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Year End Interviews

Post by Katie

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It’s no secret that I (Katie) love this time of year. I really enjoy the slower pace of the week after Christmas and I take inventory of the year that is passing and prepare for the new one ahead. Of course, I do my monthly roundup at the end of December, and I like to use that same format to look back at the year’s events. One of my favorite things to do is to conduct year-end interviews with my family members. You can turn this into an official activity (great for family gatherings) or just sneak in a few questions here and there into your everyday conversations. Need some ideas? Here are a bunch to get you started:

Use a top ten list format to countdown favorite memories of the year. It would be fun to list the top ten favorites for the year in several categories such as music, entertainment, accomplishments, etc.
Since we are ending the year 2011 you might want to play off of the number eleven as a theme. I put together 11 lists on 11-11-11 and I’m excited to use these on some scrapbook pages!
Act like a newspaper reporter and take notes on the big stories of the year. Get quotes to use in your “story” (even from very young children) to add eyewitness accounts.
Use a letter-writing format and write a letter to the year 2011. Tell 2011 what you liked and didn’t like about it, or what you learned or enjoyed most because of it.
Review your past blog posts, status updates, and email archives for 2011 to get plenty of information to use in your interviews.
Interviews are perfect for lightning-round journaling!
Even if you can’t talk face to face with someone, send them an email or ask them questions on the phone or via skype.
Include historical events and pop culture in your year-end summaries. There are so many great resources to tap into!
Browse through the past calendars from the year for some great memory-joggers and ideas.
Use memes (rhymes with themes) and quizzes to find ready-made interviews to use.
Don’t worry about writing huge blocks of text, use a simple bullet journaling format to record the information.

Without even realizing it, I just gave you 11 ways to document your 2011. Now go and ask someone (even yourself) some questions and have fun recording the memories of 2011.

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MEMES & QUIZZES HELP YOU “cheat” on scrapbook journaling

Post by Katie

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Are you looking for a way to make journaling easier and more fun? Well, I (Katie) have a great idea for you. Have you heard of memes? Sometimes they are called “quizzes” or “prompts” in the scrapbooking world. Basically, they are sets of questions or ideas that you can copy and paste to your own blog (or scrapbook page!) and fill in your own personalized responses. They are a great way to come up with some journaling and you can even have friends and family members fill out their own copies for more material to use!

Here are some of our favorite resources for Memes, Quizzes, and Prompts:

119 Prompts for your Journal Jar – TONS of ideas here!
Creative Writing Prompt – Point your cursor to a number to see the prompt, then write your story.
The Daily Meme – The posts on this site are often thought-provoking topics to get you writing.
Daily Writing Prompts from Dee Phipps – A different idea each day.
Ella Publishing Quick and Creative Quizzes ($5.99 pdf idea book)
Journaling Prompts – Click on the little start to read each individual prompt.
Other blogs and facebook. Just keep your eye out for these types of posts and use them for yourself.

I also have a category on my own blog just for quizzes and memes. I love to add images and photos to mine. It makes it super easy to turn it into a scrapbook page later! Want to see how I turned this blog meme about Growing up in the 80’s into a scrapbook page?

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Background template by Scrapping with Liz, Solid papers by Suzy Q Scraps, Button by Natalie Braxton, Frames by Two Shutter Sisters, Font is CK Jot.

I only included the relevant statements on my scrapbook page. The journaling is the focus of the page and all I had to do was copy and paste it from my blog. I added my photos around it and kept them small since many were images from the web, Those usually print up just fine if you keep them small in size.

This is a scrapbook page that has very meaningful information about me and documents an interesting time in my history. Best of all, it was fun and easy to do! I hope you will give this type of journaling a try!

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