Happy Wednesday! And Happy May!! (By the way, how is it May already?!)
If you’re just finding us here’s a smidge of backstory: “Grow With Love: Letters Edition” is a collaboration of templates and journaling prompts presented by Crystal Livesay and Sara Gleason and rooted in and inspired by letter writing as featured in the Artisan Notebook throughout 2011. We will really explore the beauty of letter writing in our scrapbooking through letters to loved ones, letters to ourselves, letters as words into the cosmos. Letters that help us set our hearts to paper, help us to get introspective, challenge us to bring words and thoughts to action in our days and letters that guide us to share the fun, the little moments, the every day. So far we have penned letters that reflect upon setting direction and setting compasses, loves and relationships, gifts and beginnings.
With Mother’s Day and Memorial Day here in the States, we were inspired to honor family this month with our prompts. And so the {may} letters will have us putting pen to paper writing letters honoring those we’ve loved, those we’ve lost, celebrating legacies and pondering our own.
We hope you will enjoy continuing in this scrapbooking and storytelling journey with us! Please remember anyone is welcome to join in and follow along at any time. You can access the complete Grow With Love archive and hop in to the Letters project which will be highlighted here every Wednesday. The schedule for May is as follows, with all posts found right here on the Plant Your Story blog:
Week One: Wednesday 4 May – join Sara for Day Seventeen
Week Two: Wednesday 11 May – join Crystal with Day Eighteen
Week Three: Wednesday 18 May – join Sara with Day Nineteen
Week Four: Wednesday 25 May – join Crystal for Day Twenty
And I’m so let’s dive in to the prompt for today, Day Seventeen:
This is a timely page for Mother’s Day which is celebrated here in the US this Sunday. Let yourself ponder your mother and how she has shaped you (good or bad). Reflect and write a letter that reflects this relationship and its dynamic.
Here’s a page from me that shines the light on my mom, who I am blessed to say has been an amazing light and influence in my life.
And here’s a spot of inspiration from the Storytellers:
Coila:
Lex:
Sara:
A page like this is not only a wonderful addition to your own albums and your story, but it could make a really lovely present for your mom too! We hope you feel inspired by this prompt and we would love to see your pages! Feel free to share them here in the comments or in the Plant Your Story gallery!
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Grow With Love is a story-centric scrapbooking and journaling project. We hope it will inspire you to document your stories in a meaningful way that helps you live life more meaningfully too. Please remember anyone is welcome to join in and follow along at any time. You can access the complete Grow With Love archive and hop in to any past Grow With Love project or follow along with the Letters project which will be highlighted here every Wednesday.