Welcome to the {march} Grow With Love: Letters project! “Grow With Love” is a collaboration of templates and story-driven journaling prompts presented by Crystal Livesay and Sara Gleason. The Letters edition is rooted in and inspired by letter writing. Letters to loved ones, letters to ourselves.
Why letter writing?
Including letter writing as a means of sharing your story, and in your scrapbooking, can have a transformative impact on your journaling and storytelling. Your pages will be all the more personal, all the more heart-felt and honest, all the more cherished, all the more YOU. Here’s why:
–Writing a letter allows you to naturally consider and focus your writing on an particular audience (who are you writing to? How will you speak to them? How does your “voice” sound and your words flow when you think of them?)
— There is something that seems so “common” in letter writing that we become less concerned with being a “good writer” and more concerned with the message and meaning we are sharing in our words. So in the process of letter writing, you can in fact grow as a writer. Grow in confidence, and grow in finding your voice in storytelling.
— Letters are usually among the most heartfelt and personal pieces of writing a person could create. They are full of emotion and full of intent. And this makes them special.
— When you read a letter or write a letter, an obvious “voice” shines through (the personality and character and all the little things that make you YOU just flow onto and off of the page)
— Letter writing transcends time. There is something so beautifully timeless in letter writing. It is something relatable and it bridges the gap of yesterday and today.
In the end, it comes to this: letters are a special brand of communication because really they are MORE than simple communication…they are GIFTS. Gifts of sharing your heart, sharing the every day, sharing the events, sharing emotion. And so it is in this spirit of “gifts” that we have created the {march} templates and prompts.
We hope you have enjoyed taking steps with us in this scrapping and storytelling journey so far as we have set our compasses {january} and reflected on loves {february}. Now, as we step into March, we will reflect on gifts. As always we will be blogging and expounding upon each prompt, offering inspiration and encouragement once a week — covering all 4 prompts in our third month of the Grow With Love: Letters project. The schedule for March is as follows:
Week One: Wednesday 9 March – join us on Sara’s blog: http://www.zinniasandswallowtails.com
Week Two: Wednesday 16 March – join us on Crystal’s blog: http://www.liveyourstories.com
Week Three: Wednesday 23 March – join us on Sara’s blog: http://www.zinniasandswallowtails.com
Week Four: Wednesday 30 March – join us on Crystal’s blog: http://www.liveyourstories.com
Each day we will post a prompt and delve into it a bit more, sharing our own inspirations and pages and hopefully giving you a bit of a creative push for your own pages. We are thrilled to share in this adventure in scrapping and in storytelling with you!