Trying a new kind of scrapbooking

[Valgal]

Have you ever switched your style of scrapping (not just design-wise) or watched it evolve over time? I've been scrapbooking for, gosh, 13 years or so? I've always done it as a way to document my kids growing up and my 'voice' of journaling has always reflected that. I find myself writing to them as adults (or to myself even should I become elderly and horribly forgetful, lol!)

But then I took about a year and a half break from scrapping. Life just got crazy and complicated and I dove into some other calming hobbies just to cope. I did Lynette's (Nettio) Holiday Faves class this Christmas just to give myself something new to do and it kinda jump started me again. But I don't feel like doing my same-old-same-old when it comes to scrapbooking. My boys are 16 and my dd is 12 and they just really don't appreciate me taking pics of everything they do anymore, and I've done SO MANY ALL ABOUT ME PAGES that I could wall paper my house. So I have this Snap 6x8 album and have started a really personal book that I don't even want anyone looking at. Some really, honest, brutal journaling about my crazy life. I decided about 3:00 this morning when I couldn't sleep AGAIN that I'd kinda like to keep it as a 'time capsule' of my life. Not the kind of scrapbook that you keep out on the coffeetable for people to look through, but the one you keep stashed away and later will pull out and think, "Ooo. Yeah. That was a really crappy month!" Maybe more like a personal journal but with photos and some creative expressions. Also doing a hybrid style, which I've never done, with my own handwriting and stuff. Simple stuff, but honest stuff. Not documenting my life for other people, but for myself.

Like this page where I captured some of my feelings about my dd's anxiety, which is full-blast on right now. Can't even get her out of the house and back to school. Definitely not a page I would put on Facebook, lol!

Has anyone else drastically changed their style anytime lately?