scrapbooking and photos

Have put sewing on the backburner for now. A

very good friend has asked me to do a scrapbook

for her mother. And as I love scrapping I

said yep, be glad to!

She has send boxes of supplies to me and

occassional odds and ends. An album,

lots of refill pages, embellishments galore,

gorgeous papers....oh its been like Christmas!

And I get to play with it all and when I'm done,

send it away!

She picked an absolute yummy album

by K and Company. They have such beautiful

scrapping items. Hard to not buy it all!

No thats not her pic in it, its just the one

included for the sale. Pretty isn't it!

*the album, not the picture* And

I get to fill it with lots of wonderful old family

photos. Alot which I get to touch up and repair.

And as my friend knows how much I love playing

with damaged photos, she threw a

HUGE challenge at me,

Can You Belive That Picture? The damage, YIKES!

So I said, oh hey, no problem, bit my lip and dove

in. And I think I did pretty good! *its still not

quite finished*
Yeah, not bad huh?

I love family photos. They are family treasures.

I cringe when I see photos that have not been

taken care of, or worse yet stored in those

horrible sticky albums. You know the ones,

you lift the page, and its sticky, so you put your

beloved picture on that page and drop the top

back on it. Then the page proceeds to discolor

and do terrible things to that picture.

So this is what I am spending my time doing.

Touching up, resizing, reprinting, scanning

and having fun!

In a few days I will start putting the pics

to paper and adding all the fun

embellishements! I can't wait!