peace, love, and scrapbooking-- part 2

so after a spontaneous trip home and an even more spontaneous whirlwind trip to see the country group, Gloriana, this weekend, i was finally with my boyfriend's scrapbook long enough to snap some pictures of the new pages!
       well, not new... but newest i guess.

so here are the pages that i put together for part of his valentine's day present :)

this might drive some people crazy, but i like how this kind of shows the separation of where one set of pages ended and another began.  kind of like a break, a breather, moving on to the next chapter... it was nice.  especially since i have things that are kind of the same (movie tickets, etc.).
this picture was taken on christmas at my grandma ruth's house and i picniked it and put some lyrics on it from a song that reminds me of us-- Almost Paradise from the Footloose soundtrack.

this next page is from the big christmas celebration at my grandma ruth's.  it was poor roger's first experience.  i hope he didn't feel too overwhelmed.  but i figured that since he survived thanksgiving, he would survive christmas.  easter was a different story.
but the ribbon down the outer edges was the ribbon i used to wrap this and his other big christmas present in, so i thought it was kind of a nice personal reminder of our first christmas together.

ever new years eve, my family goes bowling in the afternoon/evening.  roger went with me this year!  it was a lot of fun and it was actually the third time we'd been bowling together, which kind of made it a little bit nicer.  i had a hard time putting this page together and i'm still really not sure that i like it all that much.  definitely not on my favorite list.  but i guess it serves the purpose.

roger bought me the most beautiful bouquet of roses and i saved some of the rose petals and little lily-like flowers that were mixed in with it.  he got them for me for no reason.  he's the best ever.  he actually picked out the paper for this page, so i like the collaboration we had :)
my middle sister got roses earlier that week from her boyfriend, too, because he was being a jerk and needed to apologize.  mine were just because :) i have the most perfect boyfriend.  but we put them next to each other and called it "flower wars."

this next page was actually the last page i did.  i chose this paper because i needed something a little brighter than the other pages i'd done.  my mom had just bought an animal print book of paper, which honestly, i love.  so i picked this and just simply put some random photos on it and journaled in reasons why i love him.  the two on the left were from random fun nights we spent together and the two on the right are screenshots from my phone.  we always make wishes at 11:11 and 12:34.

this was one of the first pages i made for this set.  we went to the equivalent of a minor-league hockey game one night in january and it ended up being really fun.  extremely cold.  but fun.  i found those strips of sequins in the depths of the scrapbooking supplies and thought they were kind of perfect for this page.

another one of my least favorite pages.  i just don't like it.  i feel like it looks little-kiddish and amateur-- not that i'm a professional scrapbooker or anything i just think it looks like i don't know what i'm doing.  but i put movie tickets on there and the joker from a deck of cards i used in a craft.  i made him a "52 things i love about you" book that i found here on pinterest.  it turned out really great!

we skype from time to time... on nights that we're really missing each other.  sometimes talking on the phone just isn't enough,  you know?  but i took some screen shots of one of our video calls one  night because he was just cracking me up.  i like the background paper i used here. i think it worked well the the skype color scheme and kept things light and airy.

the last page for this section of the scrapbook.
this picture was taken on my vizio tablet the night he gave it to me for christmas.  i was at his house and the power was out so we had to use a flashlight to even see us!  on my giraffe page, there's another picture of this night.  he made me a candle-lit spaghetti dinner :) how lucky can one girl get?

overall, i think this batch of pages was more full of content from our experiences than actual scrapbooking elements and techniques.  i'm okay with it though, because i think that's what makes it so great.  this is all about us.

peace, love, and scrapbooking

In high school, I had an on-going scrapbook that I made for my best friend.  I would make new pages for it for her birthday, for Christmas, or any other occasion I felt necessary.

Well I started dating my boyfriend officially in October, but we both like to think that we've been together since the end of June/beginning of July.  For Christmas this year, I surprised him with a scrapbook of our relationship up to that point, and for Valentine's day, I made more pages for him and added them to his book.

These are his Christmas pages:


Our journey began when he facebook friend-requested me (how romantic) after seeing me at his indoor soccer games that winter.  I managed to take a picture of the text that I received from facebook on my old phone and put it in the photo slot on the front of the album.

The next page was our first facebook interaction.  He trash-talked Rafa.  No one talks smack on Rafael Nadal and expects me to stand by and do nothing. NOT. OKAY.  But we ended up having a conversation that was nearly 50 comments long before switching to chat.

So at the end of June, we went hiking at the local state park.  It was only about the second or third time we'd spent time together.  Long story short, I took a three-foot nose dive into a creek. I had a goose-egg on my forehead and a bloody shoulder.  It hurt. To the boyfriend: I'm sorry, I should have listened to you.

Alright, next we have the Tim McGraw concert.  I'm in love with Tim McGraw's music.  In love.  Roger bought me some tickets and we went together! So much fun... it was our first concert together and I hope we can see him again!

One of my favorite pages in the book :)

So in July, Roger bought me my first flowers... it was a great night full of driving to his house in a storm, him telling me I couldn't come yet because my present wasn't ready, me waiting in the McDonald's parking lot for 15 minutes, and smiling from ear to ear the rest of the night.  Straight-up cheezin.
This is another one of my FAVORITE pages in the book, and the first one I put together.

Next, a miscellaneous page.  Surprise of chocolate-covered strawberries in the mail, and two sets of surprise roses.  He's the best :)

In October, Roger's varsity soccer team played my brother's soccer team for Dane's senior night.  It was a night game, under the lights, and the only thing that could have made it any better would have been if Dane would have been able to play the position he's made to play.

The next page is one of my favorites... not necessarily because of the layout, but more because of the meaning.  After 6 months of talking, and nearly 4 1/2 months of seeing each other, he finally asked me to be official.  Officially official.  Our anniversary will forever be Brett Dennen's birthday.  I have a new-found love for this artist.  My personal favorite song of his is "Sydney."
Unfortunately, I took this picture before I wrote on the page.  Hopefully I can get some more pictures taken next time I'm home and have the scrapbook.

The next page is one of Roger's favorites... I'm indifferent.  I save EVERYTHING so I  needed a page to put these little mementos on.  I picked the color because I didn't really have anything in this color family thusfar in the scrapbook.

The next page is another one of my favorites... both in content, experience, and layout.  I love the way the dark pops on the yellow, and I love the fact that this was my first Sabres game EVER.  It was a last-minute plan and I drove home from school in the middle of the week so that we could drive all the way to Buffalo for a game.  SO GREAT.

This page is a bunch of pictures that we took one night that we were at my house on my mom's iPad.  It was a fun night, just hanging out and joking around with my family.

This is the last of the Christmas pages... leopard print, Roger, and I go way back... so I decided it was a good choice.  If you look closely, you can see the LOVE animal print stickers in the bottom right-hand corner.

Hopefully when I go home for Easter this weekend,  I can get some pictures of the new pages I made for Valentine's Day.  Hopefully I can put some more pages together for him soon. I'm convinced I should scrapbook/craft for a living.  Not necessarily because I'm good at it, but more because I love it.

Peace and blessings,
Taurie :)