A Matter of Memories: :REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Scrapbooking Your Single Years from Ella Publishing [CONTEST CLOSED]

Monday, August 1, 2011

:REVIEW & GIVEAWAY: Scrapbooking Your Single Years from Ella Publishing [CONTEST CLOSED]

I want to start of this review by saying that you should not let the title of this Ella Publishing eBook turn you away if you are not a single person.

Even if you are married or in a serious relationship, Scrapbooking Your Single Years is sure to offer you a wealth of new topics that deserve a spot in your scrapbooks. The subtitle of this book is "88 spectacular page ideas for current and former singles" and it certainly delivers.

In fact, I have been with the same guy (7 years dating and 11 years married) and I took away dozens of ideas from this book that I certainly hope to create layouts with.

Frankly, no matter how committed you may be to your significant other and/or children, everyone must be careful not to lose sight of the history and characteristics that make you who you are...outside of those relationships and commitments.

In the introduction, the author, Stephanie Baxter, shares her belief that although our family will certainly appreciate the moments and memories that we have captured about them in scrapbook pages, they would also certainly appreciate knowing more about the person that created them (perhaps even more so, in fact).

She presents the following questions your family might ask:
"What was she like when she was younger? What was her life like before she settled down, got married, and brought me into the world? Can I see similarities between us at the same age? What qualities or interests have I inherited from her?"

This book gives you all the ideas you'll need to answer all of these questions and more for everyone in your family.

In this Ella eBook, the author and 9 other extremely talented scrap artists share 22 layout samples to illustrate their examples of how to capture the essence of who you are and where you came from.

Each one comes with several other fun variations that you could use to stretch their ideas even further, encouraging quotes to inspire you to start documenting your single life as well as many mini-albums topics ideas.

Scrapbooking Your Single Years is certainly another great title from Ella Publishing!

GIVEAWAY:
I have one free download of Scrapbooking Your Single Years to give away. All you have to do to enter is answer the following question in a comment to this post by 5 p.m. (CST) on Thursday, August 4, 2011:

Do you find it easy or difficult to scrapbook about yourself? Why?

Random.org will choose and I will announce the winner on Friday!

GOOD LUCK!

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Joan · 714 weeks ago

Jill, yes, I find it difficult to scrap about myself, because, I don't know where to begin. I have so much info, that I get overwhelmed. I need to record what I can so my children will know who I REALLY am, not just their mother or a wife. I want them to know that I was a teenager once, long ago. That I did do stupid stuff and didn't get perfect grades in school, and that I loved sports. I have scrapped a few bits and pieces of the past few years, but it is my pre-married years that I want to scrap. Wow, you are giving me a lot to think about today. As each birthday approaches,another one in a few days, I worry that I may never get my story written. Thanks for sharing.

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Jenny McGee · 714 weeks ago

I find it relatively easy to scrapbook about myself. I always try and get my son to take photos of me, so I have photos to scrapbook with. I have tons of stories to tell. It is a fun change. I have boys in my family, so if I want to do a girly page I can do a page about myself. IT is fun. Thanks.

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Marya · 714 weeks ago

It's easy to scrapbook about myself when I view it as a visual journal about my interests and events in my single 20-something years. I want to be able to look back and smile at my life decades down the road.

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Nathalie · 714 weeks ago

I have a hard time scrapbooking about myself because not only do I lack photos from my past but I also have forgotten a lot!!!! Maybe prompts would help!?

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Melanie · 714 weeks ago

I find it difficult to scrapbook about myself because I rarely have any photos of me. The ones I do have from the past are from when I was really, really young. And I don't have very many pics of my hubby and I when we were dating.

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Duckienz · 714 weeks ago

I find it very easy to scrapbook about myself. When I got into scrapbooking I was about to break up with a partner of 4 years. I used my time to capture my story. 5 years later, I still don't have children and whilst I adore my fur and feather babies, my life doesn't revolve around them. In fact, now I am engaged and my fiancee complains that I don't scrapbook about him enough LOL.
Thank you soooo much for the opportunity to win.
Allie

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smfsprout · 714 weeks ago

I find it difficult to scrapbook about myself because I tend to lose my objectivity regarding my 'subject'. If I am in a group picture, the task is much easier.

