rukristin's Roundup: December 16, 2023

How are you wrapping up 2023?

Hey friends!

I hope that you’ve had a great first half of December. I’ve been getting into my end of year projects around here, and this week I spent a lot of time thinking about how my scrapbook projects are going to work in the upcoming year.

If you caught my newsletter on Wednesday, I talked about the Scrapbook Scavenger Hunt Review. If you’re going to do any single thing to get ready for your 2024 storytelling, do this Scrapbook Scavenger Hunt Review. Learn more about this process in Wednesday’s newsletter.

Scrapbook Scavenger Hunt

While flipping through my albums, there were so many things that I observed that I want to bring forward into my 2024 stories. Here are a few at the top of my list:

• Full page photo collages.

• More interactive elements.

• Include interesting textures and things to touch.

• Outside the page protector pages were great. I really enjoy that size, and it let’s me do all sorts of creative things that wouldn’t work nearly as well inside a page protector.

Next year I’ve got a few projects on deck that I’m looking forward to working on. Most are returning projects that I might change up a bit based on what I really enjoyed making this year.

• My 2024 Chronological Album

  • One of the things that I realized flipping through my albums is that I want to include more current events. I love those pages in my books, and I think they really help to ground your personal stories in the national/global stories of the day.

• Book of Me

  • This year I’m definitely going to focus on a lot more interactivity in my Book of Me pages. I want to add more interesting ways of journaling to my pages.

• Daily Pages

  • I’m not really making any changes to my own Daily Pages habit, aside from focusing a little bit more on our new monthly lens (but that’s gonna show up in my Book of Me as well).

So — if you do one thing at all to prep for next year’s stories, head over to Wednesday’s newsletter and do your own Scrapbook Scavenger Hunt. And, reminder that paid subscribers have access to the My Albums Review worksheet and the flip-through video I put together of my own albums.

This week’s Daily Pages

Last Weekend

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Tip of the Week

These small clear pages of acetate have shown up a couple times in my album this week. I used them here to create a title for this spread where I had already covered both pages with stamped trees. I also used it in yesterday’s page with the clear circle. I picked it up at scrapbook.com. It comes in this smaller size that works perfectly in this smaller album.

A Look Ahead

Here are some of the great things coming up in the new year!

• FSS Spring Semester Orientation: January 16-19

• Book of Me Bootcamp + Prep Weekend*: January 27 + 28

• 1000th Daily Pages Livestream: Saturday, February 3rd

• New Course! 30 Days of Daily Pages: Women’s History Month Edition*: March 1-30

• FSS Organization Intensive Week: April 15-19

• New Course! Selfie Mechanics 101*: May 6-24

• Awesome Ladies Live**: July 2024

All of these courses and events are included with the Feminist Scrapbook School membership.

*These courses will also be available a la carte in the shop when they’re released.

**Awesome Ladies Live tickets not included in FSS membership price.

Places you can find me

• Here on Substack, which is now also the home to my podcast: Crafty Ass Female.

• In my free Feminist Scrapbooking community & app: The Awesome Ladies Project.

• The ALP YouTube Channel.

• Teaching at Feminist Scrapbook School, including our Noon ET Daily Pages Livestream every weekday