Covert Scrapbooking.
I have discovered that my family has mastered the art of covert scrapbooking. Scrapping in secret. Hiding the albums. It’s so strange to me. I’m always so shy andtimid about showing my scrapbook to anyone… unless they’re a scrapbooker too. Here, it turns out my family is full of them, and I never knew!
After my grandmother passed away, I spend hours looking through all the things she had kept. But one particular item captured my fancy to be sure. My grandmother, queen of generic photo albums and standard midwest granny decor, had made a scrapbook for her ideal future home.
She did lots of hand written fonts, which I find quite amusing considering how long I would laboriously sit over her letters trying to decipher her chicken scratch. But the most shocking part of all was how much I loved the interiors she had chosen.
It makes me wonder… did she give up her dreams for her ideal home? Or did her idea of an ideal home simply make the shift from furnishings to family? I’m a firm believer that the two can peacefully coexist. But this puzzles me, how different the grandma I knew was from this highschool girl who was shockingly similar to myself. You can be sure that I will begin investigating Grandma’s home decor from the pre-grandchildren days. Maybe there was a super chic lady in her that I totally never noticed.
I also loved looking at her friends’ photos and the notes they had written to her. (her picture is on the bottom right of this page) She was a swell friend. And, not to be overlooked, a highschooler who, just like me, practiced writing the name of her beaux and future hubby all over her books. :)
My dad also had a scrapbook around the same age. Shocker! I’ll have to share it with you soon.
Soo cool! I’m adopted so I don’t have anything like that. Priceless!
this is so sweet! I love love love old scrapbooks. and how special for you to have something like this from your grandma!
How cool. It’s in your blood!!!
so cool! thank you for sharing!
That’s very cool!!!
that is so awesome! i totally love finding out cool things like that. [unfortunately, my grandma just kept all of her photos in a giant box. but they’re still awesome to look at!]
<3katie
what a great treasure you have found!! I love her hand drawn fonts as well as interior choices.
what an awesome treasure. love her interior choices as well and hand drawn fonts. i’d love to be so talented.
how cool to find such a treasure !!!
Now that is just too cool! WHat a treasure!
this is amazing! I can imagine your feeling it moves me
wow!
that is cool
and how about that book cover?!?!?
I kinda love it
Wow – what a treasure!
What a treasure!! TFS!
You have your grandma’s look about you + how fun to have her scrapbook. I love looking at my grandma’s “Treasures of Truth” books. She died when I was 14 and I’ve tried to get to know her through things she did, i.e. quilting + crocheting. I feel closer to her loving things she loved.
wow… love the hand-drawn type and yea, that cover is fantastic!
what a special treasure! i loved looking at her pages. thanks for sharing. i can’t wait to see your dads too.
that must have been AMAZING to find.
what freaks me is that I am doing the exact same thing at the moment (and from what I remember reading, you are too!)
I always find it so weird when I hear of other people thinking in the same way I do. You think “how can they it was so many years ago”…
Gosh age and time freaks me out
thank you so much for sharing!
That is so cool! Isn’t it strange when you learn (surprising) things about someone that you thought you knew… I had that feeling a while ago when my father told me what really really happened in his youth. Like I didn’t know him before…
Well,
have a really nice weekend
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those are incredibly awesome!
That’s so cool.
I could die.