Documenting a Decade
This past week marked the end of a decade.
Hard to believe isn’t it?
The first decade of the new millennium and it held lots of changes for myself and my family. As I went back through my old scrapbooks I was surprised to find that I was a hybrid scrapper back as early as 1998. Printing out my titles and journaling and coloring them in before adding to my pages. Definitely brought a smile to my face as I never really considered myself a hybrid scrapper. And I sat with Kelly and went through all the pages I had chronologically scrapped and happily saw the names of friends I couldn’t remember and all the places we used to go reminding me why I create and why I scrap. To remember.
Sadly, I also noticed I stopped scrapping after 9/11 for quite some time. It was a difficult time for us and I don’t know that I ever really documented about it. And then I was scrapping with the mojo in 2002 until I met my now husband and it looks like I was too busy keep up with scrapping until we married in 2003. Funny how things go that way! And then my scrapping got better to even include year in reviews. But there are gaps. And before there are too many gaps in my memory I thought it was a perfect opportunity to make a new album and Document a Decade.
Each week will be a new year, making the project a little less overwhelming. And I’ll actually be including 11 years starting with 2000 and ending with 2010. Considering my year in review books are 20 pages, compacting one full year into 2 pages was just too much for me so I’ve made it 4 pages so most things could be included. In the store you can pick up one or both templates, depending on what works for you. And years can be added or removed so you can mix and match to your hearts content. Each week new sets will be available until the book is complete! So, you in?
Wondering what you have to document about? I sat down and thought about where we’ve been over the past decade and came up with this list:
- 4 homes
- 4 dogs
- 5 schools
- new marriage
- countless trips to family
- 4 trips to disney
- 3 trips to california
- 2 trips overseas
- 2 grandchildren
and so much more, I think plenty to scrap about!
I scrap to remember and to leave a legacy. I want Kelly’s children and Emi and Lexi’s children to know who we are and how we lived and scrapbooks are a perfect way to do that! Sit down and make a list. How many homes? Children? Grandchildren? Schools? Pets? Jobs? Vacations?
Still not convinced to join in?
What about documenting general information?
in 2000:
- the cost of gas [$1.40/gal]
- popular music [U2, Baha Men, Britney Spears, NSync]
- news events [election]
- where you were working
- favorite tv shows [survivor, will&grace]
- movies of the year [matrix, little mermaid II]
- the olympics
- technology, did you have a cell phone yet?
Why not document the world around you in 2000 and do some journaling about how it affected you and your life. Were you embracing the new technology or steering clear? Were you on-line yet? Just starting your family or struggling with an empty nest? It’s important for yourself and your future generations to have a keepsake to look back on where they can gain insight into your life and know where they came from.
This project is perfect for that.
I picked the significant along with my favorites from 2000 for my pages.
I hope you’ll join me on this photobook project and gather up your memories from the past decade!
