January 20: Storytelling

I've been meaning to scrap my kitten's favorite toy, so this worked out perfectly!

 

Thanks for the challenge! I've been needing to get this story down in writing Here is my page:

 

This was awesome. I always wanted to make a scrapbook about the tile in my house. You got me to make my first page!! Yeah!! Happy dance!!!

 

Thank you for the challenge.

Credits: Becca Bonneville ~ This Is Me,
font ~ DK Mama Bear

 

@jesskab journaling question. I am doing a page about a home project - I am writing about the project but also to my kiddo doing it. Is that ok?

 

@jesskab thank you so much for hosting this challenge!! Is this journaling ok? It talks about the object (pantry) but also to my kiddo

 

189 words

 

This Certainly Was A LONG Challenge!...Long As In Journaling...Long!...I Pretty Much Never Journal This Much On A Layout-Almost Never...I Guess That's Why They Call It A Challenge!...Ha!Ha!...Either Way,I Racked My Brain For Subject Matter & My Gaze Kept Going Over To The Stash Of Real Touchable Vintage Photos That I Have Of My Mom...In The Cubby In My Desk Just To The Right Of Where I Sit...I Can See Them & Look At Them Everyday...Most Of You Know,My Mom Has Passed Away & I Periodically Post Layouts About Her Here...So...This Challenge Is About "Inanimate" Objects...So I Choose This 1 Certain Vintage Paper Photo Of My Mom From 1968...This May Not Seem Like Very Poignant Subject Matter To Most Of You(I Mean In That It Is A Photo)...But It Is For Me...Pretty Much All Of The Photos That I Scrap With Are Digital But I Like The Touch & Feel Of Vintage Photographs...The White Scalloped Borders & The Year Taken In The White Frame Margin...I Imagine How The Day Could Have Been When The Photo Was Taken...The Weather...What Was Going On In Mom's Day Back Then?...How Her Life Was In General...Was She Sad?...Was She Happy?..Was She Excited About Something?...All These Things & More...I Also Like To Imagine How Exciting Real Paper Photos Were Back Then To People/Families...A Lot Of People Didn't Get Photographs Done Because It Cost Too Much & Almost No One Had Cameras...Life Was Tough & Cameras Were A Luxury Most People Couldn't Afford...So Getting Dressed Up To Go Somewhere & Getting Your Photo Taken Was An Exciting Luxury...That Is Why These Touchable Vintage Photos Of My Mom Mean So Much To Me...To Have Them Means She Is Always Right Beside Me & Never Out Of Reach...Kind Of Like When She Was Alive...Love You So Much Mom!...Miss You Much!...xoxo...

*As Per The Rules Of This Challenge:My Animate Object is A Vintage Paper Photograph & I Journaled 185 Words

*For My Memories Of Mom Layout-I Used:

*Petal/Crab Shack/Hot,Hot,Hot/Sometimes Prickly-Lynn Grieveson
*This & That & Empty Nest-Sabrina's Creations
*Sweet Solstice-Rebecca McMeen
*Llama Love-Bella Gypsy
*Everyday Affirmations Mini Stamps-Becca Bonneville

 

It is the most wonderful present that our neighbours and Friends
Bill and Sara gave me this Christmas, an upcycled coffee sack that
has been turned into a Harry Porter bag by one of Bill's cousins
from Canada, Susan. I admired her handy work before, & I truly
loved this work of art made by her, from the lace on the top & the
wooden rings holding the handles to the tiny little drink glasses
stamped on the lining. And the glasses that perch on a pile of
books reminiscent of J.K.Rowling are just the thing. I am so lucky
to have such attentive and wonderful neighbours with such
talented relatives. I wanted to let them all know just how much I
loved my new bag, so I took it for a "walk" to Locarno lake side
coupled with my Gryffindor scarf and a tartan dress. It's lovely to
feel delight in small things like sunshine, and good company of
my darling husband of course, who took this lovely picture and
put numerous smiles on my face throughout the day.

 

Thanks for this challenge !

 

Hard to choose my fav object but this wins hands down - it always make me smile and the kids love it - my framed pictures of 1960's Batman and Robin

 

314 words! Thanks for the word counter!



Font is Allura.
My journaling:
When I was little, I was always fascinated by how my grandmother made her perfect, little Spritz cookies! They were tiny but tasted so good! She would make them every Christmas and she made the task look so easy. Little did I know, that I would grow up to have a love/hate relationship with those sweet, little cookies, and the cookie press! When I first got my own apartment and wanted to bake Christmas cookies, I called Mom-Mom and asked her for the recipe. Turns out, the secret ingredient in her recipe was cream cheese! I didn't have my grandmother's cookie press that she used, but the one I did have seemed like it would work...it didn't. Not at all. I tried refrigerating the dough, but that still didn't help. I ended up just using an antique glass and pressing the decorative bottom on the cookie to make them look pretty. My aunt and I even tried a Pampered Chef cookie press with no results. Fast forward a few years, and I inherited my grandmother's cookie press. I have learned that you do not refrigerate the dough, but you have to work quickly before the dough warms up too much. I still have some trouble with it, but I am so very thankful that I have it. That old, metal cookie press brings back so many happy memories of my Mom-Mom that I can now share with my own three kids. This year, I showed my 14-year-old daughter how to use it and she also struggled a bit, but we forged on until we created the perfect little cookie! I still have no idea how old the cookie press is, or where my grandmother got it, but I am so thankful it's home is here with me and my family to enjoy every year at Christmas time!

 

I made this much more difficult by using a background paper with lines, ugh! A great challenge, though.

 

I was inspired by your very own tooth fairy story Jess here's my page and my 550 word story:

 

I really had to think about this one-thanks for the inspiration!

 

263 words - journaling below photo image




Connor received a lot of blankets when he was born, and he snuggled them all. He is our snuggly child, loving blankets, stuffed animals, and soft fabrics. For a long time, Connor’s favorite blankie was whisper-soft pastel rainbow knit by Mom’s friend, Kay. Sadly, the rainbow blanket met its demise when washed on super-hot; although still beautiful, it wasn’t as soft and he rebuffed it. On his second birthday, Blue Blankie arrived on the scene, crocheted by Gigi. Blue Blankie was Connor’s 2nd hand-made blanket from his Great Grandma Lena Olsen, (aka Gigi) who gave him a purple blanket at birth. The all-caps when referring to Blue Blankie are on purpose. Although Blue Blankie is technically an inanimate object, it took on a more important role as that of friend, companion, playmate, and confidante. Blue Blankie and Connor were nearly inseparable for years. They read books together. They played super-hero together, Blue Blankie carefully wrapped around Connor’s shoulders as a cape. They played magic blankie flying carpet. Blue Blankie dressed up as “Doctor Blankie” (photo, bottom corner). As Connor has grown, his love for stuffed animals, and particularly for Blue Blankie, has not diminished. He is so tall that he sleeps diagonally with his feet off the end of the bed, but Blue Blankie is near his face or on his back. As I write this journaling, Connor is 16.5 and Gigi is 90. A blankie is so much more than just a few thousand knots of yarn. Blue Blankie is a nearby reminder of a grandma who loves him very, very much.