College Best Friend

This is my friend, Mary, from Alabama.  We met in OT school in 1972 at KU back in the day when all the classes were in Lawrence and we graduated from the school of fine arts (so we could take ceramics and weaving!).  I took advantage of that taking another weaving class,  jewelry and textile arts as my electives.  Mary and I were notoriously cynical and snarky towards many of our more "sincere" classmates, but we also worked hard and earned our OT pins in the end.  While we went different directions in our specialty areas we have stayed close over the years, even more so since she moved to teach at UAB.  Since 2007 we have met nearly every summer in Estes Park CO where our families vacation.  We manage to overlap so we can do a day of crafts and/or a day of lunch/shopping in the touristy downtown.  

Looking this over, a friendship that has spanned 40 years (!), our looks haven't changed that much! We have been through so much over the years, this page is a treasure to me.

Path of Life

Every decade, the path of life. 

This was the first layout I did for the class Twelve.  I have done over 60 so far and I plan to add them as I get feedback from my class gallery at  Big Picture Classes.  Sometimes after I photograph a layout I see ways to improve it.  In this case I later added gold ink to highlight my decades' path.  The color I chose for the topic "Me" is red because it is a bold primary color and if I don't consider myself #1, then I can't go any further exploring my family history and memories. 

I shopped my stash and found a box of "finished pages." It was from a class I took several years ago at The Scrapbook Page, a local scrapbooking store in Shawnee, Kansas.  It was actually a Christmas-themed page, but I like to think outside the box, and just focused on the background color being red.  I added photos and made a few modifications. I am liking the color themes and I can see how the ephemera can bring continuity to the project pages.  Combing through my photos and continuing to find new stashes in various places around the house punctuates my need to further pursue photo organization, i.e. Photo Freedom, with Stacy Julian's Library of Memories.  

Scrapbooking 12

I am pleased to be scrapbooking for myself again. I haven't done much in the past few years & am excited to be taking the online class Twelve from Stacy Julian. Today I completed 5 pages! Cool!