Monday Giveaway : Studio Calico

Right now I am really into creating minis of my 3 yo for long distance relatives so they don't miss naything of his life. I know they really love it and i love doing it for them.

Growing up, pictures usually wound up in a big box somewhere with no information about the photo...or the people in the photo. Doing the memory keeping gives me an appreciation of the memory and gives life to the stories.

Knowing that whatever adoptive issues my kids may or may not go through in the future they will always have docmentation of the love we have for them and the miracle that they are to have been placed in our lives. I am so blessed and they are my true blessings I want that to be the number one thing reflected in my albums. smiles, Amy

Right now I am in the process of gathering old photos to make albums for each of my siblings and my mom. So my favorite thing right now is going through old photos and laughing and sometimes crying. Seeing pictures of the 80's wall bangs, clothes that my parents wore in the 70's and pictures from two week road trips that we would take out west every summer. It's great.

Hi Ali!
My favorite part is looking back at older scrapbooks and realizing how many memories would have been lost had I not documented them! I love to say "don't you remember..." and if someone says "No", just pull out the scrapbook - then I hear "Ohhhhhh yeah! Now I remember!" LOVE IT!!
Katie

scrapbooking is my time to lose myself from the everyday, but inturn it is the everyday that I am remembering.

Hi Ali,
What a lot of comments! I am working on a high school album for my soon as he will be graduating next June and I hope to have all his high school highlights included. It's a lot of fun!
Carolyn

I think that my favorite thing about memory keeping is being able to spend time with good friends and make new wonderful memories while scrapbooking old memories. I just love the friendship.

My favorite thing right now is the result. Spending more time than usual at home lately, and am totally delighted to pick up and enjoy last summer's projects... especially a mini-book I made about our road trip up Hwy 1 for our 3rd anniversary, and my week in the life album from CKU with Ali.
Thanks for the chance at a giveaway, and for always asking good questions. :)

Right now it is making the shift of not recording just the facts of the moment, but the small feelings that go with it...the ones that I am sure will be lost with time.

Expression. I'm an artist playing by my own rules.

Hi. All the awesome artists and their products allow me to incorporate my love of art journals, altered books, and fabric books into my photos that are so precious to my heart.All my loves can then be held and cherished.

I love that the memory keeping touches on so many positive areas - details and moments captured for my family BUT it's the best stress reliever and creative outlet I have ever encountered!

recording the tidbits that make up our happy life...

Hi Ali. Right now my favorite part is REMINISCING....I am working on a 40th Anniversary Album for my parents and looking at all the old photos of my sisters and our family has just opened a floodgate of memories and making the album has been so, so good for me. :-)
I'd also be lying if I didn't say that my little Kodak Easyshare camera has been quite a fun thing! I love having it in my purse and able to take photos whenever I want and print them when I get home. I'm a film user but this little thing has just been a HAPPY, HAPPY thing in my life right now!! :-) Thanks Ali for the chance to win a prize!!

I love memory keeping because I have the ability to look back on moments that make me happy. I keep a basket with a few albums that I pick up and look at over and over.

My favorite thing about memory keeping is getting to go back. Go back to remember and cherish our life. Go back to see how we have grown. Go back to treasure family members who have passed. Go back to be reminded of how good life is.

My daughter is only 14 months old, but scrapbooking has become a way for me to document little snippets of her life that would otherwise be forgotten. A baby changes so much from one day to the next, sometimes the little things she even did last week have become distant memories. Even if some of those memories don't always get transformed into actual scrapbook pages, this hobby has taught be to write things down in a journal as they happen, so the little things get captured one way or another.

My favorite thing right now about memeory keeping is how the whole family seems to get involved in each layout. When I am sitting at my desk working on a layout my kids and husband will come by and look at what I am working on. What I love so much is that each one of them will have an idea or remember something that is perfect for the layout. It makes the page that much more memberable and speical.

I feel it important to document memories while I can still recall things - my grandmother had alzheimers - no one thought to ask her things until it was too late. How many things we missed. So I make art journals, do photography, there are so many outlets for documenting my life and those around me. And being 65 I am realizing I won't always remember the things I thought I would!