, giving you a completed project in a much smaller timeframe with so many possibilities to explore new themes and challenges. Have fun with your life even if it doesn't mean you're hopping on a plane to an exotic destination. You are your life, not the rest of the world. Make it more fun for yourself. Small things do wonders and are the road to inner happiness, not the extravagant gestures and expensive trips. |
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Post by teacherlisa on Sept 11, 2017 22:04:52 GMT
I will second what sleeping booty said. As a single empty nester, I just do not have the cute kid photos anymore. I suffer w/ a chronic illness and there are certian activities that I can not participate in. That said, although I do not have the same kinds of photos, or near the amount, I still have a wonderful life worth documenting.
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Post by ellewood on Sept 11, 2017 23:04:47 GMT
Totally second what sleepingbooty said. I don't scrapbook for the memory keeping aspect, I do it because it's fun and I like to challenge myself to make cool things. i sometimes like to scrapbook an opinion or an idea. If I see a cool illustration on Instagram, I screenshot it and put it in a spread. You could do the same with cool lettered quotes on Pinterest, or recipes, or news stories or music you like or tv shows, or books etc etc etc. also, you probably do cool things you don't even think about. Like a local ice cream place or going to a family members house. Maybe you have a pet? I definitely think you could parlay your scrapbooking into a photography hobby, like close ups on a nature walk or portraits of your family and friends. The sky is the limit! |
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Post by jeremysgirl on Sept 11, 2017 23:10:56 GMT
Don't discount that your children might one day like a glimpse into your life. I suggest making layouts that are about you.
Also I absolutely cherish a recipe book my mom scrapbook for me. Your recipes might be treasured after you're gone.
In addition once upon a time I participated in a circle journal with peas. Everybody's was different themed and we passed them around via mail once a month. I would absolutely be open to another circle journal. If this is something that interests you start a post. I would love to participate.
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Post by grammadee on Sept 11, 2017 23:15:27 GMT
I like your ideas about recipe and heritage books. Gift albums are fun too. But if you itch to do scrapping, there are lots of ways to do that. You can check out photo a day challenges on line to give yourself ideas of what to photograph. Like sleepingbooty said, you can see your life in a whole new light. Get away from event/activity scrapbooking? Journal more. Get your feelings about your past, present and future on paper. Maybe find a photo you have, or take a new one to symbolize those observations, hopes, and dreams. If you see something that "speaks to you" IRL, on line, or on TV, snap a photo or a screen shot and use that pic as a jumping off point for your journaling and page design. Switch from PL style to full page scrapping, maybe one photo per page? More pages for the same time frame + more layers per page = more opportunity to play with paper. And lots of opportunity to try out new techniques. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 11, 2017 23:35:29 GMT
DITTO to what sleepingbooty said! That is great advice, and some of it I need to take myself. I don't do 'gushing, emotional' journaling on my SB pages, I just can't do it- it feels forced to me. But I do like taking random pictures of things, and will write a LOT about things once I start. Do you have a garden? outdoor landscaping? has your home / yard changed over the years? do you have flowers or plants that you might photograph every once in a while? We've owned 4 houses and rented an apartment in the about 14 years we've been together; I haven't done any layouts about what any of the houses were like, yet, but I want to. Around-the-house topics I've thought about: I want to take some *staged* photographs of the things that we have that make our house into a *home* like our collection of Native American pottery, my BF's Hummel figurines (he got them from his great aunt), the German cuckoo clock that has a whole boatload of moving figures when the hour chimes, etc. I also take photographs of the Christmas ornaments we own-- some are from his and my childhoods, and we also try to buy one every year... I have the mini album (it's shaped like a Christmas ornament), I just don't know where I put it! I have some sentimental items from my childhood (my threadbare teddy bear, my Mr. Peanut bank, a couple crocheted afghans that my Grandma made, etc.) that I really *should* memorialize on paper- that way if anything ever happens to the items, I have the memories documented with a *good* photograph. Another idea: Every once in a while I get a landscape scenery photograph that I think is actually pretty good. (Not magazine-quality, mind you, but I like it.) I get those printed as 5x7 photos, and make one-photo pages with those on, as a sort of *coffee-table-book* type layout to put in between my other event-based layouts. Those layouts give me a chance to get extra-artsy, or try something more complicated or intricate / time-consuming than I typically do on my pages. Hand sewing, stencils, texture paste, etc. other ideas: What's interesting about the place you live-- anything? how long have you lived there? do you go out walking or visit the restaurants / shops? You could always go out and *create* some photos and new layout ideas. Take photos of the places you go around town, historic buildings, etc. and scrap "where we live" from that standpoint. We've lived in our current town for about a year now, and it was first settled in the mid or late 1800s, I think. There's a historical museum in town, and I'm sure there are some older / historic buildings that go along with the town history... I want to take photos and scrap that, too. Oh, and if I was asked, I'd say my everyday life is pretty boring, too- that's why I'd rather document other stuff with my photography! I do take some 'random, around-the-house photos' and I make monthly PL style layouts, but that's definitely NOT the bulk of what I like to scrap, at all. |
