October 4
School Memories Album – Part 1
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Last month, I spent four weeks agonizing over my inability to do anything with my photos. I came up with a plan to start small and do an 8″ x 8″ album of “School Memories.” I choose this topic because:
1. I have a limited amount of pictures and memorabilia.
2. It has a very distinct timeline.
This week I gathered up my photos and memorabilia.
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What I kept:
- School pictures (individual and class)
- Report cards
- A few snapshots that have meaning to me
- Newspaper clippings
- School programs that I have distinct memories of
- School papers (my first full length story, poetry, creative writing)
- Graduation invitation & cards
- Booklets that have information on the history of the schools I attended
What I got rid of:
- Duplicate school pictures
- Snapshots that were blurry or didn’t have any significance to me
- School programs of events I have no memory of
- School papers that don’t have any meaning to me (tests, a report on the planet Mercury, drawings that I don’t remember doing)
- Cards that weren’t important to me
I tried to keep in mind that I want to tell a story. When I was going through my “treasures” I asked myself, “Does this support or add to the story I’m trying to tell?”Â
Daily Inspiration
 
Education is simply the soul of a society as it passes from one generation to another.
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Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Good for you! I’m anxious to see the finished project.
Sounds like you are getting organised.
I bet your finished project is wonderful! I love how you broke it down into a manageable task.
You are always so organised Lori, you have made me realise I live in complete chaos 🙂
You have so many wonderful memories saved, I chuck stuff away and then end up spending the next 10 years regretting it!
Lynne x
Oh, Lynne…I appear organized because I only photograph my organized things. Believe me, I am not organized.
Good for you!
Nola
What a great idea Lori! you are a very talented and organised lady, so pleased you’ve been chosen for the bag from Winnie.
Love and hugs Sue and the Taylor pack plus Belle
You have even more stuff from schooldays than I do! LOL. It must have been fun to re-read those old essays and reports. I’m not sure I could have thrown any of them away. I have some old poetry from my 30s that I almost shredded yesterday but couldn’t. Will have to work myself up to that soon 🙂