I love that Disneyland is timeless.
All digital elements are from Club Scrap's Pure & Simple collection. One of my favorite color combos ever.
Riding the exercise bike to retreat!
Saturday, April 25, 2015
Vintage Disneyland
I've been scanning old slides lately and came across some great vintage 1960's pictures of my husband and his sister at Disneyland.
Friday, April 10, 2015
Generations Project
A few weeks ago, my friend Diana and I worked on a vintage Club Scrap project together via Skype. The project is a small scrapbook using the Generations kit from April 2008.
Here is the cover of my book. It is a fun exercise in masking and inking techniques and I really like how it turned out. I added some hardware and dimensional words to the cover as well. My book ended up having 36 pages and it lead me to some fantastic genealogy discoveries and stories that I will be adding to the book at a later date. For now I have a lot of generational pictures from both sides of my family and will really treasure having them all in one place.
The first 2 pages show my family trees on both my mother and father's sides of my family. When I started I had only a small amount on my dad's side and quite a bit on my mom's, but after I contacted some relatives and did an internet search on some information I had a whole new world opened up and I ended up tracing my mother's line all the way back to Robert the Bruce. Cool, huh?
I started with my grandmother (on my dad's side). I thought this was the only picture available with her dad, her and me. When I contacted my aunt, she sent me pictures of my grandma's mom and sisters as well.
I tried to do at least one page for each side that shows the generations so you'll see that I repeated the use of head shots to show that. I noticed when I did this one that I, my dad and my great grandma, all have the same eyes.
Next, we have the Farman side of my dad's family. My aunt Betsy and cousin Carrie provided some great vintage photos for me here. Particularly dear to my heart are the one's of my dad as a baby. He had such a great sense of humor and you see in this series of photos that he was such a happy child as well. I miss him every day.....
It was also great to have pictures of 2 generations of siblings. My dad and his siblings, both as children and adults and his dad and his siblings as children and adults. I have another page to add depicting the Farman Pickle Brothers, but I'm waiting for some images.
Next we have my grandfather's mother. This is as far back as I have information for her side of the family, but we have the Farman side back to before the Revolutionary War. There were even a couple of pictures from the mid 1800s and stories of minute men and the gold rush.
Now, we move on to my mom's side of the family, starting with her mother. I have such great memories of week ends spent at my grandparents house in Buckley, WA. I think the picture of my grandmother and some of her siblings in the lower left corner is the only picture I've seen of my grandma as a child. A wonderful photo to have.
Next is my mother's father's side, the Lochridges. We have some wonderful photos dating back to the early 1900s of this crowd. They were a logging family and during the winter months, my grandpa's parents ran a roller rink. Family legend has it that this may have also been a speakeasy, after all, it was the 1920s.
The top 2 pages show's my great-great grandfather and grandmother and their adult children. On the right is Elizabeth Bagby (the g-g-grandmother from that family), she lived to be 84 and helped with the running of the logging camp.
The bottom 2 pages show a handmade quilt made by my g-g-g-grandmother Damara Todd (married to John Lochridge). It's called Turkey Tracks and hangs in a museum in Auburn, WA. I also made copies of the family bible pages that has all the family records for her children, marriages and deaths.
Here is the cover of my book. It is a fun exercise in masking and inking techniques and I really like how it turned out. I added some hardware and dimensional words to the cover as well. My book ended up having 36 pages and it lead me to some fantastic genealogy discoveries and stories that I will be adding to the book at a later date. For now I have a lot of generational pictures from both sides of my family and will really treasure having them all in one place.
I started with my grandmother (on my dad's side). I thought this was the only picture available with her dad, her and me. When I contacted my aunt, she sent me pictures of my grandma's mom and sisters as well.
I tried to do at least one page for each side that shows the generations so you'll see that I repeated the use of head shots to show that. I noticed when I did this one that I, my dad and my great grandma, all have the same eyes.
Next, we have the Farman side of my dad's family. My aunt Betsy and cousin Carrie provided some great vintage photos for me here. Particularly dear to my heart are the one's of my dad as a baby. He had such a great sense of humor and you see in this series of photos that he was such a happy child as well. I miss him every day.....
It was also great to have pictures of 2 generations of siblings. My dad and his siblings, both as children and adults and his dad and his siblings as children and adults. I have another page to add depicting the Farman Pickle Brothers, but I'm waiting for some images.
Next we have my grandfather's mother. This is as far back as I have information for her side of the family, but we have the Farman side back to before the Revolutionary War. There were even a couple of pictures from the mid 1800s and stories of minute men and the gold rush.
Now, we move on to my mom's side of the family, starting with her mother. I have such great memories of week ends spent at my grandparents house in Buckley, WA. I think the picture of my grandmother and some of her siblings in the lower left corner is the only picture I've seen of my grandma as a child. A wonderful photo to have.
Next is my mother's father's side, the Lochridges. We have some wonderful photos dating back to the early 1900s of this crowd. They were a logging family and during the winter months, my grandpa's parents ran a roller rink. Family legend has it that this may have also been a speakeasy, after all, it was the 1920s.
