Finished Up to 1958!

 

 

I had the next set of slides printed from Persnickety Prints and filed them in my small storage photo books. I had my photos and list of slides by date in front of me, and then I planned out which photos were going to go into which page in the book. I had a few vertical photos that I had printed in both 4 by 6 and 2 by 3 sizes since I wasn't sure where they would fit in the overall pages.

 

Here you can see the worksheet that I used for planning which page protectors to use and where the photos and journaling cards would go. I am keeping the photos in chronological order as much as possible. A few are hard to date, but I guessed based on clothes, haircuts, and where we were in the photo.

 

I also took some of the letters that Grandma Fuller saved for me and added them in between the pages where they fit chronologically - or as close as possible. I decided to use the orginals instead of scanning them since they were in a file folder. I used photo corners for most of them, but a few I attached with a tape runner.

 

 

 

 

I had fun with the journaling cards, adding a lot of embellishments to the cards for Christmas. I used a variety of holiday papers that I bought recently (on sale, of course!) that had cutout sheets of journaling cards, tags, phrases, etc.

 

 

I also had some 12 by 12 layouts that I finished when I took an online class from Amy Sorenson called Textuality from Big Picture Classes. I decided to include them chronologically as well. This one of my grandmother reading to me fit right in with a few photos of me reading and another of my Great-Aunt Edith reading to me. I enjoyed making the new page balance with the old - luckily I still had a few of the labels that I used on the older layout. I added other patterned paper that had similar colors.

 

 

Here is a close-up of the new page. Some of these pages I spend a lot of time on the cards that I add, and other times I just use basic cards that I write my journaling on. I'm lucky to have a lot of time to spend on the project, so I have fun with it. I really like the fact that I can easily move things around if I find a new photo or decide I don't like the way something looks.

 

 

 

I am still sticking with Becky Higgins Project Life Olive Edition cards for most of my pages. I think it helps make the album look more consistent. I just print out cards from the digital version as I need them. Sometimes I type the journaling on the cards before I print them, but most of the time I write the journaling by hand. I know that when I look at old scrapbooks from my mother, grandmothers and even great-grandmothers I like to see their own handwriting.

 

Here is where I added the last few pages from my original Baby Book (scanned copies) along with one more paper that Grandma Fuller saved. She had written something on the paper about how I wrote the letters of the alphabet and copied my name. It goes along with what my mother wrote on the Baby Book page next to it.

 

I'm very happy with how this album is turning out, and I'm close to finishing the initial project. If I decide to convert more of the slides, I will have to buy another binder to put them in. This one is just about full now.