These remind me of the holiday scrapbooks that my mum used to make (about which I chefly remember being outraged when she wrote something slightly sarcastic about me! Gasp!), but so much more fun and colourful and I flippin' love the drawings. Thanks for showing them to us!
Your mum sounds cool! You should try to get her to dig them out.
I like sticking in things like tickets, because I know that after a decade or so they'll start looking really vintage. I bet your mum's scrapbooks are full of historic little details now.
'Slightly sarcastic' - this is the future for Item, I fear.
Also - I feel like I should be doing the thanking! It really motivates me to know that people are reading stuff, and when they don't entirely hate it, it helps me overcome my natural feelings that I'm totally rubbs. So I do get a lot out of posting.
If you are writing a possibly slightly ropy book then there's always ebooks now, so why bother trying to get a publisher, but the fact that you don't have to have a print run as such means that image based stuff is affordable to self publish in much the same way as many bloggers have zazzle stores or the like.
I didn't read it all again but I did scroll through to admire how nice it looks as a whole.
When I went to Rome as a student I combined photos, tickets, leaflets and things for a scrapbook but it's the kind of thing I can't be bothered to do now. I should start again!
Yes, when you're on a roll, it stops seeming like much effort, although of course knowing that you're only doing it for a set period - and having the extra time that a holiday gives you - helps.
As mentioned fleetingly, I tried to encourage Item to do one too, but after initial enthusiasm she found it more of a chore. One day, perhaps.
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(say hello to the cats for me!)
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The cats are waving.
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I like sticking in things like tickets, because I know that after a decade or so they'll start looking really vintage. I bet your mum's scrapbooks are full of historic little details now.
'Slightly sarcastic' - this is the future for Item, I fear.
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you could easily self publish.
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If you are writing a possibly slightly ropy book then there's always ebooks now, so why bother trying to get a publisher, but the fact that you don't have to have a print run as such means that image based stuff is affordable to self publish in much the same way as many bloggers have zazzle stores or the like.
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When I went to Rome as a student I combined photos, tickets, leaflets and things for a scrapbook but it's the kind of thing I can't be bothered to do now. I should start again!
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As mentioned fleetingly, I tried to encourage Item to do one too, but after initial enthusiasm she found it more of a chore. One day, perhaps.
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