She became interested in the stories about the Flour Mill. I had a lot of blueberry memorabilia there.” “We used to have our organizing meetings there and when the festival was on, we opened it to the public. She was known for being the author of “le cookbook Sudbury” and she organized a Blueberry Den in a small building beside her house. He could direct you to the resources you needed for a project.” “He would follow though with my ideas and dreams about the blueberry festival. He was very enthusiastic about blueberries,” she added. Lalande said she enjoyed working with Mayor Wong on the blueberry festival. She was assisted by former mayor Peter Wong, Charbonneau said.
But you can go as simple and DIY as you like! This project is so easy to personalize.I work and work at something until I achieve it.įlour Mill amateur historianeAmong her many achievements was the initiation of the city-wide Sudbury Blueberry Festival in the mid 1980s. If you want a way to remember the little moments without a huge commitment, I highly recommend a minimal memory keeper! Becky Higgins from Project Life has a great system, as do the ladies at A Beautiful Mess. I think taking the pressure to be perfect out of scrapbooking allows us to show life with way more accuracy. What do you think about our spreads? I wanted to show the ordinary and the important together. You can find kits to help you embellish at craft stores, but to keep this as simple as possible just use whatever you have lying around! Cut up magazines with pretty backgrounds or use your subway card from that trip to New York – seriously, anything you have works. It’s about getting memories off your phone and putting them somewhere where you and others can really enjoy them. It’s not about looking perfect or having everything go together. I like to include cards, handwriting, ticket stubs – really anything that can fit in a page protector – to add life to my binder. Now for the fun part – choose your page protector layouts (I bought different ones via JoAnn Fabrics and A Beautiful Mess) and fill them with photos! The spreads I decided on for this project were the “Pretty Ordinary” around the office, spring collection inspiration and our first chalk lettering workshop. Your spreads could be as simple as you like – try doing one spread per week, filling up a small binder of the month! (You don’t have to actually fill it out each week, though. I didn’t want to make each page one event – I wanted the spreads to capture an idea. Speaking of office, I also wanted to showcase a new print we sampled and will potentially be offering soon in the shop – the Office Sweet Office design! This opening spread is like the minimal memory keeper version of our “ Pretty Ordinary” blog series. It just helps you organize your photos! For example, I wanted to showcase in this first spread a couple of things: National Letter Writing Month (which is a big deal around here), our April wallpaper download, and little snapshots of the mess we make in the office. It’s low-pressure!Ī “theme” doesn’t have to mean what it means in traditional scrapbooking. This sounds so archaic nowadays, but yes – actually print out your photos! I sent about 30 photos I took on my iPhone or from blog posts about our recent happenings to Target’s photo center and they were ready two hours later.ĭon’t worry about looking for your best photos – just print out simple moments that actually capture what your week or month was like. Page protectors that fit your binder – pick protectors with varying designsĪ few optional decorative supplies I used include:.3-ring binder of your chosen size (Mine is 9×11 and from Target).You don’t need much to make this project! Just the following:
That’s why I wanted to share with you this minimal memory keeper DIY – it’s a fuss-free scrapbook so you can keep track of the daily things you might otherwise let pass. It’s been a busy couple of months around here at Lily & Val! We’ve had two amazing workshops, released a new spring collection, and we’re getting ready for the National Stationery Show! With so much going on, it’s important to stop and keep track of the little moments so you don’t forget what makes life fun.
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