Saturday, June 1, 2013

June Journaling Challenge...It's about time.

I've been MIA --- I'll have to update that later...or not.  I could pretend like I have no idea about the passing of time HAHAHA.  Whichever.

ANYWAY, here is the LO for the challenge.
 PROBLEM with this being, there's NOT MUCH JOURNALING ON HERE.    Problem? Not usually --- EXCEPT THAT THIS IS THE EXAMPLE FOR THE JOURNAL CHALLENGE, APRIL.  

Okay - let me explain just a little about the WHY this is my example.  
I wanted to do a tribute to my Gram for a challenge.  Couldn't do it.   So, with me already having not so much mojo, I was taxing myself to come up with something...ANYTHING that I would be able to scrap.  I've had a ridiculous time with it (room construction/travel/end of school all contributing to a "physical" extent along with the mental block).  

Pick a group HERITAGE photo - and I'm hoping for "as old as you can find" (mine, circa 1951).  TELL THE STORY. 


My hope is this -- that you have a story to tell, no matter where/who you got the story from.   My reason behind it is this -- This photo that I used, the Schake family - is actually my Great Grandmother's family.   I met my Great Gram (mother of my Gram that just passed), but I never met anyone else in this photo.  The thing that squeezed my heart when I found the photo, is the fact that I HAVE no story, other than names. I got those from my Grandma a few years ago when she gave me a box of photos (knowing me like she does, and thinking I would be the only one that would care about them).  any photos without names on the back, I got her to give me names...if there was a "what/when/where/why/how" that she knew, she gave it to me.    This photo - other than giving me the names, and telling me that it was "a reunion/gathering type thing" - it has no further story.  

Though my absence from the site (and my blog for that matter) does not prove this to be true -- I love scrapbooking.  I love the journaling.  I treasure the photos.  I hoard the stories.   I toss all of this together as art-therapy, and I think that all of these things will be treasured in the future.  I want to be able to preserve the essence of the past with snippets of voices/tales/anecdotes.   So, show us your family's past...and I'll cheer you on as I read any story you can gather and put to the page.