Baby Memories

Why am I showing you this picture?

One of the things I wanted to do 

while I was away from home on my sabbatical this year

was to work on some of the piles of pictures that

had accumulated over the years.

We all have them, in shoe boxes,

cupboards, or drawers,

unlabelled and quickly they become mystery events.

When my youngest daughters were in 4th grade, 1994,

we became acquainted with Creative Memories, 

the scrapbooking organizational method for 

keeping our precious photos and memories safe.

We loved it.

We organized, 

cropped 

and archivally mounted 1000's of photos into

very creative and fun albums.  

Scrapbooking is a lot like quiltmaking.

It involves color and pattern,

creating and exploring,

making something permanent,

and cutting and putting things back together again.

It's a fun creative outlet.

And it takes time.

My goal was to actually do my

two youngest daughter's baby albums. 

Gosh, they're almost 28!

So in the past 9 months, ha ha ha,

I have put together an album for each of them,

documenting their first year of life.

Fortunately, I didn't take as many photos

as new mommies do now.

It was back in the film era.

I know at this point digital scrapbooking is faster

and probably easier and less expensive,

 but I need 

to finish what I've started.

So now you know, 

if I'm not stitching in the evenings,

I'm cutting and pasting memories.

  Until Next time-