Emma's Birthday

Emma's birthday was on March 6th. You can see here she celebrated with her sister Ellie. She is one year old now and oh how fast the year has past. Happy Birthday Little Emma!

Ellie and Emma

Katie's two little girls are sooo cute together. Emma is 2 and Ellie is almost 1. They live in Arizona, Darn-it! But they love to play together. This layout is all colorful like their personalities.
Kit is "Sweet Sprinkles" by http://www.shabbyprincess.com

Two New Pages

Here are two new pages I did in the last day or so. The one is my mommy pumping gas at the gas station my dad had for a while before I was born. It is a Shell station and was in St. Joseph, Michigan. The other layout is my Grandma Meader the day before she died in Detroit, Michigan. She was visiting my Aunt Alice and it was 1956. I was eleven years old. I noticed the old album in this picture, only a few months ago. Aunt Alice gave me the album quite a few years ago.
Kits are from http://www.scrapartist.com

Allison's Blessing

Allison is 31 now, but I still remember the day she was blessed. She was a much anticipated baby in our family and this layout is from the day she was blessed at church by her father. I included her blessing certificate too. This was in January of 1978. (Kit is "Romantically Inclined" from http://www.scrapartist.com)

Rediscovering the Meaning of Scrapbooking

A story from Scrapgirls newsletter.

Rediscovering the Meaning of Scrapbooking

This may sound weird, as I'm a digital scrapbooking supplies designer and scrapbooking is my life, but I just rediscovered the meaning of doing it.

My older daughter, who turns three this year, was looking at some pictures and layouts from when she was little. She could recognize herself in the pictures and was having so much fun looking through all of them! I thought that she was too young to enjoy what I do, but children grow up fast and parents are usually “behind” them.

This little episode made me think. I really want my children to know not only what they looked like when they were little, but also what they did, what they said, what they liked to do, to eat, and to play with. I also want them to know what we, parents, were thinking about them and that's why I'm so thankful that I found digital scrapbooking. Doing things digitally is especially great in my situation – it saves me money, time, and mess. I just can't imagine scrapbooking somewhere in the kitchen until all hours and then having to clean up after I finish. Just one paperclip left behind could cause trouble. All I do now is turn off my computer. I have enough other things to clean after the children go to bed.

So, today, I sat at my computer with the feeling of an important mission ahead of me. I still have so many memories to scrap, hundreds of pictures that need to be linked with words. I will do it eventually and I am not getting frustrated with the prospect of all the work. Some of the pictures can be put into photo albums; I do not have to scrap them all. Some of them tell stories, some don't. My favorite photos are those shot on ordinary days. Those that show things that seem to be unimportant at the time. Everyday things like the little quirks of people we know. I enjoy reading my scrapbook pages most when they show me things that I have already forgotten!

So, enjoy the layout about my younger daughter and her obsession with a washing machine!

- Ariadna

From: http://www.scrapgirls.com 02/16/09