ThrowBack Thursday: way back, like 1934

I used one of three images to make a scrapbook page this week. If I were to do it over again, I'd make the image more pronounced but this way fit with the style of the page. I'm not sure that I'll do this page over again but I do want to scrap all three images on one page.

Here are the three images with three girls. None of them are my mother and I'll say she was the one taking the photos. In April 1934, my mother would be 16 and turning 17 the end of May. If these were her friends, they certainly look much much older to me but they would have been more adult than teenager back then. But look, the middle one is doing the same silly rabbit ears behind her friends.

Smokers all. I wonder which one(s) of them developed lung cancer.

Here's a variation of the hands on hip shot that teenage girls still do and still look dorky.

I'm glad I didn't live back then, even if life were simpler. I have no doubt it was harder.

Wednesday Smile - February 27, 2019

as seen in the alerts on my iPhone - Polar Bear Invasion? and I thought we only had to worry about zombies... whatever will be next!

AAM Monday : 2019 Project Life weeks 1 and 2

So far this year, I've only done one page for each week. I wasn't sure how that would go but I seemed to be pulled in so many directions that it wasn't even easy to get that done. I think I hit a wall with the various things I was trying to do, especially when I like to keep January and February as quiet months with more internal work being done. In some ways I did but in other ways, not so much. Live and learn. But while I feel like 1.5 pages would be ideal that is not going to happen. Week by week, I'll find what fits for me this year.

a few on Friday - February 22 2019

Somehow time has gotten out of hand for me.  I feel I've lost a lot of time and probably I have. I'm ready to get back on track after a bit of a life detour.  So here's a bit of the light part of my recent life with a few of the challenges from The-Lilypad.  Have a great weekend!

Or maybe it's this whole week...

Not Where I Wanted to Be

Friday I stopped to take this photo as I was finally leaving the hospital where a friend had just come out of the operating room. He had had an emergency gall bladder surgery and was doing well but I myself felt trapped in the building. The back of my left knee was killing me with pain and I wasn't sure I'd be able to walk to my car. I did hobble down the steps and drove to my own doctor. Thank god it was Friday and the practice was still open. They fit me in for a bit of triage evaluation. While the pain was bad, I  was most worried that it might be a blood clot. I was sent for a doppler imaging and phew! there was no sign of a blood clot. 

My husband had a friend drop him off so he could drive me and my car home. Boy, it sure was not going to be me driving my beloved stick shirt! Pushing the clutch in was hell. Two Aleve and a nap later helped a lot. In many ways now, I realized I really was just overwhelmed with my husband's own medical issues which seem to have no resolution. So far.

But I was so grateful to have my him drive me home and also to get me an iced coffee. (No lunch while I waited in the surgical waiting room to find out about my friend.) I slept in today, meditated, journaled and see what small steps I can take in my own life today.  Just for today...I'm ok with being where I am.

Wednesday Smile: February 13, 2019

Poor photo taken from the New Yorker a few years ago but one that still makes me laugh.

Hope it brings a smile to you also.

Wednesday Smile February 6, 2019

as me how I know 

MOC7 All the Layouts

Now all these layouts have gone to Shutterfly and this image is the cover. I expect to get the book on Thursday and put this project to bed. What a lot of fun it was! 

Once again, I learned a lot of what I personally like and what I don't. And thank goodness 'the extraction' technique wasn't one of this year's challenges! That one is not for me because I really don't care about doing something so precise. It makes scrapping work not fun - for me. 

What are you doing for fun???

2019 MOC7 Days 25 - 31

Yes, this is the final batch except for a page with ALL the layouts! There's a lot more color in these pages but still, when it comes to a background I like neutrals or patterns that have had the opacity reduced over a solid white base. I also like to have an edge or border of some sort to reign the whole piece in. And while I do like double pages, that really wasn't an option for a lot of these challenges and so I usually reserve double pages for travel books. It's still a bit of work but with practice it's ok. Grouping a lot of layers that go together really helps a lot! But I digress...

Once again, I hope you see how many ways there can be to scrap a story or an event! Try it. It's so much fun and the supplies live in an EHD - external hard drive leaving more space to have other bits and pieces all over your (MY!) desk.  Happy Monday!

2019 MOC7 Days 19 - 24

Since we have a snowy morning I'm putting 5 pages here today. Snow day!! I don't expect it to amount to much but it is pretty even if it is c o l d. No way as bad as the states experiencing another polar vortex, but cold enough that the furnace is not shutting off. 

In looking at these 5 layouts, it seems I was happy to get back to neutral backgrounds. I'm realizing I really do like a clean graphic style a lot but still need to get the story in somehow! that's MY challenge. See you next week!