Today for my, how do you document your life, Q and A, I have the creative Cindy from cinback. I've been a long time admirer of Cindy's style and all her amazing handwriting! Let's get to know more about Cindy and her way of documenting her everyday.
How long have you been documenting your life?
I have been documenting my life in some format or another since the early 2000s. Blogging was just becoming a thing and I somehow stumbled upon the blog of Ali Edwards. I immediately resonated with her philosophy and style of documenting and was completely inspired by her. From there I discovered other scrapbookers and signed up for every class that I could to learn about everything from photography, design, products and digital scrapbooking.
What size format did you start with and what size do you do now?
I think I have tried every possible format for documenting my life. Initially, I started with 12x12 layouts, then 8.5x11, then the pocket page system became a thing and I did 12x12, 12x9 and 6x8 albums. As well I have documented in a variety of mini albums. Most recently I have been using the Traveler’s Notebook format.
Do you document your life weekly, fortnightly or monthly?
This year I chose to do all my documenting in month by month traveler’s notebooks. Each month I filled a notebook with as many photos and stories as would fit. It is essentially a traditional layout format, but in a smaller size. However, even when I document in pocket pages, I generally stick to a monthly process and not worry about whether a spread starts at the beginning of a week or even a particular month. I just keep a running stream of photos and if a week or month ends in the middle of a spread, I just keep right on going. I also don’t worry about keeping the photos on a particular spread in chronological order, I just put them where they look best.
What keeps you motivated?
I am a curious person. I love to learn and try and perfect whatever I am working on. So I take a lot of courses and do a lot of playing and dabble in a lot of things and then I bring those skills back into whatever projects I am working on. The nice thing about the scrapbooking world is that it is always changing; from traditional to digital, the design of layouts, the multiple formats, new tools and products, and new people in the industry with fresh ideas to inspire me. I am motivated by and thoroughly enjoy the learning and creation process.
Do you make a certain time to document or do you just do what you can when you can?
My daytime job is very rigorous in terms of thinking and I mostly sit at my desk and work on a computer, so when I get home in the evening I need to do things with my hands! Most of my evenings I dedicate to scrapbooking or paper crafting of some sort. I am definitely a night person, so sometimes I have to force myself to get to bed because of work the next day, otherwise I would work all night on scrapbooking!
1-3 Instagram craft accounts that inspire you. If they are more PL based that would be better.
I love the inspiration found on Instagram and these are a few of my fave accounts:
How are you planning to document your 2019?
I started out the year 2018 intending to keep up pocket page documentation. I subscribed to Ali Edwards Stories By The Month kits and they are awesome, just what I needed. I kept up with the pocket pages until about Easter, then my focus went to the traveler’s notebooks. However, at this point, my plan is to record 2019 with pocket pages (12x12) once again. Since I already have the monthly kits by Ali Edwards, I am set and ready to go!
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