Weekend Creative : Write Something By Hand

i simply can not stand my writing. printing or handwriting, yuck. but i read a blog yesterday with an inspiring story, and then reading yours today, i will for sure make a list of my most favorite things: foods, colors, movies, stores, etc. for my girls. i will tuck it away for them to read someday.
thank you for the inspiration.
kristy

That's a perfect idea.

I hate my handwriting. It's a mess. But my dad died a few years ago and I was going through some of his things and I found old tax forms of all things and I saw his handwriting and started crying. It was messy and bad just like mine but it brought him back in a rush. I put my messy bad handwriting on layouts all the time now. Who I am is on every page.

this is so true, when gran passed away 3 years ago i was thankful for the recipe books she had given me years earlier with her hand writting in the front of them, i have quite a few layouts and altered books with my hand writing and even though i hate it and i know its messy its part of me and it will be part of my history won't it...but some layouts are to nice to ruin with my hand writting hehe.....

Ali,
You are soooo right about an individual's handwriting being special. . .I'd consider it priceless.
When my Mom died 6 years ago, my sister and I had the task of going through her things. Out of all her personal belongings, two items stood out as 'treasures' to me.
1. Her recipe box, filled with all of her 'handwritten' favorites.
2. A questionaire, that I had given to her years before. I had asked every question anyone would ever want to know. . .favorites, memories, childhood. . .etc. . .and she 'hand wrote' each answer out. I had never before seen her answers. She had tucked it away to be found when the time was right.
There is something truly comforting about seeing her handwriting. . .and 'No'. . .she didn't like it. : )
Thank you for encouraging your readers to put something special down in their own writing. . .others will honestly appreciate their efforts later.
-lisa

If I don't have much to say or am lazy - do it by hand. If I have a lot to say and know I'll screw up somewhere - by computer. In the end - about 50/50.

That's about the same as me Alana - much easier to type when you have a lot to say :).

Amen, sister!! I love my handwriting, but now I do almost all digital pages, so I pull out my Wacom and add my handwriting that way. :)

This is why I always journal my pages by hand. There is nothing like your own writing right at that moment!!

I have forced myself to do handwritten journaling...but I really don't like my handwritting...at least its down on paper and saved for others to read later.

I happened to find a old tiny notebook in a box of thread on wooden spools that my Mom gave to me. It was filled with quotes, observations, a couple addresses...I said something to my Mom about it and it turns out that it was my Grandma's (her handwriting had changed enough that I didn't quite recognise it at first...), from back before she married Grandpa.
:)

Ali thanks for the inspiration... it started the wheels turning to make this: http://courtbaker.blogspot.com/2009/09/anatomy-of-scrapbook-page.html