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 11, 2017 23:58:38 GMT
I like to make mini albums for gifts- baby, travel, etc. Themes I might not use for my own life but still love playing with the papers and collections! Unfortunately I can't think of anyone who would appreciate and actually use a homemade album. You don't need to travel far (although I'd encourage you to start planning for it if that's one of your heart's deep desires) It would be nice, but not possible (kids with issues). Have you thought about challenging yourself in terms of photography I could give it a try. I currently just have a cell phone camera that is ok. My point and shoot died. Get away from event/activity scrapbooking? Journal more. Get your feelings about your past, present and future on paper. I've never taken a scrapbook class, but this is one area where I need lots of help. I'm not good at emotional journaling. That's a good idea! I have documented my life up until I got married. I've done probably less than five since then. It's hard to think of something interesting enough to scrap. My life is pretty routine (I have to schedule around my kids). Maybe I could do a month in the life of.. instead of a day or week. There might be something in there interesting in 30 days. |
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Post by miss_lizzie on Sept 12, 2017 0:00:52 GMT
I like to make pages about things I like or I collect.
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Post by FurryP on Sept 12, 2017 0:15:03 GMT
Recently I have thought of starting theme pages/albums
Like:
Christmas memories ( but not like annual December Daily) more like memories over the years growing up.
TV shows I watched growing up.
Random events that I don't have pictures for.
Things my BFF and I did growing up.
stuff like that. I will have to get some images from the internet.
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Post by 950nancy on Sept 12, 2017 1:12:23 GMT
I have a small garden/planter in front of my house. If I sit next to it, I see the coolest little creatures. The flowers are also beautiful. You could easily do a page or two on what is going on outside of your home.
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Post by caangel on Sept 12, 2017 1:22:39 GMT
Check out Ali Edwards class i think it is called 31 things and 31 more things or something like that. It is a great push to document "random" but meaningful things.
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Post by scrapaddict702 on Sept 12, 2017 1:22:59 GMT
Try another art form. Traveler's Notebooks can be lists, tracking things you like, all sorts of things that aren't travel related. Mixed media can be done on canvases, in journals, etc. You can use a lot of your supplies in both. PL cards work great for TN's and wood veneer, stencils, inks, etc all work well for mixed media art projects.
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 12, 2017 1:40:59 GMT
Recently I have thought of starting theme pages/albums Like: Christmas memories ( but not like annual December Daily) more like memories over the years growing up. TV shows I watched growing up. Random events that I don't have pictures for. Things my BFF and I did growing up. stuff like that. I will have to get some images from the internet. I have been taking lots of photos from the internet for my family album. Sometimes it's hard to take photos when I need to be watching my son. That does help! Try another art form. Traveler's Notebooks can be lists, tracking things you like, all sorts of things that aren't travel related. Mixed media can be done on canvases, in journals, etc. You can use a lot of your supplies in both. PL cards work great for TN's and wood veneer, stencils, inks, etc all work well for mixed media art projects. I might have a room I can keep stuff out in the next few months. Right now, I don't have a good spot for messy mixed media things. I am interested in Traveler's Notebooks. |
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Post by myboysnme on Sept 12, 2017 12:47:28 GMT
I want to scrap all of my photos so I would scrap whatever I have not previously scrapped that I have photos for. That would be childhood, ancestors, before marriage, all that kind of stuff.
After that I would do some individual albums - like if you have more than one kid, make them each a book with a 2 page spread of each year. Or I would make a holidays album and get copies of holidays and birthdays and do a one page spread of each and put them all in one book.
I have actually done all of these things but I have never and possibly will never finish all of my photos before kids and my heritage albums need updating badly.
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Post by scrapnnana on Sept 12, 2017 13:53:46 GMT
I love what sleepingbooty and the others have said.
Your post sounded a lot like me a couple of years ago, although for different reasons. When we started renovating our house prior to our move, I realized that scrapbooking was not going to work well for me. I had to pack up most of my stuff, but I also needed the stress reliever that playing with paper gave me. I took very few photos during that time.
