Eric and I were married 12 years ago, as of this June. Just a couple of days after our wedding, we left for a week long honeymoon in London, England.
Impressive, huh? If it had been up to our own saved up cash (especially after paying for a portion of the wedding costs ourselves and one of us having only a part time job and being in college), our honeymoon likely would have consisted of a drive through the Taco Bell Drive Thru on our way to a local hotel for an overnight. But, we were blessed that my grandparents paid for the honeymoon as a wedding gift to us.
So...12 years later, I have finally finished our honeymoon scrapbook album!
No, I hadn't been working on it that long though. A few years ago (3-ish), I pulled all of the pictures out of the magnetic album they were in. I did about three layouts, and then left all of the pictures and other items (tickets for the London Underground, coins, brochures, our boarding passes, all of our receipts from the trip, etc.) in large ziploc bags. I had already broken them up in 2-gallon ziploc bags by theme. Then, last year, I finally looked at them again, and matched up the pictures in each Ziploc with papers. And, then they sat some more.
Finally, two weeks ago, I scrapbooked with my Mom, and I did about half of the layouts that were left to do. Then, on Sunday of this week, I did the other half while scrapbooking with my Mom.
What a sense of accomplishment! I can't believe that this project that I thought would never be done is FINALLY done!!! And, I'm excited to have plans to pop over to Hobby Lobby to use a 40% off coupon that they have online this week (to print out) and pick up an album to actually feel that this project is totally complete.
8 comments:
Very good! I did a SEMI- tackle, but it looks better then it did!
WOW!! I need to do that. My wedding photos are 21 years old and in one of those old style albums that aren't good for photos. Thankfully, me professional photos are in a lovely book that I bought from the photographer. :-D
Lynne -- I am also just going to leave my wedding pictures in the album from the photographer. I told my husband, "I don't think I could scrapbook layout after layout of our wedding day." LOL So...they'll just stay right where they are.
I hope that you work on your pictures sometime!
Funny how quick the years go by when you look at all the pictures you haven't scrapped, huh? LOL
Good job!
we just got married last may, and we haven't even printed our pictures yet. they are all sitting on my desktop!
What a great accomplishment! I know the feeling, too. I have lots of ongoing-for-years projects like that. lol Good for you!!
Congratulations! I still need to scrap our honeymoon (and wedding, and vacations, and ...).
I can relate to your post. I still need to scrapbook my wedding, the birth of my son who is now two and every holiday in between! : )
Instead of scrappin I am playing tag! "Now you're it!" The rules are simple and sweet, if you want to play along. Just name four random things about yourself and then tag four more bloggers. You can check out my blog at http://www.BeadyQueen.blogspot.com to see what I said and my link to you! I hope you join us!
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