week 2 overview page-digital (layered template by Ali Edwards)
Saturday's with Ali are wonderful, thought provoking, educational, emotional, meaningful, idea filled days. I just finished class no. 3. and fit in time to watch the tutorial videos from class no. 2 as well. Now my head is swimming with "stuff". Important stories I want to tell. Meaningful photos I want to share for generations. Ali you are my scrapbook mentor...and I am your protege.
Homework from today class will be to create a LO with 6 childhood memories. So off I go into my somewhat organized...but clearly unorganized storage system of photos. (No it's not perfect but through this process I'm hoping to fine tune those other areas that will help support this). Not stopping now to get myself sidetracked in hours of re-organizing...just grabbing the photos I need and moving on.
While I was looking through albums for photos, my oldest son (now 17) came in to sit with me. I asked him to look through an album while I chose another. He thought I was looking the photos in my book, but really what I was doing is listening. Waiting for him to speak a comment, laugh, word that would be a sign that a "memory" had be triggered. I noticed that he flipped the pages fairly quickly through the photos of him under about age 3 or 4. But then...his page turning slowed. I could tell he was taking more time. And almost like that each page came with a comment, laugh or word. I now knew which photos to pull from the album to tell the stories that would be most meaningful to him. A light bulb moment: some photos he picked were different that the ones that I was going to choose.
I continued on with my photo search looking for childhood memories for my daughter. I noticed one clear difference. The photos of here were not just of a single moment, but more of a series of moments. Her photos told a story. I'm going to "practice" with the digital template using it two ways. And honestly I'm loving that idea!
And the ideas continued to flow as I took a break and stepped back into "life" on a Saturday for a while.
- how can I organize my photos better into "stories" I want to tell?
- I often have "idea moments" with no real system of documenting the idea to remember for later.
- going to explore those space saving albums Ali uses.
- will pulling the photos together with notes + details (4x6 index card) help me remember the stories I want to tell until I can get them to a LO?
- Can the same story be told as it happens and also evolve over time?
- thinking back to class no.1 and my notes-I want to tell more daily stories.
- how can I best do that in a simple + ongoing way that is easy to keep up?
- I want to explore more of Ali's templates on-line
- I'm really excited about this process.
notes about this page:
- It's good to get the stories down on paper.
- It took me longer than I thought to write the stories.
- I'm thankful I took the time to refresh my digital skills by completing this page.
- I wish I had more digital "fun" elements to add the blank spaces below the text.
- I want to re-do this page with paper.
- I wonder if I will ever actually print this page out?
notes about this page:
- I don't ususally do two page paper LO's.
- I loved using the template for the text/story.
- I felt more comfortable printing photos & text out first.
- My creativity seemed to "flow" more with page.
- I love adding little extra accents.
- I have a finished story!
- digital pages deffinately show better on a blog.
Recent Comments