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...and no I don't mean fighting 'scrapping' but scrapbooking! Traditional, digital, hybrid - I love it all! I have recently started to scrap my older photos and really started trying to remember and journal why they were (and are) important. I am striving to keep in mind that those who read my words and see my pages in the future will be meeting me in a small way or finding things out that they didn't know.

This is exciting for me but also quite scary because it requires that I reveal things about myself, that as a private person, I am hesitant to do. That is one reason that 'secret' journalling or 'hidden' is a fave on my hybrid and traditional pages. Not so easy on digital though ;-) but not impossible to make the journalling a smaller part of the bigger story.

Having people know why things were important to me, why stories and photos matter, is a legacy that I want to share for my son and my future family. Coming from a small family with little to no connection to our distant relatives or access to stories or photos I feel a strong urge to 'correct' that in a forward way. Digital photos sure help, I can snap snap snap pictures all I want and keep only those which tell the story best. Those are not always the 'best' photos, of course, but they are the ones which say the most.

Coming from a background in media, photography and graphic arts the tools and toys of scrapbooking intrigue and enthrall me - I love them all! So much to try, so much to do...so many photos and stories but alas, not always as much time. Time spent scrapbooking, for me, is time invested in being the modern version of the clan, tribe and family story teller. Who else is going to keep track of things like the photos of the cross stitch done by my 5 x great great grandmother when she was 11? Or my baptism in a river? Or my husband using something for a ladder that isn't one? Who will remember the stories and keep them safe? Who will listen to Baba and Kokum when they tell our history? I am proud to be that keeper, and I will work hard to do them proud. I have lost ground with my own grandparents but cousins and family are helping and that's great to even know I have those people! Wow...who knew? I didn't!

I don't come to Scrapgirls as often as I'd like but working, ranching, being a Mama and a wife and everything else sometimes gets in the way of my scrapping and socializing...I hope this blog will help me keep in touch with my Scrap Sisters whom I love! Be brightly blessed...always and in all ways, Shanyn, the Mystic-Mom