Childhood

Unfortunately, I have exactly two blurry photos of me; one at about age 4 and one at age 8. My parents were not picture takers. I guess I could scrap what life was like back then. Hummmmm-----sounds like a pretty good challenge idea to me!!!!!

 

I started digital scrapbooking in 2006, and what I did for 7 years was ALL vintage, dating back to the 1860's thru the 1940's. Around 2013, I actually started including me in some of the vintage category, ha, ha. Then I got into art journaling, and it's only been the last few years that I actually did scrapbook pages using more recent pics. I did find a few of my "youth" here in the gallery that I'll share with you. Like Nancy, I don't have tons of photos growing up. But what I do have, I cherish. Courtney, you are going to be sorry you asked, I fear I will be inundating you...

6 months old???


A photo from my 1st birthday party:


With a baby doll carriage that I loved:


Check out the top two shadow boxes:


DH & I didn't meet until I was 18 & he was 22, but that didn't stop me from doing a layout when we toddlers.


About 8 here, an interview with myself:


I was about 12 here...


Me and my mom:

 

This is a great thread. My mom has been going thru memory lane with me on our FB. It is a private fb, her 7 or so friends, and me. lol but she is telling stories and I am scrapping them as she posts. The ladies are laughing and loving it.
She took a photo (she is a horrid photographer and was passenger zooming) of this bridge. thank you internet images, I got a better one, and added it to her blurry one (the b&w)!
Here is today's from my driver's training:

 

I've done a few pages here and there, but I seriously need to go to my mom's and go through photos. I say I'm going to do it every summer and then it doesn't get done.

 

just wanted to add...I did a book for my mom, and I contacted the newspaper of her home town...and one of the ladies there, went thru their files and found some old photos of my mom's first job place and an advertisement in the paper. It was pretty special to my mom and her friends! lol There

 

y'know... I've only really looked ahead for my scrapping, but never really thought about my past or childhood. Very good point. I should check out some of the photo albums, and scan some pictures in of me, and scrap them! I'd have to ask my mom a boatload of questions to go along with each of the page! I would totally enjoy that - I don't know if she will though!

 

Yes, a little. I have a terrible memory though. I barely remember anything from childhood. My mom did take quite a few photos of me and my siblings though. So I can scrap photos, but the pages have just the facts (date, location, etc).

Here's my most recent page that includes child me.


As I was searching I found 3 other pages that were about me as a teen or young adult too.

 

My scrapbooking started when I was in college. I've done a few layouts of myself as a little girl, but mostly college and onwards. Also, my early layouts are all paper. I still go back and forth between paper, digital and hybrid, but I'm at about 75% digital these days.

 

Awesome thread, have saved some to Pinterest - thanks!
I haven't done too many layouts about my childhood digitally - but scrapped an album in paper > ten years ago.
I just recently worked out why I hate my own birthday parties - goes back to my 6th party and what was said to me then still rings in my ears. My son's 21st party today and I do hope it will be amazing. I generally like to scrap happy and look on the bright side and gloss over the yucky stuff.

 

@gonewiththewind Thanks for the heads-up on the book. I ordered a slightly used copy this a.m. Can't wait to see it!

Does anyone have any thoughts about journaling for this photo? It is a scanned untouched pic, me in the kitchen with my dad's lunchbox.

 

I started a whole album about me with a Facebook group a few years back. I got about half way and then quit as other projects called for my attention. If I can get caught up, I want to go back and finish it. My caught-up would be to finish 2016 (I am in September), do the 2016 vacation, and then 2017. So do-able if I hustle.

I do have traditional scrapbooks of me from birth through high school done. I also have some college ones in magnetic albums (gasp!). Then there is the 20 year gap of printed photos in boxes. #someday #someday

 

@gonewiththewind your pages are wonderful, you are so good at storytelling.

I have very few pictures of my childhood. I've made a few pages and I know it's something I really should do for documentation, but it just doesn't come naturally to me.

 

I have been doing an album on my husband and I for a while now. Actually....I'm REdoing it! LOL His family didn't take many photos. But my parents had one of those old box cameras that they took photos with for years and years. And my two great aunts also took lots of photos. So between them we have a nice collection of black and white photos of all of us kids over the years. I'm trying to journal better on my pages and focusing on telling the story in words as well as photos.