August 25, 2010 Wednesday

Last night our ward had a Relief Society meeting on Journals. We had fun decorating 'journals' out of purchased composition books, by covering them with scrapbook paper, buttons, fabric, ribbon, etc. There was plenty of fun things to choose from to fancy up our notebooks. We also talked about how it's a good idea to hand write our thoughts instead of putting everything on the computer because many of us have had our computers crash and lost everything we had! I was working on my personal history and had typed quite a few pages (37, but who's counting?), but luckily my husband's friend knew how to retrieve some of our documents and that was one! Whew! I was so relieved, but vowed to always back everything up from then on. I love to write about memories, people that I know, personal thoughts and poetry. I also like to create things and last night was an opportunity to be creative. I didn't finish at church, but got my stuff out today and finished a couple more books. I thought they turned out pretty cute. We did some once before when it was still called 'Enrichment' night, and I made a few as gifts, using small notebooks that were spiral bound. I will try and post pictures eventually. Until then I will just keep writing whatever pops into my head and call it good.