My Scrapbook. ***Dial-Up Warning....

[ScreamingMeemie]

Here are some of the pages I have made. It can be quite artistic (Rabrrrrrr!) and it is relaxing. I have now archived my grandparent's only existing wedding photos so they will not be further destroyed.

Sugar Smack: :loveya: No harm was done! It's just an awesome hobby...in the right hands.






These are two photos that my grandpa always carried in his wallet...along with pictures of his grandchildren, including ME (his only granddaughter) and all of our spouses and kids at his wake. I still miss him. This page makes me really sad:

[mdmc]

1. nice pics

:kick:

[ScreamingMeemie]

5. Thanks mdmc!!!

:hi:

[Texasgal]

2. WOW!!!

Very Cool Mrs. Grumpy!! You are REALLY creative!!!

I especially like the little stories with the pics, very cool indeed!! :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

6. Thanks Texasgal!! I wanted something that would "tell the story"

of who I am. :) :hi:

[Sugar Smack]

3. That is very beautiful.

I loved looking at your pictures and reading the stories. And it looks like you did so much of your work hands-on. Lovingly written words. Lovingly arranged pictures.

Thank you for this, MrsGrumpy!!!! :loveya:

[ScreamingMeemie]

7. Thanks so much Sugar Smack!

I really enjoy doing it by myself. There are so many computer programs that just let you input/type etc...I wanted to leave something to my family. :) :loveya: You should see my grandma's. Written in her own shakey hand, which makes it beautiful to me. We cried over making these pages. :hug:

[Sugar Smack]

15. K&R, baby!

K&R!:woohoo: :hug:

I really, really love old scrapbooks. My Aunt Louise's was classic because she was a Chaucer teacher in a HS in Greensborro. She had students at her house every week to do "Dead Poet Society" things, and the pictures are wonderful to look at.

[progmom]

4. awwwwwwwwwwwwwww...

that's so cool!

now can you come over and help me organize all my progspawn memorabilia?

:D

[ScreamingMeemie]

8. Just as soon as I get done with the three boxes of pictures I have...

Let's see...How about I come over on May 12th, 2013? :hi:

[progmom]

9. i'll mark that down on my calendar

:D :hi:

[ScreamingMeemie]

11. You have a calendar for that far ahead?

Wow, You could get Me organized...:o

[El Fuego]

10. That's great!

Wow. I should take some inspiration from you, all my memorabilia is packed away in boxes.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. shhhh...a lot of mine still is too, but I'm trying to remedy that!

the funny side story is, my grandma was with me when I did these pictures. I always thought, for some reason, that my mom and aunt's dresses in their baby pictures were rose colored. My grandma was able to tell me they were blue. So I put the pictures on a page that was a rose color and described the dresses in the journaling. :hi:

[Call Me Wesley]

13. Wonderful,

and it seems that your grandpa was a great man. Thank you for sharing!

:thumbsup:

[ScreamingMeemie]

14. Thanks CMW! He was the only person I ever let call me Laurie...

I have a page of photos of him and me that I am working on it. It just hurts that he's gone. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

16. Those are beautiful, MrsG! Do you mind if I share some of mine?

This is from the Vacation 2005 album; we were at the beach in Clearwater, MN:




Vacation 2004 - this is Como Zoo in St. Paul, MN, with the historic Cafesjian's Carousel:




Also Vacation 2004 - first day of our road trip, stopping for lunch in Butte, MT:




Two from the Christmas album - tree decorating in 2002 and 2003:






This is holiday time, 2001, when my daughter "helped" us make lefse and fudge:

[ScreamingMeemie]

17. Those are BEAUTIFUL! We have the same elf on our Christmas Tree!

Handed down from Grandma. :)

Thanks so much for sharing... We seem to scrapbook in very much the same way. :hi: I love how you handwrite your journaling as well. It makes it so much more personal. We'll have to PM pages and ideas back and forth!

