2022 Special Mom project – installment 6: Scrapbook pages for Thanksgiving to December 23rd

For Thanksgiving, we took my mom to Cracker Barrel to enjoy lunch away from her assisted living facility. She definitely enjoyed her lunch. This layout was made on Craft Smith Write Your Heart Out. Alpha stickers and leaf stickers were from my stash are are very old.

Once Thanksgiving was over, it was time to start decorating mom’s apartment for Christmas. The layouts for decorating her door were made on plain white cardstock. The printed paper and stickers are from Reminisce Gingerbread Lane collection. I think it was purchased at a scrapbook convention. But then again, it may be something I received when moving mom.

On December 2nd I finished decorating moms apartment. She was happy with the results! The page for this was made on plain white paper as before using paper and stickers from Reminisce Gingerbread Lane collection, as before.

Then, Jim, Dawson, and I took mom to Mexican Inn for lunch then to Target to do some Christmas shopping. She was definitely tired when we took her home. Layout was made using Craft Smith Palm Springs collection.

Of course, I we both needed to have our nails done so we once again made our way to European Nail Spa. I took this opportunity to take a picture of my mom with Lily, who actually does my nails, not hers!!!! Layout for this was made on Craft Smith Palm Springs collection. I’m enjoying this collection a lot and wish I had purchased more than one paper pack of it.

Another lunch out with mom! This time she decided she wanted to go to Dixie House Cafe. Who are we to refuse this??? What she did not know what that her first born great-granddaughter would be joining us. She was so excited to see her. This layout was also made using Craft Smith Palm Spring collection.

I am ending this blog with the layout of her last appointment of the year with her primary care doctor. He is located close and she does not mind going to see him. His staff is awesome. Layout made on Craft Smith Santa Fe Garden.

The next blog will have the final layouts for the year 2021. And it will be the last installment of this series. At least until next year. I hope you will return to see the simple and very basic scrapbook pages I made for her.

2022 Special Mom Project – installment 5: Scrapbook pages for May, June, July, August, September, October, and part November

Hello and welcome back to another installment of simple scrapbook pages for my mom. As I have mentioned before, my mother resides in an assisted living facility and she has vascular dementia. I have decided to make her an scrapbook album to show her what she did when the facility was not in lockdown. I am making all the pages simple so she can better concentrate on the story, not a lot of embellishments. Although I’m sure she would like that as well.

The scrapbook pages for the month of May were made on Craft Smith paper pack Santa Fe Garden. This collection goes a long way as does the others I have in my personal stash!

For the June scrapbook page, I decided to use the Craft Smith Palm Springs collection. It just seemed to work for this particular event she was able to participate in. She also LOVES to play BINGO but, unfortunately, that takes place at a time I am not able to go to take pictures of her.

We celebrated her birthday in July by taking her to her favorite restaurant, The Mexican Inn. I used the Craft Smith Palm Springs collection for this page also. The alpha stickers are some in have in my stash. I have had them for years!!!!

One more scrapbook page, this time for the month of August make on the Craft Smith Palm Springs collection.

The remainder of the scrapbook pages were made using Craft Smith Sunday Morning collection. I have truly enjoyed using these collections. I wonder if I can find some more somewhere.

The next group of simple scrapbook pages will include Thanksgiving up to December 23rd. I hope you will return to see what she did during that time.

Thanks for reading!!!! Please feel free to comment.

2022 Special Mom Project – installment 4: Scrapbook pages for remainder of March and April

This is round 2 of the scrapbook pages I am creating for my mother. I like the idea of having something for her to remember that she had some fun last year. All scrapbook pages were made using paper from Craft Smith, Santa Fe Garden that I purchased at Michaels. There are a couple of pages that I made using a different paper pack from Craft Smith.

So lets begin with March.

These 2 pages were made using Craft Smith paper pack names Sunday Morning. The cutouts were also a part of this collection. This is the only March layout using this paper pack.

Embellishments used on this page are felt flowers I had on hand and I fussy cut some flowers from a paper that is part of the Craft Smith Santa Fe Garden collection.

And now for April. One thing I enjoy so much about making scrapbook pages is that the do not have to be perfect to relay the story.

This final page for the month of April was also made using the Craft Smith collection Sunday Morning.

Round 3 will be simple scrapbook pages for the months of May, June, July, August, September, and October. I hope you will return to see the simple pages I an making for my mother.