If you've been reading my blog, you know that I'm working to catch up on a serious backlog of scrapbooking in time for graduation at the end of May. So I'm working my way back in time through boxes of photos and ran across this set of pictures that I've been skipping over. As it happens, these are the last pictures we have of my daughter with my mom.
From a color standpoint, the photos were hard enough to deal with, but from an emotional point of view, I couldn't even look at them until recently. So I decided to keep the color scheme very simple, with a neutral white background. (Neutrals are always my solution for difficult color situations.)
From a color standpoint, the photos were hard enough to deal with, but from an emotional point of view, I couldn't even look at them until recently. So I decided to keep the color scheme very simple, with a neutral white background. (Neutrals are always my solution for difficult color situations.)
If you click on the picture, you should be able to read the journaling. I didn't want it to be heavy or sad, because that is not representative of the kind of relationship my daughter shared with her grandma. The pink stuffed hearts in the ceramic basket at right were actually favors given out at the baby shower we had for my daughter after she was born. I have kept them all these years and for some reason decided to use them for our little birthday gathering that evening.
It has been hard working with pictures that include my mom, but I've found that it also feels good to finally scrapbook them. I feel that in order to be an authentic depiction of our life, our scrapbooks need to show our entire journey, including the rough patches we encounter. I'm getting there...
5 comments:
I understand completely. Those are great pages and I' glad that you were finally able to complete them.
Thanks, Kristina. I know you've worked through this same thing. It's tough but good to get those feelings down on paper.
These are great pages Janet. I love that your mom has the bow on her sweater! Very sweet.
Thanks, Fonda. :-) My mom was a lot of fun and loved to goof around. That's one reason I love these pictures. They're just really ordinary, typical pictures, and that's how I like to remember her. :-)
Scrapbooking is good therapy for lots of things...what great pages and memories for Bailey (and you) to have...
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