Fast Scrapper or Slow Scrapper? Or, the importance of Journaling

I take forever on all of my pages. Always did when I paper scrapped too.

 

I'm usually pretty fast but sometimes it doesn't click as fast, and I'm okay with that too. I'm not in a race, and it's fun either way!

 

I have been trying to get myself to journal more too. My problem is actually stopping to do it. Once I start, it's fine. I don't have a problem figuring out what to say. But when I do all the other parts of the page, I tend to just go "yay! save! bye!" and I need to force myself to not do that.

 

I'm extremely slow. Pages take me forever to finish. Even though I'm mainly a template scrapper. I think without the templates, I wouldn't finish anything!

 

if I can find what my brain and heart want on the page, I can go fast..but I get slowed down, when I can't figure out that last thing it needs...kwim?

 

Sloooooow. Very slow. Every once in a while I'll get a page done in less than an hour, but it's usually 2-3 hours per page. Sometimes more. I wish I were faster!

Then after I complete a page that's taken me FOREVER, I look at it and think - Well, I could've done that faster, couldn't I? Ha!

 

Mostly fast, I usually see it in my head first then it all just comes together

 

i'm both when i want to be - i've learnt i'm a lot faster if i stick to a kit, instead of wandering thru the stash to find the perfect element/paper/alpha etc. My time savers in Speed Scraps are usually limiting myself to a single generic photo (unless specified that i need a specific number of them), picking a kit that contains pretty well everything i need (and then going B&W with the photo if it won't match) and avoiding alphas entirely and sticking to my go-to fonts (not looking thru the whole folder) as they usually provide a recipe for what u need and what goes where and taking those overwhleming choices away from me can save me a lot of time #indecisive Templates help but there's still lots of choices to be made after that, KWIM?

 

I'm usually an hour to 1 1/2 hours... that's for a single or double, doesn't matter which I'm scrapping. (i don't get why they are the same time either, lol!) If there isn't much to the page and it's for a challenge, then that might be faster. I don't think I've ever been less than 40 minutes for a page. 90% of the time add the date, and names or something regards to what the page is about - just something. Then about 75% I add at least the who, what, where, when, why type journaling.

I journal because I'm going to get old. lol.

I won't remember the details, names, places or anything at some point. I will love reading about my own memories one day, lol, and then sparking my memories. Looking through pictures with grandparents, and family has shown me that no one is immune to forgetting.

 

When my grandfather passed away years ago, I remember sitting with my whole family in the den, looking at photos. We would ask my grandmother, my great aunt, and my gruncle who was in the photos, where were they, and what was going on. Some of the images had a story, but there were so many that we didn't know who was in the picture, or what was going on. When we asked my grandmother and family... we got some answers, but still many of the questions remained. I was lucky I grabbed a bunch of pictures that I wanted to keep and had written some details on the backs. Who, what, when at least - more if it was known.

Then a few years ago, when my grandmother passed, it was like deja vu. Another big box of photos, and the more questions. Many were from her college years, trips she and my grandfather had taken for business... so many experiences. The problem was... there were less people to ask.

That's the only reason that I learned I needed to journal. I'm going to forget otherwise... or I will not be here to remember for someone else.

@chickypow

 

In general I am really fast. Like if I can sit and just do a page straight it comes together really quickly. However, lately with the baby I have to scrap 10 min here and 10 min there so it takes me a whole day sometimes. SO LAME!