JackieAnn
Creative Team Member
Registered: October 2007
Location: On the beach in sunny California~
Posts: 11,287
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This was a tough one to create…but as my journaling states…it helped some with the healing process.
DIGITAL SUPPLIES:
Lots of Space Template 1:Heather Manning;
Alphabet, Dog Tags, Brad 1, Staple, Solid Paper 2, 3, &5:Inifinite Adventure Designs by Nikki Painter
Font: Papyrus
JOURNALING:
I have often heard of the theory of Scrap Therapy. How scrapbooking an event or life changing situation can help in the healing process. I have never really experienced that until this weekend. I had been eagerly looking forward to the events and challenges that Faith Sisters had been promoting for the weekend of National Scrapbook Day. I had gathered all my supplies together and printed out some new pictures so I could be ready for what fun challenges awaited me. Then a phone call came from my mom onThursday night telling me that a close family friend that I had grown up with had committed suicide, leaving behind his wife and three children. I was shocked and I was devastated. Scrapbooking is supposed to be a fun activity. How could I spend my weekend playing and creating when my heart was aching and grieving inside? But I came to realize that the creating process is also a healing process. While looking thru my family photos to scrap I remembered how lucky and blessed I am and I reminded myself to NEVER take them or that feeling for granted. The heartache is still there and the tears still come unexpectedly. But thru the tears comes the laughter as I create layouts of my family doing the silly crazy things only THEY can do.
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