WWW January 2024͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ ͏‌ 
Live Your Story with Stacy Julian
 

Wonderful World of Workflow
January 2024

 

Memorabilia

This session of Wonderful World of Workflow we started talking about memorabilia. We will also be continuing our memorabilia discussion during our Story Coaching session in a couple weeks.

What do you do with the fun pieces you have that remind you of the stories you’ve lived? Whether it’s a child’s piece of art or a ticket stub from an event, these little treasures can hold deep meaning and memories of the stories you want to tell.

One of the reasons we love WWW (and Story Coaching) is that we get the opportunity to learn from each other and share what’s working and where we could use a little help and inspiration. Each of you have your own experiences that are so valuable to others in our Live Your Story community.

Stacy asked some thought provoking questions and we had a productive session that clearly showed that the topic of memorabilia creates different ideas and approaches from everyone!

Stacy’s Questions:

What’s a really cool piece of memorabilia you have? Why do we even want to keep memorabilia? How easy it for you to include memorabilia in your scrapbooking and story telling? What do you wish would be easier? What do you wish you were doing more of, when it comes to memorabilia?

If you have asked yourself any of these questions, you will most certainly want to visit the replay of this WWW session to help inspire YOU!

We don’t always have a fine tuned or specific workflow for memorabilia because we aren’t always visiting it, like we do our photo libraries. This creates less of an automatic workflow. But there is ALWAYS good things to do — even if we’re not always consistent.

Special things come through in memorabilia — so much evidence that’s not as easily captured in a photographs, so we NEED it.

Your approach will adapt and change

Over time you gain or shift perspective of what matters and what doesn’t. What you're willing to keep and what you’re ready to let go of may evolve. As you work through this you will often revisit your memorabilia and be able to continue to curate so that you ultimately have an accessible collection that’s easy to enjoy.

Use a digital approach

Not only can you scan large documents and artwork to keep in your digital library, Stacy demonstrated that you can use the caption field of your photo’s meta-data to record when you have a specific piece of memorabilia you want to include with the photo, when you’re ready to tell a story.

If a piece of memorabilia were a photo in your digital library and it would receive a ❤️ than you should be including it in your story telling.

 

You can watch a replay of January’s WWW on YouTube.

 

 

Up NEXT!

Do It Together: Friday, January 19th 3PM PT, Register HERE
This is our scrapbook together hour and this month, we’re starting with stickers!

 

A Note from Stacy

Often, items we want to save are too big for a scanner—like this watercolor my son, Clark painted of our home back in 2001.

This is when I reach for my smart phone. I shoot downstairs near tall sliding doors, in natural light. I do my best to stand over the item and shoot straight down without casting any shadows. I then use the app PicTapGo to do some adjusting right on my iPhone. This app makes it EASY for me to see the adjustments I want to make with filters, like “Lights On”

After you take and edit a photo, you’ll want to open the information panel and adjust the date—if you have it—and add details to the caption field or apply keywords, if you use them.

In January I committed to finish processing a huge collection of kids artwork …

I’ve done this in 15 minute chunks of time and am now editing and making meta date adjustments on my phone as I have a minute here or there!

Please don’t wait for that magical day when you have 5 free hours! Start with one collection of memorabilia. Bring it out into your workspace and start to sift, toss, scan or photograph. You will be surprised at what you can accomplish and even better, you’ll LOVE the memories and stories that flow into your mind!

 
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