How Scrapbookers Can Be Generous

Each Monday, I discuss my Scrap Happy project based on Gretchen Rubin’s The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean My Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle, and Generally Have More Fun.

Another way to make time for friends is to be generous. Here are two ways to be generous:

1. Bring people together:

• This one should be fairly obvious to most scrapbookers. You can bring people together to crop in-person. I enjoy cropping with other people. I like cropping by myself, too, but like to get together with scrappy friends sometimes. One barrier to doing this though is the space. Do you have space in your home or is their an affordable space you can rent in order to scrapbook with other people? I sort of have some room in my home but it is in the dining room. I would have to get my husband, daughter, and dog out of the house in order for me to enjoy scrapbooking with other people in my home.
• Another way to bring people together is to build some sort of online community. There are several online scrapbooking communities. I am only now venturing into this arena. Who knows, maybe we’ll have an online scrapbooking community here someday?
• Finally, just bringing people together for other purposes can create scrapworthy moments. You get the benefit of bringing people together but also have another story to collect for your scrapbook.

How do you bring people together as a scrapbooker?

2. Contribute in my way

• As a scrapbooker, you have a skill set that can be used in positive ways. Perhaps you take photos of your child’s baseball games. Why not share those photos with the other parents? Perhaps you have a friend that has rolls of film that have never been developed or digital photos that have never been printed. Offer your time to help him or her deal with her or his photos. Does your sister want to start scrapbooking? Help her out. Bring her to your house and show her the tools you use to scrapbook. Then offer to take her a shopping to get the tools she would like to use to get started. Perhaps you have some supplies you are no longer using and you could share them with her. Maybe you have excess supplies. Donate them to a school, a daycare, or to a social worker (who helps foster children create life books).

What are other ways that scrapbookers can be generous as part of their Scrap Happy Project?

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