Artist's block is something that happens to me every so often and each time it takes me awhile to come back to the same conclusion I noted above. I'm trying too hard. Once I realize that and let go I'm free again. It's getting to the point of realization that is sometimes the hard part. Each time I get a little better at it though, so that's progress, right?
I was reflecting on all this tonight and it made me think about my first scrapbooks. I've loved keeping scrapbooks since I was a kid, and back then I never gave much thought to how they looked. I just wanted to have a place to keep my memories. I love to go back and look at them. Here's a picture of my very first page in my very first scrapbook. It was 1971...
I think it's so funny that I felt the need to keep that article from my teeny bop magazine about David Cassidy's gall bladder surgery. I think it was in "Tiger Beat." Anyone remember that magazine? HA! And on the other page is my fifth grade class photo. Here's a closeup...
I'm the one in the second row, fifth from the left, with my eyes closed. Ha. You can see it a little better if you click on the image.The other thing I always did as a kid was keep a bulletin board with poems, doodles, magazine clippings, song lyrics and anything else that was inspiring me at the time. When I moved out I took the stuff that was on that bulletin board and put it in this box...
Now it's like a treasure box full of memories. I'm so glad I have it.How about you? Do you have scrapbooks or other memorabilia that you kept as a kid? Where do you keep it now?
I'm inspired now. I'm off to play in my art journal. Have a wonderful Thursday my friends and I will be back tomorrow with another update!
so cool you showed this!!! I love the old school photo of yours! I did keep my own scrapbooks- but I didn't know that this is called scrapbooking- LOL. I have old diarys that are full with letters and photos. funny enough I stopped writing a diary when I started scrapbooking on layouts - kind of sad sometimes.
ReplyDeleteI thought so, I thought so, I thought so.... we have the same age! (give or take a few months maybe) I WAS THERE MICHELLE! My Scrapbook was about the Bay City Rollers (see my post here: http://marit.marius-siroen.com/?p=874) and I have 7 scrapbooks! I too had a memoryboard, pics etc. I'll look them up and post it, it's inpiring indeed!!!)
ReplyDeleteYep. I have my treasures stashed away in various places and two treasure boxes with lots of special letters, pictures etc.
ReplyDeleteI love these little memory jogs - very inspiring.
How fun Michelle! I cant wait to see what you make and do today because I can hear your excitement about creating something anything today!!!
ReplyDeleteHave a fun, creative and bold day!!
That is really neat!! I loved those Teen Beat and Tiger Beat mags, especially BOP!! I never kept any of the pics but I had a big thing for NKOTB!
ReplyDeleteheee! I have this same type of pages! David Cassidy indeed! I missed that article tho!
ReplyDeleteI've always kept stuff and have a few old scrapbooks. I'm keeping plenty of stuff for my kids too, so they will have those memeories. I KWYM about letting go...I've been in a scrapping rut lately and I'm trying to get over it!
ReplyDeleteI started keeping things in albums my senior year in high school and all through college. I kept them in (gasp!) magnetic page albums. The memorabilia are for the most part permanently a part of the album. That's okay. I still love to flip through and find memories of that fun time.
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