Category Archives: Memory Keeping

Anything related to keeping our memories…from our personal memories, family memories to extended family albums, projects, writing and info. Keeping it alive and passing it on!

catching up and tidying up…

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One of my goals for 2013 is to come here and write on my blog more, share my projects and carve out my little corner of the internet.  Housekeeping chores led me to this layout which I guess I thought I’d posted but evidently not…from November 2011.

Another of my goals is to learn WordPress more thourougly so things run a little smoother around this joint

I created this layout as part of a Layout-A-Day challenge class at Big Picture Classes.  A surprise weekend trip to Mt. Sunapee to climb the mountain that Charlie and the girls had skied down that winter.  The surprise held until we were into NH.  Great fun had by all.

Journaling reads…

For Charlie’s birthday this year, we gave him a weekend at Mt. Sunapee.   The express purpose of the weekend was to hike to the top of Mt. Sunapee and take a summer picture of the girls at the top of the mountain.  He had already taken one of them over the winter when they were skiing and he wanted to return in the summer for the same photo.  Mission accomplished!  After a little backtracking and  a lot of “this mountain doesn’t have any summit” we arrived.  2.1+ miles and several hours later – totally worth it!  Happy Birthday Daddy!   Labor Day 2011

…and i’m still here…in Portland!

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Am on a cross-country tour of my creative friends and this morning spent a guilt free luxurious hour scrapping whist still under the covers…

Now to drag myself out and meet up with the girls for another day exploring Portland before we head up to the Coast tomorrow for the retreat!

…day four…and no brown

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I thought a lot about process today, the HOW of getting things done.  Sometimes I think we spend so much time on the why we don’t pay attention to the PROCESS of the HOW which can be just as informative as the why.

But that, I think is fodder for another post…

May 4, layout 4.  I wanted today’s page to be bright…it has rained all week and it’s totally gray and drizzly.  The prompt didn’t grab me today but I was flipping thru photos and found these of the girls at the park last summer…tugs at my heart that they still fit in the little kid cars…and in no time at all there is no way they will fit, or even want to try.

The journaling reads:  You girls have been riding the “leave behind” toys at the park since you could walk.  Many, many v. cold days yelling “just one more ride mom” or …Sunset, bugs coming out “please one more!”  You are now 9 and still the cars at the park beckon…A quick adjustment. look under the hood and you’re off on another adventure.  I didn’t think you’d fit, either of you.  but you did just barely.  How many more rides before you are truly too big?  Many More I hope.     Summer 2011

*sigh*

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another day, another layout

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I’ve been digging around in boxes and bins and trying to make some order out of chaos when I found this “kit” of papers and photos that I’d put together a few years ago but never actually made the layout….so today I did, I added some other items and wrote a little but having all the papers etc…already in one place made things go so much faster…even with pulling some other things.  This was from 2006…I can’t believe how time has flown.  But we still have that red wagon.  The more things change as they say….

I realized today that the last three days layouts have been very dark … maybe it’s the super grey rainy days we’ve been having (but boy do we need the rain)  or just what I have been putting my hand on to work on….maybe tomorrow will be brighter, we’ll have to see.

Most days, I don’t have a set idea of the story I want to tell for that day, I just let the story find me.  Seems to be working out so far so I’m gonna just go with it.

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