Perhaps I should say "scrapping." Because the family has a new activity: scrapbooking!
Mama is actually the force behind this, my having abandoned scrapbooking our lives a few years back when overwhelmed with the paper detritus I was saving but never getting to. She had come across two scrapbooks we made of our swazus from Chicago--to Door County and the Lighthouse Walk, to the Indigo Girls at Ravinia, to Galena, to Michigan City Light, and more--and we enjoyed looking at them.
And so, in advance of our NYC mini-vacation, we all went to the craft store and bought a scrapbook, a few packs of NYC stickers, some colored stock paper, and some double-sided tape. While in NYC, we all were on the lookout for pamphlets, postcards, menus, and other material we could use, coming home with a fair bagful of things.
Yesterday, we spread all the material out, clipped and cut, sorted and selected, and finally laid out all the special pieces to work on the layout. We chose to do the Harry Potter exhibition pages first, using the red and yellow of Gryffindor as our paper. We included our family photo in front of Hogwarts, pamphlet photos, illustrations cut out from the shop bag, a postcard, and some Hogwarts stickers they sold in the shop, with everyone taking a turn taping stuff down and distributing stickers. It looks really good. Mama's going to write a blurb documenting the experience from each family member in the spaces.
We'll do the rest of the NYC pages another day. And even more after our next interesting activity.
Though, Bud said we should "scrap" our perfect potholder in memory of the hurricane! But I have it hanging on the kitchen wall.
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