You must include journaling and at least one photograph on each page, although the more you include the better.This lesson we will be focusing our attention on our own role as a mum/mother. This role has different meaning to all of us, and that difference is what we want to embrace.
You may be a birth mum, a step-mum, a foster mum, an adoptive mum, a fill-in mum or an emergency care mum.
This double page layout will be different for everyone, but I want you all to focus more on your thoughts, feelings, plans, dreams and outcomes than on your children. This is not a page about your children, it is about you as a mum.
If you are not a typical mum use this as your page direction.
Journaling Ideas/Prompts:
Did you always want to be a mum
How did you become a mum
Why did you become a mum
Was your motherhood planned
Was it difficult to become a mum
How has motherhood changed you
How do you feel as a mum
How do you feel about motherhood
How has your journey as a mum evolved
What are you like as a mum, in your opinion
How long have you been a mum
Tips and Hints for completing your book:
* Keep collecting/copying every photograph with you in it
* Don’t have any or many photographs of yourself….Take some! Take lots!
* Get a notebook or cheap exercise book and write down anything about yourself as it comes to you
* Use stuff you love (scrapbooking supplies)
* This is a good opportunity to use up your stash
* You could use your favourite colour scheme
* Try something different on every page
* Experiment on every page
* Use your own handwriting
* Scraplift if all if you want
* Be honest
* Use your own style of scrapbooking or try something a bit different
* Do the pages as simple or as elaborate as you choose
* Use hidden journaling to conceal sensitive or personal information
REMEMBER: This is your book about yourself and that means you get to do it how you want!
Copyright Alicia Redshaw 2008-