Spring Break

Over spring break, I promised my friend Jenny I would show her how to do scrapbooking. It was a really interesting experience. I enjoyed teaching Jenny something I've been working hard on learning myself. I will email her and see if she can send me any pictures of some of the stuff we made together. Since Jenny and I met in middle school, we focused on our middle school and high school experiences - something I had not really done much of yet.

Currently, we are reading chapters of the book Cheap for class. I do believe there is some sort of correlation between my project and this book. The book talks a lot about making things available at cheaper prices, and I feel like scrapbooking is a way to save money by doing something yourself instead of buying it from someone else.

I'm still working on sketches for pages in my scrapbook. In the next week or so, I hope I can really begin putting everything together, so that by the end of the semester I have a finished piece that is complete.

Making Progress

The sketching out ideas technique has been a good one! Right now, I'm working on some of the pages that will reflect my life at IU, and more specifically in my sorority. It's really fun to kind of see what my brain wants it to look like, and then adjust it to make the page more realistic. It's hard to tell, but this page has four pictures, and the stuff in the middle says "ADPi Homecoming." I used stickers that I got as a present from my sorority, and got the letters that spell homecoming from a scrapbooking kit I purchased to help with my project. 

Something cool that I think I'm going to do is bring my project home over break and try to teach my best friend how to create a scrapbook page. I told her about this project, and she really wanted to see it. It is cool to see that what I am doing is influencing others around me. Even though we don't have to post over break, I am planning on having a post just to show everyone what the results were. Who knows, maybe I'll use whatever Jenny (my friend) makes as inspiration!

The more I scrapbook and work on my project, the more fun I am having. I love just being able to create what I consider art. It may not be the most goregous thing, and would never wind up in an art museum, but it is something useful to me, and shows what kind of person I am.