Life at 509

Cute little scrapbook featured at Creating Keepsakes I think I will have to scraplift it for our house here in Florida! :)

Here it is:

Mini Book of the Month: Life at 509

by Erin Lincoln

Appeared In: October 2007

The "For Sale" sign has been pitched in the front yard, ads have been placed in the newspaper, and we've already started packing up the extras. But before we leave, I want to document my feelings about the only home my husband and I have ever known together.

There has been so many good memories and photos from within these four walls that it is hard to find a place to start. Why even try? When you can't make sense of it all, go with a more random approach. Every bit is meaningful, so it doesn't matter what you pick. Only that you start.

The Cover

I went through my album box and pulled out a 6x6 postbound album by Making Memories. To jazz up the cover, I covered a chipboard page from a Maya Roads house album and attached directly to the surface. It was easy to slice the pages out of the binding with a craft knife.

Front Page

Mark the passage of time with calendar stamps by Hero Arts, only there's no need to circle a specific month and day.

Random Snippets

In this house, Matt carried me over the threshold on our wedding night...we both turned 25 and 30...we brought home two kittens for the first time. I have a ton of these little random snippets of events in my head. I placed each one individually on a 4x2 inch piece of paper and topped with a patchwork house made with a Quickutz die.

Longer Stories

I don't think I'll ever forget being woken up in the middle of the night to find our bedroom flooded with light from above. We thought we were being abducted by aliens! When we shook off the last remants of sleep, we were relieved to learn it was only a helicopter on a search mission.

We still laugh about this and countless other funny stories that have originated at 509. I recorded my favorites in the album and used the text to cover up the body of a chipboard house-the same one I used for the cover. The mini-paned window was the first thing I designed by myself on the computer to be cut out on my Quickutz Silhouette. Worked great!

House Quote

We have a wall quote above our front door. It says, "Where we love is home. Home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts". I'll always feel that way about 509, even long after we've moved.

I recorded the quote over two 6x12 pages to go in the album. Keeping with the patchwork theme created by the house die and the chipboard houses, I cut out the quote with my Silhouette from several sheets of patterned paper. The font is Georgia--one of my favorites!

Photos

Over half the pages in this album are missing photos! Remedied that situation with going through my photo boxes from my film days and digging out treasures from when we first moved in. Also printed out newer digital photos to help better represent the seven years we've lived here.

What memories I've recorded through snippets, photos, stories, and significant quotes don't begin to scratch the surface of what has happened here during the last seven years. But it's something! The rest will rise to the surface when I'm going through photos and other scrapbook pages. The combination of the two will keep 509 fresh in our mind for years to come.