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By: karooch

karooch — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:40:12 +0000

You sound wonderfully organized Dreamscrapper. I am in total admiration. Sadly i lost my mother nine years ago and my father many years earlier. When she was alive we never gave matters like this a thought. i guess we both assumed she had many years left to live. Now she is gone there is no one I can get these stories from. It’s sad to think that this family history will be lost. I think that’s why it’s important for me to preserve my own memories for my daughter.

By: DreamScrapper

DreamScrapper — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 16:06:02 +0000

Hi Karen!

Glad to know I don’t come off as a total idiot when I respond to something!

Just wanted to add that my mother didn’t “scrapbook” as we know it, but she did put all the old photos into albums which I now store at my house since she does not have room for them at her nursing home. Of course, I want to scrap some of these photos so last year sometime, I started on one of “her” albums and took my laptop and a photo safe pen and I carefully removed the photos, one by one, from the album and numbered them so we would know where they went back into the album and also so I could record them and her comments about them on my laptop for future scrapping. We didn’t make it thru the entire album but it gave me a lot of photos to work with but I am coming near to the end of that group and must get back with her to do some more. I also want to go thru my father’s album with her since he is already deceased and she is the only one with info about those photos. Her album is hard going because she did not really have a happy childhood. Most of her other albums have dates or names written beside the photos so I should be able to scrap those albums more easily. My mother is now 82 and not in the best of health so I know it is important to get the documentation on the photos now before it is too late.

By: KylieM

KylieM — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 00:02:01 +0000

hehe thats funny Karen .. Just thought I would return again .. thankyou for the lovely comments with Jordans scrapbooking .. yep the blue page was his, and actually I believe he did that when he was 8 1/2 .. he has an extremely good eye for colour and composition. He was published when he was 6 years old (in Scrapbooking Memories), I have never been published. We also do beading and jewellery making together, he designs and lays out the beads, and I put them together, he uses combinations that I would not have thought of, that look brilliant! KylieMs last blog post..Have you checked this out?

By: karooch

karooch — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:45:35 +0000

Hey you must have been commenting here at the same time I was commenting on your blog Kylie. I’m having a Twilight Zone moment.

What a huge bonus having your Aunt and Uncle handy to fill in the gaps. I wish i could say the same.

And you are right. People should and do scrapbook for many and varied reasons. And it doesn’t matter how they choose to do it, it’s all good and valid.

By: KylieM

KylieM — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:40:37 +0000

haha .. well here I am commenting for a 3rd time .. I just thought with your talk about not knowing what all these photos we have in boxes are from .. I have just moved to Canberra and was showing my Aunt & Uncle some of the photos I had .. and YAY they were able to tell be places, and dates and stories … I am so happy, finally rather than plonking photos on a page for my heritage pages, I can tell a story. They also have many older photos and stories, so I am looking forward to exploring through the boxes!
And it just shows you, we cannot judge how or why people scrap, it is personal, and if people scrap with the intention of being published, or use QP’s for speed, or total create unique elements for every layout, they are all just as valid!
Thankyou Karen for an awesome discussion starter!

KylieMs last blog post..Have you checked this out?

By: karooch

karooch — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:26:24 +0000

You make good points Tink and Antoinette. My Mum didn’t scrapbook and that’s part of my frustration today. As i have boxes of old photos and I don’t know who a lot of the people were or what their connection to my family they had. Plus I don’t know the story behind many of the photos of my parents and myself when I was very young. Finding a way to preserve the story is the most important thing of all.

By: karooch

karooch — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 23:22:05 +0000

Hey Linda, You don’t come off like a raving lunatic.

I am rapt when people like yourself take the time and trouble to write a comment of that calibre. I am totally buzzed by this post because there are so many like you who wrote a long and thoughtful comment. I love that.

In fact the comments from this post (including yours) have inspired two future articles.

I’m glad that my choice of words didn’t really offend you. It was obviously my clunky way of expressing what I was trying to say. For me Digital encompasses everything I most enjoy in scrapbooking and I can still get a tactile fix by doing Hybrid. Although I mostly get that from card making.