Timeline Album Challenge - April 2025

[Cassel]

Have you ever created an album that tells the story of your life, one chapter at a time? For 2025, I’m inviting you to embark on a year-long creative challenge to document your personal timeline in a unique and meaningful way.

We’re calling it the Timeline Album Challenge! The idea is simple: divide your life into 12 periods (the length of each depends on your age) and create one scrapbook page for each. Whether you include photos, memories, or simply words that describe those times, it’s up to you! By the end of the year, you’ll have a complete album that reflects your journey.

For example, let's assume you are 72 years old (it just makes it easier to calculate):

• 0-6 years old: you can talk about your birth place, your first tooth, your first day of school
• 7-12 years old: you can remember some birthday parties, friends, places you visited
• 13-18 years old: those teen years! what were you doing, your first crush, your high school years
• 19-24 years old: maybe your dates, or wedding (if it happened in that time)
• 25-30 years old: maybe when you moved town, when your kids were born, when you purchased your first house
• And so on. You get the picture.

Here’s how it works:

• One page every month: Start with your earliest memories or your childhood, and work your way to the present. You can also document specific milestones, achievements, challenges, etc. You can pick and choose any element to document.
• No pressure: Share your pages with us as you create them. There’s no strict commitment, and you can always catch up later if life gets busy.
• Make it yours: Add photos if you have them, or create pages without photos by focusing on stories, quotes, or embellishments that symbolize those moments in time.
• Include what was around you: seeing how some world events (or local ones) can relate to us can be interesting. What there a new fashion trend? What were the newest inventions? Any famous people that you might have heard of (or met) during that time period?

This is your story to tell. Whether you want to focus on key milestones, favorite memories, or even everyday moments, it’s all about capturing what makes your timeline unique.

Time for the fourth period (likely your early twenties!).

[Rene Marker]

Actually had to scrap a page for this part of the timeline (19-24 years old).

I was chosen to be in 2 weddings in my life. Both were friends. One was from high school and the other from college. I had to come home from college for the first wedding on Sept 14, 1974. It was 3 weeks before my 19th birthday. Then 5 years later on Sept 14, 1979 (a Friday night), a college friend got married. Actually, both the bride and groom were college friends. We were in the same classes quite a bit since we had the same major (Business Education). All those classes specific to the major were only offered once a year so you saw the same people every quarter. My closest friend to this day from college was also in this major and we met in the fall of 1976 and had all 5 classes together that quarter. The couple that got married were in the same classes.

The first couple were divorced before the 2nd wedding happened!

However, the second couple were married for 41 years before the bride passed away. The groom has since passed away as well. The bride in this couple was the reason I joined FB. We had lost touch after the wedding as the groom was in the Army and we both got too busy to write letters in the 80's. When I joined FB, I found her within 24 hours! We were able to catch up and stayed connected until she died just a couple days before her 65th birthday. Her husband (also a FB friend), messaged me to let me know since he knew we were still close even though we never saw each other in person since they left Ohio around 1980 or 1981.

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