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...
Category: Family
My Current Health Issues
Hello again! Today’s post is going to be a little different from my normal scrapbooking chats. Today I’m going to tell you a little more about me in case there are others currently struggling with multiple health issues and maybe feeling a little lost. I know a lot has been said about the year 2020...
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...
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,...