Monday Giveaway : Studio Calico

With a fast changing world around us it is comforting to hold fast to those around us who keep us grounded in what is important. Keeping these treasured memories keeps us tied to what is real in our lives. We leave our legacy to those who may just need to glimpse into a world that was ours if only for a "moment".

WOW...you DO get a lot of comments at an early hour, don't you?
Love this kit...you do great work!
OK-favorite thing about memory keeping?
Well, I just love taking pictures and being able to look back on them with the kids.
If they're in a cute album...that's even better. (sometimes it takes a while to get to that part, though! :D)

Right now it's important for me to document being pregnant. I never thought it would be, I'm not one for sentimenatility much, but have found that scrapping my scan pics and talking to my baby through journalling makes me feel closer to her every day, even though she's still not officially arrived.

My favorite thing is just getting it done. Getting the pictures and the story down on paper or in a blog, some how capturing the memories and being done with saving them. Its awesome to not have it looming over me, making me feel guilty for not getting them done.

I've been scrapping for 12 years (since my first son was born) and scrapbooking helps me keep the memories real...i look back at his old scrapbooks and I would have forgotten so many memories without having journaled and photographed them.

I am scrabooking my childhood pictures and old family photos right now. It is so fun to go back and remember childhood memories looking at the photos. Family trips, holidays, my mom was big on capturing the every day even then. Love the old photos of my mom and dad before they were parents. I love doing layouts with retro style paper! Thanks Ali your such an inspiration for me!
Brian K.
Long Beach, CA.

My favorite thing about memory keeping is looking back thru my albums and remembering all the special times with my daughter that I think I will never forget but often do. It's the little stuff she says or does that I'm so glad to be capturing. -Carmen

I have recently discovered the FLEXIBILITY that I can have when scrapbooking! I felt for the past year that I NEEDED to get all my wedding and honeymoon photos scrapbooked before I could scrap anything else. I recently realized that I really don't need to at all... I just need to do whatever I feel is right at the moment. If I feel like creating a page around a blurry photo I took last weekend at a BBQ, then I can definitely do that, because that's what is inspiring me right now. I can honestly say that I love this new FREEDOM I found! :-)

My favorite thing right now is making the mini albums. I love being able to easily carry them around and share them with people.

my fav thing right now is taking pictures. Taking photo 101 at BPS, loving learning and practicing alot!

As a mother to 2 daughters and grandmother to 5 children, I am realizing how quickly the years fly by, and how much I want to hold on to some the the memories that are important to me. Hopefully one day they will look through my albums and realize what a treasure they are.:)

Hi there, one of my favorite things is playing with texture, pattern, and layout. As a graphic designer, I love these things and work with them on a daily basis. But it all comes down to the fact that I love creating a history of my life and I use scrapbooking to honor my family. Love it! Jenny

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is that it is my "me time". I can do something for myself by having this hobby, but I can also do something for my family at the same time.

My fav. thing right now is that when I look back on the pages I have finished I am reminded to slow down and make the most of every day because my "little" boy is already a first grader! Recently we went through his first year album and I showed him photos from my first Mother's Day. I said, "I wasn't a mommy until you came along". He asked, "then what were you?". Hilarious!

My favorite thing is keeping track of all the details of my daughter's life. I love to look back on the past three years and instantly remember those times because she is growing up so fast. Up next, recapturing my own life in my scrapbooks!

Memory keeping is so important because it leaves footprints not only for our future generations, but for my own children as they grow as well. It's important that our children have the opportunity to look back and know that taking photos and writing down the details about those special moments was something I wanted to remember and help them to remember as well.
Thanks for being an inspiration to so many scrappers!

Hi Ali,
My favorite part of the process now is the freedom I am coming to realize in my process. Thanks mostly to Stacy Julian and her Library of Memories process. I do not feel that my pages have to be "perfect" any more. I am all about the "good enough" these days.
I also am inspired by all of the great papers and unique uses of other products like paint.
Susan

It has become very important to me to capture everday moments. I think these memories will be a lot of fun to look back on and I don't want anything to slip through the cracks.

Oooh, great giveaway, thanks for the offering! My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is that it has given me the chance to record all the memories of my wonderful dog who is aging and recently had a stroke and won't be around forever.

My favorite thing right now is to scrap about myself. I have done countless albums about my kids, my marriage.. well, it is time to scrap about ME! I think future generations needs to know me... hopefully what a cool grandma i would be!