project reset: Storyline Album Chapters
With the holidays behind us and trees and ornaments packed away for another year, the calendar has turned to this reset phase I have been in all month. Followers of this blog and social channels have seen a planner reset, a studio reset, and now I am, in a way, resetting my family chapters.
While stories are going on all around me right now, (I mean we have loss of job here, and two weddings coming up, and an almost new driver and on and on it goes) for me I needed to complete my stories for 2020 before I could really move on to my 2021 album. That’s just how it works for me. I encourage you, dear reader, to uncover what works best for you.
Today’s post I am sharing my Storyline Chapters pages for the month of December. My only goal here is to encourage you to tell your story. There is not a fancy technique included on these pages. As a matter of fact, I am continuing the same format I started in January 2020 and seeing that through to the end of these chapters.
There is a comfort to a formula. There is theme to simply plugging in one’s photos to a page and embellishing around the edges plus making sure to include journaling. I’m so thankful for this process. To not have to create a new idea each week to document our stories. Sometimes it’s just enough to get photos out of phone or camera and printed. Am I wrong?
But lo and behold when we do get those photos printed. It’s pure joy for me to then process through the stories that are represented in each of those photographs. If it is a person then I am inspired to pray and meditate on that person. If it is a still life of home or landscape of a recent trek, then I am inspired to rest in that memory and what the photo represents. All in all, however, it is immense emotions of gratitude for what and who is in my life. A by-product of scrapbooking I could not have predicted.
And so you will see on these four weeks here that are my December stories that I continue to include the grid of photos on the left. If you are new here, those photographs measure 2 inches wide, which then naturally crops them to about 2.6 inches tall. I leave a bit of a border around them as I print at home on my Canon iP8720. Then I trim with my paper trimmer. This is a sketch that has served me all year. While I still have not quite decided how this will look for 2021, I am so pleased as to how it turned out for this year that was indeed full of stories.
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