...matchbox memories #1...

...memories i don't have...

where to start with my new idea, so the first matchbox that i

decided to do was inspired by my baby girl mila, her conception,

pregnancy and birth have been covered in way too much detail in

previous posts.

well, on the day she was born, my placenta tore during my labour

so i was put unconscious in order to cut her out to save both our lives,

wow, months of heart ache and some therapy who knew i could sum

that day up in a quick sentence, any way i digress...

being unconscious during your babies birth and first few minutes in 

the world truly is or should be every mothers worst nightmare.

after months of peeing, bach ache, sleepless nights and a few hours

of labour pain, the least the f@!#ing world can do is let you be awake

to see your precious' first moments, WELL didn't!

so a few weeks after the birth i was going through my camera when 

i discovered a whole lot of pics that jp took while i lay sliced and

stitched in a hospital room away from my baby, sniff, snot and tears 

later, well at least i can see the moments captured on film.

hence the first matchbox...memories i don't have...

my concept is to cover the outside of the box with a fleshy colored

satin, with visible stitches along the front. i added a 'made in bali' 

clothes tag, see earlier posts as too how exactly conception occurred.

the inside, i carefully lined with womb-y colored satin and

now i just need to figure out how to add the photos and

what else to put inside, perhaps her hospital 'bracelet'

or my placenta... hahaha no i didn't keep it.

will post more pics once it's done...

...matchbox memories...

...so, i hate scrapbooks/scrapbooking/scrapbookers! there i said it!
it takes too long, the available papers and 'embellishments' are hideous,
your photos are always the wrong size, and really who has the time?

so all my photos sit in boxes, envelopes or on various hard drives and

flash drives. never to be touched and displayed. the task to exhausting 

to even consider.

now, add my obsession with packaging and particularly tiny boxes 

see my pinterest board tiny boxes little boxes 

and then the new brief i wrote for my students 

(using a matchbox as your format design a personality trait 

or a memory - as an introduction to concept) 

and... ta daaaaaa!

my idea for my matchbox memories was born. so the concept is to 'capture' 

a memory or day or event of your life and somehow design it using a 

matchbox as your format. simple, a small project, tiny in scale so you can 

print 1 0r even 10 photos small enough to fit in the box, add a sentimental

object or trinket which can stay inside the box and there you have it...

scrapbooking designer style...

dammit sometimes i even impress myself! ;)