{"id":1436,"date":"2016-01-07T20:11:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/?p=1436"},"modified":"2016-01-07T20:11:12","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T20:11:12","slug":"bound-up-with-memories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/bound-up-with-memories\/","title":{"rendered":"Bound Up with Memories"},"content":{"rendered":"

I am still adjusting to being dog-less\u00a0after losing\u00a0Lola last summer. Yet I’m very grateful for all the drawings that remain. In the same way that a song or a smell will evoke a time and place, sketches also seem to have the magical ability to transport you back to a particular moment — a consequence of the Zen-like mindfulness that comes with concentrating so intently.<\/p>\n

\"Lola9web\"<\/a>

\u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

Lola was a wonderful teacher because, even though most of the time I tried to catch her while she was sleeping, she could never hold a pose for long. She had a very active dream life and pushed me in my on-going aspiration to develop an ability to catch an image quickly.<\/p>\n

\"Lola11web\"<\/a>

\u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

When our daughter was visiting in August, I handed my sketchbooks over to her so she could\u00a0mark the drawings that she might like copies of, thinking I would probably scan and email them to both our kids in a zip-file. As often happens, things got busy and I was slow to follow through. But then I had an idea…<\/p>\n

\"Coverweb\"<\/a>

\u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

I\u00a0know I’m\u00a0late to the party in discovering this, but I had read somewhere about making books with Blurb<\/a> — and\u00a0also, I know someone who had mentioned in passing that she has had good luck self-publishing with them. Rather than just emailing a slew of images and leaving it for the kids to figure out what to do with them, I decided it would be fun to try to put together a little hardcover book as a Christmas gift.<\/p>\n

\"Pages2&3web\"<\/a>

\u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

It was a breeze to do; the software is easily downloaded and very intuitive. If you want to create a polished presentation of images of your work, this approach is well-worth considering. Blurb is not the only place that offers this service, so shop around to see what’s most cost-effective and has the options that are right for you.<\/p>\n

\"Pages4&5web\"<\/a>

\u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n

The end results were worth the effort. This little memory book will mean a lot to me as I look back — not only in\u00a0remembering a loyal pal, but also as a symbol\u00a0of\u00a0the quiet sense of teamwork\u00a0we shared\u00a0each time she took on the role of patient\u00a0model.<\/p>\n

\"Pages6&7web\"<\/a>

\u00a92015 Elizabeth Fram<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I am still adjusting to being dog-less\u00a0after losing\u00a0Lola last summer. Yet I’m very grateful for all the drawings that remain. In the same way that a song or a smell will evoke a time and place, sketches also seem to have the magical ability to transport you back to a particular moment — a consequence […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[121],"tags":[154,157,156,155],"class_list":["post-1436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-blurb","tag-lola","tag-memories","tag-sketches"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5kO5z-na","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1436"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1459,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1436\/revisions\/1459"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.elizabethfram.com\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}