Let me tell you about...
If I am perfectly honest, I have no idea where the idea for titles on scrapbook pages came from. If you read a book, there’s just one title for the whole darn thing. Maybe there are chapter titles, but really the only thing that marks the pages is the page number. Yet somewhere along the line we decided to expand that tradition of writing something on the photo into a title for a page. Maybe that’s it, actually! It seems to make sense: some pages will have titles of names and possibly ages; others will have puns or something that sounded funny to us at the time and a few others will have something that sounds like a heartfelt note or the name of a song. The same stuff we used to write on the back of the pictures. Now that it’s on show, I wonder if those titles get stage fright.
Sometimes I think there are titles that wouldn’t have worked on the back of the photo that make the best scrapbook pages for telling your stories. One of those is ‘Let me tell you about…’ and it works because it leads you right into the journaling. There’s no way the journaling can be dismissed in your creative process if you’ve started with that title, because you’ve made a little promise and you need to keep it. You wouldn’t say ‘Let me tell you about the best shoe sale ever!’ to a friend and then keep it a secret. (If you would, then you must have realised that your friend has the same size feet and is likely to go buy all the shoes you wanted for yourself. There is no other excuse.)
So to start February, pick something that could finish the sentence ‘Let me tell you about…’. Don’t use a name, but a label (if you want to feel like English class, we’re talking about pronouns—words that take the place of nouns—but I promise there will be no test about that stuff here) so if you want to write about your daughter, you would start with the title ‘Let me tell you about this girl’. Take a second to get those last two words right because they are going to form the repetitive part of our journaling.
That’s the little (not-so) hidden message in today’s exercise: throughout the month we’re going to look for little tricks that can help your journaling be polished and stylish. Today’s little trick is repetition: the journaling can have five or more sentences, but they will all start with the same words and have a few other things in common too.
Each day’s exercise can be read on your screen or printed out onto a 4×6 index card if you prefer something tangible. I love my notebooks for writing in, but I often wish I could (easily) print things onto index cards instead of full sheets of plain paper. I think really, I love this idea, as I would be much happier in any meeting with a stack of index cards, a bulldog clip and a few colours of pens than a Blackberry. So it’s just a little something I’d like to try—we’ll see what you think. Just remember you’ll need to click on the day’s exercise card in order to get it at the full print size, okay?
Click for print-size image of the exercise
Each day, feel free to share a link in the comments if you’ve written your journaling on your blog or made a page as a result of the exercise or if you found something that just fits the theme. Or just comment to say what you’ll be writing about—nothing like pledging a little commitment to help you do something you’ve been meaning to do, right? Or take a picture of your notebook and pen and share that! I never tire of the feeling of a fresh new notebook and pen. It’s a beautiful thing.
Happy writing!
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1 February 2008, 22:41
I can’t even believe this, but I’m done, and apparently I’m first to comment!
My page on my blog
Thanks Shimelle, this was fun and I can’t wait until tomorrow!
1 February 2008, 22:53
Thanks so much for doing this. I love this prompt and I love that I can print out the journaling prompt. :)
1 February 2008, 23:14
Thanks for doing this! I am off to write.
2 February 2008, 03:08
My Comments
I was so happy to do this. It seemed to just flow for me.
2 February 2008, 04:12
Love the prompt and it’ll fit perfectly for one of the photos that I took for the Album in a Day class (and have yet tofinish oops!)
2 February 2008, 04:15
I’m loving these prompts – and ROFL @ the hipster PDA :)
My brain is definitley ticking over this. I’ve previous done LOs for my DD and DS that were the same “sketch” so to speak but different colours/titles so I might try this again for this prompt with a “this boy” “this girl” theme. I’m also trying the tricks from the stick and go article. Unfortunatley the LO I started on Thursday still isn’t finished. Sometimes children wake up from naps a the most inopportune moments!! xMx
2 February 2008, 04:26
This is a great idea. Thank you. Looking forward to the rest of February.
2 February 2008, 11:00
Can’t wait to take your class at Scrapbook Oasis – I use the index card idea – it works great.
2 February 2008, 11:14
What a fun and wonderful idea. I posted my response on my blog, Sandslippers.
I can’t wait to see what other people did with the prompt.
2 February 2008, 13:03
Here is mine!
http://www.scrapinstyletv.com/portfolio/view_layout.php?layout_id=67831&user_id=600
2 February 2008, 13:20
Here’s mine and a picture of my notebook
http://beautifullilysramblings.blogspot.com/
and have just noticed the next prompt is up.
2 February 2008, 16:15
Hello!
Here is my attempt, really enjoyed this, and feel it will be used again and again!
Let me tell you about…
Lorna :o)
2 February 2008, 17:46
Well, I’ve started – first entry in the notebook and so far so good. Just noticed the second prompt is in, so I’d better get going…
Thanks for this, Shimelle, it’s just the kick in the pants I needed to get writing again.
2 February 2008, 20:44
This is a great idea and I have created 2 lo’s already using it.
3 February 2008, 13:27
Loved doing this Shimelle, I am so excited about this months fun!
3 February 2008, 17:11
Love this Shimelle! (I may have to print everything out and do it in March-but I will nonetheless!) Such a great exercise!
5 February 2008, 16:21
I am loving this! The LOs are taking 10mins to do with the journaling.. hope everyone else is having a blast with these as well thanks shimelle.
here’s my blog where i’m posting the LOs
http://michigirl74.blogspot.com/2008/02/holy-cow-i-got-to-scrapbook.html
18 February 2008, 03:21
Love doing this, too. here´s my attempt:
http://greenmint.typepad.com/greenmint/2008/02/let-me-tell-y-1.html
Thank you, Shimelle!
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