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We got our wish! We had a white Christmas in Dallas! It started snowing on Christmas day and stuck almost right away. Can you tell I'm excited? It was just enough to cover everything with a pretty blanket of white.We had a really nice holiday! How about you?

Here's the recipe book I told you about before Christmas. I got my Mom's old recipe card boxes after she died.I went through and pulled and color copied the ones I wanted to use. I made a book for my brother, my son, and one vegetarian version for other son. 

Since I was short on time, I used pre-made recipe books from Hobby Lobby(used my 40% off) and just glued in the recipes.These books have the pages, recipe dividers and extra pages so you add more later on. I added a few vintage pictures that I had of relatives in the kitchen or cooking.

Below is my dear Mom pouring champagne for a Christmas party. Check out that apron!! I added just a few embellishments-since these were for guys.

The most important thing was to have the recipes in the original hand writing. They have the stains and spots on them.Some were even in my great grandma's handwriting.

My sons loved them for Christmas, and the one for my brother is in the mail. I even included some weird Jello mold recipes my Mom used to make for parties. I mean, like green jello with carrots, pineapple and shrimp. Does anyone remember those? I'm glad those are not used anymore-UGH!

   Thank you so much for all the Christmas and New Years wishes. I hope you all had a wonderful holiday!

I've put away all the decorations and am in organization mode. I am working on another mini redo project. Back to business as usual.
Leslie

Senior Mini-Scrapbook

Here is a pic of the Mini Scrapbook I have made for my graduating Senior. I did a collage in his name of all the things that have been important to him through his school years. Below is what I started with. A kids board book that I thougth would be the right size and number of pages.A GW find.
I did a little repair to the right corner and I sanded the gloss off of every page. That way the glue will stick.
I glued on primary color background pages. I weighted each page down with books until they dried. I wanted to keep it simple and schooly without going over the top. I was keeping him in mind-not me(otherwise I would have done a retro themed book)
I counted the pages and planned on one side per grade. Example-1st grade left side, 2nd goes on the right and so on.I shrunk down the pic's on the computer.I only put a few pics-things that he participated in or enjoyed. This is not meant to be a full record of school years-I have done that in his school scrapbooks.


I had 2 pages at the end left-did all the pics through the years and a little thought at the end.
This was my first board book. It was really fun to do and I plan on doing some more. Probably vintage next time around-I really had to restrain myself. I will give this to him on graduation day. I can't believe it's in a few weeks!

Have a good day!
Leslie

VIntage scrapbook pages

Thank you again for all your comments. I'm looking forward to getting to know you guys. It's nice to know someone out there in blogland is reading this. By the way I've been checking out some of the blogs I hadn't been to- WOW! There's so much out there!

I decided to show you pic's of my latest scrapbook project. The pages are 8x8 and I did about 30 pages. It was inspired by Creative Breathing and lots of vintage pictures. I had prints made up from my parents slides and wanted to have it look from the era they were taken-late 50's early 60's. I was amazes at the quality of the prints from slides that old. Oops-I'm dating myself. I had the most fun doing this and plan on making more or some vintage cards etc.
I'm off to plant my flowers that I bought-supposed to rain over the weekend.
Have a great weekend!
Leslie