As an artist, I spend a lot of time surfing the internet for
inspiration. I began scrapbooking in
1999. I fell in love with the idea of creating photo albums that not only
displayed my family and friends but also and much more importantly, told our
story. I have and always will be a
scrapbooker. It is essentially a photo biography.
I need to give a little background perhaps so you can have a
better understanding of “Project Life”.
A push to simplify scrapbooking began really several years ago,
however, recently it has become more
than just an idea and has exploded into a movement. Project life is a product that improved on the
previous concept of sleeve scrapbooking.
In a nutshell, you can purchase “core kits” and take photos put them in
the pre-designed layouts of the sleeves, add the journaling cards , embellish a
few of the cards and BAM.. done. I have
many scrapbook albums –but when I did my first Project Life I took one photo
every day for a year. It was a HUGE undertaking, but it was fantastic. I look at that album all the time. It tells
our life for a full year. A memory
captured from every single day! Not all Project Lifers do a photo a day, but I
did. It was amazing! I plan to do it
again next year.
As a writer, I frequent many blogs, written of course by
other writers. Most often I will read
then for the information and knowledge of my fellow wordsmiths. However, there is one blog that I truly
appreciate that the author keeps it real, shares not only ideas on writing but
also shares real life. It is a working
journal if you will. Sprinkled among the
do’s and don’ts of the writing world are snippets of life. Below find one that is something I was able
to comment on as I have stood in the shoes of the author and hope that I can
offer some comfort to the author. This
author is also one of the top ten “writer’s blogs” of 2013. There is a lot of great information shared on
this blog.
I posted to Terrible Minds, I have not heard back anything from
my posting. I chose to respond to this
blog post because I understood it. I had something to express. I wanted to offer comfort to a fellow human
being that is struggling with a very sad and very real situation.
I suppose my experience with blogs is connection. You learn
and share with people through words. It
is powerful. Sometimes I will respond to a post or a comment and it can be a
beautiful dialogue and other times it is simply that, me putting in my .02
cents. It still allows me to make a
connection. Blogs/online journals allows
me to find others with my interest. I
subscribe to many blogs on many different subjects. I am addicted to learning. I love it. I love to read about the Deaf
Community, art, mastering written word, accounting, Germanic culture, Ireland,
delicious food.
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