New Creative Team Member!

I have good news.  I have been accepted as a CT member for Forever Sisters Scraps and the two partners, Robyn Pali and her sister Rachel, who designs as My Four Princesses. October will be my first full month with them.  I have done one layout for their collab kit, I am a Child of God.  I love the kit:  bold, bright, primary colors, and great elements that reflect the familiar aspects of Primary.  CTR, activity days, etc.  There’s a really cute button that says Jesus wants me for a Sunbeam.

Here’s a copy of my layout and a preview of the kit. 

Link to the store:  http://www.divinedigital.com/boutique/product.php?productid=21468&cat=0&page=1

I will be also hosting a Heritage challenge for the CT team.  Its not open to the public, but I’m thinking I will post them here as well to help you get started on your Heritage layouts.  We will also discuss genealogy research and what you can do to fill in the holes in your research.

I'm sorry I don't have a way for you to post your layouts here; I'd love to see them.  But do them anyway.  You'll get a lot of satisfaction out of it and your children and grand-children will thank you for it.

Since tomorrow is the first of October, here’s the challenge for this month: 

Let’s start with the very beginning.  You.  Who knows more about you than you?  Your challenge, then, should be a fairly easy one.  Make a page about you. 

Requirements:

1.     It should have at least one picture (maybe a baby picture?). 

2.    Dates.  When and where were you born (you can black them out for the web—don’t want that kind of information out for just anybody to find!)

3.    Tell us a little bit about you.  One paragraph will be plenty. Here are some ideas to get your juices flowing:

a.    What’s your favorite color?  Why?  What is it about that color that speaks to you?

b.    Is there any story about your birth that has become legend in the family?  For example, my family likes to tell about the day I was born.  My dad was also in the hospital for a broken ankle.  This was in the 50s, when father’s weren’t allowed in the delivery rooms and the nurses kept shoo-ing him off the maternity ward floor even, telling him he didn’t belong there.  Somehow, though, he managed to be there when they removed me from the delivery room to the nursery.  I guess that since I was his first, he didn’t realize that they hadn’t cleaned me up yet.  When he called my grandparents he told them I beautiful red hair.  My grandparents showed up at the hospital with a red-headed doll only to find a black-haired baby.  (Not that you could tell, really.  I was a practically bald until I was two years old.)

c.    What do you like to do for fun?  Or when you need to relax?

d.    How did you get your name?  Were you named after someone?  Is there a story about your name? Do you like it? Hate it? Why?

Grandma

Just finished a great template challenge over at The Studio.  The template is by Marie H and the kit is All Together Now by Ambowife.  I love girlie stuff--I guess I'm just a romantic at heart.  Anyway, this
is a picture of my grandmother at age 10 with her younger sister.  In between them on the chair are two toys.  If you enlarge the picture enough, you can see that they are a stuffed dog and a stuffed cat.  The cat looks like it could have been homemade, while the dog looks more like a mass produced toy.  I only met my dad's Aunt Charlotte once when she was over 80 years old.  She died just a couple of years later.  My grandmother has been gone since 1954, so I don't really remember her.  I just have impressions of a loving, well-padded woman, and some very vague impressions of  her home and a chair that must have been a favorite because I think of it whenever I think of her.

What're them camera things for again?

I am the world’s most unusual scrapper, I’m afraid.  I don’t even OWN a camera.  I scrap the family pictures to go with the genealogy I’m working on.  I do scrap pictures of my daughter and family, but they are all old pictures.  My camera broke a few years ago and I haven’t taken the time to replace it.  The last pictures I remember taking were of our cat when we first got him about six or seven years ago.   Of course, you know what this means.  I’m running out of pictures to scrap.  I’m going through all of the old negatives and slides my parents and grandparents took and kept looking for good pictures to scrap.  I have a pretty good photo scanner and I just scan them into my computer.  Now, however, I’ve got all of these old pictures, but some of them are not worth taking the time to clean up.  A lot are out of focus or too small or uninteresting.  But I’m trying to rescue as many as I can.  Soon, I’m going to be reduced to begging my family for pictures. Or else, I’m going to have to break down and buy a new camera.