While I was going through all those photos and organizing my storage binders I became obsessed with scrapbooking 2008. It was just a year of so much change, and excitement. The remodel, the pregnancy, grandpa, travels. I feel like I’m on the verge of forgetting it all. Of course 2008 was also the year of Sciarrino doing a ton of stuff for me, like sewing all these cloth wipes.
I certainly want to remember the craziness of thinking I’d need 300 wipes! Thank goodness I didn’t 🙂 And the excitement of getting all the wee diapers ready to go. Sigh.
I love how so many pattern paper companies now put a little strip of coordinating paper on the bottom of a sheet. Cut your paper right and it’s an instant embellishment, as I used it here. My obsession over Sundara yarn, oh man I still have so much of this stuff! It is beautiful though.
And this paper is really “cheating” (I say that because it reminds me of “cheater” fabrics for quilting). In addition to going through old photos I’m also going through random bits and bobs I’ve saved, like this stitched maternity tag, I love it. Sadly after this tag my electric typewriter started acting possessed. It won’t type any letters I press, it randomly decides to type other things in their place (a=# for example). No idea how I managed to do that!
Not a lot of journaling, just remembering my sweet god-daughter as she was freshly born five years ago.
And now my favorite:
Oh how I love this layout. I really don’t think I would have ever scrapbooked my pregnancy in this way unless I had printed all the photos for my system. I think this will be one of those layouts I love looking at (and hopefully Tuesday does too) a lot over the years.
(obviously I was channeling my inner Marcy Penner) There are a ton of different colors (and black and white) and quality of photos going on here. But pulling it together with strips of paper, my FAVORITE trim from Ribbon Jar (comes in so many delicious colors), and glimmer mist splatters really worked I think. The thing I love the most though is that I used all these photos on one layout and told a great story. The story of nine months. In my previous line of thinking this might have turned into ELEVEN separate layouts. Or more likely, I would never have scrapbooked all of these photos. A few left over pregnancy photos I may scrapbook singly. Two made it into the category drawer about me, and one got tossed in Tuesday’s bin. I am excited to try this new style again, and am going to look for more stories that lend themselves to this long term page approach.
So there you have it, a handful of the 16 from the last week. Since I’ve started this blog I’ve flitted about topics and go in and out of scrapbooking (and knitting, and spinning, beading and painting, home decor and garden projects). But you know, I think that’s ok. I may feel a little overwhelmed about where I’m going to store all this stuff, but I’m never sorry about getting a story down. It’s a great feeling and hopefully I’ve inspired one of you to take a look at your digital photo library or piles of prints and remember one too.
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Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
I recently got a huge order from Shutterfly (where I get my snapshots printed). Because it had been months (five) since I’d had any photos printed I needed to re-organize my storage binders (based on the Library of Memories/Photo Freedom concept taught at Big Picture Classes).
These binders hold my printed photos by year (and further separated by season). When I want to/get to scrapbook I can pull photos out of these binders or from category drawers that hold various pictures of things that we do, people we love, places we go, etc. The idea is that after five years any photos left in a binder would be either tossed, filed into category drawers, or put in cold storage. I’m way over simplifying here and there are great classes/books about this topic (and recently a paper-clipping podcast). I really have loved using this system for the last four years, but the one thing I don’t like is the waste when I toss pictures. Now I keep the leftovers for a little scrapbook buddy who is not so picky about the pictures she works with so it’s not as much of an issue. When I was re-organizing the other thing that I was thinking about is the fact that Tuesday is only 2.5 years old. We have a lot of living with her and documenting her to go and what am I going to do with all of these photos/layouts?!?!?
Sarah and I recently had a scrapbook day (love them!) and I whipped out eight layouts. It was fun, and they were super simple. I got the stories down that I really want to remember. This blog helps a lot to remember details (and I have the date printed on the back of each photo to help me remember that). All my layouts were multi photo. I admit I love showcasing one photo and cool techniques, but I was feeling the space crunch and I wanted to use more photos.
Now there really isn’t much to this layout. It’s super simple, but it works. My car was one of the things I was thinking I wanted to remember but didn’t have a layout about it. Oh how I loved this car! Two photos didn’t make this layout (and I already had them printed) one got put into a category drawer under vehicles and the other one was tossed into a box for my glue stick happy two year old.
Think I can’t get simpler? Well this one took me all of 15 minutes.
I like remembering this crazy project because I don’t stay up until 3:45 AM to finish baby-shower gifts much any more.
Something I’ve been wanting to scrapbook for a while…
The journalling about driving through Portland on the way home from the airport and general thoughts on the city are tucked in this envelope.
I think it’s important to record big achievements and this sweater was one of mine. I debated cropping the bottom right photo, but I like seeing the little bits of my ubiquitous tote, the iron and blocking process, and the TiVo in the back. I’m sure those things will date this (in a good way).
I’ll continue with some of the (16!) layouts I’ve made this last week tomorrow, but I want to hear from you. What do you think about all the layouts you made or pictures you print. Are you worried about storing them? Are you staying mostly digital? I love the idea of Tuesday flipping through books but I am a little torn. What did your parents do? Do you wish they saved more or less? Let us know in the comments! -
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
Joining in on Amanda’s this moment project. A moment from the last week. A slice of life.
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