I belong to a scrap sight, tallyscrapper.com, and I receive an incredible amount of inspiration from both the art and the people who post there.
This morning, I saw a beautiful post from a young woman who, like me, seems to have found some healing in her scrapping.
I think it's amazing where scrapbooking can take us. Sometimes we smile as we position our pictures or add just the right embellishments to capture the moments of a child's first smile, first step or first temper tantrum. Other times we cry as we journal the life and times of a loved one or share an experience that may have been painful. In some cases, we can work through our anger to a point of laughter because the situation or event we are scrapping was so absurd.
People who don't scrapbook probably don't understand all of this. We have taken the events of our lives and done more than record them in a daily diary. In our own way, like Van Gogh and Beethoven, we have take the joy, laughter and pain of our lives and turned them into a lasting testiment of strength and endurance, and art.
If we talk about these things, we get some relief. If we scrapbook them, we work through them. And in the end, we are better for the experience.
Keep on scrappin'!
4 comments:
WOW....love your blog!!!! And yes, alot of people don't understand this obession we have with scrapbooking....I so glad that you have found Tally....you've been a great asset :o)
~Laura
(Laurajean)
Love that your loving Tallyscrapper.
thank you saying these words. it gives me a sense of relief from getting it out. it was so absolutely hard to scrap this and like i said in my lo, it was nothing, hardly nothing, compared to others' experiences. You said it perfectly in this post- it's amazing where scrapbooking can take us.
Nicely said Mom!
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