Hidden Journaling

When I began scrapbooking I focused on the pictures rather than the stories behind them; I keep journals, so I figured anyone who cared enough could just cross-reference. Eventually I realized that not only did I NOT want people to read those journals, but they probably didn't actually contain any details about the thing I took the pictures of! Fail on both accounts. So I began journaling with my scrapbook pages, but often felt unhappy about how the pages looked - my handwriting is decent but not perfect, but I didn't necessarily want to spend the time typing out each page, figuring out font sizing and columns and what have you... it just wasn't what I was looking for. The end result of these two seemingly disparate desires was to hide my journaling. It's easily accessible, just a pull tab near the top of the page, and has everything someone might want to know about what the heck they're looking at. BOOM! Problem solved.

Hidden behind a larger family photo is a list of all the people in it, by rows. Yes, it's obvious to ME who they are, but what about my posterity? 

 The photo wasn't as large as I wanted my journaling to me, so I actually his my write-up behind the accent paper. I gave a description of what the heck we were doing, why we were doing it, and who we did it with. All good things to know!

Tell the whole story

 These are Joe's grandparents again - they were only married 5 years, but the marriage produced Joe's mother.  Joe never even met his grandfather, so it might be easy to pass over that part of history except that Joe looks just like him! So again Joe's mom gave me some nice photos of them together and told me their history, which I was so excited to get down. I wrote everything I could remember, it took me 4 pages (written on vellum to achieve the overlay effect I wanted), because even a short story can be a very important one.

Dare to Compare

My husband's mother has been extremely generous in giving me copies of photos that I might enjoy scrapbooking. These are not originals, she had them scanned and reprinted, so I feel comfortable cutting or cropping as needed.  

I did two comparisons here - the first is a comparison of Joe and I at the same age (which really, we ARE the same age, which is fun), so I played on "age 4" and "made for each other."

 The second comparison is one of our engagement photos compared with a photo of his grandmother and grandfather (not their engagement photo, I think the silly neckties were for fun). We were about the same age as each other, early 20's. The cards are typed up (something about how Joe looks like his grandpa), printed on plan scrapbook paper, then cut out and grommeted to look like tags.