Monday Giveaway : Studio Calico

Memory keeping is so important because it leaves footprints not only for our future generations, but for my own children as they grow as well. It's important that our children have the opportunity to look back and know that taking photos and writing down the details about those special moments was something I wanted to remember and help them to remember as well.
Thanks for being an inspiration to so many scrappers!

Hi Ali,
My favorite part of the process now is the freedom I am coming to realize in my process. Thanks mostly to Stacy Julian and her Library of Memories process. I do not feel that my pages have to be "perfect" any more. I am all about the "good enough" these days.
I also am inspired by all of the great papers and unique uses of other products like paint.
Susan

It has become very important to me to capture everday moments. I think these memories will be a lot of fun to look back on and I don't want anything to slip through the cracks.

Oooh, great giveaway, thanks for the offering! My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is that it has given me the chance to record all the memories of my wonderful dog who is aging and recently had a stroke and won't be around forever.

My favorite thing right now is to scrap about myself. I have done countless albums about my kids, my marriage.. well, it is time to scrap about ME! I think future generations needs to know me... hopefully what a cool grandma i would be!

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is handwriting to convey the emotion in my journaling. I took a handwriting class based on Heidi Swapp's book which has motivated me!
Thanks for the drawing Ali!

My favorite thing is that my almost-7 year old daughter has started wanting to look at her books more and more. I also love it when my hubby, a self-declared non-nostalgian, shows my 2 year old his albums as well. So it's the sharing right now. Isn't that the whole point? :)

My favorite thing right now is to scrap about myself. I have done countless albums about my kids, my marriage.. well, it is time to scrap about ME! I think future generations needs to know me... hopefully what a cool grandma i would be!

Keeping memories is a good way to find my own style as a designer and to assume that I don't have to do things like others.

I think my favorite thing about scrapbooking right now is that it gives me a space to focus and be introspective... which is always important, but especially right now as I decide what next big step to take.

My current favorite thing to do is mini-albums, of course, influenced by you! Instead of feeling burdened with lots of pictures, and 4-6 layouts per event, I make a mini and use left overs to do 1 layout. It is opposite of what I used to do, layouts first and use leftover for minis. It's really streamlined my scrapping.

Memory keeping is so important to me because until I became a parent, I had really no understanding of how quickly time passes by. As I watch my son grow, my heart aches for when he was smaller. Memory keeping/scrapping gives me the ability to hold onto those memories forever.

I love that i will always have my memories and photos as a reminder of the life i have lived. In 10 years i may forget that i used to sing a certain song to my daughter when she was a baby, but i will always have the scrapbook page to look back on. And hopefully that will spark all sorts of fond memories of her as a baby.

HI! I would have to say that my favorite thing currently in memory keeping is to take pictures and lots of them. I sometimes feel silly taking SO many, but you don't always get a good one on the first try, and you're never ungrateful that you got a good one!
Have a great week!!!!

Right now, I love paging through our albums and reliving all those little moments that I would have forgotten otherwise. . .
Melissa Z

I love that my three year old son loves his "baby Lennox books." He shows them to everyone who comes over and we are able to talk all about the memories documented on the pages. I also love that I have made scrapbooking something we do together. I made him his own creative area in my scrap room and he works while I work. He especially loves using my old supplies -)

the best thing about memory keeping is to preserve the emotion of that specific moment...... when I look at a scrapbook or journal page a while after I get immediately sucked back into the emotion of that moment :-)

Memory Keeping allows me to have memories in a few months. My memory is getting worse and worse so if I don't record things pretty quickly all the great day-to-day things that happen will be lost in the void of things that slipped away.

I love Studio Calico, wish I could subscribe to their kit ....
I love memory keeping as it helps me to remember all the good, bad & the ugly. Sad to say I moved so much in my childhood I have a hard time remembering anything from school to friendships to anything really. I want my children, husband and I to remember everything when we look at projects I make. Because we forget all those memories way too fast.
grts, D@nielle

I love to capture the little things my kids say on an average day and the every day moments we tend to forget.

I love when my kids look through their baby albums. Makes it so worth it to document and preserve these memories.

Remembering. Trying to get down the emotion and the actions of our first daughter who we lost after 37 wonderful months of life. Watching her sisters that she has sent us grow. Helping them to know who she was and why we may act the way we do - at least later in their lives. Seeing what is possible in the eyes of a child. Seeing how we have grown as a couple. Saying goodbye.

Memory keeping will reach across the years, for my children and also for my husband and I as we age. It allows me to speak to the future while embracing the present.

Right now, my favorite thing about memory keeping is finding the memories that others have left behind. Just this weekend, I found letters that my grandparents wrote to each other when they were dating. Seeing them refer to each other as "sweetheart" and "darling" is just so endearing. I love that the letters were saved so that now I have a glimpse into their lives. Makes me feel like my scrapbooking will be worthwhile when my grandkids find what I've saved.

My favorite thing about memory keeping right now is keeping it simple. Unable to spend a lot of time creating, I'm keeping up a favorite photos album in a basic photo album with a photo, a 4x6 journal block to tell my story, and a pp strip in between the two. That way I don't stop scrapping or telling my story altogether during the busy summer months!