High school pages

The pages are very good and I too think you found the right voice. Keep up the scrapping I think you will enjoy it in the end... OK maybe your kids will. ;)

Luna, I enjoyed your pages very much. Simple, Clean, Concise.

In your posting I thought you were much older than you truly are, maybe you are just an old soul. LOL

Keep up the great pages. My high school scrapbooks are in storage and I really should get them out and spray them to archivally preserve them.

PS I liked your halloween costume. Budget friendly with a great attitude underneath.

Kate

Thanks. I'm trying not to be too depressing, but not too cheery either.

Alrighty, I'm done for now. I emailed my second high school to see if they had any old programs or photos of the shows we did, and if they do I'm going to get copies and make more scrapbook pages. But, for now, this is what I have:

Luna,

I really enjoy looking at your pages. I think we share basic page-construction philosophies.

I especially like the pages where you combine your handwritten journaling with computer-printed titles (like page 4).

You've posted in the newsgroup about painful memories, but you've mostly not shown that aspect in your journaling. What you have shown is brief ... and I think probably just the right approach. You could put hidden pages (inside envelopes on the backs of layouts) to contain writing that might be more personal, and that you wouldn't want to share with everyone. But you could show these pages to anyone without having to bare your soul ... which is something better left for your best friends, maybe not your boss or future mother-in-law. :-)

Gina in Virginia

Luna wrote:

Thanks! Though I don't really know what a page-construction philosophy is, lol.

Yeah, I don't think I'm going to write down the painful stuff. Maybe eventually I'll just forget all the bad things, they can all fade away.

As Dr. Phil would say "what is the pay off?" Painful Journalling that will let the past be the past and the future be the future.

As a 9-11 NYC Terror Attack survivor, I know what it is like to work through demons.

Well, my "demons" are insignificant compared to yours. And I'm not much affected by mine in my day to day life. I don't dwell on my past, in fact I barely remember it. I feel like I need to get this stuff all in a book, what little remains, before I lose it or forget it all. And the more I do this book, the more I'm remembering the good times, of which there were more than I thought. So, the payoff for doing this book is that I'm having fun really.

I think you have done a wonderful job with your high school pages. I'm glad you are enjoying putting these pages together.