~Laura

[Left Is Write]

18. I'd love to!

I always encourage people to write in their own hand. One of the best parts of looking at my grandmother's scrapbook is seeing her own handwriting.

[ScreamingMeemie]

19. I have gotten my grandmother to "re do" the 1962 CA trip scrapbook

in acid free albums. And I am glad that she did. I used to be part of group but they got really into "Bigger,Better,Brighter" competitions and it wasn't as much fun anymore. :hi:

[Left Is Write]

20. I wish I could talk my mom into getting all of our pictures out of sticky

page albums.

My "Cathy Volume II" book she made - about fourth grade through sixth grade - has fallen apart, and she gave me permission to redo that one in a new book. She's got tons of those photo albums, though, and my sister and I would like to redo all of them. We've even told her we will recreate her pages exactly as they are, and we won't add embellishments or anything like that if she doesn't want us to. I think she'll eventually hand them over and have us do them.

[ScreamingMeemie]

21. My mom gave my baby book to redo for her...

...but, since my father has left her she has gotten quite bitter over old pictures, and won't let me get them out anymore. So, for now, I'm doing some of the newer stuff again. :(

I bet she gives them over to you too!

[Rabrrrrrr]

22. Woo hoo! Nicely done! And look at that vest - OMG!

I'm so glad I was young at that time, too, so I have no real memory of the awful clothing, other than in pictures.

It's so hard to believe that humanity went with those awful designs and garish colors for so long... :puke:

Nice pages!

Is it standard to wrap the pages in plastic? I see that you and Left is Write both did that. All the scrapbooks I've looked at in stores (that is, the raw virgin ones) aren't wrapped in plastic.

I need to do some of these things, too. I have packets and packets of photos that aren't doing any good sitting in the envelopes sitting in boxes sitting in the closet in the spare room...

[ScreamingMeemie]

23. Yes, it is standard to put page protectors on. It keeps the photos

in place and is acid free, so the photos won't yellow. If you were closer I'd teach you how to "scrapbook" Rabrrrrrr and we could have parties with beer and embellishments. ;)

I know, I look at that photo of myself in that matching plaid monstrosity and think that I could have hardly looked good...even then. :rofl:

If you get your photos in books, they'll last longer...even if you don't do all the other stuff, just mount them on the page with a word or two and get that plastic over them. And I have learned that writing on the backs of photos with ballpoint pen is a very bad thing. :hi:

[Rabrrrrrr]

28. Ballpoint - very bad for photos, indeed! Acid-free museum-quality

everything only, including writing materials.

:-)

The majority of my photos that aren't in books are in archival museum boxes, so they're safe. They're just not doing me a damned bit of good in the box.

I remember looking through pictures with Mom, of the family in the 60s and 70s, and asking her many times "What were you thinking, dressing us like that?"

And she'd say "But that was in style" or "That was all the rage!" and I'd say "Would you jump off a cliff just because everyone else is going it?".

And then she'd get quiet, and sometimes she would laugh along at the joke, but occasionally, I think, I made her feel bad.

I'm really starting to think that maybe this week is the week to start putting my photos together.

Of course, many of my favorite one-of-a-kind irreplacable photos of *me* taken by others at very happy and wondrous moments were destroyed by muslim fundamentalist pieces of shit rat bastard trash fucker fucks.

God, I'm maudlin - sorry about bringing the thread down.

[In_The_Wind]

24. What a lovely tribute.

The pictures are great but what makes it more interesting is all of the notes added alongside the photos.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. Thank you Joan!

:hi:

I was lucky because my grandmother was right there while I was working on these pages. She was able to fill in little bits and pieces and it was good for her to remember the day. I did these pages about 6 months after my beloved Grandpa Bud died...and it was good to see my grandma smile at memories again. :hug:

[In_The_Wind]

26. Thanks for sharing your special memories with me.

[ScreamingMeemie]

27. Thanks for enjoying them!

:) :loveya: