PRT 027 – Nothin’ Wrong With Plain Old Green

Just wanted to say thanks to BPS for sponsoring Paperclipping Roundtable and offering a great discount! I just used the code to sign up for Cathy Z's Me: The Abridged Version class! Thanks again!
Kristyn

Yay!! New episode for tomorrow's run!!!

I have a comment scrapbooking magazines (you were discussing CK mag in episode 12 I think). All I can say is “Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo”. I LOVE the printed page. I do eagerly read tips and news online and even scraplift from online, but I LOVE my magazines. I love the heft…I love curling up with my tea the evening CK or Scrap Etc. comes to my door. Oh, and what about Scrapbook Trends?! That BOOK (I hesitate to call it a magazine) is GORGEOUS….but kind of flat when you see it online. Please industry, don't take my printed material away! I'm not even mad they reduced the number of editions! There are still some of us who read magazines and newspapers for the sheer enjoyment! Please oh please powers that be? :) Keep up the great work!!

Color Schemer Studio is great – I have been using it for years. Just to clarify . . . the program is for BOTH Mac and PC. Love how you can easily switch color schemes based on a base color. Also, when I am stuck for a color combo, using the Random button is a great way to find some new colors!

I miss Stacy Julian, can you bring her back on sometime soon! ;)

I was so sad to hear about scrapbooks being tossed or sold at garage sales. Sure, maybe those people don't want them now, but they are family heirlooms and future generations might be thrilled to have them. My husband has a diary from a great uncle. It's all handwritten and encompasses daily life in rural America. He describes, in detail, the cold winters, the animals they're raising, the long wagon rides to neighboring towns to play games and music with friends and family. Priceless! It's one of my husband's family treasure and we are so glad to have it. I so wish I had more from my own family, most of whom I know very little about beyond dates of birth and death, marriage info and kids names. What I wouldn't give to have scrapbooks from them that detail what their lives were like, or what it was like to live during their eras.

For sure! She's coming up real soon. We're working around everybody's summer
vacations right now. :)

That is so cool.

A BPS recommendation — Registration opened today for Me: The Abridged Version by Cathy Zielske. I have taken a dozen amazing BPS classes from some incredibly inspiring individuals and each of them has touched me in some way. But there is no doubt in my mind that MeTAV was the most personally meaningful, rewarding and cathartic project that I have ever done.

The concept for MeTAV is based on The Encyclopedia of an Ordinary Life by Amy Krouse Rosenthal. You write a few short entries about something in your life (past and present) for each letter of the alphabet. The need to paint a complete picture in this project pushed me to cover areas of my personal timeline that I had previously ignored. And yet the brevity of the entries allowed me to tell the hard stories without delving into more emotional detail than I was ready for.

And the best part is that now that i've touched on some of the stories that i've ignored for so long, I find that I am ready to tell them in greater depth. I'm ready to talk about the details, both the good and the bad. And at the same time i'm finding stories that I no longer need to tell, stories that I no longer feel a nagging guilt about keeping a secret. I've touched on them; i've gotten them out there for the world to see; the detail i've put into MeTAV is sufficient and now I can move on.

Cathy Zielske is, of course, an amazing teacher and her classes are always loads of fun. But this class is really special and I would recommend it to all of your listeners. It was so worthwhile I’m thinking about taking it again to make a MeTAV album for my husband.

If your listeners want to see an example of the album, I shared some of my pages on Scrapbook.com. http://www.scrapbook.com/myplace/index.php?mod=…

Glad you found it! For anyone who is looking, I bought mine at scrapbook.com.
:)

I just have to say that your show was not only my inspiration for my photo of the day today, but also my sanity saver. :) I'm taking Picture Summer and loving it! I hear they will be offering Picture Fall, and I'm soooo going to take that one too! Today we were asked to find a moment of solitude and photograph it. That was difficult in my house (two overtired children ages 5 and 3 and one grumpy Mama). I decided the only way to find solitude was to turn up my iPod, put in the headphones and tune out my whiny children. I actually ended up loving the shots I got too. :) You can even see the Roundtable logo in one shot. You can check out my photos on my blog at http://scraplifters.blogspot.com/2010/07/july-1….

Just had to pop over and say thanks!

