How often do you scrap a LO for YOURSELF (one that you wouldn't share)?

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How often do you create a LO for yourself... you know, one that you wouldn't really share with others?

I have found myself scrapping more and more pages for myself, kind of like scrap therapy, and I've been keeping them in a separate digi album.

Do you do this? And if so, what types of things do you scrap about (if you don't care to share!)
 
I have never done this. But with the recent events in my life, I am thinking about starting this. There are just some things I journal about that I think would be nice to scrap and look back on later. Maybe to share with my daughter or grandchild down the road, ya know?

I am curious too to hear from others on this.
 
I'm an over sharer, so I share everything in my galleries, lol. I've scrapped a few emotional pages for myself, just to do and have and get things out of my head. I'm a big fan of scrap therapy (it's cheaper than real therapy :p). Lots of times I'll copy journaling into my credits, but if there was stuff I didn't want to do that with, then I wouldn't I guess. One really emotional page I posted everything, and I got a lot of great feedback on it. Sometimes people can really connect with something you did/went through/are going through, and it helps both of you to know you're not alone.

And I've never printed my LO's (I know, I know, I'm working on it) so I can't speak on that aspect of it all. I suppose I would have a separate book done for myself in that case.
 
I do it pretty often. I find when I do it, there are no photos most of the time. And sometimes there are even no elements! They are truly just for my own satisfaction so I don't care what they look like. I don't mind sharing a few of mine, but they are rather boring :)

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I do this a bit and normally will still post to the galleries. I'm not sharing anything seriously personal, just thoughts and experiences about my struggles with anxiety and depression. Sometimes I feel funny posting, but I just hope that maybe my struggles can help someone else in some way.
 
Depends on exactly what you consider 'for yourself.' If you mean LOs that are not in the gallery (but still shared with family), I do those when I need to, when there's something I want to get down for my kids but don't feel right making public about them. Maybe 5-10 a year, I'd guess.

If you mean pages that I share with NO ONE, I rarely do it. My scrapping is meant to be shared. I've always coped with problems by writing, so I journal for myself if there's something I need to deal with, but I never turn that into pages. I'm too private a person. I have a hard time opening up to people, and I'd live in terror of the page being found and read if I did any scrap therapy. For some reason I don't have the same fear of people finding and reading my thoughts in a notebook. It's not that I'm okay with them reading the notebook, just that I feel like the chances of them doing it are less.
 
I'm exactly like Col. I share too much. My thought is...you guys (girls) know more about me than most people IRL and I'm ok with that. I scrap my pages for me and I honestly don't care if you read my inner thoughts. I'm not going to actually meet the majority of you and I don't have to worry about the embarrassment that would come along with that. LOL
 
I scrap whatever I want.. emo or not. I have blurred the journaling a couple times..
but yeh that's what scrapping is about/for to me.
 
I don't do them too often, but I think I might start. It would be nice to have a "scrap journal" for myself to look back on. I usually just scrap for my kids to have something to look back on.

Here is one did recently for one of the Log Your Memory challenges with La's new kit, and some goodies from Krystal -

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I do them sometimes. I usually end up sharing them, but I want to alteast try to document the good, bad, and not so pretty moments. they are what make me ME and us a family.
 
I do! I have a separate album for my hormonal/about me pages. The pages vary from, "I hate myself today" to "OMG I looooove Henry Rollins" :p I'm actually a very private person. I really don't care what the scrapping community sees but I don't like everyone else I know to read and see all my business LOL. I know that's kind of wacky and backwards. Scrapping is my catch all outlet ;)
 
I have done one personal LO

I shared, but I blurred all the text. It was far too personal to post. And I had intended to cover their faces, so that is how it is supposed to be.

Three of the men in my past who greatly affected my present.
 
Sonja - I love your page - how awesome!! Total therapy - as far as separate scrap pages - I too am an emo over sharer ...
 
I have one in my head right now that I'm planning on getting done in the next couple of days. I'm not sure if I will share it or not - it just depends on where the journalling goes I guess.

I have made some in the past but I haven't shared them. I usually just delete them after awhile because I do it more for the therapy than for printing.
 
I have some in mind that I need to do... I'm pretty much an open book though so I'm not afraid to share about my infertility and miscarriages and stuff like that. Although, I may not share the one about sorting thru my feelings of my MIL giving my son his first haircut behind my back and me dealing with missing out on that milestone... I'm not bitter, GAH! But the reason I wouldn't share that one isn't because I don't want to, it's to spare my MIL from getting hurt.
 
I've done two and I've shared them both. But I don't do them often. One was for a Sugar Free challenge and the other was for a challenge we did on La's blog.



 
Never. I have shared them all or else don't do them. I should get it out more often, though I would still share it in the gallery.
 
I created a 20something page divorce art journal over the course of 2006-2007 as some heavy duty therapy for myself. While I had posted pages of it on my now defunct personal blog, it's no longer online nor did I post most of the pages in any galleries when I created them.

I not only wanted an in the moment record for myself, but to show my (then future) children when they were old enough. Since I didn't have any children with my ex and have no contact with him, it's 'easy,' as it were, to keep that part of my life private, but I definitely do not want my daughter and any future daughters to make the same mistakes I did and end up marrying someone who is completely wrong for them. I'll be much easier to show them those pages and let them see for themselves what mistakes I made and what impact it had on me rather than trying to explain with 20 years distance between what happened and my current life.
 
I've only done a couple pages of myself/for myself but I'm usually just making pages of my kids. With the book of me challenge, I made the 3 and want to do more! I'll probably do the other 2 challenges too! I actually enjoyed scrapping myself finally!!!
 
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