It's been a hot minute since I have taken the time to do a little update to my Storyline Chapters and what I call my family chapters. As I continue to work in this year's story album I continue to learn from the process. Some of these lessons I have shared with you, so they may be on repeat. But that's OK. Repetition is the mother of learning, says my friend Zig Ziglar. With repetition we not only continue to learn, but we fuel why we do a thing.
So here are a few things I have learned:
1. Storyline reminds me that stories never expire
If you are a follower of this blog or my Instagram, you've heard me say this more than once. I say it because very often you all tell me how 'behind' you are. Please note: the above pages are from April. I am not 'caught' up in my family chapters album. And that's OK. I choose to enjoy the process. I choose to remember these stories have not expired. I choose to continue to tell my stories as I am able.
2. Storyline has taught me repeated patterns are good
What do I mean by that? I have written on this blog several posts about this process. In the past I have utilized pocket page scrapbooking for my family's album. This year I wanted to change things up. I did so with the Storyline Inserts. On the left side of the page is a week at a glance. This grid holds what the pocket pages use to hold, just that, a look at the week.
3. Storyline Inserts can get too full
What's that suppose to mean you ask? Now that I am half way through 2020 in an insert, I realized I packed it a bit to full for my liking. Going forward I am only going to scrap three months in an insert. You can see the video HERE to view how January through March is playing out in the first Storyline Insert. I added even more to that insert which includes the April weekly spreads that I am sharing today. But...I wish I would have limited myself. Because we all know I CANNOT scrap flat. Hence the challenge.
4. Storyline Chapters reminds me to tell all the stories. My stories.
The two pages above were made using Kerri Bradford stamps and die cuts. You can see the post for these pages HERE.
This photo of Home is not a big story by any means. As a matter of face the yard and the plants were barely just coming in when this photo was taken this past spring. What matters here is that it matters to me. This very simple home represents so much to me. Taking this photo was an emotional response to the feels in my heart at that moment. So I snapped it. This story. It's worth so much. To me. Just because we in this creative community share the telling of our stories with the world does not mean it has to mean anything to someone else. These are our personal stories.
5. Storyline Chapters remind me to slow down
When I take time out of my mothering and wifing and volunteering and house managing and being a sister and daughter and friend and...on and on it goes, when I create the time to create these pages of stories it forces me to slow down. It forces a sort of meditation. I can only really think about the photos in front of me. The people these photos represent. It causes me to not only think about them, but to pray for them. To spend this mental time with them and where they are in their lives. It's a beautiful slow down. Perhaps the best lesson I have learned.
What have you learned from Storyline Chapters? Or better yet, what have you learned from scrapbooking? As that is the real question. I hope this post has inspired you to your own thinking. Then most especially to your own story telling.
Tell your story.
Watch this Walk Through video for a look at all the pages from April to June.
And to answer the question:
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