My crafting has been lacking. Thought I would do the usual and shame myself into keeping it moving by posting here. I am so determined to finish projects, well, I just can't even say. It is so much fun in the beginning. And then it gets boring fast. I have to be mindful of that while I'm conceiving of projects. I am terrible at editing and always want to do more. But I'm tired of leaving half completed projects.
My California scrapbook project is painfully slow going. Its fun to work on it when I have nothing else to do and need something mindless and crafty, but I am determined to get the darn thing done this month. We're going on another trip and I am already hatching something scrapalicious to do for it. As always I have no clue what I'm doing. Its so big that I've added a hundred pages and posts, and still have like three sections to go. I still question what the purpose of this is, but love it and ultimately don't care. Posts below show a finished page, a page in progress, and a page with random stuff ready to be used. I think my next challenge is coming up with a better way to document our next trip. All I have right now is a moleskin notebook and a big fat book on England. Hmm.
The Winter 25 Scrapbook has also been hard to complete. I really enjoyed the Fall 25 Scrapbook, but not so much with the Winter one. The Fall one was novel, whereas the Winter was not. While the Fall one did the trick to ward off the Winter blues, they still showed up in small little ways. With the Winter one, I wasn't into the to-do items in the same way, and didn't do them with the same creativity. And so, it lacks the pizazz of the Fall one. I completely replaced multiple items, and half did others. But some things were lovely: finishing my quilt, capturing Spring and taking a very cold walk along a frozen Charles River all rocked (photos below). I'm also determined to finish this one by the end of the month because I REALLY want to get started on my Spring/Summer one!
This is all I have for the Spring/Summer album so far. Its a different size (5.8 X 8) and has a binder inside. I have a list of to-dos (mostly things to explore in New England - a total road trip all summer!) but don't want to follow them in the same way, if at all. For the Fall and Winter, I documented according to the items, but for the Spring/Summer, I want to make dividers for each month and document chronologically. For example, for the month of April, I have a date night, the Boston Marathon, and pictures of the spring. I want to put together a narrative and somehow document it all together. And for May, I already have our water adventure that I'd like to put together with a story. I've been gathering and taking photos, so we'll see. I have no idea how this is going to work out, just that it needs to be different from the Fall and Winter ones. Hopefully it will keep me invested and exploring and doing things.
So I promise, I am doing things. Just very very slowly.
The Winter 25 Scrapbook has also been hard to complete. I really enjoyed the Fall 25 Scrapbook, but not so much with the Winter one. The Fall one was novel, whereas the Winter was not. While the Fall one did the trick to ward off the Winter blues, they still showed up in small little ways. With the Winter one, I wasn't into the to-do items in the same way, and didn't do them with the same creativity. And so, it lacks the pizazz of the Fall one. I completely replaced multiple items, and half did others. But some things were lovely: finishing my quilt, capturing Spring and taking a very cold walk along a frozen Charles River all rocked (photos below). I'm also determined to finish this one by the end of the month because I REALLY want to get started on my Spring/Summer one!
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