Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project.
This week, we continue discussing how to lighten up to be scrap happy. Last week, we talked about how acknowledging the reality of other people’s feelings is one way to lighten up. Today, the task is to be a treasure house of happy memories. For most, scrapbooking already does this. Other ways to do this could be:
- Hang family photos in your house. I have a hallway wall that is devoted to family photos. Occasionally, family photos appear on other walls or on the refrigerator.
- Get a professional family photo taken or at least a photograph of your family using the timer on your camera. I have a professional family photo scheduled to be taken in May. I hope to make this a yearly practice.
- Be the family reporter. I talked about how I did this during the giving proofs of love portion of my scrap happy project. I emailed and mailed photos of my daughter to relatives. I also gave my mom a dvd-rom full of photographs of my daughter.
If I remember correctly, it was when I read this portion of The Happiness Project that I realized how applicable the whole book is for scrapbookers.
Are you doing a happiness project? Are you doing a scrap happy project? What’s stopping you? Join me today!
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Stephanie Medley-Rath is a sociologist and scrapbooker who studies scrapbooking and memory keeping. Scrapworthy Lives is a blog focused on her sociological analysis of scrapbooking, with a sprinkling of posts about Stephanie's own scrapbooking projects.
