i have been evaluating all areas of my life lately...the next area i wanted to address was my memory keeping... i have been a scrapbooker since my oldest son, who is now 14 was born, i have gone through many stages and styles over the years... the one that i found worked the best for me was the Project Life system by Becky Higgins... it is very easy to get my hand on supplies... they are sold in my local Michael,s and AC Moore... i also can do a little at a time... I don't have to create one whole big 12x12 spread... i can just add my 4x6 photo and journal on a 3x4 card and then i am done for that photo... i have been working in a project life format since 2010... this year is the first year that i have not worked on m y project life photo... as life tends to do, it got in the way... i have been having bad fibro flare ups and really have lost any desire to be creative... so, i have done nothing!!!
a few weeks ago, i came across a post on instagram about heidi swapp... she has been one of the biggest inspirations to me since i started scrapbooking... i loved looking at her spreads because we have children around the same age and i just love her style... the post was regarding the passisng of her 2nd child cory... this really hit a nerve because i have seen this boy grow up over the years in her pages... since his passing, she has been talking about the importance of capturing your memories and that she is so happy to have them during this difficult time... (i know that difficult does not begin to describe what the swapp family is going through)... i have decided that it is time to get off my butt and start capturing memories again... the photos do not need to be perfect... i don't need to pose my children... i want to capture how they are and what they are doing now... i have started taking photos of the everyday things that are going on around my home...
now, all i need to do is start printing out the photos and putting them into my album... one of my biggest obstacles in the past, was myself... it wasn't that i didn't have the time, i didn't think i was creative enough to create a beautiful, magazine worthy spread... i had lost sight of the most important thing... preserving my memories of my family... i am trying to keep this in mind as i delve back into my project life album... as i go along i will post my spreads here and talk about my project life journey... until next time...
leslie :-)
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