The top 2 pages show's my great-great grandfather and grandmother and their adult children. On the right is Elizabeth Bagby (the g-g-grandmother from that family), she lived to be 84 and helped with the running of the logging camp.
The bottom 2 pages show a handmade quilt made by my g-g-g-grandmother Damara Todd (married to John Lochridge). It's called Turkey Tracks and hangs in a museum in Auburn, WA. I also made copies of the family bible pages that has all the family records for her children, marriages and deaths.
This all lead me to do some research on the internet which lead me to the Campbells, the Stewarts and the Bruces. Yes, we have a direct connection through the Lochridges all the way back to Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland. How cool is that?
Here is a picture of both the back and front covers of the book. I'll put my signature in the frame on the back.
Saturday, March 28, 2015
Happy Birthday Will!
A very happy birthday to my son Will who turns 24 today. It's his year in the lunar calendar, so I made a layout for him depicting some of the personality traits of people born in the year of the goat.
An interesting note: Good career choices for goats are pediatrician, actor, daycare teacher, interior designer, florist, hair stylist, musician, editor, illustrator, and history teacher. Go Figure! he's a history teacher!
An interesting note: Good career choices for goats are pediatrician, actor, daycare teacher, interior designer, florist, hair stylist, musician, editor, illustrator, and history teacher. Go Figure! he's a history teacher!
Monday, March 23, 2015
Heritage Photos
I've been working on some digital scrapbook pages of some vintage photos I received from my aunt and a second cousin. It's been such a wonderful jaunt down memory lane.
1st up, these 2 photos of my dad and his siblings were taken 30 years apart. I love how they were lined up the same way without even planning it that way and I found a cute Dr. Seuss quote to go with them.
There was also a photo of my grandpa (dad's father) and 3 of his siblings from 1917, grandpa is 2 in the photo. I was fascinated by the resemblance of grandpa Fred to his son John and his sister Marie to his daughter Betsy.
1st up, these 2 photos of my dad and his siblings were taken 30 years apart. I love how they were lined up the same way without even planning it that way and I found a cute Dr. Seuss quote to go with them.
I used Club Scrap's Gratitude kit for this page.
There was also a photo of my grandpa (dad's father) and 3 of his siblings from 1917, grandpa is 2 in the photo. I was fascinated by the resemblance of grandpa Fred to his son John and his sister Marie to his daughter Betsy.
London Calling was the kit used for this layout.
I thought it would be fun to do a layout showing the family tree with all the photos I've collected.
This one has Paul as the start and shows my
mom's side of the family.
And this one has Will as the start showing my dad's side of the family.
These pages were made with the Random Doorways kit.
Tuesday, March 10, 2015
Bright Ideas and Asian Mums UFOs
I've been trying to clear my cupboards of Unfinished Objects (UFOs) and came across this little night light project from Club Scrap.
I used retreat paper for the shade and added some rickrack over the edges. The leaf dangles came in the kit.
I also completed a quilt top from a kit I got at a quilt store in Lakewood that went out of business a couple of years ago.
I used retreat paper for the shade and added some rickrack over the edges. The leaf dangles came in the kit.
I also completed a quilt top from a kit I got at a quilt store in Lakewood that went out of business a couple of years ago.
It came with some very pretty shimmery fabrics for the squares and a beautiful panel with the mums on it.
Here is a close up of the pieced mum block.
Friday, February 27, 2015
A New Generation Begins
Our family is overjoyed to have received two beautiful new baby girls into the fold this month.
Finnley Olivia was born to my cousin Tarn and her husband Morgan on February 4th and
Vanleigh Rae was born to my second cousin Lacy and her husband Peter on February 14th.
When I posted this layout on facebook my aunt Pam reminded me that my grandma Ruth, who is these babies Great Grandma and Great-Great Grandma respectively was born in 1915,
The picture of Ruth was taken on Christmas Eve in the early 70s. She would have loved to hold these new babies, but alas we lost her 30 years ago. It's just amazing to think it's been 100 years between her birth and this new generation.
Top layout uses Club Scrap Digital kits: Hydrangea, Papillon, Bugs, Raku and Natural Resources Template
Next layout uses Club Scrap Digital kit: My Funny Valentine
Finnley Olivia was born to my cousin Tarn and her husband Morgan on February 4th and
Vanleigh Rae was born to my second cousin Lacy and her husband Peter on February 14th.
When I posted this layout on facebook my aunt Pam reminded me that my grandma Ruth, who is these babies Great Grandma and Great-Great Grandma respectively was born in 1915,
The picture of Ruth was taken on Christmas Eve in the early 70s. She would have loved to hold these new babies, but alas we lost her 30 years ago. It's just amazing to think it's been 100 years between her birth and this new generation.
Top layout uses Club Scrap Digital kits: Hydrangea, Papillon, Bugs, Raku and Natural Resources Template
Next layout uses Club Scrap Digital kit: My Funny Valentine
Saturday, February 14, 2015
Happy Valentine's Day!
Happy Valentine's Day to my sweetie! and a Happy Valentine's Day to all my family and friends. May you have a wonderful day and lots of hugs and kisses!
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