Who is your audience…

 

…who do you scrapbooking for? Honestly – I do it for me. Because I enjoy what I do. I also do it to collect bits and pieces of life for generations to come. To give them a taste of what life was about before they were born and snippets of their life growing up. In many ways it is harder to do this when the children isn`t mine. I can`t use the wording parents naturally use. I am their aunt or great aunt, sister and sister in law – so I have to be the observer and the storyteller. Sometimes that make it easier – sometimes harder.

I enjoy Ali`s teaching so much. She teaches us to embrace imperfection. I like that someone confirm that every picture does not need to be perfect. The scan don`t have to worked on and you don`t have to be a writer to tell your story. Of course we all know this, it`s just that it is so hard to believe. I don`t need everything planned to get started. It is so easy to think that you need to have everything planned out before you start.

Looking through the old pictures I found this:

 

It is my nephew Jan Arve eating his first ice cream in grandma`s kitchen in 1980. It is one of my favourite photos and I have used it more than once. He was - still is – a cutie.

 

Here he is with his family in 2009:

 The ice cream is still essential.

For todays Load layout I used Ali`s template from this weeks lesson in her Big Picture Class – Yesterday & Today.  I did not put so much thoughts into what to write. I took her advice: just put one letter in front of the other and keep writing. I will not do this digital but I am out of ink for my printer so for now they will be digital. I bet this will look even better when printed.

 

 

Love this format for scrapbooking and storytelling. It will be great for those short snippets of every day life.