I did, however, go to the Scrapbook Expo with a friend because she did not want to go alone. We came across a booth that sold mini album kits. They were pretty cute. My friend and I bought the same ones. She wanted help doing hers. I would not have done mine till after the move, but because she wanted help, we worked alongside each other. It turned out to be a great stress reliever. I also got addicted to mini albums. Two of them have no photos, but they were so fun to do that my friend and I went on to create another one based on an idea I saw on Pinterest. Someday I might find photos to go in them, but no guarantees. It was a fun stress reliever at the time, and I still enjoy looking at them, even without any photos in them. One was a calendar style mini album, so it might actually get used someday. A more recent project is a recipe album for my mom's recipes. After she died, I got her recipe box. I wanted something better to put them in that might also be useful and look nice in my kitchen.
After my mini album phase, I moved on to using my papers to do home decor. I use my papers more these days for card making, mini albums that are just cute and fun, and home decor items. I am also trying to get back to scrapbooking, now that I am taking photos again.
I guess what I am saying is that there are lots of ways to play with paper that relieve stress, without photos to scrap. If you are not in a situation where you can do scrapbooking, there are lots of other fun projects that use beautiful papers.
You could create generic layouts that you can add photos to later, if you prefer scrapbooking above all else. You could make cards for soldiers overseas, or for someone in a rest home. For awhile I sent my sister a handmade card each month. She absolutely loved it and looked forward to receiving those cards. I tried new techniques and tried to make each card something special.
You can scrapbook about your favorite things, or memories you have that lack photos. You can scrapbook current events or past ones and use photos off the internet. I did that for 9/11. I was making calendar pages that year. Calendar pages are another fun way of scrapbooking when you have few reasons to take photos.
I hope you find something fun to relieve your stress that lets you be creative.
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Post by MerryMom on Sept 12, 2017 16:43:09 GMT
I've scrapbooked about loving amusement parks and roller coasters, things I loved when I was younger (favorite books--Anne of Green Gables, Trixie Belden, Nancy Drew, memories of girl scouts, memories of swim team, favorite movies, favorite TV shows, favorite music, favorite toys, etc.
Good trip down memory lane, you can usually find some images on google of those things and I then add a journaling card.
For things currently, I looked up things in the area that I have never visited. Our county has covered bridges so I took pictures of it. In Ohio, there are many places that I haven't visited so I went there and took pictures of Serpent Mound, visiting the different President's homes in Ohio, stuff like that. I went on the Jeni's Splendid Ice Cream tour and also the Budweiser factory tour and I took pictures of that.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 12, 2017 21:12:27 GMT
First of all, I think it's important someone counters you and tells you you do have a life. It might not be the one you see famous (and less famous) scrapbookers display and document away, but it is a life nonetheless. You don't need to travel far (although I'd encourage you to start planning for it if that's one of your heart's deep desires) or do all kinds of Instagram-worthy things to lead a full (and hopefully satisfying) existence. Is there an organisation or charity for young mothers near you? They might be open to receiving fully prepped albums for the young mothers to document their babies and children's lives in. Have you thought about challenging yourself in terms of photography and things to try at home to do themed albums and mini books? You could do one of those 1 'thing' a day challenges which would give you 30 or 31 layouts or spreads to make. It could be anything: 1 quote/song lyric/religious verse to reflect upon a day. It would be a wonderful challenge to push yourself to think about life, take pretty photos to illustrate them and then play with paper. You could do specialised recipe books in which you challenge yourself to prepare new (and old) recipes. "Christmas around the world" would help you use all those cute Christmas lines while cooking Christmas recipes from countries and cultures you're interested in (and learning about their ways of celebrating the holidays). Instead of a simple Day in the Life, you could do a "Different Day in the Life" in which you try to switch up your routine habits to try other things for a day. Getting up extra early for a morning walk or workout, eating lunch out if you're used to eating in (or vice versa), buying yourself a bouquet of flowers on your way home, going to the cinema in the evening to watch a movie or playing games with the family, etc. If you've got a lot of Halloween stuff and feel up for the challenge, October Daily sounds like a terrific way to slowly start moving out of your comfort zone without needing to dip a toe too far. Pretty pumpkin pictures, decorating your porch or patio, making squash soup and trying new recipes with apples, going on small walks to photograph nature's colours changing, watching your favourite Halloween movies even if they're not scary, getting a pumpkin spice latte, buying and wearing an autumn or Halloween-themed piece of clothing (even if it's just a pair of socks with an owl print), etc. I'd encourage you to see and experience your ordinary life differently and document that. If you can't go out into the world right now, let the world come into your everyday. You'll grant yourself so many opportunities to feel like you do have a life and to play with all your paper goodies in the process. I'm a major supporter of smaller-sized albums because they are far easier to handle and finish, giving you a completed project in a much smaller timeframe with so many possibilities to explore new themes and challenges. Have fun with your life even if it doesn't mean you're hopping on a plane to an exotic destination. You are your life, not the rest of the world. Make it more fun for yourself. Small things do wonders and are the road to inner happiness, not the extravagant gestures and expensive trips. I love everything you said! |
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Post by anniefb on Sept 12, 2017 21:44:35 GMT
I'm another one who scrapbooks for relaxation and stress relief/fun not for memory keeping per se. I'm redoing some old photos from the 90s at the moment and also do card making and other paper craft. Honestly I think I would still get benefit from my crafting if I made layouts and ended up throwing away - the value to me is in the process.
