I want to make a scrapbook for my husband who is leaving soon, can I do the journaling in sticky notes?
He is going overseas soon to Japan with the US Navy for over 6 months.
I want to make something that's personal, between us... not dirty really, just something that I don't know that I want my kids seeing in the future, because... I guess, it's personal. I don't want them laughing at it when they're 10 :-) I guess it would be ok for to them to see it after we're dead though..
I just want the scrapbook to recall some of our most beloved moments in photographs, and be more about us than the embellishments.
But, Like I said, to keep it personal, would it be weird to put my "love letter" so to speak on a type of paper that could be removed once we have kids?
I want this to be more of a personal letter to him than a scrapbook really, the pictures are just to remind him of all of our wonderful memories while he's gone.
Should I just keep this private like a diary until we're ready to see our children choose? Should I let him decide on the privacy level? Or do you think the idea of writing a love letter for a deployed spouse with pictures is entirely corny and he will think so, and I should just give it up? ;-)
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Public Comments
1. Write that love letter. Put whatever your heart desires in it. Your kids do not need to see this even when they get older. It is something between you and your husband.BTW, your husband will love anything you send him. Letters, pictures, etc..
My husband was deployed to Iraq for a year. I sent him alot of letters and pictures and other things. He enjoyed ever single thing I sent him. When he came home, he handed me the letters. He kept them, and re-read them when he needed to "hear" from me. :-)
2. You can do anything you want with it.... There are no set "rules" for scrapbooks.
As for using sticky notes the down side to that (I scrapbook too) is that they loose their stickiness after awhile and will possibly get lost. I would suggest that you maybe just put loose letters or notes in a handmade or pre-made pretty envelope that way you could remove the ones you don't want others to see. The other idea is to do one for just him and another that other people can see. Trust me you will have plenty of time to do all the pages you want. I did a 40 page book in the year my DH was in Iraq (the first time) and still add to it and still have tons of stuff that needs to go into it,
3. Why not make a digital scrapbook?
I use photomix to make my collages and pages for my digital album.
You can save all your projects and print them out where ever you choose. Or leave them all on one disk or create an album in a place like photobucket or somewhere.
It also helps you to see everything together and you can make the pages elegent, crazy, bright, calm or what ever you want.
As for what to add to the scrapbook....add anything and everything you feel is important and memorable to you and your husband...there is no wrong thing for scrapbooking. All you need is your imagination and ambition.
Happy scrapbooking!
