Hey, this is Ali Edwards for Big Picture Scrapbooking, and I just want to take a couple of minutes to invite you to participate in my upcoming workshop, Yesterday and Today.

Yesterday and Today is finishing up the year-long 4Experts series, and it's going to be 12 weeks of exploration and inspiration and ideas about ways that you can scrapbook both your past and your present. We're going to spend the first part of the class looking to our past. This project that we're going to be doing is a 12 x 12 album. You can really do it about anyone. I would encourage you to do it about yourself, because I think there are many people out there who still haven't taken the opportunity to actually do an album about them. The album that I'm going to be doing will be projects about me, my experience, my life, those sorts of things, but you can definitely do it about someone else, someone in your life, someone that you love.

So like I said, the first six weeks will be about scrapbooking your past. We will be looking at different ways to use old photos and what you can do if you don't have any old photos, and what you do when there are stories that you want to tell that you have zero photos for, or if you have more photos than you can imagine ever dealing with. We're going to talk about stuff like that.

During the middle couple of weeks in the class we will be contemplating and looking at stories that compare and contrast yesterday and today. How do you come up with stories that do that sort of thing? How do you look at where you were then, and where you are now, and talk about that in a way that is meaningful…meaningful to you and meaningful to other people that might read this down the road?

The last half of the class we are going to spend looking at today, talking about scrapbooking your everyday life, which is definitely part of the pain thrust of my own personal scrapbooking…talking about ways to capture moments, and talking about ways to write about today.

A lot of this class is really going to be about writing and storytelling, and choosing which stories to tell, and which stories are really going to matter down the road, and how do you decide that when you sit down to scrapbook? What are the choices that you make? There is going to be lots of sharing. One of the big things that I want you to know is that this is going to be a crazy time of year for most people. October, November and December are full of holidays, and I don't know about you, but I definitely have some of my own personal traditions that I don't want to lose by being too busy wrapped up in new projects. So we are going to have one layout per week. There will be additional downloads and other goodies for you to look at and things that you can store away to file away for later on, but the main project each week will be either a single page or a double page layout that will go in this album. It is important to me that you know that this class is not going to be about working with products. It's not going to be a lot of working with paint or more artistic techniques, we are going to be focused more on words and photo scrapbooking, and that's actually going to be what we will talk about in the first week, what is words and photo scrapbooking, and how that impacts everything that I do as a scrapbooker.

I'm really excited and really looking forward to this time. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about this class, laying it out, figuring out how I want it to go, and what things I want to give you throughout the process of the class. I hope that you will be able to join me, and I'm looking forward to this journey. Thanks.