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 12, 2017 22:43:37 GMT
I'm another one who scrapbooks for relaxation and stress relief/fun not for memory keeping per se. I've given up on recording all memories and do it for the same reasons as you. In the past, the events to scrap was enough. It was something easy to do. I like being crafty, but I'm not creative. I don't want to think much when I'm playing with paper. It's nice to get in a zone. The ideas.... that's where I have a hard time. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 12, 2017 23:01:03 GMT
The ideas.... that's where I have a hard time. me, too... over the years, I've become a big proponent of sketch books, scraplifting, *copying* kit ideas or even buying page kits. I used to feel like I wasn't being as 'creative' as I could be if I didn't design the entire layout, but finally realized I did NOT LIKE that part. I just like the cutting / pasting, and I can still add my own touches and my own twist to things. I'm not making projects for anyone besides me, and there are only "so many" original ideas out in the world, anyway. |
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2017 5:35:45 GMT
I like to make pages about things I like or I collect. I do this too. The majority of my memory keeping nowadays is about things I like or collect. refugeepea I have a quiet life. Thank gosh! I stopped scrapbooking and went back to journaling. Journaling has always been my first love. I didn't want to lose all my beautiful paper crafting items. I collect a lot of vintage pieces. I love to make journals using those pieces. I like to write about the history of those pieces. I journal about my hobbies, my animals, things I love. I make them all into themes. I have always been a theme journaler but never a theme scrapbooker. Fill up your 12x12 with recipes, favorite TV shows, favorite books, birds you love, music. One of my favorite journaler's did a page about her favorite magazines. I still need to do that one. When I had an active life I look back at my books and the books seem a bit cold to me. Also, the problem is because I want to rip out a lot of those photo's of drama people in my life and burn them, lol. My day to day books and theme books have been my favorite and so warm to me. I have a friend who travels a lot. She told me that every time she set down to scrapbook her travels she hated her pages. When she journaled nightly and included her ephemera she felt like she had more of a beautiful happy memory keeping record than her "forced" scrapbooks. I love to read letters or diaries from famous people. Reading about Georgia O'Keefe writing about succulents is so inspiring to me over Virgina Woolfe's tales of her travels. Even though Virgina's tales of travels are beautiful, I just find Virginia writing about a boring dinner party more entertaining. I feel it is more emotional. |
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Post by crimsoncat05 on Sept 13, 2017 16:43:38 GMT
Journaling has always been my first love. I didn't want to lose all my beautiful paper crafting items. I collect a lot of vintage pieces. I love to make journals using those piece I journal, too-- I have a big collection of paper-- SB paper, vintage book pages, some vintage wallpaper, random ephemera like my BF's cigar bands, any odd thing that catches my eye at the thrift store, images from books, magazines, images printed from the internet, etc. etc. etc. A lot of my SB paper that I think "my gosh, that is hideous and I would NEVER make a SB page with it" will go into my journaling stash, and will often look really neat in my journals! My journals are mostly collaged paper, images, and doodling-- not much writing... but they're a 'different' way for me to continue playing with paper and glue. to follow up on the writing aspect of SB pages, I personally don't do emotional pages- it's just not me. I use my SB pages as a way to sort of do 'research' and record information about the places we go, with a bit of emotional writing added in. like the art exhibit we went to on Samurai armor- the history of that whole time period and the Samurai is really interesting to me, so I'll include that stuff on my SB pages. It's just how I 'process' things, I guess. (I also love reading people's memoirs, too- I just don't want to read about my own stuff like that, lol. Maybe 20 years from now I'll regret not writing the emotional stuff in my SB pages, but it just feels forced to me when I write it.) |
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Sept 13, 2017 19:23:46 GMT
Are you on social media? I have started saving memes that speak to me, either because the are thought-provoking, inspiring, or just downright hilarious. My plan is to scrap them project life style with commentary that puts them into context or why they were worth saving.
