SCRAPBOOK SATURDAY - Cooking with Grandma!

Good morning, everyone!

We have a beautiful day on the program for today. I'm hoping the sun/ breeze will dry out the lawn a bit more so I can mow this afternoon. Crossing fingers and asking Mother Nature to play nice today.

I recently made the decision to get back to scrapbooking. By doing Scrapbook Saturday posts here and videos on my YouTube channel, I'm hoping those will help keep me motivated. I've also joined a challenge group on SplitcoastStampers.  The forum thread changes from month to month, I think. But here's the APRIL CHALLENGE THREAD. 

I'm going to be happy with four pages this month. Since I have this Saturday and next week, that is two double-page spreads.

I'm starting with a box of pictures of Adrian's first few years, under the age of 4, I think. I picked this first group of pictures from a day when we made Great Grammy's Cherry Cheesecake. That was always a tradition for 4th of July in our house growing up. I haven't put a title in yet. I need to locate my alpha letters or figure out which letter dies/ cricut I want to use. 

You'll learn more about the story behind this layout if you watch my YouTube video for today, but briefly, from the time Adrian was 18 months old she wanted to be in the kitchen with me. She was fascinated with whatever I was doing. Even now, when she visits, she wants to help.. or shove me out of the kitchen and just do. She is a chef in the making, I think. The video also tells significance of the apron and headband she is wearing. 

The title will go across the middle band. The white block on the bottom of this page will be the journaling spot. Details will wait until I have the work table back so I'm not working on my filming table. 

After not scrapbooking for years, this layout took me over four hours. I got lost in the process and watching the finale of Tournament of Champions on the DVR that I even missed a call from Bob. I'm still trying to get used to Bob being on 6 hr shifts instead of 12.  

Please leave me a comment below. Do you scrapbook? Do you have photos waiting that you've never seem to find the time? I'd love to know.

Creative Blessings!

~ Kelly

Recycle Wednesday - A Memory

Today’s recycle has nothing to do with paper, but everything about preserving memories.
The year Bob and I were married, his dad was diagnosed with cancer. It was a rough time for all of us to hear that word, but especially for Bob. He is the oldest of five and Dad’s namesake… Robert W. Henkins III. Dad had to retire. For a man used to working long hours at his regular job, Dad had a lot of outside interests. One was doing interior house remodels. He was always working with his hands. So he was forced to find something to do with them. He crocheted and someone gave him a muslin candlewicking blanket top of various types of birds.  He couldn’t get into it. And if you’re curious, he eventually began woodcarving and built a dollhouse. We treasure some of his hand-carved miniature gun replicas.

Over time, the candlewicking pattern faded but I couldn’t bring myself to let go of the muslin. I loved my father-in-law and this was a part of his journey I wanted to keep.
One day, while cleaning out my sewing room I found the fabric and a box of my husband’s worn-out Jeans. I knew these two fabrics belonged together. It became a Christmas present for Bob that year. I still have to bind and tack it, but I had to give it to him just the way it was. I just haven’t found ‘the’ fabric to bind it with.  It’s now become a priority for me to finish and get out of the sewing room.

The quilt consists of triangular pieced blocks of the muslin, recycled denim and a coordinating flannel I purchased new to bring it all together. The backing is also of the same muslin. The over-sized lap quilt is 6 blocks by 8 blocks. I’m hoping to find the binding and have it done in time for Bob to take to deer camp this fall. Wish me luck!