Describe the page that means the most to you.
By Essie119
@Essie119 (673)
Canada
August 7, 2008 11:14am CST
Most of us have done a lot of pages, but there are ones that stick in our minds. Whether it is because of the technique used or the subject matter of which you are making a permanent memory.
So far, my favourite is one I did of my oldest son. I was so dreadfully sick throughout my pregnancy that I was getting a little sorry for myself. Then one day I checked out my pregnancy calendar to find the following message - "At this stage your fetus has developed elbows." I don't know why it struck me, but I remember thinking that it didn't matter if I was sick - the baby inside me was developing. During his first year I took lots of pictures and in some of them I caught his cute little dimpled elbows. I used them to make a page simply titled "Elbows" - telling the story so that someday he'll know one of the many miracles that he is to me.
What layout have you done that means a lot to you?
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@ebsharer (5515)
• United States
7 Aug 08
That is a REALLY cute story!
I don't know that I can pick one page. Every time we go to a beach I take a picture of my and my daughter feet in the sand. Its a special thing we do. Looking back at the scrapbook you can watch her feet grow in the beach pictures. Getting bigger and bigger as the pages go. Also now seeing the last time we were there her toe nails were painted for the first time. Looking at those pictures is like watching her grow into a little girl.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
7 Aug 08
That's really a neat idea, of taking those pictures each time at the beach. I'm sure it's neat to look back from the first one to now.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
7 Aug 08
I have so many, but one of the special ones I did after meeting my s/o, we had been living together, and I was looking at some photo albums he had. I found a picture of his daughter at around age 3 holding up a little fish she had caught. When I saw that picture, I couldn't believe it, I have a picture of my youngest daughter, around age 3......holding up her fish she had caught! They were standing almost the same way, and yet they are 6 years apart in age, and they were 1600 miles apart when these fishing pictures happened lol. I did a page, using the title 'one fish, two fish' and made the embellishment of little fish on a stringer, and paper piecing (at that time didn't know it had a name lol) fishing bobbers. I love that page.
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@palonghorn (5479)
• United States
7 Aug 08
There are some strange coincidences in the lives we have led, my s/o and I. He has a picture of his daughter around age 2, blonde pigtails and a green velvet dress...I have almost that same picture of my oldest daughter, green velvet dress and blonde hair! His daughter is 12 years younger than my oldest! That is one of the things that drew us together, the more we talked in those first days the more we saw how much of a paralleled life we had lived, 1600 miles apart. And I also started scrapbooking when we moved in together 3 1/2 years ago.
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@Essie119 (673)
• Canada
7 Aug 08
That is amazing. The little coincidences in life always strike my funny bone. My Mom has pictures of all her grandchildren being held by my father. He's a tall man with big hands and the kids are all babies. She did an awesome page with them all.
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@SukiSmiles (1991)
• United States
21 Aug 08
I have so many layouts that I love and that are special to me. It's hard to pick just one or even ten. I have made some scrapbooks for my grandparents and elder relatives for special events (i.e. turning 90) and the look on their faces when the look at their scrapbooks is beyond compare. I have never been especially close to my grandfather, but creating his scrapbook and seeing photos of us together when I was a very young child showed me the love he had for me. When was an eye opener for me, because we do not get to see much of each other - in fact it had been over 5 years before I had seen him last Christmas. Then when he was looking through his scrapbook and the look on his face is so hard to describe, but he loved it. Then same was true for my great uncle back in 2005. His eyes were watering (because you know 90 year old men don't cry). So, I think it's more the reaction to the pages that I create that means the most to me.
@samijo719 (1052)
• United States
7 Aug 08
Last year I made a scrapbook for my dad. It was all pictures of me or me and him. My very first page I think is my favorite. There is this song called "My little Girl" by Tim Mcgraw and everytime I hear it I think of my dad. So, I printed the lyrics on a page and decorated it with baby feet and the first picture of my dad ever holding me, I was 30 minutes old. And the reason it is so special is because when my dad was reading the lyrics to the song when I gave it to him I could see the emotion that he got and that was just so special to me.
@buggles64 (2709)
• United States
16 Jan 11
I have a couple of pages that I did that are very special, one is a page full of apples with my daughter in the middle of each apple. The title of the page is "home Grown!" Another page, is one of my son in the middle of three pumpkins and reads "Pumpkin boy!" I have a couple of other pages of my other kids...I love the ones with my kids.