This is sort of like a current events scrapbook I kept with newspaper clippings, comics, letters to Dear Abby, Paul Harvey columns, Art Buchwald pieces, etc. I found my old high school scrapbook when moving a few years ago, and it was really cool to look back to my thoughts from 30 years ago. It was sort of a cross between a diary and current events.
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Post by nicolep on Sept 13, 2017 20:22:30 GMT
First of all, I think it's important someone counters you and tells you you do have a life. It might not be the one you see famous (and less famous) scrapbookers display and document away, but it is a life nonetheless. You don't need to travel far (although I'd encourage you to start planning for it if that's one of your heart's deep desires) or do all kinds of Instagram-worthy things to lead a full (and hopefully satisfying) existence. Is there an organisation or charity for young mothers near you? They might be open to receiving fully prepped albums for the young mothers to document their babies and children's lives in. Have you thought about challenging yourself in terms of photography and things to try at home to do themed albums and mini books? You could do one of those 1 'thing' a day challenges which would give you 30 or 31 layouts or spreads to make. It could be anything: 1 quote/song lyric/religious verse to reflect upon a day. It would be a wonderful challenge to push yourself to think about life, take pretty photos to illustrate them and then play with paper. You could do specialised recipe books in which you challenge yourself to prepare new (and old) recipes. "Christmas around the world" would help you use all those cute Christmas lines while cooking Christmas recipes from countries and cultures you're interested in (and learning about their ways of celebrating the holidays). Instead of a simple Day in the Life, you could do a "Different Day in the Life" in which you try to switch up your routine habits to try other things for a day. Getting up extra early for a morning walk or workout, eating lunch out if you're used to eating in (or vice versa), buying yourself a bouquet of flowers on your way home, going to the cinema in the evening to watch a movie or playing games with the family, etc. If you've got a lot of Halloween stuff and feel up for the challenge, October Daily sounds like a terrific way to slowly start moving out of your comfort zone without needing to dip a toe too far. Pretty pumpkin pictures, decorating your porch or patio, making squash soup and trying new recipes with apples, going on small walks to photograph nature's colours changing, watching your favourite Halloween movies even if they're not scary, getting a pumpkin spice latte, buying and wearing an autumn or Halloween-themed piece of clothing (even if it's just a pair of socks with an owl print), etc. I'd encourage you to see and experience your ordinary life differently and document that. If you can't go out into the world right now, let the world come into your everyday. You'll grant yourself so many opportunities to feel like you do have a life and to play with all your paper goodies in the process. I'm a major supporter of smaller-sized albums because they are far easier to handle and finish, giving you a completed project in a much smaller timeframe with so many possibilities to explore new themes and challenges. Have fun with your life even if it doesn't mean you're hopping on a plane to an exotic destination. You are your life, not the rest of the world. Make it more fun for yourself. Small things do wonders and are the road to inner happiness, not the extravagant gestures and expensive trips. You are the sweetest! I would also echo these thoughtful and wonderful ideas! |
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Post by refugeepea on Sept 13, 2017 23:44:16 GMT
Are you on social media? I have started saving memes that speak to me, either because the are thought-provoking, inspiring, or just downright hilarious. My plan is to scrap them project life style with commentary that puts them into context or why they were worth saving. That's a good idea. |
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Post by twinsmomfla99 on Sept 14, 2017 1:30:46 GMT
Something else I have been doing is taking screen shots of text conversations that are funny or meaningful. I had a former boss send me the nicest compliment about a project I recently completed, and that is going in my scrapbook.
I also did screenshots of the text conversations I had with my brother on election night. He is an economist and very into statistics, and he was calling the election for Trump on early returns before the media. I was amazed how close he was on the margin of victory in the swing states and in states that had previously been considered a given for Hilary. That whole exchange is something I did not want to lose when I was freeing up space on my phone, so I printed them out.
I've also got some great autocorrects printed.
Sometimes I send a photo with text, and I'll save the response I get back.
The Walgreens photo staff probably thinks I'm weird with the stuff I have been printing this summer LOL.
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Post by nicolep on Sept 14, 2017 1:35:37 GMT
twinsmomfla99 I do the same with texts! I actually think it's a great way to document in a scrapbook.
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