INKLINGS

A PICTURE IS WORTH A THOUSAND WORDS...

I just finished making this red Christmas scrapbook. I made it out of fabric, like you would make a bookcover, and slipped it over a 3 ring binder. I slightly pad the fabric. I made the green one years ago, but it is so full I really think I need to transfer a few pages into the red one. Each year I take the photo Christmas cards plus any kids'/grandkids' Santa pictures, and make scrapbook pages out of them. I keep the color scheme in red-green-white, and cut up other Christmas cards to fit in the odd empty spaces where there aren't pictures. It has really been fun to have this scrapbook. I will admit I stole this idea from my friend Anne, when we lived in Flaming Gorge. I had to go back and do the best I could with past years, but it is something I do each January now. These books are full of wonderful pictures and memories of our family and friends. One year I found a thank-you note that MJ had written Santa and I put that in there. (MJ, I will let you take it out now that you are grown up.) It really touched me, because although kids write letters to Santa asking for things, not many kids write a thank-you after Christmas. I just couldn't bear to throw away pictures of people we care about, and I am really glad I decided to do this.

posted by Inklings @ 7:22 PM