This month is a pure crazy-town time of transition for my family.
My husband came home from a year long Army assignment in Korea last Thursday night and our packers arrived today for our move from Kansas to Texas. We’re not guaranteed to have our belongings delivered to our new home for three weeks.
I want to continue scrapbooking during this season of transition, so I’ve come up with several ways that I can do so. And since I’m sure you’ve faced busy times of transition yourself I thought I would share some of them with you today.
Remember the essentials
One of the huge advantages of digital scrapbooking is that it really doesn’t take up a lot of space. All you really need to continue creating is a laptop, photos, and your digital supplies. I have a backup of my photos and digital supplies on an external hard drive. I typically scrapbook at home on my desktop computer, but when we’re traveling or in the middle of a move, I pull out my laptop and my external drive and I’m all set to scrapbook!
Take lots and lots of photos
This is key for me! I’m constantly taking photos of the changes that are occurring during this time. And even if I don’t get to do a lot of actual scrapbooking, I’m at least memory keeping by taking these photos and documenting as much as I can.
Journal your thoughts
Whether it’s in an app, in a word document, through social media posts, or just on plain ole’ paper write your thoughts down so you can go back and remember them when you’re able to scrapbook this time.
Use social media to your advantage
Use your facebook, instagram and twitter updates to scrapbook these memories. In it’s simplest form, social media is a way of scrapbooking in the moment.
Make good use of down time
There will be down time even in the midst of the crazy, busy time of this transition. Use those to pull out your laptop, those photos your snapped along the way, and your journal entries and scrapbook. For me, scrapbooking is a creative outlet and I can relieve a lot of stress by taking advantage of the down time I have by creating a layout. My family is looking at several nights in a hotel and then possibly a couple weeks in an empty house, I’m hoping to use this time to scrapbook as much as I can!
Have you scrapbooked during a time of transition? What tips would you add to this list?
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