My scrappy scrap books!!!

I am such a packrat!!  there is so much to love in this world!!! I love books, paper, cards, images...and some of my precious papers I keep in treasure boxes but others I cut and paste into scrap books, letters and cards I love from friends...how could I bear to just throw them away....a bit of glueing was done this past week.  The chemo treatments are making me very tired and this is fun and relaxing to do...just cutting out and arranging in books...

 

nothing is safe, even paper plates get flattened and slathered with glue!!

 

...oh that blue and white china......

 

 ...exquisite card made by a friend...

 

   some bright...

 ..other pages more subtle..  loved using some of the old music a friend gifted me last week...

 

...I like that poetry that touches my heart can be found in these pages....

 

 

 

 

I attach envelopes and the cards and letters are popped in...

 

 ...not all the glueing is lump or crinkle free...but it looks worse in the photo!

 

 

...beautiful words ...

 

a card from a friend with pressed seaweed.

 

 

 

 

I use old diaries etc, I don't always use proper "scrapbooks" as such.

 

 

...sometimes my enthusiasm gets away on me and I over fill them!!  I do like leafing through these and console myself with the thought that my favourite pictures are all together and it's reducing the piles of magazines around the house!!!!

 

 

There are general scrapbooks and themed ones!!! this is a Fairy one...

 

 ...maybe for children?....but one adult at least likes looking through it's pages!!

 

Over the years |I have enjoyed making little books..

 

 

 

This one is made from pages from an old book and stitched together, I used some paper napkins etc in this one that I liked..

 

I don't always do this alone, I have a special friend who sometimes comes and stays over, we chat and laugh and make a huge mess in the hut and have a wonderful time....

 

 

 

 

Have a happy week doing stuff you love.

xx