WHY WE WRITE : Dianne Nelson shares her love of writing and a quote she remembers from an influential English teacher in high school (amazing how much impact they have, eh?). The quote: "We write because the skin forgets." Isn't that wonderful?
In the couple of days since my earlier entries about including the kids and their summer stories and writing down on journaling prompts, I have been mulling a simple format for a summer album. The key is, of course, simple. Every year, I've created a Cape Cod album which always has a big impact, but those albums are primarily photographs. I'd like to have a more word-focused album to include daily events - kind of like a 365 Story rather than a 365 Photo. Fortunately our summer is only 70 days, just enough to see if I can keep it up daily! And with the kids adding their photos and thoughts, it will be a whole family endeavour.
My usual approach to scrapbook pages is writing. I love context. I love the story. It should prove to be even more fun to be editor as well :)
I have my "album" format chosen:
Binder Clips rather than binding or album
8" x 10" size (so for photos no cropping, fingers crossed for a sale!)
Photos (all vertical!) on Left
Stories on Right
Green and Blue colour theme
Fonts are A&S Rhino and Helvetica
Bazzill White Orange Peel Paper
Oh how I love it when a creative plan comes together. It been my experience that the easier a project comes together, generally the easier it is to execute. Whoot!
What about you? Are you participating in Stories of Summer over at Ali Edwards blog? What a wonderful creative jump start to my summer! Lots of talented ladies :) So many ideas.
