After looking back at all of the beautiful memorabilia from grandma's house I decided to sort through a couple of tote-fulls of my own personal history. I realized that I am hanging on to a lot of old stuff and some of it isn't very well protected. I spent a few hours sorting through pictures and categorizing them: 'Little Nellie' 'High School' 'College' 'Family' 'Now'. I have a long way to go to get everything where I want it. I can see why moms are so overwhelmed with the 'I'm SOOO behind' attitude. I guess I should start at the beginning.
My first project is my baby book.
This book-in-a-box was stored in our smoke-friendly home where it got yellowed in the cabinet above the refrigerator.
Ugh. I have some work to do.
I need to preserve this stuff. My mother's handwriting about being a new mom is so priceless to me:
Some of the pages have become damaged:
I have a green 3-ring album that will work for now. I would like to shop around for a pink one. My goal is to remove the sweet pages of the book and put them in document sleeves for safe-keeping.
I also want to preserve the other ephemera, cards and letters in my baby book in this 3-ring album. Some of the things I saved from grandma's house will definitely go in here.
Un-sewn patches from Brownies fit perfectly in a trading card sleeve.
I won't be doing a scrapbook with all the patterned papers and stickers and stamps. I want to keep this very simple.
I also want to make it easy on my loved ones who might have to sort through this stuff one day for me. Like my grandma, I can't bear to throw anything away...but hopefully I can be a little more organized!
What an undertaking you have set for yourself. Love the baby book, my 24 year old has the same one, only from a smoke free environment as I lost both parents to lung cancer so NO ONE in my home smokes or should I say smokes in my home. Looks like you have a good beginning.
ReplyDeleteThis is great! I don't think I had a baby book. My mother wasn't and still isn't the sentimental type. I don't know where I got it from. I hope one day my son... or his wife.. will appreciate all of the work that goes into it and be so glad to have the things I have kept. They will need a whole room dedicated just to it but maybe I can eliminate some stuff as the years go by! I am going to need another house just for my pictures, etc... if I don't do something soon! :)
ReplyDeleteThis is just such a wonderful project and I wish I had some of this stuff from my childhood! Those Brownie patches sooo cool! Keep at it Nellie..it is great.
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