A New Project

My mom has me making an album of old family photos for my grandma's 90th birthday in April. (Shhh! It's a surprise gift, so don't tell her. I'm not worried that Grandma will find this blog, because she doesn't have a computer.) I just started working on it today (actually I got it organized yesterday and did stick one photo down then, but I didn't finish that layout today so it is not pictured in this post). I bought an 8x8 album kit just so everything would match nicely and because a smaller album is easier to store than a 12x12. Also, smaller pages seem to go much faster than larger ones!

Even so, I didn't get near as much done today as I wanted to (I read more than I had planned today) but at least something is better than nothing. I finished the first and third pages today.

Page One

Harold & Barbara

12/22/44

This is my mom's parents' wedding photo. My grandpa is wearing his Navy uniform. I chose this photo as the first page since the album will have all different family photos of theirs (both sides of the family) so they are kind of the theme of the album.

Page 3
The Button family

Yes, you read right. These are the Buttons. The parents (at left and right) are my grandma's great-grandparents, Oscar and Ida Button (making them my great-great-great-grandparents)! The photo is undated, but it is certainly from before 1922 and probably close to the turn of the century. My grandma's grandma, Lillie Button, is in the middle of the back row. I wish I had a scanner, or the means of taking a better photo of the page, because the actual photo of the Buttons is much clearer than it appears here. Pages 2&3 will be facing one another; I did not do page two today, but it will have journaling/text to go with this photo.

9.8.2003 "Baby Girl in the Laundry"

I think I put all three of my babies in the clean laundry at one point or another. I don't think Stacia knew what to think of it, but she sure looked cute. These pictures were taken on their Aunt Debbi's 34th birthday!

New Year's Day 2004. "Hudson & Dylan"

Here's a layout of Hudson and his favorite cousin (second cousin, actually . . . in case you hadn't gathered that). Hudson and Dylan always have such fun together. Dylan is almost two years older than Hudson, but they still get along really well. They don't get to see each other very often since the Goodes live so far away, but the boys are always so excited when they get the chance to spend time together, and they always pick up right where they left off. Just like me and Dylan's mom, Lori!

I have been doing a lot of color-block pages recently (well, if you count two or three over the past six months as "a lot"), but they have been from different time periods, so they're in all different albums. I like the simple beauty of color-block pages.

It's hard to see because of the flash, but on the right side of the lefthand page it says "BEST BUDS", not "BEST BUGS." Also, please notice the ampersand in the title. I sketched that from an example on the Internet, cut it out with an Xacto knife, and painted silver glitter on it. Just tell me it was worth it even if you don't think so.

2005 "Hudson's First Bicycle"

Yeah, yeah, I know, Brandi's right. It's about time I updated my scrapbook blog. Which means it's about time I got around to scrapbooking. I write it on my list of things to do every Friday but evidently that hasn't worked for me since October. Anyway, 4 years after Hudson first learned to ride a bicycle, here's the scrapbook layout about it! One page down, 150+ to go . . .