Words

The Princess Pea is 3 and has an extensive vocabulary. She also makes up words to pretend she is speaking another language. When asked what her gibberish means she will give a translation. Yet, some words she never gets right, even after we say them. I told YTBN (yet to be named) that we would want to remember these so we wrote an email to ourselves. I lost the email and realized we needed a better way to remember. This is one of the reasons for scrap-booking.

The words on journaling strips was an easy decision. I also envisioned a profile picture of the Princess Pea and journaling explaining how she confused these words and couldn't even understand why we were correcting her and would often correct us. I choose the snazzy title, "The Things You Say." A google search got the better of me. I needed to know if there was a word to define what she was doing. When I saw what a nice definition it was, and how well it explained all of my journaling, I knew this was my new title. With the title placed I could see that a picture would clutter the page. It wasn't her face we were remembering anyway. It was the words. Therefore my page became one of only words. I think it worked very well.

credit: Cars Go Beep Beep by Becki Kress
staples by Traci Simms - Summer Shabby

I have an online friend that went camping, but forgot her camera. Using a camping kit, she made her scrap page anyway, with no pictures in the frames or on the mats. The journaling explained the events, including the missing camera. It was a wonderful layout that was fun to look at and preserved the memory. It demonstrated what scrap-booking is about.

Have you ever tried scrapping a picture-less page?