Next year's event is planned for Saturday, April 2, 2011 just in case you want to mark your calendar now!
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Tuesday, April 27, 2010
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Next year's event is planned for Saturday, April 2, 2011 just in case you want to mark your calendar now!
Saturday, April 17, 2010
Even more WLC Pics!
There were so many variations of different projects being worked on during the day at WLC 2010. In addition to attending classes, some people were finishing up or starting traditional albums, others spent the day journaling in their nearly-completed books, many were working on digital scrapbook programs, etc. Everyone was hard at work. And all day! Album-making (i.e., scrapbooking) today isn't just a paper and scissors undertaking. In fact, if you think about it, and according to my son, a *blog* is really just an online scrapbook too.
More WLC photos!
Rhonda Anderson (Creative Memories co-founder) is on the right in the photo below (the one wearing a green jacket).
Rhonda Anderson
Rhonda Anderson (Creative Memories co-founder) talked for approximately 45 minutes at WLC 2010 and mentioned some of the following .....
She said people take sooooo many pictures today (due to digital cameras) that those photos don't even seem important anymore. According to Rhonda, people are simply overwhelmed about what to do with all their digital images; so, they're left on memory cards, hard drives, etc. and forgotten.
Take time to print out even a few of your best photos instead of just leaving them on the computer.
No time to catagorize all your photos in chronological order? Be selective then! Choose a few photos to print out and if nothing else, focus on putting together a small "theme" album with that small selection of prints.
Importance of photo albums:
Photo albums give people a sense of belonging, gratitude, self-esteem, etc.
They also preserve the past, enrich the present, inspire hope for the future.
However, photos without journaling (identification, explanation, etc.) will one day have no value. She told a story about a friend that inherited her mom's perfectly created photo albums. They were all so beautiful but without any labeling or journaling. Since the daughter had very little space in her home, out of the 11 albums, she only kept one, and threw the rest away.
According to Rhonda Anderson, journaling is key. She asked the audience what a few photos perserved with a some of your great-grandmothers writing would be worth to you and with this perspective she hoped that we would spend some time creating small theme albums with even a few pictures.
My great-grandmother's name was Dora (in fact, I was named after her) and she was my grandmother's mother. She was my mom's absolute favorite grandparent and though she talked about her with much love, I don't know anything about Dora's life. Imagine how much of a treasure even one photo with a short handwritten explanation describing the photo, or the people in the photo, or why the photo was taken, etc. would be for me. Priceless!
She said people take sooooo many pictures today (due to digital cameras) that those photos don't even seem important anymore. According to Rhonda, people are simply overwhelmed about what to do with all their digital images; so, they're left on memory cards, hard drives, etc. and forgotten.
Take time to print out even a few of your best photos instead of just leaving them on the computer.
No time to catagorize all your photos in chronological order? Be selective then! Choose a few photos to print out and if nothing else, focus on putting together a small "theme" album with that small selection of prints.
Importance of photo albums:
Photo albums give people a sense of belonging, gratitude, self-esteem, etc.
They also preserve the past, enrich the present, inspire hope for the future.
However, photos without journaling (identification, explanation, etc.) will one day have no value. She told a story about a friend that inherited her mom's perfectly created photo albums. They were all so beautiful but without any labeling or journaling. Since the daughter had very little space in her home, out of the 11 albums, she only kept one, and threw the rest away.
According to Rhonda Anderson, journaling is key. She asked the audience what a few photos perserved with a some of your great-grandmothers writing would be worth to you and with this perspective she hoped that we would spend some time creating small theme albums with even a few pictures.
My great-grandmother's name was Dora (in fact, I was named after her) and she was my grandmother's mother. She was my mom's absolute favorite grandparent and though she talked about her with much love, I don't know anything about Dora's life. Imagine how much of a treasure even one photo with a short handwritten explanation describing the photo, or the people in the photo, or why the photo was taken, etc. would be for me. Priceless!
Sunday, April 11, 2010
Coming soon!
I'll be posting the follow-up to our first quarter "Challenge Yourself" and some photos of World's Largest Crop 2010 soon. The event yesterday was very fun, as usual --- lots of interesting classes, new page ideas, prize winners, awesome displays, and many, many pages completed. Rhonda Anderson (co-founder of Creative Memories) was at the event as well, and I will post some of what she shared at her noon talk, in case you have interest and missed it.
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