2022 Special Mom project – installment 7: Scrapbook pages for Christmas to end of the year.

We have reached the final installment of this series! Let’s get started!!!

On Christmas morning, we took my mom to Kimmie’s house to be with her family for breakfast and to exchange gifts. This 3-page layout was made on Imaginisce Christmas Cottage Winter Wood collection.

Then we made our way to Wesley’s home for lunch and to exchange gifts with his family. Since he lives a farther distance away from us, she was starting to get tired before we got there. After she ate her lunch, she was ready to go home so she could take a nap. I wish we could have spent more time there. Maybe this year will be different. This layout was made on Imaginisce Cottage Christmas Peppermint Stick collection.

One final lunch out for the year. This time, lunch with mom also included Kimmie. The Eaton clan had given my mom a gift card for Cracker Barrel so that is where we went. We had a short wait, but definitely not like the hour long wait we had on Thanksgiving. This layout was made on Craft Smith Palm Spring collection.

For the last page of the album, I made a special layout for her. The paper used for this layout is from the Craft Smith Write Your Heart Out collection.

Now it time to start another project. I wonder what it will be!!! I hope you will return to see what’s next.

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 1: Creating a scrapbook/photo album for mom to recap 2021.

2021 was not the best year, but it was not as bad as 2020. Unfortunately, the time we were able to spend with my mom was very limited. Luckily, I took pictures almost every time we went somewhere.

I have decided to make a scrapbook/photo album of the adventures we had last year. In a chronological order, there will be a 2-page scrapbook spread. The left page will have the date of the activity, what we did, and who was with us. The right side will have a scrapbook page with the photos. Any additional photos will be placed in photo protectors and put in the album immediately after the scrapbook page. This is something I know she will like.

I store all of my photos on Shutterfly. Today, using the Shutterfly app, I ordered all of the pictures I took of her last year. I have been ordering my photos from Shutterfly for a long time now. I have boxes and boxes and boxes of the photos I ordered from our 2018 Carnival Vista cruise. The quality has always been great and their service is excellent.

A website I love to use for my scrapbook needs is scrapbook.com I have purchased several 12 x 12 scrapbook albums from them. They never disappoint. Today, I found the PERFECT album to use for this special project.

I am very excited about this special project for my mom. I cannot wait until the photos and the scrapbook come in. I will be making notes of the things we have done while I wait. I hope you will follow along with me as I bring this project to life.