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5.0 out of 5 stars
Best idea-starter I've ever found, January 13, 2004
By A Customer
This review is from: The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Yourself (Paperback)
You can find hundreds of resources out there that just give you layouts. They're a dime a dozen, all tripping over each other with endless duplication.
But this is the first one I've found that gives you a totally new perspective on scrapping and journaling. Instead of just doing the same tired old "event-event-event" formats, Angie Pedersen has had the brilliant idea of examining your own entire life-story as a whole and putting it into a meaningful context.
She's provided tons of quotations that are wonderful idea-starters. For example, one said, "There's something joyful and comforting about ice cream." Not only did it make me laugh, but it made me think about the major role ice cream has played in my life. Going back through old pictures, I found some of cranking out homemade ice cream with my parents when I was a kid, many birthday pics with my little face smeared chocolate, a midnight raid on the dorm's ice-cream machine during finals week in college, shots of enjoying ice cream with my own kids at the zoo, and sharing a big bowl with my baby grandson. Yup, I ALWAYS reach for the ice cream! But until I read Angie's book, I would NEVER have thought about combining all those different events over my life-span into one layout.
In one chapter, Angie talks about analyzing the people and the sources that have been influential in shaping your spiritual outlook on life. Just reading her book's quotations and thinking about this was a valuable experience in figuring out how I got to be who I am. Naturally, I didn't have pictures for a lot of this, but Angie's suggestions for no-picture situations made it an easy layout. Same with thinking about the times I've had to overcome something I was afraid of doing.
This book is nothing short of a radical new way to look at scrapping. Not only does it give a different "feel" to your pages, but it's a great way to gain new insights into your life. This book should be in the hands of every therapist!
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19 of 19 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
I Need This Encouragement, September 3, 2002
This review is from: The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Yourself (Paperback)
Putting myself in my scrapbooks is one of the hardest things for me. For one thing, I'm usually the one BEHIND the camera. And besides it's really hard to write about yourself.
Angie reminds us why it's important to scrapbook about ourselves as well as about our families, our trips, our pets, etc. And, she provides helpful examples and idea starters.
The many page examples provide concrete examples.
The emphasis on journalling is particularly helpful.
This book isn't just an ordinary page layout idea book -- it's inspiration, encouragement, and instruction.
Get this book and put yourself in your pages.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
The only one of its kind, November 16, 2003
This review is from: The Book of Me: A Guide to Scrapbooking About Yourself (Paperback)
For childless singles and for those who - like me - come from families that never paused to take many pictures (or even have a working camera in the house) - this book is EXCELLENT! Just a few minutes reading the prompts and ideas will show you that you have far more material for scrapbooking than you might have thought possible (including how to showcase those events you were too busy to photograph). The reason I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 is that the book's focus is primarily on finding content. Once you've generated ideas, there's not as much in the way of layout or other basic how-to's. If you're not an experienced scrapbooker, consider getting an introductory how-to book to use WITH this one. By itself, it's not enough information. It WILL definitely inspire, though!
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