Category Archives: Scrapbooking

Scrapbooking on a deadline

After a five-month hiatus, I finally started working on the 2009-2010 scrapbook again. I’m pretty close to finishing it. I’m hoping to wrap it up in time to use a Blurb.com coupon that expires in a few weeks.

Here are the last few layouts I’ve done.

An apple a day
Journaling: We went to our friendly local orchard to pick up a few apples for an apple pie. And we came home with a whole bushel! Pete enjoyed sampling the apples from their storage bins - although I don't think they're intended to function as a toddler buffet. Once we brought our haul home, we made caramel apple pies, apple butter and apple sauce.
Journaling: We went to our friendly local orchard to pick up a few apples for an apple pie. And we came home with a whole bushel! Pete enjoyed sampling the apples from their storage bins - although I don't think they're intended to function as a toddler buffet. Once we brought our haul home, we made caramel apple pies, apple butter and apple sauce.


Leaves
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Charleston
Journaling: Rockford had a meeting in Charleston SC, and he thought it would be fun if Nichole joined him. She agreed, so they packed the kids off to Grandma & Grandpa's and headed for the coast! They went straight to Mount Pleasant for a great dinner at The Wreck, and the next day Nichole and her camera wandered the city - and stopped for some carrot cake - while Rockford took care of business.
Journaling: Rockford had a meeting in Charleston SC, and he thought it would be fun if Nichole joined him. She agreed, so they packed the kids off to Grandma & Grandpa's and headed for the coast! They went straight to Mount Pleasant for a great dinner at The Wreck, and the next day Nichole and her camera wandered the city - and stopped for some carrot cake - while Rockford took care of business.


Trick or Treat
Journaling: Poppy decided pretty early in the year that she wanted to be The Man in the Yellow Hat for Halloween. Naturally, that meant that Pete had to be Curious George. We joined [small pal & her father] for a bit of trick-or-treating around their neighborhood.
Journaling: Poppy decided pretty early in the year that she wanted to be The Man in the Yellow Hat for Halloween. Naturally, that meant that Pete had to be Curious George. We joined (small pal & her father) for a bit of trick-or-treating around their neighborhood.

Only two months behind on the 2010 scrapbook

I haven’t been writing much about scrapbooking lately. But then on Saturday night, I “met” Melanie on Twitter while we were both watching the Mizzou game. I clicked over to her blog and discovered that she’s a scrapbooker, too, and her (very cute) layouts inspired me to do a better job of sharing my own.

(If this is a little discombobulated: I apologize. I just woke up from a nap, and I’m still a little groggy.)

I’ve been leaning toward a more minimalistic style lately; I’m thinking about dropping the background paper altogether for next year’s album. Here’s my most-recent page:

happy birthday to you

The journaling reads “Poppy requested a ‘pigs in mud’ birthday cake.” See? Even the journaling is minimalistic.

Resources
I need to do a better job keeping track of where I get stuff. Here’s what I used for this page, though, with as much detail as I can remember.

  • The paper and most of the other elements are from a kit by Studio Flergs. It was a limited-edition thing, and I can’t find a link to it now. I have it listed in my files as “for Melissa.”
  • The frames are from Katie Pertiet’s Photo Clusters No. 12.
  • The font was a free one from Two Peas in a Bucket called “Pea Patti.” I use it for a lot of my journaling.