Monday Giveaway : Studio Calico

ooh - what a great way to start the week. My favorite thing about memory keeping is recording my sons childhood and how he loves to inspire me without even knowing it!
Thanks Ali, great giveaway.

Good morning Ali,
Lately I feel like a "running rabbit with 2 heads" and barely keeping them above water!... so preserving memories for me is a way to stop time for a little bit.

Dear Ali,
My favorite thing about memory keeping is right now is capture the moment before it is getting lost. I like to make mini-albums with a theme. I also love to make vintage-albums of old pictures of my family. It's very nice to document their lifestyle and give it to them as a present. I have learned a lot from your great books. I love your style how to catch the everyday moments in a lay-out.
Kind regards from the Nederlands,
A huge fan of you, Odetta

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is preserving the little moments between my new husband and I. It's such fun to look back at the mini album I did of our 1st six months and talk about how we felt after those first few dates!

My favorite thing about keeping memories right now is putting down the little quotes and such that my 4 year old seems to spit out on a daily basis. I'm also enjoying preparing scrapbooks and such for baby #2....

My favorite thing is recording those small details that I know I will forget with time. The funny stories, the laughs, the small stuff. Love being able to record it.

My favorite part about memory keeping is being able to record all the memories and stories when they are fresh in my mind so that I can pass on that legacy to my children. Seeing that I forget everything, I love being able to capture those moments on paper.

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is that I can begin to save some of the stories my parent's have learned about my family's history. I love that I have so many options to do this with the variety of colors, products, textures out there in papers and embellishments. I can add my own creativity that then gets passed on with the stories and photos!

being able to share my memories with others :)

Right now I have very little spare time to do scrapbooking. I know I could make time, but I never seem to do so. but I don't want to forget the little things. I take a ton of pictures, but they don't tell the whole story, the nitty gritty, the day to day. So what I'm doing is this; in my kitchen I have a calender on the fridge and every day I write down something, whether it be a milestone for the baby or something my three year old did or something mundane like a trip to the library. Then, for longer musings I have a journal for each of them and I write to them in it, telling them my thoughts, dreams, wishes for them and about them. I try to write in this at least monthly. Finally, so I capture what they look like and what they are doing I take a TON of digital pictures. I literally have thousands. Just yesterday I ordered Photo Freedom and I'm hoping that might help me put all three together. ;)

I am loving the mini albums, made out of all different, unique, everyday items. The home projects too. I enjoy finding differnt things to display my pictures. I found a large tart pan at the thrift store last week and past it up. I have been beating myself up ever since. Can't you just see it as a frame in the kitchen...

My favorite thing is to have the stories to go along with the photos. I have 4 young kids and can barely the day to day happenings and I like that I am trying to write things down (like in my blog) to remember all this great stuff that would be forgotten otherwise!

My Favorite thing about memory keeping is capturing a special time that would otherwise not be remembered in the same way with candid photos or my memories in words. Scrapping current things rather than than old is important to me now because the memories are fresher and those pages are more meaningful. When I am done with a page I cant wait to share it with everybody.
Thanks for all your inspiration!!!!
LOVE that kit!

I love documenting the everyday. I love looking thru my projects and remembering each of those moments like it was yesterday.

everyday details...pictures of my children's hands and feet, while they are playing,what they are eating. this is my favorite thing right now

Hey Ali
Very cool looking kit your giving away!
With scrapbooking, I love to record our living both the regular and the big things. Seeing my style evolve over the years is fun to look at. Seeing my family enjoy paging thru the books is very fulfilling too!

Journaling and words, words, words are the most important for me.
Should I pick out one thing it would be the funny stuff my 4 kids have said.
I love to make a layout based on their funny words and sayings.... and the kids love it too!

The best part of memory keeping is it makes me focus on all the positive things in my everyday life. Some times it's these little moments that are the most important to me and I love capturing them in my pages. I know when I or my kids look back at these pages we will cherish these daily memories as much as the bigger events.

Right now, my most favorite thing about memory keeping, is placing all of my finished layouts into page protectors and sharing them with my husband and son.

My favorite thing about scrapbooking right now is that I love making so many "virtual" friends via the internet who share the same hobby. You guys "get it" in a way most of my family and friends don't!