Old Lessons Resurface

I've been brainstorming packaging, invitations, new personalized stationary and I got to thinking about how much scoring, cutting, and assemblying I did in college. Time seemed so much more available then and I worked a ton in college. I was working 4-6 shifts a week at a bar and grille, keeping up with my studies, and socializing heavily.... I still had time to do this project. Of course, I was younger and wasn't producing mass quantities then. These days, my evenings now seem to fly by with a blink of the eye. Just when I get rolling on something, it's time for bed. Who needs sleep though, right?I dug this book out to use as a bit of motivation. I love printing on fibrous handmade papers and hope to make my own one day soon. There involved so much folding, Kinkos runs, and paper jammed in the copier. I remember how fun it was to set up all the different fonts. I wish I could go back and print these with less ink though. From what I remember we had to chose 5 objects and make a book from it. Mine were pretty much objects from the 5 parts of my life at the time. I scanned in all the objects to create the fold out imagery and set the text with lead type in the Letterpress room. It was great fun merging digital printing and Letterpress for this book.

1. My family, The object must have been a rose from flowers my parents sent: My mom sent amazing notes when I was in school and still does. She always wrote "Study, Study, Study" back then.
2.My oldest friends: The broken wing of my clay gargoyle that was purchased with high school friends. We didn't communicate well until Friendster and Facebook came into our lives years later.
3. My twin sister: She sent me the eucalyptus leaves. She had moved to California that year and it might as well have been the moon. I missed her greatly.4. My love interest: We met on Valentine's Day and he kept giving me those little candy hearts and was constantly making mine heart swoon and break.5. My Purple house college Housemates and friends: Annie gave me the Chinese coin for good luck. They were my everyday life and my main source of friendship and craziness. That year was quite hazy.
It's fun to go back and look at these things. I often blush at how green and young I was. I constantly wish I'd known more at the time I've created anything. I always think it could have been better if given more time, planning, and patience. I've never been a patient person and want immediate results. I've been getting much better about it, but can always improve. It might be time to re-create things I've done in my past, but better. I encourage everyone to go back and take a gander at things they created 10 years ago and reminisce about the lessons learned. Create on, my friends!