Monday Giveaway : Studio Calico

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is that it is "me" time. Being a wife, mom of a 6 year old, 4 year old and busy 1 year, as well as a kindergarten teacher, there is not much time left for me! That is where scrapbooking comes in...creativity, archiving, journaling and "my music!" Paradise!

Hi, Ali. I certainly don't envy your task of reading through all of these comments and choosing only two. What an overwhelming response! I am feeling dizzy just from reading through some of them.
My favourite thing about memory keeping right now is living in and documenting the 'right now', all of the little details of my family's life that I would otherwise struggle to remember in a few years or even in a few months. For me it is about documenting the significant and sometimes seemigly insignificant changes in my children's development and personalities, in my own life and my loved ones' lives. And the way I feel or don't feel about those changes. I love that I love to look back over the last three years and look at at stories. I love that I can watch my children and husband look back over the pages I have created and remember moments and events and laugh about their memories. Although I crave the opportunity to create and enjoy the process, the finished product and the joy that it brings is my favourite thing right now.

My fav thing about memory keeping has always been recording the little details in life that might be forgotten. Like how my son went through a stage of saying "I love you to the moon and back and the city" he only said that for about six months but now ha has a page dedicated to that little saying I loved so much and it will never be forgotten.

My favorite thing about memory keeping recently is the fct that my 5 year old niece and nephew loved the albums I made for them and made it a point to tell me so(on their own).That makes it all worth it.

keeping the memories alive...the little day to day lego houses & matchbox car city and the big day to day gatherings of friends & family...these are a couple of my favorites today. thanks ali!

Hey Ali! My favorite thing right now about scrapbooking is that I now see my life in a series of my favorite images. I can't remember what it felt like to hold my first newborn daughter, but I can look at my pictures and see how happy I was and how peaceful she looked. And that is just one of thousands of wonderful memories that I can reflect on in my books!

I love having my kids do some of the journaling on their pages. I love the way they may phrase a sentence and I also get to capture their handwriting thru the years

perspective. currently into scrapping family pictures from my early, early days as a toddler. seeing how we were, and what we are now, and that time goes so amazingly quick...it keeps me close to the earth about what is important, and causes me to renew and shift my thinking all the time.
thanks, ali!

Hi Ali! I have been reading your blog for awhile now and just wanted to say thanks for sharing your creativity with us bloggers. It is so much fun to see what others are doing and to be inspired to go and make cool things of your own.

Right now I've started scrapping a Deck Of Me - it's the first scrapping I've done just for me and it's really refreshing!
Thank you for all of your inspiration - I love seeing Simon grow successful with autism as my 5 year old sun has recently been educationally diagnosed on the spectrum and we're on a waiting list for medical testing.

My favorite thing right now is that memory keeping has made me more aware of the beauty around me. I keep my camera with me all the time so I can capture the little moments that make me smile or that show who my family is RIGHT NOW. One thing I'm trying to capture "on film" is cows swimming! I'm from the south and so it's SUPER hot right now. It makes me smile when I drive by and see a cow wading in a pond trying to keep cool! I know that's a bit dorky, but that's what I mean about capturing little things that make me smile!

My favorite thing is that although I never seem to have time to actually scrap these days, I do my best to keep up with memories on my blog. As a new mom I know I won't remember everything I want to, hard as I try.

OMGosh!! I totally don't expect you to read this far but here is my favorite anyway. ;) I'm loving pairing summer photos with the bright yellow, green, and orange papers that our out right now! Totally in love! Have a great day and thanks for sharing the scrap calico goodnes!

My favorite thing about memory keeping is the ability to go back and read through it. I haven't had much time for scrapbooking recently due to home rearrangement - new scrapping area and making a nursery! But I have ben blogging my memories and I have a journal for my pregnancy to keep all of those memories for when I can scrapbook again. :)

My favorite thing about memory keeping is the scrappers ability to be unique. When i first started scraping I was very intimidated by other peoples work but I have learn throughout the year that I am just a simple scrapbooker and its ok.

My favorite thing about memory keeping is mini travel journals. It is a great way to capture the excitment of a trip while we are there. I then add photos when we get back. I keep them in a basket on our coffee table and they are picked up often and looked at with family and friends.

my favorite thing about keeping memories now is to look back at the old layouts and reflect on other times; laugh at stupid hair-do's & love the good hair days; talk out loud to myself about how 'hot I was back then'ha,ha! give myself 'attagirls' for writing down the sweet things the g'babies said or did, because now I don't remember! I love the fun scrapbooking gives back! MB

Your Everyday Beauty Album! I just finished mine and it turned out sooo nice. I made mine about me.

to keep the details alive...too many slip away when i rely on just my memory! thanks for the chance!

My fave thing is being able to always remember the little details (especially about trips--it's crazy how much you forget about vacations once you get home if you don't write everything down!) and the "ordinary" moments. I love looking back on happy times!