who am I? (and for that matter...who are you?)

Hi there! Let’s start with introductions…I’m Katrina Simeck. I’m thrilled (and totally nervous) to be writing the blog this week. This week is going to be brought to you by the letter “W”…

I come from a family of writers…my mother, grandmother, great-grandmother…all writers. I’ve enjoyed writing for as long as I can remember. My Mom still has copies of stories that I wrote in elementary school. In the 6^th grade, I wrote a “novel” for an English assignment (it reads a lot like a Fame storyline). My first-ever scrapbook (circa 1983, in a magnetic photo album…yikes!) contains a page of journaling for every page of photos. When I was 17, my grandmother used one of my poems in her newspaper column. Through high school, I wrote debate cases & speeches (and countless notes to my bff, Stacy). Now, I write emails, blog entries, lists, letters, facebook statuses, tweets…I write on post it notes, in idea books, and on scrapbook layouts, . With all that writing going on, it always surprises me when scrapbookers say…

“I don’t know what to write.”

Wanna know a little secret? Sometimes I don’t know what to write, either. When writer’s block hits, I fall back on the 5 Ws…who, what, where, when, and why. As luck would have it, I have five blog posts to write this week. Wanna guess what each day will be about? Yep, you got it…a W for each day. You’re such a clever bunch! What I love about the 5 Ws is that they can help to inspire not only the journaling for your layouts…but the theme for the layouts themselves. Let’s get started…

Who

This is probably my favorite W for scrapbooking. It’s a great prompt for journaling & page ideas…

*who are you? (please tell me that you scrapbook about yourself! It’s a necessity!)

*who is your family?

*who are your friends?

*who do you love?

*who do you want to be? 

A few examples for you...

 

This layout captures little details that help define who I am right now. 

 

This layout describes who is in my family. 

 

This layout celebrates the circle of women who are my closet friends.

Today’s challenge – tell me WHO you are (in the comments) and/or show me a layout that focuses on WHO (and remember, that “who” can really be anyone…even YOU!). Can't wait to see your work in the Flickr gallery!