hairbrained schemes: ballroom blitz

October 01, 2008

ballroom blitz

Okay, well, actually it's a Blog Blitz, but I really really wanted to keep things rolling with the song titles (because I'm anal, like that).

And that seemed to fit a bit better than Fat Bottomed Girls (which was going to be my initial post about how my clothes seemed to have magically shrunk over the summer without even being washed), so there you have it.

This is a scrapbook challenge.

And, as many other fun and innovative scrapbooky things have originated, this comes directly from Stacy Julian.

She came up with the idea to give as many people as she can a present - the gift of present-moment scrapbooking.

I got an email from her a few weeks ago asking if we could help "infuse the scrapbooking blogosphere with this message of epic proportions".

Her message?

Be Here Now.

"As Scrapbookers we spend so much time creating in the past and anticipating the future that we sometimes forget to live in the present. Your life is unfolding everyday, hour-by-hour and you have the opportunity to live and be happy. Let's bring the scrapbooking world together in a fun and potentially perspective-shifting challenge to be more aware, more grateful and more engaged with this thing we call life."

Fun, right?

I thought so, too.

So here's the skinny:

snap 10 photos of your life right now
compile them in a teeny tiny mini-album
keep this album with out (in your purse or somewhere completely accessible)
promise to glance through it every time you stumble upon it
next year, on October 1st, 2009, create a page about your experience

Here's my teeny tiny mini-album documenting my life.

Right here.

Right now.

And, because, I hate to leave stuff without journaling, I made little tags that slide in under each of the photos with a few words describing my thoughts about the right here, right now of each of the photos I selected.

Here are some of the tags:

I really hope you will give this a try, please link back and share if you do!

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Comments

Okay, it's so cute! I love that hat picture best. The "loving" one, not the "seeing" one. ha! :p

Posted by: Candice | October 01, 2008 at 06:58 AM

WOWEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
I'm in love with this!!!!!!!!!!!

You never cease to amaze me.
Cheryl = Talent.
And there you have it.

Posted by: Dianne | October 01, 2008 at 10:30 AM

I love your take on this. And the picture reminds me... how did the lasik go?

Posted by: Jessica C | October 02, 2008 at 05:41 AM

Well, are you so creative, love it! I'm so not in the moment right now.

Posted by: kelli | October 02, 2008 at 06:25 PM

Loving your little album. Especially the little journaling tabs and how you labeled each photo. I was too busy at the time to join in (every page in mine would have been labeled "busy") but you've inspired me to have a go at it...next week, ha! :)

Posted by: margaret | October 06, 2008 at 09:53 PM