Advice please

[pixiedust10]

I'm making a scrapbook for my friend's daughter for her graduation present. It will cover kindergarten through 12th grade.

My question is when I journal should I use first person "I was playing tug of war at field day" or "Lindsey was playing tug of war at field day"

Since the book will be hers would it be more natural for her to open it and read "me and buddies in the pool on Water Day" or "Lindsey and buddies in pool on Water Day"?

Or would it be weird reading first person when someone else made the book for you? Or am I just overthinking the whole thing? lol.

Thanks for any opinions.

 

[pjlla]

I am not sure. I do think it would be a bit "weird" for her to read first person journaling, knowing that she didn't really write it.

Could you leave blank journaling blocks for her to fill in on her own? Maybe just fill in the basic who/what/where/when and let her fill in the extra details.

HOnestly, I'm baffled by this. I'll be curious to see the opinion of others. When I have done gift albums I haven't really tried to "journal" any particular event. The birthday album I did for one DSIL I used famous quotes to go with random photos of her and her famiy. For the other DSIL the album was based on music... I found a song to go with each photo and the journaling was just the song lyrics. The memorial albums for my Dnephews (when they lost a close family member) I really only journaled the who/what/where/when of the photos and I left blank journaling spaces for them to fill in their thoughts and memories. My Dad's gardening scrapbooks don't really require journaling beyond what/when.

Sorry I can't be of any more help..............P

 

[pixiedust10]

I am not sure. I do think it would be a bit "weird" for her to read first person journaling, knowing that she didn't really write it.

Could you leave blank journaling blocks for her to fill in on her own? Maybe just fill in the basic who/what/where/when and let her fill in the extra details.

HOnestly, I'm baffled by this. I'll be curious to see the opinion of others. When I have done gift albums I haven't really tried to "journal" any particular event. The birthday album I did for one DSIL I used famous quotes to go with random photos of her and her famiy. For the other DSIL the album was based on music... I found a song to go with each photo and the journaling was just the song lyrics. The memorial albums for my Dnephews (when they lost a close family member) I really only journaled the who/what/where/when of the photos and I left blank journaling spaces for them to fill in their thoughts and memories. My Dad's gardening scrapbooks don't really require journaling beyond what/when.

Sorry I can't be of any more help..............P

Thanks for your repsonse.

Rather than traditional journaling, it's probably going to be more along the lines of captions, who's in the pics, when it happened, what's going on, that sort of thing.

 

[LindaBabe]

Could you leave blank journaling blocks for her to fill in on her own? Maybe just fill in the basic who/what/where/when and let her fill in the extra details.

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That's definitely what I would do - just did a wedding album that way - included a 'safe' pen in the package with the book.

 

[Nutz4Dizney]

I did this for my neighbor.

I didn't do any of the journaling. I left space for it on the pages because I didn't know what she was thinking, feeling or actually doing in her photos to do journaling. I also made special pages in the back of the book

1 page was a photo of her mom and dad -- left space for mom and dad to write a special something to their daughter
She had 3 brothers 2 older 1 younger -- I made a page for each brother photo of oldest brother with his wife and daughter, the other brother was single so it was just a photo of him, and another page for the youngest brother. Each page had journal space left on it for each brother to write in the book.

I was going to put photos of each brother, mother and father with their sister but I didn't have good ones so everyone got self photos in the book this way when she read what was written she can visualize the person saying it to her.

I gave the book to the mom early so each of them can fill in their journal space without her knowing so when she opened the book and looked though she would be surprised at the 4 pages in the back. the oldest brother was stationed in Germany so he didn't do his writing until after he got home but it still brought tears to her eyes.

She loves her book. It was only an 8x8 and it was all in different shades of purple (he favorite color).

 

[Lisa]

I am in the mindset to leave the journaling boxes for Lindsey to fill in too.

How nice that you are doing the album for her.