Stephanie was right on target on what I wanted to blog about this week.
This weekend, I was at a scrapbooking retreat at Girls Night Inn. One of the projects I wanted to do was transfer pictures from an old album (my mom's) that is the one page sticky back. These albums are bad for pictures because they deteriate the picture. I figured since I was transfering the pictures, I would scan them first.
I didn't end up changing albums (the albums I brought with me didn't work the way I wanted), but was able to scan in a lot of the old color pictures that I could tell were fading.
These albums have been in our family as long as I can remember. Two albums are of family trips (the flower one on the left) and family pictures (the red one on the right). I have looked at them many times and it is hard for me to take them apart and throw them away. I plan on making scrapbook pages of the family trips and include the index page that my mom wrote.
One album (the middle one) was dedicated to our (my brothers' and mine) weddings. Of course, my wedding pictures weren't in there. It never really hit me until I started taking the album apart that my mom planned on being at my wedding and adding the pictures to that album.
I had a lot of fun scanning the old pictures in. I want to send a cd or e-mail a lot of the pics to my brothers. I spoke with my oldest brother, Vincent, on Monday after going through all the pictures and mentioned that one of the trips had "CNE Marina" written on it by Dad & he knew exactly what the trip was! I was only 3 at the time (1973), so he would have been about 14.
Some of the pics that I love include my very first picture that I ever took (on our trip to Florida). I can kind of remember taking it too. My mom was waving in the picture so I would focus the camera towards her (and my brother Brett & Grandpa). There were so many pictures of me and Bootsie (and it's one of many Bootsies). It looks like I'm about 3, so it's probably one of the first Bootsies (I had about 5 of them - all male orange tabbies).
I also sorted a bunch of pictures. I have generations of pictures. I have mine, my parents, my aunt's (Mom's family), and my grandparent's (Dad's side). I am lucky that either Grandma or Grandpa Clark wrote on the back of the majority of the pictures so I have a date and who is in the picture (mostly of my Dad). One GREAT find was hidden behind a picture of my Dad and Uncle Victor. I think it's of my grandmother. On the back of it, it has Bert Crandall written on it (which is my great-grandfather).
I had a lot of fun scanning the old pictures in. I want to send a cd or e-mail a lot of the pics to my brothers. I spoke with my oldest brother, Vincent, on Monday after going through all the pictures and mentioned that one of the trips had "CNE Marina" written on it by Dad & he knew exactly what the trip was! I was only 3 at the time (1973), so he would have been about 14.
Some of the pics that I love include my very first picture that I ever took (on our trip to Florida). I can kind of remember taking it too. My mom was waving in the picture so I would focus the camera towards her (and my brother Brett & Grandpa). There were so many pictures of me and Bootsie (and it's one of many Bootsies). It looks like I'm about 3, so it's probably one of the first Bootsies (I had about 5 of them - all male orange tabbies).
I also sorted a bunch of pictures. I have generations of pictures. I have mine, my parents, my aunt's (Mom's family), and my grandparent's (Dad's side). I am lucky that either Grandma or Grandpa Clark wrote on the back of the majority of the pictures so I have a date and who is in the picture (mostly of my Dad). One GREAT find was hidden behind a picture of my Dad and Uncle Victor. I think it's of my grandmother. On the back of it, it has Bert Crandall written on it (which is my great-grandfather).
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