Create Your Own Book of Possibilities

Have any of you seen Queen Latifah in the movie Last Holiday?  It was an okay movie, but what really inspired me more than any of the scenes or acting was a prop in the movie.  Queen Latifah’s character, Georgia, has a book that is a collection of all the things she wants to accomplish during her lifetime.  She cuts out magazine pictures, glues her head on to the pictures, and then documents what the pictures show and what she wants to accomplish in the future.  She calls it her “book of possibilities.”  I loved this idea and ventured out to make one of my own.

I headed to Target to buy a scrapbook kit.  I ended up buying this vintage kit for $24.99.  It had everything I needed and looked perfect for what I wanted.  I liked that it was vintage looking since I plan on having it the rest of my life.

Instead of tearing apart magazines to glue onto the pages, I instead went to stock.xchng, a free stock-photo website, and searched for photos that went along with what each of my goals were.  For example, one of my goals is to have a family, so I found a picture of a pregnant woman’s belly and a picture of a few teenagers from the waist down.  I tried to leave out any faces because I wanted the pictures to look like they could represent me and my future and not some random model.

It is my work in progress.  It will probably always be a work in progress because there are so many things I want to do.  When I continue to add on pages, I will use other styles of pages and fonts and disperse them in between the pages I already have done so it isn’t obvious that I used a kit and then bought extra pages.  I also added a little white square in the corner of each page so I can check it off once I’ve completed it.

Here it is.  I apologize for leaving the pages in the sleeves, but they are hard to get in and out and I didn’t want to wreck them.  I made this almost a year ago and have so much more to add already!

The front cover – I still have to decorate this. Make me and you us Turn a house into a home sweet home.  Grow into a family. Attend church regularly. Attend a Broadway Play (the text reads “Ever since I saw Wicked in Chicago, I knew I one day had to see a play or musical on Broadway in New York.”)  Which I have realized is a lie because I’ve wanted to see a Broadway play since I was a little girl, but I am obsessed with Wicked and just had to throw that in here somehow. Inspire someone. Open a bookstore. Travel this world (two pages): Ireland, Italy, Scotland, Greece, Australia.  By the way, the cattle pictured for Scotland are called Scottish Highland Cattle which are the kind of cattle I’ve grown up with because my dad is obsessed with his Scottish heritage (remember Stewart Wallace my parent’s Scottish Terrier?). And finally, Write a novel.

They say when you write down your goals you are much more likely to achieve them.  Something about subconsciously seeking out ways to accomplish your goals because you have thought about them and made them real by writing them down.  I wonder what they would say about scrapbooking them?  I’m probably ten times more likely to accomplish them because I spent hours “writing” them down in a creative way.

This is such a fun project!  I encourage you to create your own book of possibilities so you can always have your goals permanently written down somewhere you probably won’t lose and you will want to keep looking back at.  Also, other people will see your goals and maybe they will open a door for you that you never knew existed.  The ‘possibilites’ are endless!  What do you think of this project?  How did I do on my first time scrapbooking?