My Muse(ings).....: A few Old Pages with Places to Hide Stuff!

Wow! This sure takes me back quite a few years......

Here's one of the pages that I mentioned on Scrapbooker's Paradise Blog this week. I just had a sneak peek of the pocket folder so I thought that I would add a few more pictures here. I did this layout many years ago when I had noticed that I had pictures of both Daryl and I at about the same ages when we were back in grade school.

I like using big pictures on my pages both for impact and because I know that I will need bigger pictures when I'm older and I want to reminisce. I just picked a couple of my favorites for the main part of the page and then I created a booklet with the rest of the images......

........And of course with all of the journaling. This is after all the part that I think is most important if I'm going to keep forgetting at the rate that I am now.

This one is my FAVORITE layout of all time. I know it's old now but I remember all of thought process that went into creating it. The whole thing is about my daughter Jennifer's Synchro years as a Duet Partner. Duets were really one of her strengths and she swam a duet every one of her 14 years as a Synchro Swimmer both in Canada and the US. The paper that the picture is printed on is actually a Scrapbook paper that just had words and definitions. The words are all about friendship and strength so I thought they would make a perfect background for this picture of her and her partner in one of her final years as a swimmer. I purposely printed it upside down because that's what synchro is all about and I wanted the focus to be on the picture and not the words.

I wanted to make sure that we never forget all of this stuff so I made sure that all of the names of every partner and year they swam was recorded.

On the inside I added some action shots of her swimming one of her most successful routines as well as the name of the routine.

And then the picture on the back cover features the routine that is also featured on the main page layout. There were so many things that I didn't remember until I pulled this out and that me realize once again why this is so important.

This next layout is the oldest of all of all but it covers a really important part of scrapping.....and that is dealing with what may be somewhat touchy or embarrassing pictures.

These pictures are of my son who is the youngest of three. His older sisters loved to dress him up as a girl and make him pose in what were funny poses then but kind of not so funny for him now. These are things that I don't want to forget so I decided to deal with these pictures more tactfully. I used an old game show theme for the layout and I described the game and I how it related to this experience in the journaling.

I thought that it would be fun to just give a bit of a peak preview of what is behind each door by cutting holes in strategic areas and adding mesh to those areas. Here is one of the pictures behind a door. That's my boy with make-up and a wig and he was such a young lad to be subjected to this....but it was funny then and it will be on his wedding day (someday -maybe)!

Here's a better picture of the windows and screen. You can clearly see only a portion that would make you want to find out what is behind the door.

Here are just a few more ideas of pockets for journaling that I think are effective and really easy to do. This first one has a rather large square opening in the front of the pocket envelope but it reveals enough of the journaling to at least let the important points be seen quickly for the person who just wants to have a quick look at the album.