This here was the first time I went down the road of what is now considered traditional scrapbooking. In the past I had always kept art-journals for developing conceptual creative projects, whether that be photography projects or paintings. I kept a journal for everyday writing and song-writing and a few traditional photo albums for my photographs. To be honest I had always looked at scrapbooking as a little bit daggy, that's an Aussie slang term = NAFF !
I still look at it that way sometimes! MY BAD! :( Scrapbooking has a bad rep in the craft world and no place in the art world! Probably due to the art and design world's continued generalising of the gentle-arts; those crafts that are typically female! Righteo! YUCK! After I had my daughter and had all of these super cute pictures and awesome little things I had collected throughout her infancy I new I had to make a bit more of an effort with her baby album. Looking at a traditional scrapbooking album one day, with all that room to document her lovely life I new this format felt right. I was a stay-at-home-mum and hated the cliche but seriously, I needed a new creative hobby STAT! I am a songwriter and have an abundance of visual art concepts but executing my art most of time feels hard but at that time anything beyond looking after my daughter was just too big an endeavour. Scrapbooking looked crafty and FUN! I needed FUN! So I bought that uber-twee album that included some gross pre-made, super-girly PINK pages and I got to work. I also put in a whole bunch of plain white pages with cards and pictures and settled for the fact that it wouldn't be perfect and with all this said and done I FREAKING LOVE IT! My husband loves that album and my daughter loves looking back at her first year and it's the sweetest thing I own really! |
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