Tuesday, March 25, 2008

Finally I finished my least common layout from Lesson 2 of LOM. Going though the albums and labelling them really was the easy part. I think I made the scrapbooking part harder than it needed to be by not stopping to think ..... .... about what I was doing (pretty normal for me!).
I put pictures of my very special pen-friend & I together from every visit we've ever had - the first in 1987 the most recent in 2007 - but then I still had to answer why. Why what? Why we're such good friends? Why we're still friends? Why she inspires me to be a better person?
Lesson learned - have the story in my head first. It was so hard - I wanted to write the WHOLE story of how Leanne & I became friends and where we are at now in our friendship - and I had to stop myself, over & over again.



The story of Leanne & I will, I am sure be a HUGE section in my new Library of Memories albums - under People We Love and in Places We Go. I could probably even squeeze out a few Things we Do too!


I've never worked so hard on getting the journalling right - but I'm glad I did.

Lesson 4 will be up in 2 days time - so now I had better go get busy completing the tasks from Lesson 3!

3 comments:

Mrs. Eddy said...

How fantastic are those pictures? So many great memories...The Keg, Mt. McKay, my first visit to your house in CANADA, Michael's back garden in 1987 and my favourite - our birthday picture with the penis cake (courtesy of ML!) I adore you, Karen. This page makes me cry happy tears.
XO
Love, Leanne

Jenn said...

Awesome Karen! I am so glad you found your WHY! What a great start to this story you want to tell.

Anonymous said...

Soooo pretty! I love this paper set! The colors look great. I am so wishing I had signed up for the LoM class.