Best Friends and My Scrapbooking Philosophy.
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You’ll be seeing this photo on a layout soon because I absolutely love it. I took it 2 weeks ago and got it developed the other day (I always develop my photos right away). The lighting is not great because it was dusk, but I actually like that about the photo. My process in scrapbooking begins with my photo and the story I want to tell about it. And I will think about it and ponder for a few weeks, perhaps sketch something out, write my journaling, etc. ahead of time before I ever pull out the first sheet of paper. And in doing that with this photo it made me think about Stacy Julian. One of the reasons why I love Stacy is because when I first started scrapbooking I would have put this in a photo box somewhere and felt that I couldn’t use it until I had gotten to that point chronologically in my scrapbooking progress. However, the problem with that is that it would have taken me 15-20 years to get to the point in time where this photo came up chronologically! But I discovered Stacy Julian and Simple Scrapbooks and she changed me. And I don’t say that lightly. She actually (with her philosophy) changed the way I scrapbook, changed the way I think about scrapbooking. I stopped feeling like I had to scrap year by year in order. Thank God (and Stacy) because that was a heavy burden to carry around. Now I don’t worry about making my pages in chronological order. I scrapbook whatever photos I feel like, because I CAN dammit! haha
I am so grateful for that change because I love this photo, I love what it says and I love what it means. And if I were still scrapbooking my “old” way, I would have stuck it in the box and not looked at it again for years. And by then I would have forgotten why I love the photo, I would have forgotten how it makes me feel when I look at it, how happy I am that my daughter has a best friend to spend her childhood with her, how much I miss my best friend even now right this minute, 17 years after she passed away.
Okay, so this post actually started out with this photo that I wanted to share because I love it and look what happened. I went off road and just kept talking about something else. See what happened because of this photo? That wouldn’t have happened 15 years from now because I wouldn’t remember so many things about the photo. So perhaps tonight I will make a scrapbook layout with this photo. And then tomorrow? I might do a page using photos from the last date I left off when I used to scrapbook “in order”, which is way back in 2003, 6 years ago! And I don’t care. So there!
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This IS a great photo! I snap pictures all the time hoping to capture a moment like this! Even without a story or caption, this photo says a lot! Great job!
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By the way-thanks for reminding us we don’t have to organize our photos in chronological order. It is more fun to play with the pictures that inspire you WHEN they inspire you.