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Yes, I'm Still Pocket Scrapbooking!

Pocket Scrapbooking is the generic term for "Project Life" -- a commercialized term coined by Becky Higgins.  In essentials, it's a form of scrapbooking in which you use page protectors with pockets to wrangle your memories.  I started doing Project Life and sharing the pages on my blog back in 2012:

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2013:

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2014:

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2015:

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In 2016, I stopped sharing photos from my albums, but I did keep doing it.  I took some of those albums off the shelves to snap a photo or two and here you go...

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2017:

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2018:

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2019:

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And I just finished my 2020 album:

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So, why did I stop sharing?  There are a few reasons:

  1. My life got complicated when I started dating after divorce.  I needed a bit of privacy from the judgment of the internet.
  2. Most people who read my blog didn't seem to be interested in scrapbooking. I noticed that there were very few comments or likes on posts about it.  I'm not 100% driven by that stuff, but it just didn't see worth it to take the photos and edit them and write the posts if no one was interested.
  3. I got some advice -- from someone I trust -- that I shouldn't mix up my "crafty stuff" with my "fine art stuff" or people would get confused.  This is a hard one for me because I love scrapbooking and memory keeping.  I also love creating fine art.  I think they can co-exist.  In my opinion, we create too many boundaries.  After all, what is an art journal but a form of memory keeping?  Creativity is creativity and it is glorious in all its forms.

Do you scrapbook?  I'd love to know!

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