Project: Life Memorabilia - Get Started!

Okay I wanted to help each of you interested in this new project to get started off! So I have a simple task for you this week...

1. Collect STUFF. Don't worry about how you will use it. Just save it. Wrappers, labels, coasters, business cards, flyers, junk mail, catalogs, postcards, etc.

2. Take more SNAP SHOTS: If you can, keep a phone with a camera or a small point and shoot with you and snap quick photos of your everyday life. Get a shot of your grocery cart packed full of food for the family, snap a shot of your favorite coffee place, quick shot of lunch out, etc.

3. Come back here and share some snap shots and list or photo of memorabilia you have collected!

Good tips!

So far i have a really pretty birthday card a starbucks card, a partial kleenex box and a yogurt lid. Not much but since we are only on January 3rd I think that's pretty good!

That's really good Mara!

I have a Southwest napkin and peanut wrapper from my New Year's flight, a crossword, an article torn from the paper, a stub from the museum... not much yet. Today home with sick child, so not a lot done since lunchtime. It's a start, though!
(note to self: ask Bree about album)

I just made a couple pages I used a postcard from a restaurant and a parts of a giant poster I had hanging up..

OH! I just thought of THE perfect candy wrapper I must remember to save.

I have a movie ticket from my date yesterday

Oooh! What did you see Stevie?

oh eff, I shoulda took a photo at the passport office today
i'm not going to be so good at this

It takes a while to start to think about doing this Tonya!

I have my second passport photo since they only use one for my emergency passport.

Great tips, Bree!
I picked up all sorts of things this weekend while I was shopping...a cute bag, a sticker, a business card...

The process for my book is that it will be mostly memorabilia with some photos mixed in...unlike scrapping where I feel that everything has to have a photo (even though I know it really doesn't). I don't always drag my camera out and about with me (even though I should) so I'll put using mostly my iphone photos. For me...it's a great way to document the things I love that I don't always have pictures for and a bonus to use the iphone photos that I never feel are good enough to scrap.

So...just some other thoughts for you.

We saw True Grit, decent movie but the end was eh. Oh! And I snapped a photo when we ate at Frischs. Yippee!

KAT wrote:OH! I just thought of THE perfect candy wrapper I must remember to save.

I wonder if it is something I gave you.

Bought paper for mine today! I'm anxious to see how it goes together becaue I bought tings outside of my box that I normally wouldn't go after!

jennaroo wrote:Bought paper for mine today! I'm anxious to see how it goes together becaue I bought tings outside of my box that I normally wouldn't go after!

How exciting! i can't wait to see what you come up with and good for you for going outside your comfort zone!

cleaned out my purse. Yes, I have been carrying around for a year stuff from Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Belgium. I have lots of maps, fliers, ticket stubs, ect.

monica wrote:Great tips, Bree!
I picked up all sorts of things this weekend while I was shopping...a cute bag, a sticker, a business card...

The process for my book is that it will be mostly memorabilia with some photos mixed in...unlike scrapping where I feel that everything has to have a photo (even though I know it really doesn't). I don't always drag my camera out and about with me (even though I should) so I'll put using mostly my iphone photos. For me...it's a great way to document the things I love that I don't always have pictures for and a bonus to use the iphone photos that I never feel are good enough to scrap.

So...just some other thoughts for you.

Love your perspective on it. I am trying to do lots of iPhone photos in part because the photo serves as a time date stamp to remind me to document that day. and a lot of those photos sucks but when printed small for a mini like this they work.

Tamara wrote:cleaned out my purse. Yes, I have been carrying around for a year stuff from Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg and Belgium. I have lots of maps, fliers, ticket stubs, ect.

I do that too! And in my travel bags.

Mara wrote:

jennaroo wrote:Bought paper for mine today! I'm anxious to see how it goes together becaue I bought tings outside of my box that I normally wouldn't go after!

How exciting! i can't wait to see what you come up with and good for you for going outside your comfort zone!

Thanks I will give you a hint....lots of white with pops of bright vintae colors!

Do we post this as we make it or the finished product?

StevieK wrote:We saw True Grit, decent movie but the end was eh. Oh! And I snapped a photo when we ate at Frischs. Yippee!

(and I felt the same way about the movie)

jennaroo wrote:Do we post this as we make it or the finished product?

The team will share pages ALL YEAR since all of us will be adding pages throughout the year. I will make a place for everyone to share their books.

But I would love to see photos of memorabilia here

you want to see pictures of what we are collecting? If so, I can do that.

OK, I have a bunch of stuff in a pile now--can we do it a week at a time, not daily? I'm thinking that's more practical for me...

You can do it however you want