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Angela · 714 weeks ago

I am recently divorced and noticed when going through all the albums (30+ of them), that there are less than 10 layouts with me in them... that really shocked me. Out of 30 FULL albums there are only 10 layouts with me. So I guess I had a problem with scrapping myself.
I am now working on current albums and am trying to find ways to incorporate me in them more as well as a 'Book of Me' that I am just doing randomly. It starts out with a LO of me as a baby and then I have a LO of my favorite authors that I read today, then there is a LO of me "Easter 1966" as a young girl... so I am scrapping as I feel inspired. Which is how our memories are on a day-to-day basis, random... right?

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ana · 714 weeks ago

I find it easy to scrapbook about myself. I want my children and their children to be able to learn about me from my pages. So I try to be honest and those pages that I don't want them to see until they are grown up I hide. LOL

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Barbara · 714 weeks ago

VERY difficult - I tried to do an all about me - i could create the page structure but i don't have pictures of myself and i hated trying to journal about myself

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Vicki Wilson · 714 weeks ago

I find it easy to scrapbook about myself. I want to leave my story for my grandsons.

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Jen from OH · 714 weeks ago

I don't find it too difficult to scrap about myself. I've gotten lots of prompts from message boards over the years and that helps a lot!

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Laura · 714 weeks ago

Difficult, if I'm not doing it in the context of me with my family. But I think I'm ready to do more of it soon. . . . I've been scanning some childhood pictures.

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Kelly O · 714 weeks ago

No. Until very recently I was single and have no kids. So it was scrap about myself or my nephews, other family members or friends. I found it pretty easy actually.

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Meridy · 714 weeks ago

I find it difficult to scrap about myself because I don't think anyone will really care what I have to say. But it's so funny that I read your article tonight. Actually, I came here to actually download the "Creativity Prompts" for August and reading this article is FATE! Let me explain...I have a 5 year old daughter. This past weekend my mom found a book that had "fill in the blank"s that I fiilled out (and I drew some pictures) when I was about 7 years old. All my 5 year old has wanted me to do for the past 2 days is read this book over and over to her. She says it's her favorite book out of ALL of the books at our house AND Grammy's house. These last two days have been an "a-ha" moment...I need to scrapbook more stories about myself. If my daughter is so curious now, at age 5, I think she will be even more interested in who I was "before children" when she gets older. I think that the "scrapbooking your single years" book would be a wonderful starting place for me!

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Miwa · 714 weeks ago

I have a hard time scrapbooking about myself... but I think it's mostly because I absolutely hate being photographed. My husband constantly tells me that if I don't let people take pictures, how will the kids know what I looked like when I'm gone? I suppose he has a valid point! I don't mind journaling about myself, though,because I think the kids would appreciate my thoughts and stories. This looks like a great book - thanks for the chance to win!

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Victoria H · 714 weeks ago

I find it very hard to scrapbook about myself. I always feel like what I write sounds stupid and then don't even get me started about pictures of myself. I really need to work on it though.

And I got my Campy Trails prize yesterday. Thank you, thank you, thank you! It is all kinds of camptastic awesomeness!

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Melinda Wilson · 714 weeks ago

The reason I have a problem scrapbooking myself is I feel like I should be using my scrapbooking time to work on more of my family memories.

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kimberly · 714 weeks ago

yes i find it difficult to scrapbook about my self because i am usually behind the camera and I don't have a ton of pics of myself - when i was younger i didn't want the bad pics (i thought that all of them are bad) Now i am more excepting of the pics it is just i have to get out from behind the camera!!!!

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denise2855 · 714 weeks ago

I find it hard to scrapbook myself as I have never been a "Look at me!" kind of person. But I do see the need for including me on my scrapbook pages and would love some ideas on how to do that. Thanks for the chance at winning!

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Pidgen · 714 weeks ago

I find is pretty easy to scrap about myself because I'm single ... but honestly, I could use some more ideas! lol. This looks like a really cool book! Thanks for the chance to win!

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