I hope you all can forgive me if that video yesterday made you cry. I bawled like a baby to be quite frank. Anyway there is a point to this, really there is.
See that lady at the top of the post? She’s my grandmother. I never knew her because she died before I was born. As a child I always thought of her as some old lady and my mother didn’t talk much about her. Imagine my surprise when I found this picture of her. She’s so pretty…and young…and it made me wonder. What was her life like? I mean her real day to day life. I really wish I knew that.
This made me think a little more. What if someday one of my (yet unborn) grandchildren finds my picture in a box. Will they have known me? Will they wonder what I did as well?
A couple of weeks ago I participated in Ali Edwards' project “Week in the Life”. This is a project where you document your life, everything from the mundane to the sublime, for one week. This can be done any way that makes sense to you. I did mine by taking gobs of pictures and writing down what I did every day. To make my life easy and because I have techno-nerd tendencies I used my computer and some digital scrapbooking supplies, some designed specifically for this project. If you want to learn more about doing this you can go to here or here.Here's a sample of what they looked like before printing.
I’m really glad I did this and I plan on doing it again. I think it would be a great thing for anyone to do. You are the only one that can tell your story. YOUR LIFE IS IMPORTANT ENOUGH. Your kids and grandkids, nieces and nephews are going to want to know this stuff. It will be PRECIOUS to them.
After it was all done I uploaded to Scrapbookpictures.com and a few days later I got some beautiful prints in the mail.
Here’s a glimpse.
I even saved a bit of ephemera from my daily life, things like my shopping lists and receipts.
Looking back I realize how busy and full my day to day life is. There is so much to celebrate. I'm also glad I didn't pick this past week to document. All I can say about that is PROM.
Products used:
Font: Pea Lauren from kevinandamanda.com/fonts/fontsforpeas/Digital Templates were: Ali Edwards Week in the Life 8.5x11 Layered Template Album
Digital Scrapbook Supplies: Mindy Terasawa New Spring Kit
Album: American Crafts 8.5x11 Customizable Album
You've really turned your 'Week' into a keepsake - so clever to do it the way you have done!
I love the idea, too - don't know if I could do it with anything close to the COOL factor of yours, but I'm considering putting *something* together for my offspring(x2).
Thank you for the inspiration and for setting these little grey cells on a path... :-)
Posted by: Tracy in SW WA | 05/05/2010 at 09:51 AM
Thank you for sharine how you made your scrapbook pages. I've been wanting to dive into something but didn't know where to start. You've given me the inspiration to look closer into this project.
Posted by: Mandy M | 05/05/2010 at 09:38 PM