DS6 had an interesting comment.....

[bigbabyblues]

I've been in a scrapping slump, well, really a halt, for a couple of months now. I just can't seem to find the inspiration, and I feel like my pages are boring.

Today, I got a little bit of a different perspective on it......DS6 was looking through one of my albums today and he was so excited. He kept wanting us to read the journaling to him, etc., and he said, "I'm so glad you made these books about my family, I love it!" He & DS8 sat there and looked through a couple more albums, and they were having a ball.

They don't care if the LOs are perfect. They don't seem to notice the ones that I've never been happy with. They don't care if I had the perfect paper or not, or if I messed up the journaling a little, or if it's "blah". Makes no difference to them.

I've thought about it quite a bit the last couple of hours. I think I just might get my stuff out and see what happens, and maybe not worry too much about it.

Just rambling....Steph

 

[joyah]

I know the feeling I agonized over cinderellas castle from our last disney trip and how do I make it boyish. I bet I went back to those pages ten times and I still hate them. Well a couple of weeks ago they were showing there books to a friend of mine and saying how they just loved cinderella well my mouth hit the ground. After they'd got to bed she asked me about my reaction and I told her about how much those 2 pages bugged me and still do.

It will put a new perspective on your scrapping, I no longer call it scrapping for me they are just glorified albums with my memories and my boys love them.
enjoy getting back to it and don't worry just let what happens on each page happen.

 

[spare+a_pair]

Doesn't it feel great when they love all of the work and effort that you pour into your pages?

I realized a long time ago that my family thought every page I made was perfect. My boys love to sit down with the books and look at pictures of thier lives. They love when I read them what I wrote and how I felt at the time.

Scrapbooking is not just a hobby to me - it's another way I show my boys how much I love them.

 

[Lisa]

I use to I agonize over my layouts, thinking each should be perfect pieces of art, but then I realized my life isn't perfect why should my layouts.

It is more important the pictures are in an album to be looked at. Doesn't have to be fancy smancy.

 

[LindaBabe]

Yup! My grand daughter was here last weekend. I got out the albums for her and she was oohing over herself as a baby and then all the fun we had together and h ow much she had grown, and never said a word about the embellishments of the layouts! It was all about the photos and the storys. Which is as it should be.

 

[StitchIsOurHero]

I so needed to "hear" this today! I can't get going on DS's albums without feeling "behinder". This was just the inspiration I needed! Thanks!!

 

[Carolc]

I can totally relate! I agonize over layouts, too. I'm still working on my scrapbook from 2006. But, it's so neat to hear the kids get the albums out and read the journaling and look at the photos. They are not as fussy about perfection as I am. They just like reliving the memories and seeing how they looked when they were younger.

 

[tyniknate]

I'm glad to hear your boys love your scrapbooks. Mine are pretty non-responsive about them. Have always wondered with my having three boys if I was wasting my time with making these. My husband thinks the boys will never care about these and they're just for my entertainment. He's not being mean, he just doesn't understand it all. I keep telling myself that someday they'll have a family and maybe it will mean something to them then.

 

[joyah]

tyniknate
My DH was the same way. but I remind him that we have very little of him as a baby (burried in his fathers house most likely eaten by mice now) and that shuts him up in a quick hurry.

Your boys will appriciate it someday.Mine now enjoy scrapping with me and I think that helps with the appriciation somewhat, they realize what it takes to put a page together. How old are they?

 

[tyniknate]

The boys are 14, 10 and 4. I think the 10-year old might want to do it but the 14-year old tells him it's not cool so he wants nothing to do with it. The 4-year old is like a cyclone and I can't even consider getting the stuff out when he's around. Besides, this is the only ME thing in a house full of testosterone, trucks and temper tantrums. I've just always worried they won't want anything to do with them later on.

I threaten them every day that someday (FAR FROM NOW) one of them better give me a granddaughter! They just roll their eyes. Gosh....it's good to be the queen.

 

[Mom-to-2-Princesses]

Scrapbooking is not just a hobby to me - it's another way I show my boys how much I love them.

Ditto! just change "boys" to "girls"!