Right side:
Sara Gleason - Family Almanac
ninigoesdigi - Totally Booked
Paula Kesselring - Photobooth, Traveling Around the World 5 & 6
Valorie Wibbens - Me Time
Lynn Grieveson - Morning Light
Lynne-Marie - Field Notes
Allison Pennington - All About Me
Rebecca McMeen - Jetadore
Journaling for both left & right pages:
My interests, my hobbies through the years:
1950’s
Pop beads
1960’s
Pop beads
Photography - Acted as photographer for my parents 25th wedding anniversary, put together a keepsake book for them when I was only 13 years old.
Photograph albums - Mom shared duplicates with me and bought me my first album.
I recall sitting at the kitchen table, barely able to do cursive, writing on the backs of them and putting them in chronological order in my precious album.
Rocks - I would collect them, scrub them, research them & mount them on cardboard for display.
Postcards - Mom spread the word & I received postcards in stacks from family & friends. The nerdy side of me cataloged them, organized them by state and country.
I still have four shoeboxes full.
Bead work - stringing and using a small loom (the natural progression of pop-beads).
Sewing - For myself beginning at the age of 13.
Reading- Anything I could get my hands on. Aunt Cathy would always gift me with books.
1970’s
Sewing - bought my own sewing machine, a Bernina in 1972! Began sewing for John, drapes and curtains for our new home.
Thimbles - began collecting them with my grandfather’s tailor thimble. Began cataloging them, typing up cards for each one as I acquired them.
Reading - took classes on women’s literature and women’s lib in university. Loved it!
1980’s
Thimbles - Bought many from places like Gimbels of Maine and the occasional souvenir
Sewing - Continued to sew almost all of our clothing
Quilting - Full sized quilts - sunshine and shadow, log cabin
Reading - Books on sewing, quilting, fabric crafts
Genealogy - Received much paperwork from Grandma C, provided by her niece Gertrude, about John’s paternal side of the family.
1990’s
Thimbles - Joined Dairyland Thimblers, joined Thimble Collectors International (TCI)
Quilting - Full sized quilt - string along lily (took me 9 years to complete).
Reading - Collecting cookbooks, mostly vegetarian.
Genealogy - Continued my research into family dates and places. Gifted with Family Tree Maker software.
2000’s
Reading - #1 Ladies Detective Agency, anything by Margaret Atwood
Thimbles - Through my affiliation with TCI, I began scouring antique stores for vintage gold and silver thimbles, attended auctions for same said thimbles.
Travel internationally - 2-4 week trips overseas. International travel prompted by exchange students we hosted in the 1990’s.
Genealogy - Discovered John’s 4th cousin on-line. Received much information from her, dating back to the 1600’s. Went to a family reunion in Nebraska.
Photographs - Access to heritage photos from both sides of the family - scanning and creating CD slide shows for all.
Photoshop - Discovered digital scrapbooking! Photoshop CS2 purchased in June 2006 and my obsession with heritage layouts began.
2010’s
Reading - yes
Thimbles - yes
Travel internationally - Managed to meet relatives in Poland in 2016.
Journaling - Began journaling daily on a calendar template I set up in Photoshop
Journaling - Brought along physical journals to document EVERY SINGLE aspect of our trips. Began using washi tape and ephemera to decorate.
Photoshop - Discovered digital shops, posted in galleries, discovered art journaling, joined Tangie Baxter’s Art Journal Caravan and Art Journal Emporium.
Zentangles - Began drawing them in 2012.
Bird & critter watching - Began in 2018 when I retired.
2020’s
Thimbles - Started cataloging them digitally onto a spreadsheet, but life gets in my way... I have now got close to 4,000.
Journaling - A big part of my life with daily journaling. Wrote the A-Z of Me.
Photoshop - Continues to be the highlight of my day/week/month/year
Reading - Not done as often. Still prefer physical books to ebooks, but I do enjoy reading on my tablet at night with no lights on.
Bird & critter watching - Spending an arm and a leg on feed. But they make me smile. I enjoy taking the elusive photographs of them and revel when one is in focus.
