It’s time for another update on my 40th year album! I’ve been trucking along with it and I have a few more pages to share.
In addition to filling the small slots in the Project Life photo sleeves
One of the first items I found was a copy of the menu from my college graduation dinner. I must have mentioned the occasion when I made the reservation because the restaurant put a note at the top congratulating me.
The other items on this page include:
- A photo of some college friends taken just before we headed out to one of the big fancy dances.
- A photo of my cousin and me at Burning Man
- A print-out of the original Wendolonia website header (from around 1997!)
- A senior photo and some memories of one of my best friends from jr. high and high school
- A photo showing that I have the same sized feet as Frank Sinatra
- The back side of my pre-college reading list.
My junior and senior years I worked as one of the coordinators for my college’s student orientation and this sheet shows the logo my co-worker and I designed for all the printed materials and t-shirts. It’s pretty good, don’t you think? The other side has:
- A list of the websites I visit most frequently (printed from Ella Publishing’s List It! Everyday Life Edition)
- My first grade school picture and some memories about the dress I’m wearing
- A photo of me with my mom, Grandma and aunts
- An ode to my pencil sharpener
- A photo from a typically freezing SF Bay Area 4th of July
For the next spread I tried something a little different and I made a themed page. This one is about my politics. While I like the randomness of the rest of my book, I think I’m going to do a few more pages like this that center around a more concrete topic. I’m already gathering photos to do a page about all the homes I’ve lived in through the years.
The smaller page protector in the middle of this spread holds a card my amazingly talented Aunt Judy made me for my college graduation.
The next page has:
- My recipe for pumpkin pie oatmeal
- A self-portrait from a few years ago
- A photo that Wyatt took of me washing dishes and a note about how I spend half of my life at that sink
- My bento boxes.
OK, here’s the last spread I completed!
Here we have:
- A photo of me taken at the state fair a few weeks before my wedding
- Some writing about my love of roller coasters with a bonus drawing
- My homecoming dance photo from 1988 (there’s a weird reflection on the photo)
- Another self-portrait
- A picture my mom took of me in Monterey 20 years ago
This is another wonderful treasure. I wrote this list in 1996 (I’m guessing) loooong before I started scrapbooking. I have no idea what prompted me to write it, but it perfectly captures a very specific time in my life. A few of the items refer to things I don’t remember (Why on earth was I dry heaving over the kitchen sink all the time?? Gross!) but most of them took me back in time as I read them. I’m so happy I have this!
The flip-side holds another find from my big box of sentimental junk. It’s printed from a web site where you enter your birth date and it compares your age to a list of celebrities. It also tells you how old you were when certain historical events occurred. Now I know that Jesse Ventura is 21 years older than me, and so do you!
The final page holds these goodies:
- A picture of me that Zach took in Hawaii
- A photo of Zach at a fancy restaurant on our 10th anniversary along with a note about how much I love going out for fancy dinners
- A list of my all-time favorite teachers (the card was printed from Ella Publishing’s List It! Childhood Edition e-book)
- A photo of Zach and me wearing the tin foil hats I made us
- A note about my love for Castle (it was a rerun this week! Grrrr!)
- A photo Wyatt took of me when I was scolding him one day and a note about how I’m sometimes a mean mom.
Interested in seeing more of this project? Check out these other posts:
- My 40th Year Project
- Update: 40th Year Project
- 40th Year Project: Part 3
- 40th Year Project: Part 4
- 40th Year Project: Part 5
