A look through my albums
Current Mood:
OK
OK, I read this on Kate Hadfield’s blog first, then I went to The Daily Digi and read the original. This was such an intriguing idea, that I had to do it.
As I look through my albums, I have discovered:
* I am not a very good journaler. I got into scrapbooking to tell those little stories behind the photos that my children will want to know one day. I was very good at the beginning but the last several pages that I’ve done don’t even tell a story and worse yet - have no date! This is one thing that I intend to change.
* I am not ashamed to admit that as my style has changed, I have re-scrapped photos previously scrapped if I didn’t care for the layout. Now that I have discovered my shortcoming in not journaling, there will be a lot of photos that I plan to re-scrap. Luckily, I’ve saved my all time favorite LOs in layered format, so that should not be too difficult.
* I am a chronological layout filer. I wouldn’t say that I am a chronological scrapper because I scrap as I am inspired. But, when I print and file my layouts, I do like to have them filed chronologically. It just doesn’t make sense to me to look through an album and see your child as a 15 year old and then turn the page and see her as a baby. It seems wonky to me. LOL
* I am a cluster freak! LOL I love to pile on all the wonderful goodies that I have acquired. I mean, I have lots of beautiful stuff, where is the problem in using it to make my pages prettier? Oh, and I just can’t get into the negative space thing. I’ve tried and for me, it just doesn’t fit my personal style. To me, it seems like a waste of good space. LOL
* I am a one - three photo scrapper. I believe that having one - three good photos is better than having ten. I mean three really good ones (and I mean ones that tell the story) can really illustrate the happenings of that particular day. I have scrapped out of focus photos - I mean as Kate says, out of focus photos are still snapshots into your life. What I mean by one - three good photos is photos that really show what’s going on during that time.
So, this has been a very good exercise for me. It’s helped me to analyze the things I need to change such as journaling and it’s helped me realize the things I’m good at such as clustering. Now that I have recognized the areas that I need to work on, I believe that my scrapping will be better than it has been. Thanks Janet for such a eye opening exercise.
