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About a year ago I had an idea. It was an idea for a special kind of portrait session for my clients that would expand on what I already offered them. Instead of just taking the fun, relaxed portraits that we loved I’d also work with them to photographically collect the details of their lives into a type of time capsule. I thought about it for months, but it never seemed to come together and I didn’t get a chance to offer it. But the idea wouldn’t go away. Don’t you hate that?
Well, I can honestly say that now, I am glad it didn’t. The idea kept growing and expanding until a few weeks ago it finally demanded that it be shared. But not just to my portrait clients, to everyone! Introducing Encapsulate: an E-Course in creating your own Family Time Capsule!
I’m so excited about this course, and I can’t wait to share all of the ideas my brain and heart have been cooking up! Creating a time capsule, especially a photographic one, is a fun and easy way to hold on to this chapter of your baby’s childhood, giving them something to look back on when they’re older and wonder what life was like before their memories really formed.
When Joe and I bought this house over the summer my parent’s didn’t wait too long before bringing by the boxes and boxes of stuff they had kept safe for me. I can’t thank them enough for it! Those boxes literally contain my childhood. Like an archeologist I’ve been able to dive deep into my own history, seeing a little girl as she grew up; what she looked like, the things she loved and exploring memories and moments I’d long since forgotten.
You don’t have to save every single item from your baby’s formative years, though, and I’d wager that even if you did make an honest attempt to do that many things would get lost or destroyed through events completely outside your control. People move, basements flood, trees crush the well-preserved contents of attics. And don’t even get me started on what mice can do to stuffed animals and handmade quilts! Making a visual time capsule (with maybe a few smaller keepsakes thrown in) is a simple, fun way to preserve the details that your child would love to have someday, and that only you can save for them.
In the Encapsulate e-course I take you step by step through the process, from what to focus on, to how to take the photos, to what to do with them once you have them. I share photo tips and give plenty of ideas and inspiration so you can create a time capsule unique to your own family. If you’d like to learn more, or sign up, you can click here or on the E-Courses! tab at the top of this page. Even if you don’t think this course is really for you, that’s totally fine, but I urge you to consider this: every childhood is worth remembering, and what you save for your kids now will come to matter more than you can know. I hope you put away a few things, for you, as well as for them.
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