I signed up for the BPS class using the discount link. Thanks! I am so looking forward to this class as it is time to just do some pages about myself. Thanks to Terri Torrez for bringing it and letting us know that registration is already open!
I also was shocked to find out about what some people do with scrapbooks that were made by others. Some people just don't value these things. In fact, I was attending my monthly Craft 'n' Chat event a couple weeks ago and I was working on a few pages there. People can come and work on any type of craft that want, but I never expected to be criticized for my scrapbooking. Two of the older ladies there, who had never scrapbooked a page in their entire lives, started in on me by saying things like:
1. Your kids will rip those pages apart.
2. Your kids will remove photos whenever they need for school projects and then never put them back.
3. Those pages will fall apart after a few years. All that stuff will just fall off.
4. You probably had to bring a huge bag of stuff with you today just to do that one page.
5. I just don't get it. What are you doing anyway?
6. It looks more like a wall-hanging than something you would put in a scrapbook.

I was completely stunned, and at that time, felt like I couldn't respond. I thought of plenty to say later though…none of it very nice. But, it was too late. Anyway, I think scrapbookers need to be responsible about their albums, and if they don't feel their family will appreciate the albums after they are gone, they need to be sure to pass them on to someone who will appreciate them or at least save them for future generations. I also think that prolific scrapbookers need to be aware that not all of their stuff will last forever. I'm sure that as time goes on, we will find better and more efficient ways to “save” our stuff. (microchip in your brain, perhaps!)
Mande

Cool, TFS! I like all 4 of the red patterns they showed there. One set looks
like it's a slightly pinkish cooler red while the other set is warmer –
almost like it has a tiny bit of orange mixed into it. I hope they're RED
enough for me! :)

I'll def. keep my eyes open for them. Thank you!

Hi Noell and Izzy,

Thank you so much for hosting this incredibly entertaining and inspiring podcast! With the closing of so many of our beloved scrapbook stores, new sources of inspiration such as this are a treasured resource.

I just started listening to this episode, and haven't even made it to the main portion yet. I had to pause after listening to the “Male reading the Mail” segment.

It was very sad hearing about the family scrapbooks being sold in the $1 box at yardsales. But then you all were talking about people not having kids, and how that influences what they could have to scrapbook about. This reminded me of a crop I went to a year ago, when I heard some ladies talking about another cropper who didn't have children, saying “What could she possibly have to scrapbook??” As a scrapbooker who also happens to be single, that bothered me a bit. No, I don't have children … but I do have an incredibly full life. I scrapbook my family, parents, sister, nephews, extended family … then there's my many wonderful friends, vacations, Vegas, cruises, wine tasting trips, theatre, and get-togethers with my scrapbook buds. And that's not the end of it. I love my job working for law enforcement, and am very proud to scrapbook that, including but not limited to … my very spirited co-workers, company picnics, weekend trips, charity drives, and retirements. Oh yeah, and the many births, weddings, showers, and family reunions.

I have sooo many pictures, and will never ever be caught up. But that's ok. My scrapbooking is my art and my meditation. I may not have children to hand my pages down to … but that was never my goal. I do this for me, and for the people in my life. I made a book for my grandparents 80th birthdays, and they kept it on their coffee table, until the day my grandfather died earlier this month. My aunts scanned the 12×12 pages from the book, and they made a beautiful video collage of the images. My aunts were vying to be the new owner of the scrapbook. :) My father shows his friends the books I leave at his house. My friends are always asking me to see my latest work.

My work is to honor the the very genuine and incredible people in my life and I feel so privileged to be able to do this. Anyone involved in this very giving and creative hobby should feel the same.

Kim C (from Simi Valley, CA)

I look forward to the episode about scrapbooking when you don't have children. Listening to the snippets mentioned in this show and also reading the comments, it's amazing that there are people out there who don't think you qualify to scrapbook if you don't have children! That attitude is hurtful, short sighted, plainly wrong and quite frankly who you scrapbook for is nobody else's business. So long as it makes you happy, then it's fulfilled its purpose. The various tales of scrapbooks ending up in garage sales just goes to show it doesn't always follow that if you have children your efforts will be rewarded and cherished. (the story of the lady finding the mini book she made for her daughter in law in the 50c bin – ouch!!) So, as others have said – just do what makes you happy. Noelle's mini book 'The Two of Us' shown in an episode is no less stunning or important because it is about her and Izzy rather than the whole family. It all counts (as Stacy would say!). My husband and I are still a family and recording our lives together is both important and creatively relaxing to me. If others think I 'don't count' then really, that's their problem. We all count! :)

The website that was given for the iPhone ap (yowza.com) goes to a porn site. For the iPhone ap you have to go to getyowza.com