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Texts As Journaling A Light Bulb Moment

#1 klingon_princess

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 12:26 PM

Last night my husband was deleting text messages from his phone and asked if I wanted to save any from my daughter (his step-daughter). The light bulb went off! I had him keep them, I'm going to transcribe the messages and use them as journaling. As in many blended families, they got off to a rough start. Their text conversations are so precious to me now that she appreciates and loves him.

I'd love to hear of other ideas ya'll have used.

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 12:29 PM

That is such a good idea, Gina! So, there is value in our texting! LOL (Really, I can't imagine life without it anymore)

Can't wait to see the layouts you do using the texts as journaling. Thanks for sharing your idea.

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 12:42 PM

wow, what a great idea!

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 12:49 PM

I think that is a great idea!

I saw a layout in the recent Scrapbooks Etc. magazine where someone put a Facebook post & comments on a layout.

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 01:04 PM

Great idea. SMS from my granddaughter goes something like this. 'Ouma I love you' and 10 mins later, Ouma can you put time on my phone please?

Ouma did you remember to put time on my phone? Thank you Ouma. I get these once a month. :disappearing-smilie:

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 01:48 PM

Belle, on 07 July 2011 - 01:04 PM, said:

LOL

I can totally see the layout around these texts! Definitely featuring a picture of your granddaughter on the phone.

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 01:51 PM

tiza126, on 07 July 2011 - 12:49 PM, said:

I saw a layout in the recent Scrapbooks Etc. magazine where someone put a Facebook post & comments on a layout.

Ooohhh, that's good too! My brother creates masterful posts, I feel a surprise LO for him coming on.

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 02:44 PM

Great idea, thanks for sharing!

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 02:45 PM

Belle, on 07 July 2011 - 01:04 PM, said:

LOL Belle!!

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 03:12 PM

The first ever scrapbook layouts I did were from saved emails from places I'd been.
I would bring my laptop along and then send a brief email and a few photos to friends and family.
I never wanted to erase them until I found SG and digital scrapping and these were the first ones I did!
I already had the text and photos picked out, so it was a nice way to start, I got to delete the emails and I had printed 5x7 pages of my adventures!
I also had sent emails showing my work in a drawing and watercolor class, so I scrapped those also.

I love the text message idea too!

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 05:38 PM

Super idea!!

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 06:25 PM

Love it!

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Posted 07 July 2011 - 07:49 PM

Fabulous idea!

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