I've created wall canvases of my kids and highlighted the character qualities that they have, so I did the same for what I thought should be in a President...but an a smaller level (a 12"x12" scrapbook page). Here's what I came up with:
For more close-ups of this page, see the Obama Scrapbook in the sidebar. Once again, the photo was from the internet, it just screamed "LEADER" to me.
The Sanford's have been praying for the Obama's to select a Portuguese Water Dog to take with them to the White House. We too had allergy issues here, but frankly just couldn't find a breed that was big enough to handle to traffic in and out of our house without getting crushed to death.
Porties or PWD's are an excellent choice for the First Family. We've had our Sierra Leone for over a year and she is an absolutely beautiful animal, perfect for girls who want to give a dog constant love. The best thing about this...only the Obama's will appreciate this is that you use Black Hair Care products on them...NO LIE!
They love the water, their hair is silky to the touch, they are big enough that no one will step on them, yet small enough to cuddle at the foot of your bed. Grandma will grow to love'em too.
Here are some shots of our Portuguese Water Dog, I understand all the shelter talk, but the bottom line is that the animal has to be the right fit for your family and your lifestyle. Our dog travels everywhere with us. For more tales of our Portie,CLICK HERE
Sierra loves to fetch the ball and love to ball of any kind, especially soccer.
As her name implies...she's a water dog.
Maybe this should have been Part 1, but I usually just start scrapbooking and then figure out how to put it all together later.
This is a very special album, one I hope my kids fight over. Since this will be an on-going album (at least for the next four years, God-willing) I'll share my start-up process with you.
Normally, I don't engrave my albums until they are done, but this is one that will hit the shelf next week.
I chose this older Creative Memories album, and engraved it myself (yes, I am hardcore, I have my own machine). I like the quality, love the "executiveness" of it and pray that I get to meet Obama and put my photo with him on the front cover (hey it might happened, I've already been to one presidential press meeting in the last year).
I have a small stack of pages that are either in process or done, I try to always digitize them before putting them in the albums. I'll be either sliding them into CM portrait sleeves or trimming them down to fit right onto the CM hinged pages (for those of you who wanted to know).
My focus on the pages is how I, we, my family feels about the new President, it's not a biographical depiction of the Obama's, there are enough books out on the market for that. I want to record our experience, not repeat media sound bites.
Here are my stack of newspapers...I sprayed them with Archival Mist by EK Success. More on this process later.
Scrapbook Papers...totally an optional piece, I first thumbed through all of my current stash of papers and then picked up a few sheets in the stores, only if they fit my theme (I am not an enabler).
Here is my small collection of photos I've started to print using my brand new Epson Artisan 800 printer. I've created a folder on my laptop to house the photo collections I'm sent via e-mail and copied my personal photos related to this whole experience to the same folder for easy access.
Lastly, is my stack of memorabilia, stuff I collected from the election, stuff I printed out from Obama's website, and my voter's guide check list, that helped me make my decision (way more on this later).
I wasn't born when the Kennedy's came to Washington (at least to the White House), but the sense of excitement upon their arrival, is probably similar to what's going on in Washington right now. The kids are excited and full of questions, so we are focusing on American history this week at home.
So today, I took the kids for a ride along the inauguration parade route this evening...it was exciting just to see the miles and miles of port-a-johns everywhere. There were lots of folks driving around just taking photos like we were. We even stopped and got our Obama wear from the street vendors early...here's a tip, take cash, plenty of ones...they do take visa, but it's a slow process.
I got this playset for the boys this Christmas and I love watching Jonathan just play with it for hours.
Here's another page I created from images people forwarded to me through e-mail. I printed these images using my home computer printer, maybe not the most archival materials, but will have to do. After I complete this album I plan on preparing a cd of all the pages and original images so that it can be handed down from generation to generation.
I used pre-printed quotes that related to the images...particularly like the "One Step At A Time" because of Jordin Sparks song and I hear Obama say he was reading the works of Abraham Lincoln again. Once again I included a bit of red to stick with my black & white theme with a bit of red. Background paper is related to my work...accounting. Clock is straight up at 12...about the time he made his acceptance speech, probably close to the time when this photo was taken (at least that's what I'd like to think), 12 midnight...the dawn of a new day!
This is the first in a series of posts where I will share with you my latest scrapbook project to preserve my family memories about an historical United States Presidential election.
Here's the first page that I made.
I decided to go with a black and white paper theme with a splash of red for a number of reasons:
Barack Obama is both African and Caucasian, red was the first family's color scheme on election night, red is a strong color throughout many cultures and lastly, because I am praying the blood of Jesus over him, his presidency and family.
Supplies: Patterned Paper: Cherry Arte; Journaling paper: Making Memories; Blue letters cut using Quickutz; Red Cardstock: Bazzill, Sticker, Ribbon, Clip & Buttons: Unknown.
My goal is to do at least one page featuring each child and their response to the election.
Check back often for updates to this series.
