I like that this isn't an especially glamorous picture, and the fact that I am missing an earring only makes it better for what I was trying to say. On each of those strips of orange colored paper I wrote something that I really like about life and me. When it was finished it read:
I like that I don't have all the answers.
I like that I still laugh until my tummy hurts.
I like that I am still learning new things.
I like that I don't know everything.
I like that I am still growing up.
I like that I still have dreams.
I like that I am not perfect.
I like that I am only human.
I like that I am passionate.
I like that I make mistakes.
I like that I am me.
Pages like this are important to make. It's good for us and our family to know who we really are, and that you don't have to be this amazing individual who stands out and is perfect in every way to be important.
Scrapbooking for me is really just an extension of keeping a journal. I have always been an avid journal writer, and as I've grown older I've stopped trying to document "events" but more feelings, thoughts, and experiences. I am the same way when I scrapbook. I think the great Cathy Zielske put it best in her new book "Clean & Simple scrapbooking - the sequel."
She ends her book by saying,
"It boils down to this: scrapbooking is cool...
It's 'cool' because it's people taking the time to embrace their lives and to express creatively the stuff that matters and the stuff to remember. The real stuff of life...
In the end, we are storytellers. We are historians. We are documentarians. We get this incredibly unpredictable and unpolished script to work with: life...
I hope you never stop telling stories. I hope you never apologize for being a scrapbooker...
I hope you continue to save the bits and pieces of your amazing, ordinary, stressed out, happy, exhilarating, unique, insert-any-other-adjective-you-like-here life."
Thanks Cathy, that's what it's all about - grabbing moments of your life.
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