Mini Book of the Month: Domestic Diva
Another great online idea for a mini book. I just love the creativity and step-by-step scrapbooking instructions.
Another Crop Room
If you’re like me, you enjoy peeking into others crop rooms to see how they organize their scrapbooking space. Here’s a small crop room that looks like it could be in anyone’s house.
I just re-organized my room at home as well. I bought a ton of coordinated boxes to stash supplies in. It’s not really picture-worthy yet though. It’s still just a table and a set of shelves from Ikea sharing space with the guest bedroom.
If/when we move - I have my sights set on a better layout!
Ten Photographic Principles
Many classes and tips about photography, talk about improving the fundamentals of how to take better photos.
I was inspired by this article by Jim Altengarten, an educator in photography, in which he talks about ten principles of how to take better photos.
His top 10 photography tips include:
- Believing is seeing
- Take five or more shots of any scene
- Keep your mind open
- Use every lens in your bag
- Photograph your values
- Use one of the seven exposure values that are available
- Be childlike
- Stay out late… get up early
- Know when to pull the trigger
- Practice, practice, practice
What I liked about the article was that he really made me think about how to get in the right frame of mind to capture a scene. Although I’m still a one lens kinda-gal, and I fumble with the manual settings on my camera, I still took away some valuable lessons.
Scrapbooking a Secret
Over the years, I’ve been doing genealogical research about my family, hoping to someday find the time to put together the stories and old pictures for future generations to enjoy. As a girl, I remember spending hours pouring over my grandmother’s old photo albums with the black pages, white writing, and picture after picture of my mother, her siblings, and cousins who’ve names have long since been forgotten.
I enjoyed reading Jane Swanson’s article about Scrapbooking a Secret. She tells a great story about her great-grandfather, a secret he had, and how she captured it in a layout.
I hope through my research to be able to uncover some of these same types of secret stories about my own ancestors.