Memorial Board for Mom
Mar. 19th, 2022 08:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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journalsandplannersDuring 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.
You're welcome!
Date: 2022-03-21 05:40 pm (UTC)I'm glad you liked it. This has proven quite popular.
>> It's wonderful to see the finished product and the steps that went into making it.<<
I like having the record of what I did and how. I'm looking forward to starting the scrapbook soon.