Not everyone memory keeps the same way.
Let’s find YOUR style.
For eight years, I made these memory books.
Every single week.
That was just my thing. My kids would ask me constantly to pull them down and look at them. And I had them. All of them.
But then life got busy. I went back to styudying, started my own business… all while managing two kids and our home. Everything just kind of piled up. And I just couldn't keep up with memory keeping the way I'd been doing it.
So I ended up with thousands of photos from two years just sitting on my phone.
I remember standing in my study one afternoon, looking at my bookshelf. The 2021 book was there. The 2022 book was there. And then... nothing. 2023 and 2024 were just missing.
That's when I realised the system I'd been using for eight years… it didn't survive real life. It was too time-consuming. I needed something simpler or I was going to stop doing this completely.
So I figured out how to do it differently.
Monthly instead of weekly.
One template instead of designing everything from scratch.
iPhone photos and my actual, messy camera roll.
45 minutes, maybe an hour every month.
And it worked.
I caught up on those two lost years in three months. Printed them. Put them on my shelf. My kids opened those yearbooks and relived the lost years again.
While trying to catch up, I realised I was trying to do a version of memory keeping that wasn’t working for me anymore.
Some people come to memory keeping because they're always behind the camera.
They have a thousand photos because they're there. They're present.
They notice light and composition and the little moments nobody else sees.
And they want those photos to be the star. Clean, organised and without any clutter.
Some people are different. Life is colourful to them… it’s joyful.
They take tons of photos because they want to capture all of it.
The mess, the laughter, the chaos, the beauty.
They want their books to feel like a celebration. Bold colors, energetic, and lots of fun.
Then there are the ones who don't take as many photos, but each one was chosen for a reason.
They want to remember not just what happened, but how they felt.
Why it mattered. What changed in them. They want space to write.
They want their words on the page alongside the images.
And some of you see memory keeping as something creative.
You don't just want to document. You want to make something beautiful.
You want room for colour, for your personality to show through.
You want your voice all over these pages.
I used to think there was one "right" way to do this. But there isn't. The method is the same for all of you.
45 minutes. One month. Done.
But the way it looks? The way it feels? That should match you.