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I love that things are always changing, my scrapbooking style and the products...but it is always about the memories.

My feelings right now as I age...is that I feel like my scrapping will make me immortal! Seriously...I am comforted in the fact that even my great grand children and great, great grandchildren will know me and each one of their family members that they may not even meet.!!
Thanks for the giveaway...yummy kits!

I am currently working on an album of my childhood photos with my mother and it is neat to know that my children will get to see how I was as a kid and that I get to spend this time with my mother compiling family stories:)
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I have a renewed interest in journaling - making samples for our store is all about using new products to create sales...I had fallen out of the journaling part - due to deadlines and time ! I have been working hard for the past month or so and really am loving my journaling. I have journaled on my store samples and customers are even now commenting that journaling is so important. For those who do not journal , I explain that in future years - this will be the most important part of the page. Documenting, taking time to remember what happened that even brought the page to light and memories stronger than just the photographs. I even have a page that I am working on now that does not even hold a photo - had a spiritual moment when I pulled a drowning child from a pool. Nothing that any picture was taken for but a moment that really made me think and grow in God's love - I was in the right place, with the right know how and the perfect time. Documented it for myself and one day my daughter can read about it and be thankful.

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is that my kids think they really remember everything I've documented in our scrapbooks. I really doubt my 12 year old remembers his first trip to Hawaii when he was 17 months old, but he still looks at that album and says it was his favorite vacation ever! I love that about telling these stories.

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is having the kids give me prompts. They guide me to what they want to remember and it makes it even more fun!

I'm enjoying mini albums right now; about half finished with album for vacation to Romania in May. I want to make 2 mini's for grandkids (boy & girl) for Christmas.
Thanks for a chance at this fun blog candy.

Hey Ali! Right now, my favorite thing about the process is just the freedom of just going with it where it takes me. I stopped trying to meet a quota of pages and right now I'm just focused on living, journaling & taking good pictures. As for the scrapbooking -- I get to it when I get to it. And I don't feel any guilt for it anymore! Thanks for all your inspiration! :)
Amanda

Favorite thing is it reminds me of how content I should be with what I have right now- my health, my family, my friends, and my faith. What else is there?

I'm enjoying making a July Journal - using scrapping techniques and photos with ephemera - it's a fun diary of our ordinary life.

I have been organizing my books lately and my favorite thing right now is watching life grow before my eyes. Not only the change and growth of those in the pictures but of my style and preferences. Although at times I feel as if life is the same day in and day out this is proof that it isn't!

Hi Ali!
This is my very first time to post. I am a VERY RELUCTANT scrapbooker...but, now...I love it. Someone gave me a subscription to CK Magazine...and I fell in love with your work. I have to admit that I thought I might be a bit "HIP" to scrap...but, I love the people I have met..and most of all, I love documenting the everyday moments of my kiddos lives. I went through a pretty wicked divorce this past year that broke my heart and my kiddos...so, as we have re-established our family...as a family of 4...I have loved keeping our history, recording our new traditions, and journaling our healing... Scrapbooking is the CHEAPEST therapy around! How can you not feel better when you look at all those pictures of the ones you love, paper, incredible embellishments! Love it! Thanks, Ali...for being a "hip" scrapper...I truly appreciate your artistic talent!
Jillain

Hi Ali!
This is my very first time to post. I am a VERY RELUCTANT scrapbooker...but, now...I love it. Someone gave me a subscription to CK Magazine...and I fell in love with your work. I have to admit that I thought I might be a bit "HIP" to scrap...but, I love the people I have met..and most of all, I love documenting the everyday moments of my kiddos lives. I went through a pretty wicked divorce this past year that broke my heart and my kiddos...so, as we have re-established our family...as a family of 4...I have loved keeping our history, recording our new traditions, and journaling our healing... Scrapbooking is the CHEAPEST therapy around! How can you not feel better when you look at all those pictures of the ones you love, paper, incredible embellishments! Love it! Thanks, Ali...for being a "hip" scrapper...I truly appreciate your artistic talent!
Jillain

Hi Ali, I have to say making the memories is my favorite thing! With two small girls, every day something happens that I want to treasure. I'm glad there is a hobby out there makes these every day moments, momentnous versus monotonous!

Scrapbooking has provided me a wonderful creative outlet and has brought a wealth of amazing friendships into my life. But, as I sort through the thousands of photos I've taken through the years or the hundreds I have inherited, it is the connection to both the past and the future that I treasure most and feel is most important. It's discovering that the rocking chair I received for my 1st Christmas in 1956, is the same one my father was given when he was a toddler in late 1932 or early 1933...the same rocking chair I still own and will someday pass on to a great-niece or nephew. It's looking at photos of my mother, myself and my oldest niece when we were each about 9 months old...and seeing how much alike we look. It's showing my 19 yr old nephew how much he looks like his grandfather...who died when my nephew was 3. Preserving those photos and stories in the layouts I create, along with all the others that are important to who we are as a family and as individuals, strengthens that connection between past, present and future generations.

My favorite thing right now is my picture a day project, I love looking back over all the past days this year to see what we've been doing and what's been happening. All the little moments that would have been lost are all now special memories which make up the fabric of our lives.

Right now, I like to keep memories with pictures and stories, so when my son gets older he will be able to look, read, and remember all the great times we have had togethor as a family. It is too easy to look at pictures in an albim, and forget when they took place and where. This way he can show his family one day, and be able to tell the stories behind the pictures.

My favorite thing about memory keeping is taking photos. Photos can say so much about a memory or event--the weather, the mood, the people. I think a truly great photo can say volumes about any event or person!

Right now I am into telling the everyday instead of the big event stories. Have a running list of pages and projects and it just keeps growing, which is a good thing.

My favourite thing is the "me time" that I get while creating something for my family.