Hello everyone! Let’s talk about scrapbooking today. While scrapbooking as a hobby is about SO many different things, part of it for me it is about honoring our loved ones. It is remembering family members who have passed as well as documenting our current lives. I personally love looking at older pictures and seeing the...
Tag: family stories
3 Story Starter Ideas
Story Starters So I recently had an idea to start a series on my Facebook page & Instagram called Monday Memories (debuting tomorrow). The idea was to share one or more photos that represent a story and then tell the story behind the photo. This is just to demonstrate that sometimes the story is obvious,...
October 2020 CKC Layouts
Welcome back! Even though life has been busy, I managed to make a couple of layouts with my October 2020 CKC Kit “Memories of Home.” I am happy to have recorded more family stories to go along with the pictures. In the past I was only journaling the basics of “who, what, when & where.” ...
“Do You Remember?”
I am happy that when my family looks through my albums they will always know the stories behind the pictures. Everyone has a story, how do you tell yours?
Scrapbooking Family Traditions
How many of your family traditions are tied to food, the holidays or both? For me, the one that stands out is Pumpkin Bread. My grandmother made pumpkin bread every Thanksgiving and Christmas. Now, I understand that usually when you make bread it is in loaf pans. But not my grandmother, she made it in...
Making changes (part 2)
I just wanted to check in to let you know I am still here & hope to be back soon with a project or something scrapbook related to share. Since my last post, “Making Changes”, we sold our house & moved into a temporary rental while the job hunt continues. Unfortunately, my supplies look like...
Mother’s Day 2019
Mother’s Day is a wonderful tribute to all the Moms who sacrifice so much every single day of the year to take care of their families. I grew up knowing my mother, but it was my grandmother who raised me. And believe me, she worked hard. She had already raised four children. She made the...
Easter Stories
Here in Texas we have had a beautiful sunny Easter Sunday. A great day for family gatherings, egg hunts & too much food. For the kids, Easter is all about the Easter bunny and baskets of eggs filled with candy or sometimes even money. So I thought I would share a few pictures of our...
Small Town Stories
Hello! Welcome to Small Town Scrap. My name is Machelle & I like to take photos and then scrapbook them along with family memories and small town stories. Here is a funny story about doing what you’re told when you are a kid in a small town. Growing up in a small town, my cousin,...