Yesterday & Today Begins In One Week & A Giveaway
In just one week my new workshop begins at Big Picture Scrapbooking: Yesterday & Today.
It's hard to believe it is almost finally here.
And in case you didn't know already, you're invited to join me.
Here's what I want you to know if you are still considering embarking on this journey with me:
• With a focus on the stories from yesterday & the stories from today, this class is really an in-depth look at the way I scrapbook.
• Each week (on Thursdays) you will receive an email inviting you to the classroom where a video presentation will be waiting for you to access on your own time (you do not need to be online at a certain time - it's just one of the awesome things about Big Picture's classroom set-up). These video presentations are not just a 5-15 minute talk about the subject and the layout - so far they are averaging around an hour. During that hour my goal is to inspire you to take a look at the way in which you scrapbook and encourage you to focus on the things that matter most to you within the framework of the theme for that week.
• In addition to the video presentations there are weekly video tutorials showing my processes for concepts and techniques using Photoshop Elements.
• For those of you, like me, who like to actually read the weekly content there will be a color PDF download detailing the concepts and information covered in the video presentation (as well as a how-to for the weekly project).
• Each week there will be a digital element download and a digital layered template (all new). The digital elements will be used as printables (hybrid elements) on the weekly layout and the layered template will match the paper layout I create for each week.
• Even if you will be away for a time during the class you will still have access to the materials.
• The class will have it's own message board & gallery for sharing and communicating with one another (including me).
• This workshop is a chance for you to:
- investigate your past through words + photos
- do something meaningful with older photos if you have them (or to tell those stories that have meaning even if you don't possess the photos)
- tell your own personal stories of success + challenge + growth
- work on embracing imperfection & going with the flow
- celebrate your everyday life + make sure you are capturing stories that are meaningful to you today
- connect with other people who care deeply about collecting + celebrating the stories of their lives
• The cost for this 13 week class is $99.
I am really, really excited for this workshop to get underway.
I hope to see you there.
Want to know more? Additional details, an audio introduction, and registration can be found here. Registration will close on October 7.
And now, the giveaway.
Three people are going to win a spot in my Yesterday & Today workshop. To be entered please share just the subject of a story about yourself you would like to document. Comments will close tomorrow, Friday September 24th at noon Pacific. Winners will be posted shortly after.
i would like to share the story of my pregnancy with my daughter. it was very unexpected.
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I would love to document my relationship with my great grandparents (I had two great grandmothers into my twenties) and now my children's relationships with their great grandparents (they have 7 out of the 8 alive). We are so blessed to have these relationships in our family and I would love to document it!
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Overcoming adversity...I was a teenage mother, more than once. The entire country only talked about how bad life would be for me and my kids. We never hear about stories like mine - college graduate, kids in college, good job... I know I couldn't have done it without God's help, but I've done it.
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My trip to New York. I just found the pictures yesterday!!! I am so excited :).
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I want to document how I used to love to eat peas for breakfast when I was a kid :)
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I love your courses, Ali! I would like to document what it was like growing up one of 7 kids and the role extended family played in helping my parents keep it all together.
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i'd like to document the holidays my family has shared together into one album. i'm in the process of scanning my parents' old photos, and i think it would be so fun to have an album, just for me, that chronicles all our family celebrations. we would travel to visit relatives, have amazing new year's parties, and the whole nine. what a great album to cherish and share!
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As the daughter of a man who died from Alzheimers not to long ago, getting it all down and in one place complete with the boxes of pictures I have is my driving force right now. I was scrapping for fun, but now I'm scrapping to share my life and validate my time on earth and to be able to use this if I should be so stricken.Besides who else is going to document me at 4 1/2 lining up the neighborhood kids while I was on vacation and giving them dance lessons. And yes I have the pictures.
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Thanks for the opportunity! I would document my childhood vacations. Always to the same spot, and I just recently took my own kids there too. WOuld love to do side-by-side pictures of then and now ....
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I'd like to record/document my journey this past year in finding God again... or really Him finding me & me paying attention. thanks for the opportunity to win!
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i guess my childhood memories.
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I realized the other day that my grown son had not heard the story about me and my cousin eating baby aspirin (and how my sister went and told on us because we wouldn't share!). I would like to document this for him.
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I would like to document the childhood of my cousins and me, about 30 years ago, when the house of our grandparents was our favourite place to be. Always at least 10 children and a lot of joy and laughter!
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I want to document my relationship with my brother growing up and how it has changed now that he is "Uncle Steve" for my baby boy.
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My relationship with my paternal grandparents. They've been deseased for only a short time but I feel like I'm forgetting so much about them already. Everytime I sit down to scrapbook this subject I get overwhelmed and never get anything on paper. I'd love some help getting over this hurdle.
Thanks for the opportunity Ali!
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My childhood.
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Hi Ali- I am just so eager about this class:) I want to really get down to the details of my story and the story of people, places and things that have made me who I am today and to celebrate this little life of mine:)
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I want to record some of the games my brothers and sister and I played as a children. Since we grew up in the 60's & 70's - before game consoles and computers - we played outdoors a lot. I don't have pictures for most of what we did but I'd like to record the memories anyway.
Thanks!
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I would share about emigrating from England to Oregon when I was eight. There are a lot of little stories and cultural differences that i remember and I really need to tell that story.
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I would love to document our little family home: how important it was for my grand-mother, what improvements each generation has made, what our currents plans are and how I wish that my son will one day love it as much as we do.
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Ali, I was in doubt if I should registrate or not in this wonderful workshop, because I don't have much free time and I end up buying lots of courses and not doing any of them, but...as I read your description here...oh, my God! I MUST take this class!!!!So, as I believe a little bit in Luck, I'm gonna try to be the MOST FORTUNATE person in the world and win this giveaway, but if I don't...I'll run to the Big Picture "booth" and registrate myself! One story I'd really like to tell is almost a summary of how I got where I am now in Life - something like: how my life is so perfect (professionally and personally speaking)that it seems to have been planned with details, but it has not - I really just let things flow, but made all my choices with my heart! I think this is the secret!As Beatles said: ALL you need is LOVE! (Sorry for writing so much!) XOXO Mari, from Brazil.
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I would like to document how I am very like my grandmother, even though I do not really remember her. So many common threads that skipped a generation down to me!
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I've always wanted to scrapbook a page about passionate careers in my family. My dad is a pastor, my mom is a preschool teacher, now I work at a Bible camp...I want to document how their work inspired mine and how grateful I am to have witnessed their hard hours poured into the work they felt so called to.
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I'd love to document my travels. I've been to France, Italy, Thailand, South Korea, Denmark, Spain and I haven't really gotten them all down on paper yet. Thanks for the opportunity, I'd love to win!
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I want to document the people in my life that have influenced me, or just passed through but left a lasting impression.
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