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.
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