Monday Giveaway : Studio Calico

my fave thing is that they are there once I do them!! I can go back and touch and read and relive the memories. I just love having all my little minibooks and pages done!!

Hi Ali:)
Right now, my fav part of memory keeping is the.....
*P R O C E S S*
.....nothing more fun than selecting papers, bits & pieces and handmade accents like tabs and journaling cards to be put together.
And also the very thought of whomever comes across it in the future, and their thoughts about "my memory keeping" and what it says about me:)

Packing up the family home after my mum passed away in December last year, even though it was a difficult time, what I loved was finding the 'memories' she had kept from all of her 11 children. Of course she didn't keep them all, but the ones she did keep brought back a lot of memories and that's what I hope my grandchildren will cherish one day - the memories of me, of us, right here, right now.

Right now I'm enjoying the product. I have a bunch of pictures and the stories are ready to be told so I am just playing with pretty papers, ribbons, stamps, etc. Taking some time to be creative!

Right now I am focusing on keeping it simple. I love scrapbooking this way. Sometimes that means a picture and lots of words or sometimes it might mean lots of pictures and not so many words. I love not feeling like there has to be a formula!!!

Aggghhh! This looks like an incredible giveaway. Thanks you! My favorite thing about memory keeping is looking back on the stories. Those little ones that make you sigh because you had kind of forgotten them. Thanks again. m

Hi Ali!
My favorite thing right now is living the special moments with my little family, BUT I have gotten back into recording all those moments recently. It has been precious to me to journal the stories and scrapbook the details. I didn't know how much I missed scrapbooking until I got all my goodies back out! I look forward to smiling with my kids at these same stories someday.
Have a great day!
Brooke

As I record the moments in our lives for my children (and their children) it brings back sweet memories of my life.

Right now, my favorite part is really the process - losing myself in the creative energy.
Thanks for all of your inspirition.

Thanks for the contest. My son is currently in the teenage don't take my photo stage but I still do. He'll need to see those non smiling unhappy look photos too when he grows up.

Love this give-away!:-)
My favorite thing about memory keeping is getting the photos of my kids in albums in a creative way. I'm savoring these moments as the kids will be out of the house in a very short time... . :(

My fav thing about memory keeping right now is capturing the great here and now things that are happening...plus getting down in books some of the great memories I keep from the past. Both the here and now and the memories will fade with me if I don't take the time to share them. The older I get the more I realize that both sides are important. Get what I remember into journaling/story form and the here/now into that form also. I love it that so much of scrapbooking has become journal driven.

well i've always been a picture taker, i guess right now i really enjoy watching my niece (she's 7) and nephew (he's 10) looking through the photos and the albums and remembering things/events together.

My favorite thing about scrapping is getting the chance to see the pics and re-live the memories over and over.

One of my favorite quotes is, "We do not remember days-we remember moments". I love capturing those moments with photos and documenting the details. I tend to get stressed out by traditional, chronological scrapbooking so I love smaller projects including minibooks that I use to remember moments. Loving collage right now-especially with modern photos.

My favorite thing right now is the warm fuzzies I get from watching my now teenage daughters enjoy and share their albums I started (oh so long ago in 1993) even though they are very different from today's way of scrapbooking -- they simply do not care or notice.... just the boost I need to keep going and stop trying so hard for the perfect page!!! Thanks for the opportunity.

My favorite reason for memory keeping is very simple...I love to remember the way things were. I love looking back when things are rough and remembering when things were good.

My favorite thing about memory keeping is remembering the stories. I've kept a journal since I was a girl, but the great thing about scrapping is that I have pictures to go along with the stories. My three-year-old can enjoy the memories now, and I have such a terrible memory that the albums help keep them alive. I also love working with my hands instead of always creating on the computer. It's great that my pictures are in albums to enjoy rather than stuck on a CD. Oral history is so important to our existence, and our craft helps keep it alive.

right now my favorite thing is the stories. I am a sleep deprived mommy of three kids under 4 and I am shocked at how much I forget. Things I thought I'd never forget. So my favorite part is writing the stories down so my family and I can look back and remember them.

My favorite thing, right now, has always been, looking back through the scrapbooks with my girls. Reading what was written over 10yrs ago. Reading the descriptions of each of their labor and deliveries (written within days of their deliveries, so I wouldn't forget a thing).