Saturday, April 13, 2013

Gears Turning...Wheels Running...Smiles Rising...

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Yesterday it rained, today it's grey, but that's not stopping me today! The gears in my mind are turning about the next few weeks. Two weddings for friends, a teddy bear baby shower for my cousin's wife for their future baby girl, a visit to Virginia - a state I have never been to before, a year anniversary of the loss of a beloved grandmother - whom I still hear her laughter in my head,  and a trip to Phoenix, Arizona - yet another state I've never been to before. It's so much to take in and so much to process in a little time. I can't wait to hold on and go for the ride.

This Saturday I'm going to try and get off of Auto-pilot mode and enjoy the day. I'm going to a Williams Sonoma demo again, I'll post about it tomorrow and I'm really excited. I hope to purchase the Zoku Slushie maker, I mentioned here with the 10% discount I will receive as well. Craig and I are taking a trip to Guitar center to get him a pedal to enhance his bass guitar. Then, I'm going to go visit my grandfather and continue on my photo project I'm not sure I mentioned here yet...

Whoever thought it was a good idea in the 1950's and the 1960's to glue, yes GLUE, dear photos to construction paper albums is beyond me. So many pictures of my relatives that I've never seen are torn because they were glued or are discolored from the glue. It's my making my goal to actually re-do my late grandmother's albums a little harder than expected. But it's something I will finish. I was her only grandchild and I feel like if I don't put all those precious photos into new albums then no one will. It's such a treat seeing her all glammed up in the old photos, seeing my dad in a Davey Crockett raccoon hat as a child, seeing photos of my biological grandfather I never got to meet in a WWII uniform, and seeing the transition of the times through the smiles and outfits. I'm grateful that she kept these photos even if they are torn from the glue. Ever so grateful.

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I hope tonight is filled w/ wine glasses full of pink yellow tail lil sweet & lil fizzy moscato and a date full of kisses...lots of kisses and possibly more.

Have a great weekend everyone!

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14 comments:

  1. Amazing post,love your blog.
    Your blog have wonderful posts.;-)
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    Lovely greets Nessa

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  2. I hope you manage your little challenge - sounds very worth while though, but I certainly know what you mean about the old glue. Once when we were going through my late grandma's photographs - they were all glued in and it's not that we wanted to mess them all up and rip them all out, but they deserved to be in a better photo album. Sadly they had once all had little notes about the people in the images, or the places they were taken but the glued backs and the paper that remained stuck to them, many of that was left hidden under the mess. It's a shame but I guess they weren't thinking people would be looking after them or wanting to do things with them in the future!

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  3. Thank you sooo much for the follow.^^
    Follow you back on bloglovin and gfc,too.
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    Lovely greets

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  4. Aw! It's a great thing you're doing

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  5. I love that you are redoing those photos. It is indeed sad that the glue is so destructive!
    -Jamie
    ChatterBlossom

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  6. that's great that you are re-doing the album. good luck and hopefully you can salvage the memories!
    -- jackiejade.blogspot.com

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  7. Such a busy bee! That is so sweet of you for re-doing the album. Photos are such special memories and they should be properly preserved. Also, hope you had a sweet date night :]

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  8. What a wonderful thing you are doing with the photo album. Such a gift of love!

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  9. You sound so busy! Good luck with the photo album :)

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  10. Your photo project sounds great! I love seeing old photos. I hope to do one soon with all the photos that Yangkyu's mom had collected over the years! Hope you enjoyed your weekend!

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  11. I hope you had an amazing weekend Chloe!!

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  12. Ooh, another WS demo? can't wait to hear all about it!

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  13. Lol, my family glued photos to the photo book, too. I hope you got all those kisses you were wishing for. :)

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  14. ohhh i have the zoku popsicle makers, great brand!
    amanda
    http://thingstoholdandstir.blogspot.com/

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