No photo's required!

I thought this was a very cool challenge.

Over the weekend I was reading Donna Downey's blog which led me to a new blog by a great watercolour artist named Kal - who has issued a 1 + 1 + 1 challenge (go to her blog for complete details) to write a letter dated one year, one month & one day from today about what you will be doing , where you will be at, who you will be with etc..... Use your imagination, dream big. Write it down, then go make it your reality. I thought it would be a very unique writing assignment for a high school English class. Not to mention it spoke directly to my scrapbooking journaling heart.

This past week I have been working on a mini album - a photo's optional project. I am calling it "Recollections" Each page will have a recollection of my past, things that I recall, and remember that I truly do not want to forget (loosely inspired by the movie The Notebook ) Things that I may or may not (in most cases do NOT) have any photo's for. Things like how I used to jump out of my 2nd story bedroom window by grabbing a branch of the tree - and how my dad always wondered (never caught on) why that one branch was always growing funny! Or how in the summer Dad used to get a great deal on " ice-cream seconds" from the Dairy - Naked Revels (no chocolate), Popsicles with one stick, Drumsticks with no nuts - you never knew what you were going to get when you picked because usually the labels were all wrong too. No photos in my collection for these memories....

It is my hope that one day when I am old and my memory may not work quite as it should that this little album will be a source of great joy! Then it will be passed down and the stories enjoyed over and over... Recollections! Remembers!

Tell me what you are working on these days... or what your not! I would love to hear from you.