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scrapbooking is my time to lose myself from the everyday, but inturn it is the everyday that I am remembering.

Hi Ali,
What a lot of comments! I am working on a high school album for my soon as he will be graduating next June and I hope to have all his high school highlights included. It's a lot of fun!
Carolyn

I think that my favorite thing about memory keeping is being able to spend time with good friends and make new wonderful memories while scrapbooking old memories. I just love the friendship.

My favorite thing right now is the result. Spending more time than usual at home lately, and am totally delighted to pick up and enjoy last summer's projects... especially a mini-book I made about our road trip up Hwy 1 for our 3rd anniversary, and my week in the life album from CKU with Ali.
Thanks for the chance at a giveaway, and for always asking good questions. :)

Right now it is making the shift of not recording just the facts of the moment, but the small feelings that go with it...the ones that I am sure will be lost with time.

Expression. I'm an artist playing by my own rules.

Hi. All the awesome artists and their products allow me to incorporate my love of art journals, altered books, and fabric books into my photos that are so precious to my heart.All my loves can then be held and cherished.

I love that the memory keeping touches on so many positive areas - details and moments captured for my family BUT it's the best stress reliever and creative outlet I have ever encountered!

recording the tidbits that make up our happy life...

Hi Ali. Right now my favorite part is REMINISCING....I am working on a 40th Anniversary Album for my parents and looking at all the old photos of my sisters and our family has just opened a floodgate of memories and making the album has been so, so good for me. :-)
I'd also be lying if I didn't say that my little Kodak Easyshare camera has been quite a fun thing! I love having it in my purse and able to take photos whenever I want and print them when I get home. I'm a film user but this little thing has just been a HAPPY, HAPPY thing in my life right now!! :-) Thanks Ali for the chance to win a prize!!

I love memory keeping because I have the ability to look back on moments that make me happy. I keep a basket with a few albums that I pick up and look at over and over.

My favorite thing about memory keeping is getting to go back. Go back to remember and cherish our life. Go back to see how we have grown. Go back to treasure family members who have passed. Go back to be reminded of how good life is.

My daughter is only 14 months old, but scrapbooking has become a way for me to document little snippets of her life that would otherwise be forgotten. A baby changes so much from one day to the next, sometimes the little things she even did last week have become distant memories. Even if some of those memories don't always get transformed into actual scrapbook pages, this hobby has taught be to write things down in a journal as they happen, so the little things get captured one way or another.

My favorite thing right now about memeory keeping is how the whole family seems to get involved in each layout. When I am sitting at my desk working on a layout my kids and husband will come by and look at what I am working on. What I love so much is that each one of them will have an idea or remember something that is perfect for the layout. It makes the page that much more memberable and speical.

I feel it important to document memories while I can still recall things - my grandmother had alzheimers - no one thought to ask her things until it was too late. How many things we missed. So I make art journals, do photography, there are so many outlets for documenting my life and those around me. And being 65 I am realizing I won't always remember the things I thought I would!

My favorite thing about memory keeping is that when I'm done with a project (or page, etc) it is so fun to share with others and use it as a visual for the story I want to tell.

What I love about memory keeping right now is the rush I get from capturing a moment in time...a memory...a thought...a feeling. My life is so chaotic and busy with meetings, playdates, cooking, and cleaning (food off the walls mostly - thanks to my two year old) that everytime I sit down to scrap I'm reminded of the country song "you're going to miss this when it's gone" and find beauty in the chaos that is my life RIGHT NOW. Scrapbooking helps me see that and document it because "I'm going to miss it when it's gone!"

I feel as though I am capturing little snippets of today to cherish tomorrow. Scrapbooking has really made me more aware of how wonderful the everyday moments are.
Donelle Macey

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is reminiscing. I refuse to be behind, but I'm looking at and working with old photos (not yet scrapbooked) and I love it! Thanks for the inspiration Ali!

my favorite thing about memory keeping is getting to relive the memories as i'm working on the layouts.

I feel like i am creating a little time capsule of our existence. so if I have grandkids or great grandkids, they may look at our capsule and know more than, hmmm maybe that's great grandma?
also. it makes me happy to do things with my hands. to make something concrete out of an idea or concept in my brain to something tactile. :)

My favorite part will always be the photos!! Was at a friends house this morning laughing over some pictures from her childhood, and can't wait to watch my kids do the same!!

My favorite thing about memory keeping is watching my kids enjoy the result. They love looking at my scrapbooks. They love reading old stories from my blog. They love remembering.

My favorite part right now is making memories each day and then recording my thoughts in a small journal as I'm able. For once, I'm not stressing if I can't get them all down or into an album.

My favorite thing (aside from the great personal creative outlet for me!) is the moments of discussion and sharing initiated between myself and my kids (4,2,1) or myself and my husband when we flip through our completed pages!
Thanks Ali! Your blog is always a source of inspiration.