In this season that has felt more like spring than winter, I have started a new habit. A good one for once! After devoting much time to making cards over the past several months and having a couple of friends ask me if I'd stopped scrap booking, I've finally gotten back in the groove of scrap booking! For three consecutive Saturday evenings (and into the wee hours of Sunday mornings), I've been scrap booking some projects that are long over due. Among them is an "ABC's of Scripture" album I originally made in a class with one of the two persons I would credit with teaching me how to scrap book. So, here she is several states away in North Carolina, and now (like five years later) I've finally placed pictures in the album! What wonderful memories the project brought not only to me but also to my family, who enjoyed looking at the completed album on my visit home over President's Day weekend. Speaking of spring versus winter, who ever would have thought I would have managed a trip home to Pennsylvania in February?! That weekend is often a very rough one, weather-wise. I remember a "major" winter storm we got here in Chillicothe in perhaps 2003. What a difference this year has been! I think this is a first - for me to get home to PA in the month of February.
My second recent project (keeping in the context of catching up on scrap booking) has been to place pictures in a lovely 8 inch by 8 inch album I made with another dear friend just two months ago! I filled it with pictures from Christmas 2010 (as opposed to 2011) for a couple of reasons. First, as you may know, I had a deletion accident with my memory card that once held my Christmas 2011 photos, and though I was able to recover some pictures, I lost many more than were recovered. Also, I saw several more family members (who drove rather long distances) in December 2010 than I saw this past Christmas. So, it seemed fitting to feature a Christmas past in that album. My family adored that album as well. It was a wonderful (rich, if you will) and fulfilling experience to enjoy the memories of our lives this past weekend as we looked through the albums together!
Great to hear you are back to scrapping!! Also great to hear you are making the most of the 8 x 8 album you recently made!!! Glad your family enjoyed looking at them with you.
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