Scrappin’ Love
I love scrapbooking. It is probably my first creative mom craft love, something that I began before my first child was born in fact. I was around 7 or 8 months pregnant when I was given a scrapbook kit, one that I began putting together within days of my first son being born. Looking back on it it now I’m almost embarassed. It was very simple, very “insert photo here”, and had no room for me to let my own style come through. But over time I fell in love and found ways to express myself, and my children, on those pages. It doesn’t take much to let the feel of a moment come through in scrapbooking.
Some people even find scrapbooking to be therapeutic.
Designed to help kids in out of home care to integrate their pain and understand who they are, why they are in care and where they are going, it is a hands on practical course where participants are encouraged to make a scrap book page for themselves and ultimately a scrapbook album of a child or young person’s life story work.
With last month being National Adoption Month in the states this might have been a great way for some families to work through their adoptions, and great ways for kids to se their whole selves by working on the pieces page by page. Definitely an idea to tuck away for another moment. Like a last minute Christmas gift.
My scrapbooking comes and goes. I may not work on any pages for months and then in a flurry do several albums in a single night. But that doesn’t stop me from constantly drooling over scrapbooking goodies. Funky tags, interesting stickers, and of course handmade paper.
December 18th, 2007 at 10:10 pm
[...] If I’m not making something for the kids then it’s something about them, such as my scrapbooking. My next project is going to be a vrsion of these super cool bunting flags. I’m already [...]
February 8th, 2008 at 10:01 am
[...] just busy work. When does it serve a purpose and when is it just waste? And this is coming from the scrapbook addict, so “serve a purpose” is up to [...]