Comments on: Scrapbook Your Childhood Stories

By: Scrapbook Bliss

Scrapbook Bliss — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 17:51:00 +0000

Wow! These are such cute pages! My favorite is the Shine On page. So simple yet so cute. Thanks for sharing your wonderful ideas!

By: Noell

Noell — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 15:47:00 +0000

I’ve heard from others who had a more difficult (or sometimes very painful) childhood and they struggle with the same thing. I totally get that.

By: Birdlady78

Birdlady78 — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 06:32:00 +0000

I make pocket pages for cards and other ephemera that are double-sided. I have two albums that are all the greeting cards my family and friends have given me for the last 35 years. I also cut page protectors all the time to make things accessible. Just put a cutting mat inside the page protector and go for it.

By: Wicksnw

Wicksnw — Wed, 11 Jul 2012 04:34:00 +0000

I love these pages.

I keep trying to scrapbook my childhood, but I am having so much trouble. It wasn’t very good. I feel like I’m really healed and while I know that it wasn’t all bad, I still can’t seem to get it together to scrap anything from it. Hopefully I’ll get to it someday! I have 6 kids, so I’d like to leave them something. In the mean while, I’ll just look at yours, and keep scrapbooking the great life I have now. :)

By: Noell

Noell — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:39:00 +0000

Yay, definitely start! Whatever photos you do have from that era must be amazing!

By: Noell

Noell — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:38:00 +0000

I can’t remember the title. I do remember there was a Mother Hubbard section and I found pictures of various covers of the original Mother Hubbard that remind me of the title page of the Mother Hubbard section of my book:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Mother_Hubbard

The book was in color, it was a really heavy book, maybe 3 inches thick.
I haven’t yet asked my mom if she can remember the name of the book, so that’s where I really need to start, unless you happen to know something? (I’m asking because you asked it if was color or b+w).

By: Noell

Noell — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:35:00 +0000

I was removing old photos from a horrible old decaying album and found I was really thinning out my photos by trying to remove the paper from the photos — taking a layer of the photo paper off with the adhesive. Then I read an expert online saying it’s better to leave some of that paper on the back of the photos than damage the photo even slightly (I know if you cut older vintage photos it releases an acid or something like that and speeds up the aging process).
So I started tearing the album paper away where it wasn’t adhered, leaving the paper stuck where it was adhered — sometimes in spots and sometimes to the entire back. I don’t like the idea of leaving that acidic paper attached to my photos, but the possibility of yellowing the photo is better than the surety of damaging it by tearing it, so it makes sense.

By: Noell

Noell — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 19:29:00 +0000

great idea!

By: Laura (Bookworm)

Laura (Bookworm) — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 15:34:00 +0000

Yes, I noticed those — a great solution for cards!! It just occurred to me that if I decide the handwritten note should be displayed, I could potentially use washi tape to tape the card in a 6 x 12 page protector so both sides are visible.

By: Krystal Britt

Krystal Britt — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 02:10:00 +0000

Noell, these layouts and this post was so beautifuly done with photos and words. This is so inspiring! Thank you for sharing.

I recently went to Bakersfield to visit my grandparents (specifically my grandfather who is ill) and my parents. Everytime I go my grandmother pulls out the albums at my request :)

This time she let me take them back up to Eureka with me. I have been removing the photos and adding them to archival safe albums. However, a few of them are extrememly stuck to the album and I’ve torn two (acccidetly). Do you have any suggestions on how to safely remove the photos? I’m afraid they’re going to get eaten by the unsafe albums. It is these photos that I wish to use to scrapbook my childhood and do some comparisions of myself, mother, gandmother, etc. Thank you so much in advance for any suggestions you may offer.

Non Schmo :)

Krystal

By: Carol

Carol — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 01:04:00 +0000

You have probably done so – but have you searched for this book– not that I’ve been there, but I’ve heard there are amazing second hand book stores in Paris. Do you recall the name of the book? Were the pictures in black and white or colour?

By: Rosann517

Rosann517 — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:16:00 +0000

i love playing with my “vintage” photos. I have several albums that my mom gave me. My parents were very good about taking photos especially since I was the oldest. The oldest always has more pics I hear. LOL.

By: Debbie Piercey

Debbie Piercey — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:40:00 +0000

Love your pages Noell. I’ve got an album going also that I started during Ali’s class. It is fun to add to them once in awhile and remember those early memories. You were so adorable!! You still look the same actually! : )

By: Vicki Lee

Vicki Lee — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:30:00 +0000

What a cutie you were! (still are). How nice that your parents have photos of you so early. I was born close after WWII ended so there was not much film then, and certainly very grainy black-and-white only. I hadn’t thought of scrapbooking my OWN childhood, but I certainly think that I will now. Thanks for the push!

By: Jean

Jean — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 22:02:00 +0000

Wow Noel what wonderful memories and it is great that your parents kept so many things from your childhood. Sadly mine may not have had the space or time and all my memories are stored in my head. Thanks for sharing.

By: Muriel

Muriel — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:32:00 +0000

thanks, very cute!

By: Faithfuljan

Faithfuljan — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:25:00 +0000

Great Layouts, I have not done my baby pictures, etc.; but have finished my grade school and hight school albums. It was lots of fun. My mother saved all my valentines from grade 1 throughout 8th grade; and some are very old. So pretty in my album. I hope to get my life done soon. More time in the day, I guess. Ha. Love your ideas and thanks for sharing. Janet

By: Noell

Noell — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:20:00 +0000

I had this beautiful book of fairy tales and nursery rhymes that was my very favorite when I was younger. All the artwork was in the style of the 1600′s era, and I always remember it when I see any kind of artwork from that era. I wish so bad that I can someday find a copy of this book, it would make me SO HAPPY!!
I did find a scrapbook paper once that had Mother Hubbard book pages with artwork that is so similar and I mean to use it for a page on this someday.

By: Noell

Noell — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 21:17:00 +0000

You know, I rarely ask my mom anything about our photos and stories. I just go off of what I remember.
For example, that first page on the top — that story was a kind of slow discovery as I was going through my binder of photos/ephemera/written stories. I could have just done a basic birth page with all the stats. But as I was going through my stuff I remembered that my mom had once told me how much they worried about my health and size. Then I was looking at those scribbled notes of my dad’s and I was trying to figure out why he had written some of them on some sort of commercial paper towel. As I looked through the notes I realized all the others were on pharma note pads, which made me realized the paper towels must also have been from from the doctor’s office and Dad was writing them down as the doctor told them (before this that I had assumed my mom went on her own and came home and told him the stats, and that he wrote them down at home). So then it occurred to me that this story was all related to my birth and so I made it a story about that, rather than just the facts of my birth.
These memories and connections get jogged if you sit down and handle the items and take time to do nothing but think about your memories for a while.

By: Pam

Pam — Mon, 09 Jul 2012 20:56:00 +0000

I found that there is lots of made-to-be-ephemera out on the internet! I have used pictures of games and toys from the 50′s & 60′s (my childhood) and earlier when doing pictures for childhood albums for my parents. I’ve also used newspapers (e.g., ads and articles/ headlines) from Newspaper Archives and the library. Also used pictures from books and pictures of “antique” book editions that I remember so dearly! I also have drawn maps and sketches (although I am not at ALL talented in the drawing arena) so re-create places or memories. Ephemera can be pulled from the nuggets hidden in your memories!