Roger and I celebrated
our one-year anniversary at the end of October. As you may know, I have been making a
scrapbook for Roger for a while now, and so since we decided not to do anything
crazy for our one-year, I decided to make him some more scrapbook pages. It was long overdue. I hadn’t updated the scrapbook since our
six-months in April.
His first
scrapbook was so full that I decided to buy him a new one and make it kind of
like “the start of our second year together,” since our first book started in
April 2011. I bought him the same exact
scrapbook, so that they would match, but this one is an 8.5 x 11” size, instead
of 8.5 x 8.5.
Since I was
trying to tie the books together, I stuck to the theme of the first one by
putting a funny, cute picture that meant something to us in the front. This photo was a shadow of us at a museum in
Niagara Falls from back in June.
For the opening
page, I used one of my favorite pictures of us from my brother’s high school
graduation in June. I just cut strips of
scrapbook paper that were the same color as my dress. At first, I had the stripes going vertically
like my dress, but when I put the photo on, it looked really weird. I didn't like it. So I took them off and painstakingly
reattached them horizontally.
You may remember Kevin, our little rescue
bird. My color scheme came from the
picture of the character “Kevin” from the movie “UP.” I used the orangey/yellow color as the
background, and if you look really close, there are yellow feathers on it. Otherwise, I just used greens, purples, and
blues. Nothing crazy-special.
At the end of May,
we went to Niagara Falls for the weekend.
It was relatively close to where my siblings were running for track so
we used the opportunity to have a little get-away for ourselves. We stayed in a hotel, went for a walk by the
river, saw the falls from the American side, and went to the Aquarium of
Niagara, where we got to see a really cool sea lion show.
For this page, I used
some wave paper that Roger bought me a while back, and the back of it happened
to be the same colors, just polka dots. So
I used the left-over scraps to frame the photos. My favorite (which was actually my sister,
Taylor’s idea) was how I ripped the paper and then glued it directly to the photo
on the photos at the bottom of the right hand page. It gives it a completely different look.
The next night, we
went to Niagara Falls, Ontario to enjoy the tourist-y sights. We got to watch the fireworks over the
horseshoe falls and I got to actually go to a casino and be legally served
since I wasn’t 21 yet :)
I just used plain
black paper for this and some black/silver glittery ribbon that was left over
from corsages for homecoming the year before.
I made another page
for our tourist excursions. We went to
Dave and Buster’s for dinner, which was really fun. We played a ton of games but in the end, we
didn’t even have enough tickets for a Laffy Taffy :( We also went to two different Ripley’s
Believe it or Not attractions—the museum and the moving theatre.
I just used some
crazy orange zebra print paper for this page because I thought it was fun. It’s not my favorite page, but I needed some
orangey colors in my pages so I went with it.
I also glued a pair of our 3D glasses from Ripley’s onto the page.
The next page I made
was for the Fourth of July. We went to
see fireworks at the same place that we went last year, before we even had our
first kiss! ;) It was fun to know that
exactly a year ago, we were in the same exact spot, together. Knowing that our year together was starting to
wrap around was really exciting.
For this page, I used
a plain blue background and then searched through the paper drawers to find
different red papers to embellish with. My
favorites were the red mulberry paper and the red sequins. I also have a tool that if you put it on the
paper, hold it down, and rip, it’ll rip in those really cool waves, so that’s
how I did that. I’m not sure where it’s
from—it was a present. But if you’d like
to see it, I can post a picture.
This page I made for
our adventures on and following my twenty-first birthday. I decided since it was really a page
dedicated to me, I could girl it up a little and incorporate my favorite
things.
My favorite color is
aqua/turquoise so I used my favorite little glitter ribbon and another aqua
ribbon I found to embellish and I found feathers that my sister had from her
spirit week Mardi Gras mask. So I picked
out some turquoise, pink, and purple feathers to put glue on.
This page I made for
our local county fair. I started with
his pass and my wristband to enter the fair every day. We had those because my family exhibits so we’re
there all day every day. So those were
the two colors that I started with for the overall scheme of the page.
I then used two of
the photos from when we were pretending to be farm animals/cowboys and cowgirls
and those had some pretty greens in them and I realized I had no green pages
yet so I found this really pretty green paper.
I also meant to embellish with twine to make it look a little more
country but I forgot to add it before I gave it to him.
