L.O.A.D. Days 19-21

I’m getting close to the end of this class, and I do believe I will have 29 layouts in 29 days. It’s been a lot more fun than I anticipated, and I’ve scrapped a lot of stories that I wanted to tell. Here are three more:

This one was based on the day’s prompt:  a birthday from the past. I knew I had a great photo of me and my friends with our mother’s hats on, but I didn’t know I had a copy of the birthday invitation in my mother’s handwriting. It was a great find!

Another prompt-based layout. I had just organized some of the old photos by theme so I knew right where all these photos were. I discovered (happily) that a really faded color photo was easily scanned, color-corrected and then turned to black and white with just a few clicks. I used a Cathy Zielske template for the photos and journaling. The journaling reads:

Getting dressed up ws always a big deal growing up. My father loved to shop and I always had several nice dresses. When I was a bit older, I went with him to choose the dress. I had a Sunday dress for church and an even fancier dress (often velvet) for the theater. None of these photos are taken with little white gloves which I remember as an essential element for dressing up, especially for Easter. I remember the purse in the photo on the left. I imagine my mother kept it for awhile and that’s why I remember it. I almost cropped the radiator out of the last photo, but decided it spoke to the times.

And indeed she is. I have a lot of scrapping for both Skylar and Caleb yet to do! The template is a Keri Bradford Storyboard.