scrapbooking the last pages of 2007
I know things’ve been a little quiet on the blogging side of things, but I assure you I’ve been turning my creative inclinations towards other passions lately and it has not all gone to waste. 
I took advantage of a good sale to print out nearly 300 digital pictures and have been working at getting my albums sorted out.
As a first completed project of the year, the “Family 2007″ layouts are now totally scrapbooked. This album (or rather section of an album; it shares space with 2008) was mostly complete for the longest time even before 2009 rolled around. Then I’d somehow skipped over November and December ‘07 in favour of jumping right into the beginning of 2008 and ending up scrapbooking from January to June of ‘08 in one big cropping weekend in October (which I paid for dearly in pain afterwards due to a fire alarm!).
In my recent album organizing efforts, the unfinished area stood out as a priority. So I finally chose some digital pics to print out from those couple months and got to work…
I finished the title bar to the first 1/2 layout of November (Paul’s 27th birthday), and then added another 1-page layout (of Stella’s 3rd birthday) on the other side. On the next pages, I did a 2-page spread with the title “Here comes Winter” and I think it turned out really nicely…
For the final layout of 2007, I did a 1-page layout which was kept to just one un-cropped photo and a block of journaling – all about my experience of being “Always behind the camera!” and why I love scrapbooking for my family.
Since the writing in quite small in the picture, here is a copy of what the journaling says:
Being always behind the camera is something I don’t mind too too much… I figure I’ve done most of my growing and changing so it’s my turn to capture all the growth that my kids are experiencing! I focus my lens outwards, so that they may one day be able to look back at their history and journey through childhood. I feel that part of being a mom is being a record-keeper of all types for the family. For me, this encompasses everything from birthday cards to baby milestones to grade school reports and info. This includes what must now be hundreds of photos! Even though I do sometimes get teased for our very extensive collection of family scrapbooks, it has been well worth the time put in… I feel fortunate to be able to have such a wonderfully visual set of “records”… when the family would like to know which Christmas was unseasonably mild, a few flips in the holiday albums is all that’s needed. As our memories become less sharp over time, this resource will be all the more valuable. Even if my face isn’t very visible in these pages, I still feel very much a part of each and every layout. And seeing my kids (and others) enjoying the scrapbooks is all the reward I need for the work of being the official scribe of family memories!
That’s all for now but there are other projects in the works and lots of pictures to come… everything from new cards to new blinkies to the work we did on the kids’ bedrooms over the holidays! Thanks for reading and happy scrapping! 
January 19 2010 12:39 pm | EZ-blog Oven and family and pain / disability and pics and scrappy / stampy
