A Home to Keep: DIY! Wherever Your Path has Taken You - It's Time to Tell Your Story

Sarah Ramberg at Sadie Season Goods

PERHAPS IT'S AN ASSORTMENT of postcards from past travels, brochures, maps, treasured handwriting, photos... wherever your path has taken you - it's time to tell your story.

Here are some ways to gather and assemble your meaningful moments

Ways to Document your travels:

1. Souvenirs

2. Electronic Ideas

3. Journaling

   
   

Souvenirs -

1. Postcards - collect them but don't forget to send yourself one,

2. travel stickers

3. restaurant to-go-menus and napkins

4. business cards

5. coffee sleeves or disposable coffee cups w logos

6. local newspapers and maps

7. pressed flowers

8. sea shells

9. local spices or tea

10. left over currency

Custom view-master of your vacation

Electronic Ideas -

1. Email, video or text yourself.

2. Facebook is a place you can journal, you can also have Facebook transform your memories into a photobook.

3. Download the Notes App. It is the best place to jot down quick thoughts.

4. Digital photo album (like Shutterfly)

5. My favorite - Nothing recaptures that childlike wonder of your face pressed up against a view-master reel unless it's a custom reel you've created with your own travel photos!!! I did this one year for a Christmas gift, my reel was filled with Christmas memories spanning 30 years. It remains a treasure! I used uncommongoods.com

Sketch What You See

Ideas to Journal:

1. First Impressions

2. 1 sentence a day

3. 5 pics a day

4. Important news from the day or the day in history

5. Always add the date

6. Chart your trip on a map and put in your journal

7. Write one word across your journal page that best describes your day

8. Write the lyrics of a favorite song

9. Include a Bible verse

10. Sketch a day

11. Post Card a Day

12. Food enjoyed

13. Ask those traveling with you to jot down a thought or two of the same experience. I love getting their perspective and it's great that it is in their own handwriting. (even from the grand darlings who are just learning to write!!)

Photo opts: 

Doorways, post offices, people, libraries, coffee houses, view through fence rails, directional posts, street signs, city signs.

"I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes,

I will remember your miracles of long ago.

I will consider all your works and meditate on all your mighty deeds."

Psalm 77:11-12