This challenge is all about the word 'savour'. The idea that you savour the
moment. I definitely understand the concept that we should be enjoying the here
and now and I believe that this should translate to the way you scrapbook.
Often we find ourselves trying to scrapbook a holiday or event that happened 5
or so years ago and trying to remember the happiness, the reasons behind the
smiles, the funny things that were said, the whole atmosphere of the day, is
very difficult when such time has passed. The layout you create has to be about
something that has happened in the last two weeks that has brought you joy. For
me it was easy to think of what event I was going to scrap as I had been to a
gala at the weekend and I had enjoyed myself. I instantly wrote down some
concept ideas, just odd words or sentences what would hopefully speed up the
scrapbooking process as well as make sure that the page covered everything I
wanted it to. This was to do with the colours I wanted to use, the images I
wanted on the page to represent what had been going on, any words that summarised
the day or how I was feeling whilst I was there. Also any journaling I would
need to capture the day for me to look back and realise why it was that day I
had chosen to scrapbook. I realised at this point that this would be another
challenge with no photographs as I hadn't taken my camera on that day. This was
now no issue to me as I now feel comfortable using words and images to
represent what was going on in the day rather than having to use a photograph
that was taken. This is definitely something that I have learnt at the Big Idea
Festival and a concept that I wasn't familiar with before. I felt that having
no photo for this day actually gave me a lot more scope for the project. This I
felt especially with the use of colour. It was a warm sunny day and so I wanted
this to be reflected in the page but I didn't want to write 'it was a sunny
day' or have an image of the sun so I chose to use the colour yellow and orange
to represent this. Because I didn't have a photograph with set colours in there
was no matching up to be done with the shades on the photo which gave me more freedom. I tried to stick to the 2 colours and
in the end chose to add the third colour of green to represent that the event
was at the woods. Having no photographs actually made me work harder on
the project to make sure I gave it some meaning. To make sure that it captured
the moment.
In Karen Grunburg's video link to the challenge she discusses about
the fact that she likes to chose a word to represent the year a head and stick
by that word through out the year. For me and this event the word was most definitely
community. Before I had been invited out to the gala I was sat a home alone in
a mope thinking why is there no one to hang out with?, why is everyone busy?, why
is everyone enjoying the sun but me? My mind was filled with negatives instead
of just getting up and changing my situation I was just sat dwelling on it. The
fact that I was invited out, grabbed that opportunity and then ended up having
a good time shows me that when I'm feeling a bit blue I need to work a way
around it to change the out come of my day. This is why I have added the word opportunity
to the page as a little reminder to my self that if I'm not happy with
what is happening then maybe I need to take charge, step up and take the opportunities
that are there to change things because as I found out you can feel a whole
lot better afterwards. I saw a facebook post today that sums this up to a tee 'Life has no remote. Get up and change it yourself'.
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