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journalsandplanners2022-03-19 08:40 pm
ysabetwordsmith) wrote in journalsandplanners2022-03-19 08:40 pm
Memorial Board for Mom
During the Planner Snowflake event here, I mentioned that I was working on a memorial scrapbook and a memorial board for my mother, who passed away on December 26, 2021. I thought that you folks might enjoy seeing the posts I made about the construction process and final results.
Her Celebration of Life service was today, and I just finished the board last night. The memorial board has a chronological and thematic structure, using some of the same techniques I use in my journal and planner projects. It even includes a couple of scanned excerpts from my mother's journaling. The posts talk a lot about the tools and materials I used, the process of planning and constructing the board, and resources on memorial boards as a healing tool for grief work. So now this project exists both in hardcopy and in electronic format.
* Memorial Board: Mockups
* Memorial Board: Finished Pictures
* Memorial Board: Text Blocks and Scanned Text
Those are the main posts with the detailed descriptions and pictures. The gather page "Come and Cry with Me" has links to a bunch more short posts where I talk about the steps of planning the project and collecting components for it. For anyone working with memorial projects, I hope these resources help.
Her Celebration of Life service was today, and I just finished the board last night. The memorial board has a chronological and thematic structure, using some of the same techniques I use in my journal and planner projects. It even includes a couple of scanned excerpts from my mother's journaling. The posts talk a lot about the tools and materials I used, the process of planning and constructing the board, and resources on memorial boards as a healing tool for grief work. So now this project exists both in hardcopy and in electronic format.
* Memorial Board: Mockups
* Memorial Board: Finished Pictures
* Memorial Board: Text Blocks and Scanned Text
Those are the main posts with the detailed descriptions and pictures. The gather page "Come and Cry with Me" has links to a bunch more short posts where I talk about the steps of planning the project and collecting components for it. For anyone working with memorial projects, I hope these resources help.
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Really lovely. Nice to see the final product; you've done a great job. My condolences on the loss.
Thank you!
I'm glad you liked it.
>> My condolences on the loss.<<
Thanks. Working on stuff like this helps. I'm looking forward to doing the scrapbook too. This community, and finding bits of Mom's handwriting in her photo albums, have got me thinking about including at least some handwritten journaling along with (probably more legible) text printouts.