January 2 - Why I Scrap

thank you for this challenge



my journaling is translated in the gallery and has 277 words (english version)

 

383 WORDS

 

481 words

 

Believe it or not - but I am DONE!!! I dread journaling so this really was a challenge for me. My journaling is 344 words in Swedish and 337 in English. I've posted a translation (done via Google translate) in my gallery credits:

 

My wordcount is 308 not including the quote and can be read in the gallery. Thank you for the challenge!

 

414 words

 

289 words.

 

250 ON THE DOT!


One of the reasons I scrapbook is to preserve our memories for the future. Recently I was given by my mom some genealogy documents that came from my great grandma. She also had started to write stories about her family just before she passed. Going through this old stuff is just SO cool! This is my history, my family. I think scrapbooking has been in my blood for many generations! My mom has kept scrapbook like photo albums! My baby album has all the cards & ephemera saved too! I believe that scrapbooking is a modern day genealogy hobby- as our layouts and albums will be passed on to our children and family! Also- I have a great memory- but often forget the simple, daily details that go along with having a busy family. Scrapbooking helps me capture some of those small, daily details like a snapshot in time. As the kids grow older, it’s harder and harder to remember the days of their infanthood, toddlerhood and now childhood/pre-teen days! The kids love looking through old albums and learning the stories of when they were younger- and I love retelling them! Lastly- I am a creative person. I have many crafty hobbies: paper/vinyl crafting, painting and reading- but digital scrapbooking is my utmost favorite. I love being able to express my feelings or escaping into photoshop! With working more, I seem to have less ‘me’ time, but I make time for my scrapbooking since it is a great creative outlet!

 

thank you for the challenge (401 words)

 

i'm not much of a journaler usually....but I eked out 262 words!

 

So sorry if my journaling came out too small--was not my intent to hide the words. *sigh*

 

338 words

 

281 words

 

368 words - text in gallery

 

I love a good journaling challenge, I have no problem filling a page with words. But, I will say as I thought about this and my vision for the challenge -- it took me way too long to find all the word bits that I wanted to visualize my why . . . but it is part of the creative process that is a part of why -- So here is my page with my 363 words

 

441 words

 

282 words

 

444 words

 

Journaling:
I have been scrapbooking since the mid 80’s when Larry and I began our journey together. I kept track of our
road trips for a while and when we started a family, I moved on to cross stitch. Obviously I don’t do that anymore because of the vision! I picked up scrapping in 2000 when we moved to New Orleans and got involved in Creative Memories and Stampin Up! I started with paper scrapbooking and did that until around 2010 when I became a blogger on a scrapbooking site, but didn’t know it was digital, so I was totally Lost. I became a hybrid scrapper! The designer (Kiki Halbert) was the most wonderful person I ever met and helped me so much. My digi journey began!!!I have met some of the most wonderful people in digi land. I feel close to all even though we never met.
Digi scrappers have this bond. They are ready to help you, comfort you and prasie you. It is great!
I scrap because I miss my brother so incredibly much and I have to express my feelings. I miss Jill from Created by Jill and they both died of a disease, that I now suffer from. The connection is unreal. but the pain and tears are real wet and sad. My brother ends up in so many of my layouts. He is always there.I like being alone with me and my thoughts, kits, layouts and creating the magic that makes me happy! I scrap because it 's just me. 256 words (just happened that way)