I just wanted him to
know how much I appreciated him being there with me every single day, even though
I know he was tired at times and fairs aren’t really his thing.
DISCLAIMER: we do not know the gender of either of our ducks, so
we just refer to them both as “he’s.”
This is, quite
possibly, one of my most favorite pages ever.
I’m not sure if it’s because of the actual layout, the colors (I’m a
sucker for grey and yellow), or the fact that I love this man and these ducks
so much.
We were two lucky
winners of a pair of ducklings that were on raffle at the fair. We named the black one Jerome and the grey
one Pancho Villa, Pancho for short. I’m
so glad that we got both of them. Jerome’s a regular duck and Pancho is a
runner, so he’s super tall and skinny, which makes Jerome look short and fat. Pancho follows Jerome everywhere. They really are
best pals. They love the rain, they love
to swim, they love to eat, and they love to evade capture. They aren’t actually scared of us, but they
think it’s a game when we try to catch them to put them back in their hutch.
For this page, I used
dark grey paper and wanted a little different look so I put the paper through
my printer and actually printed the words that I wanted right onto the
paper. I made a little yellow banner and
used different scraps of yellow paper, along with yellow flowers.
I made this page
mostly as an excuse to use my first Instagram photo ever :) We worked a bike
race as a fundraiser for Roger’s varsity soccer team. He was late and I ended up having to do our
station by myself, so I said that he owes me a puppy. Because he does.
I just used plain
yellow paper for this page and embellished with dark blue, because those were
the race’s colors and the same colors of the tshirts we were given.
At the end of
August, right before I went back to school for the semester, we went to a Yankees
game with Roger’s family in Cleveland. It
was kind of a stressful day because the trip was literally the day before
classes started and I really didn’t want to leave Roger to go back to
school. To top it off, I had a migraine
so bad that I felt like I was going to throw up. Not the best experience. I will say though that I’m much more
interested in baseball now that I’ve been to a live game.
I drew blue pin
stripes onto white paper to give it that “Yankees” look and wrote in red. I framed the stadium map in the same green as
the grass. Other than that, I didn’t do
much with the page. I kept it relatively
simple.
For Roger’s
birthday, I planned on buying him Sabres tickets. Unfortunately, I think we are all familiar
with the NHL lockout. So instead, I bought
him tickets for one of his favorite artists, Ben Folds, in Buffalo.
The night before the
concert, we again went to Niagara Falls on a Groupon deal. The deal came with free casino slot play at
the Seneca Niagara casino and a free appetizer and bottle of wine at the
hotel. I already wrote about our little
excursion here so I won’t go into major detail.
I didn’t have any
purple pages yet, so that’s why I chose that color. I also had also just bought my first-ever set
of washi tape, so I felt like I just needed
to use it. I used the silver colors to
kind of embellish and hold down the photos/tickets. I also kept the cap of the wine bottle from
dinner that night :)
Last year, Roger wasn’t
into going to homecoming pictures for my brother and two sisters so he hung
back at home while I went. This year, he
wanted to go. I think he was closer to
my sisters this year than last year. He also
bought the dress that Taryn wore for me for a wedding we went to back in July.
I used gold for
these pages because both of my sisters wore gold to homecoming this year. Taryn’s dress had aqua/fuchsia sequined
embellishments on it so I used the strips of sequins that were also used in her
corsage. I also used my favorite aqua
glitter ribbon :)
I hashtagged the
title of this page because my boyfriend and I had been using hashtags in our
texts recently and it was kind of a funny inside joke of us. The photo of us is one of my absolute
favorites of all time. My mom took it,
and I love the fall leaves in the background.
I also made those
little picture collages of each sister’s homecoming and instagrammed them so I was
really excited to incorporate them into our scrapbook. And yes, I always do my sisters’ hair for
prom/homecoming/weddings :)
For
my last page, I used a picture that was my profile picture for a while. He fell asleep one afternoon so I took
advantage. I love him like crazy.
I
just used a huge slew of scraps of paper for this page, a doily, some buttons,
and some stick-on pearls. I tried to
keep the colors more similar and along the same color scheme, just to tie it
all together.
I can't wait to keep sharing this with you all as we continue to laugh and love together and I really hope you don't mind looking through it :)
p.s. I'm working on having a new tab at the top next to my "About" section for all the photos of my scrapbook! Feel free to check back soon!
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