creating memories one day at a time
This year I’ve decided to work on all of those unfinished projects I have sitting around. I have unfinished albums, mini albums and scrapbook pages piled up.
I went to a crop on Friday night and actually finished a few pages! First were the pages about my first trip to Europe. I’ve been working on these for years.
Then I worked on a simple page about my daughter and her cousin when they were 2.
Now to go through the rest of the boxes.
2011…a new year. One of my goals this year is to be a better blogger – post a few times a week, find a focus for my blog and overhaul the look of the whole site.
A focus…memories, capturing them with words and pictures. Remembering past ones.
Memory Monday. I love this idea! I first saw Katie The Scrapbook Lady doing this. Digging up old memories, making a page and journaling. Remembering what you can. Over Christmas my mom gave me several albums of pictures for me to scan and share with my family. I can’t wait to dig in and see what I find!
Pick a fun new holiday to celebrate. Take pictures, laugh and enjoy the day.
Who doesn’t love cheese pizza? It’s my daughter’s favorite food. Make a pizza with your children. Find a new recipe. Learn how to make your own pizza crust. And don’t forget to add lots of cheese! Can’t wait to try this pizza crust. And I love trying new sauce recipes like this one or this one.
Pick up that book you haven’t had time to read. Share the joy of reading with your children. Have them read to you or find a new book to read to them. Right now I’m reading The Time Traveler’s Wife and my daughter is really into The Magic Treehouse Series, Junie B Jones Series and can’t wait for us to start Little House in the Big Woods.
This was such a fun project. I used a 4×6 photo album. On the left side I designed a journaling block and used some cute, aged Christmas paper. I left the right side blank, easy to slip in a 4×6 photo. What a great place to keep those treasured Christmas moments from one year or many years, of your children’s lives or from your own special memories growing up.
This method of scrapbooking is called Photo Album Scrapbooking. You can learn more about it here and here and here.
I’ve been trying to come up with a way to document our years, some sort of year in review album. At first I was thinking about a few pictures from each month, but there are some months I didn’t take many pictures and I really didn’t want 12 pages for each year. So, I think I will try to group the pictures the way I do my other scrapbook pages, by categories: Things We Did, Places We Went, People We Saw.
Over the next few months I will show you how I will put together my Year in Review album, from selecting pictures to finding the words.
Today is Sesame Street’s 40th birthday. Loved it when I was little and still love to watch it with my 5-year-old.
My favorite Muppet is Kermit. Who is your favorite?
Here is my latest flip album, Cute as a Bug. I made it for a raffle for a local moms’ group, TriadMommies.com.
This was so much fun to make. It can hold 8 4×4 photos and has plenty of journaling spots. Summer photos, children playing, even pets would all look really cute in this album.
Wow! Where has the summer gone? It’s finally fall and my daughter has been in kindergarten for a month. Lots of adjustments for all of us.
I can’t wait to share all of the projects I’ve been working on (or thinking about):
I hope to start posting these in the next few days.
