Things have been shifting in my mind for a while now; things about simplifying, wanting to concentrate on the living; living in a more Godly way and trying to cut out the noise which can fill my head because I choose to let it.
Today that’s manifesting itself in throwing myself into decluttering the house and catching up with things left undone, trying to do so in a gracious manner, willing and happy to serve my family. Knowing it might not last long but for today this is a good thing for me to be doing.
Later I hope that will mean spending more time writing, drawing, doodling; probably making some kind of crazy smashed scrapbook/ artbook which contains all those things, and photos from our life. I love taking photos and using instagram, using our lovely camera, but often they only make it as far as facebook or here. I want to be able to smush everything together into something tangible. I’m contemplating some kind of version of Project Life or Smashbooks; but what I don’t want is something else I feel obliged to do. Like this blog, I want to pick it up and know it doesn’t reflect every moment, second, joy, pain or season but that it is something. I love writing here and documenting with instagram but I don’t want it to be showing off our life, and I’m feeling a need for a move towards the tangible and the opportunities that will represent.
I still have some qualms about the repercussions of this; won’t I just end up with thousands of scrapbooks and photo albums? But the truth is it’s heading that way anyway. I just want to make sure the things we are hoarding in that manner are the ones we want to, and not getting lazy and letting the internet do the rest of the work for us.
I’ve often thought of getting this printed into a blog book, for posterity’s sake, but they cost so much to do and by now I would be filling several up with posts. I hope that this space will be great to look back on one day, and I’m certainly not going to try and play catch up and document a week in our life from Phoebe’s birth or anything.
Do any of you do Project Life / scrapbooking or any physical documentation? We made a scrapbook of our Europe roadtrip using an instant camera, and I loved being able to put it together so fast. I’d like to be able to print our photos quickly and get them in something before time flies past!
Lilian Druve says
Great drawings!
Zoe Rose @ papillonroses says
Thanks:) did them a while back, unfortunately!