Scrap Pages 10 &11-Old Family Photos

Hello everyone! How's the cold weather and snow treating you? Hopefully you haven't gone too crazy yet! Spring is on the way...right? Right? Eh, nevermind. It's too cold.
So I have two more layouts to share. I am still working on my family album, trying to get some old pictures scrapped. I worked on a couple old pictures of me and my great aunt B.J. (Betty Jane.) The old pictures that I found were somewhat blurry, so taking a picture of the layout didn't work out so well but you can kinda see lil' ole' me and my great aunt. She passed away about 7 years ago but I really feel she would have loved scrapbooking. It would have been something she would have enjoyed.

The other layout is of my great aunt (same one as above) and my grandma Marge, or as we like to call her, Grandma Grandma. I found the black and white photo of them in a pile of my own pics. There's no date on the back so I'm not sure when it was taken. If I had to guess, I'd say that they are probably in their late 20's to early 30's in the pic. Next time I see grandma, I'll have to ask. I think this layout is so pretty. I love the color scheme and the black and white photo of my aunt and grandma is just gorgeous!

Well, that's all for now. More layouts to share soon. Stay warm out there.
Until then,
M.

Scrap Page #9-Me and the folks!

Hmmmm. Apparently I need to stop using my cell phone to take pictures of my layouts cause they don't look so good. Darn! I use my cell because it uploads on here so fast and I dont have to get the camera out, and then the cord, and then turn on the computer etc etc. Oh well. Note to self; the cell doesn't take good pics. :(

This layout I did last night while Michael was working late. I bought some of the materials from a kit at Scrapbook.com. Gotta give them a shout-out every once in a while. This picture is of myself and my parents at my friend Chrissie's wedding, which was back in September of 2008, I believe. I love this picture because we are having such a good time and it really shows on our faces. I am trying to work my way through some old family photos so that I can create a family album/scrapbook. Some of the pictures are becoming faded and yellow from sitting inside those old photo albums where the sheets had sticky backs to them. Turns out, that stuff fades your pictures! Not cool. So to go along with my scrap project, I am trying to save some old memories before they turn yellow and fade away.

Scrap Page #8-Carving Our White Pumpkins

So I said I'd been jumping around a bit with the pictures I've been working on, but considering that Halloween is a while from now, this is really a stretch! Plus, I'd much rather look forward to warmer weather than Halloween. Sorry, but its true. This layout is from a picture I took a few years ago. Michael and I saw a magazine cover that had white pumpkins on it and we thought it looked awesome. Once I read the article, I found out that the pumpkins were actually more of an art project than a freak of nature. (Duh.) The pumpkins had been painted white and then carved so that the orange inside would kinda glow when the pumpkin had a candle inside. So we busted out the white paint, waited for them to dry, then carved the pumpkins. The end result was really cool! But, like I said earlier, this picture was from a couple years ago. This last Halloween, we decided carving pumpkins was too time consuming so we didn't do it. haha! At least I have this layout done!

Scrap Page #7-My Bachelorette Party

Good Evening!

Time to post some more layouts for my scrap project. I worked on a few random things this week. I scrapped a page from my bachelorette party because I am trying to finish that album but I also worked on some pics from one of our Halloween parties and some old pics that will be going in the "family and friends" album. This scrap project is tough! I think I'm doing well and today I realized that I have only completed 31 layouts so far. I know I've only posted a few on here, but I've only completed 31, which means I have a lot of catching up to do. It is tough though because I feel like I've accomplished something and I look at the clock and an entire hour has gone by and I've only gotten one layout done! Grr...oh well.

So this picture is from my fantastic bachelorette party which was held in Chicago. My sister, some of my bridesmaids, and friends joined me for an awesome night out on the town. I'm sure I will post more pics from that night (the appropriate ones of course!)

Scrap Page #6-More 4th of July

And last but not least, for today anyway, more 4th of July pics. But this time, we have my husband being crazy and our friend Jordan's little girl, Hayden, seems to think that Michael is funny. :)

Scrap Page #5-The 4th of July!

I have to thank the Blizzard of 2011 for a chance to get some scrapping done! I must say that I was very surprised to finally have a snow day! The school I teach at doesn't "believe in snow days" so we go to school when the rest of the country is burried under mountains of snow. But anyway, I took full advantage of my snow days (and the couple of 2 hour delays that we had)and went through some photos to decide which ones I wanted to scrap next. I did this layout for my friend Jordan. Her daughter Hayden turned 3 the other day and we had her birthday party yesterday. I made this layout so that Jordan could put it in Hayden's baby book. Working on layouts of the 4th has made it difficult to face the snow and cold weather!!

-Okay, got one more layout to post on here and its another 4th of July page. Hopefully it doesn't send anyone into fits of depression considering the fact that its NOT July and February still means cold weather! :(

Scrap Page #4-Sailing in Rhode Island

Hello Out There!

I have a couple more pages that I completed for my scrap challenge. This one was done for my Boston/Rhode Island scrapbook that I made. I am finally done with that entire book! Quite proud of myself, I must say! The people in the picture are my friends Jenny and Amanda and myself. We took sailing lessons while in Rhode Island. It was amazing! Then of course, like good tourists, we stopped somewhere cute for lunch. :)