I enjoy scrapbooking. It is the peaceful coexistence of my favourite things: photos and stories with a bit of paper and fonts thrown in for fun. My topics are usually based on celebrating our every day activities. My philosophy is that my kids will remember their every day events, those days and experiences that add up to create the fabric of their being.
Though I participated in a number of me-based scrapbook courses last year, only one came close to touching on those things that are important to me which are not often represented on a scrapbook page. It was the Lisa Day course over at Big Picture Scrapbooking: The Challenge of Me. It is running right now, but if it's offered again, take it. The course gave me "permission" to make honest, meaningful and unapologetic, fabric of my being scrapbook pages about:
- My Religious Views (and why)
- My Political Views (and why)
- My Relationship with Money (and why)
- My Environmental Views (and why)
- What I Would Like to Learn (and why)
- My Real View of Minor Sports (and why) - hmm, maybe that would be a book
- My Dream for Each of My Children (and why)
- If I Were the One In Charge (this is how things would work)
Well, okay, I added a couple of my own topics ;)
After all, it is through these books that I hope to be able to communicate with my children (when they're older and really listening), my grandchildren (when I'm older and no longer able to remember), and their children (who should have some crazy old dead relative, right?).
As I was writing this, I head over to Big Picture Scrapbooking to refresh my memory and lucked into a new instant-download course: The Book of Why which is being lead by the incredibly honest and raw and wonderful Karen Grünberg. THIS is definitely a "don't miss" download, and for a whopping $10? I know it'll be well worth it and more.
Now for all the big decisions: paper, hybrid, digi? Story-based or photo-based? How much information is too much information? Share on the blog, not on the blog? What other topics?
What topics should you scrapbook that might be on your taboo or tough topic list? You know, those conversations you avoid at the Thanksgiving or family table?
