Completed Heritage Album

Saturday, July 23, 2011 - after midnight....

Well after many months of working on this heritage scrapbook album for my mother-in-law, I have finally finished it today and gave it to her earlier this evening in time for the family reunion. They are expecting 60-70 people and I look so forward to getting to meet all of them. I made 2 lbs. of pasta salad earlier and am finally sitting down to watch a little Hogan's Heroes with my husband before bed.

Here are the last two layouts that I created for the album earlier today. Both layouts use supplies from the Bo Bunny Timepiece Collection. I have to say that not much is left at all from the collection pack, brads, trinkets, etc. that I bought for this project. I used up all but a few scraps of the patterned paper in fact. It's a good thing that I also used papers from the DCWV Tattered Time and Mainstreet stacks as well. There are a total of 25 layouts in this entire album.

This first one's of my mother-in-law, her dad, brother and cousin. Sketch inspiration from the Jana Eubank sketch blog...

And this last one is of my husband's Great-Uncle Tom from 1945. I used another sketch from the Scrapbook Generation sketches book for one page layouts. This was great for using up what little scraps that I had left from the Timepiece collection pack..

And here's a look through the album....

I also made an envelope using my Martha Stewart scoreboard and some heavy Bazzill cardstock that I adhered to the inside back cover. Inside are a couple of CDs with the heritage photos that I used for this album in case anyone would want a copy of some of them after the reunion. My mother-in-law can just pop them into her computer and e-mail them to whomever. The envelope is held shut with some velcro...

Thank you for following along with my blog as I created this album these past several months. It's my biggest scrapbook project that I've completed thus far and I really enjoyed it. Good night....

4 More Heritage Layouts & 2 more to go...

My mother-in-law's family reunion is tomorrow and it's crunch time here for getting this heritage album completed before tomorrow. Actually, I'm hoping to have it finished in the next few hours. I only have two more layouts left to do. I just got back from running errands, and grocery shopping to pick up a few things for us and for the reunion. I wanted to go ahead and post the four layouts that I did yesterday so I don't end up with a post that's super long. I tried taking some photos outside on the deck yesterday when I only had a couple to post, but we were under another heat advisory since it was over 102 degrees with the heat index again. And my camera lense kept fogging up because of the high humidity. Then we got thunderstorms so I ended up taking the photos inside this morning.  I'll try to make this one a quick one and will be skipping all the details this time so I can get back to work....

First up is the very first page in the album. It's of the manifest record of when my husband's ancestors came over from Italy through Ellis Island back in 1913....

Next up is page 2 of the heritage album. This one's the most simple page out of the entire album and is right next to the family tree page that I posted the other day. It's of my husband's great-grandparents' birth and marriage info in Italy....

And a couple more layouts with photos. This next one's of my husband's Great-Uncle Vic sitting in a rickshaw. Taken in China during World War I or possibly right after World War I. He was my husband's grandfather's older brother and the eldest of seven children. He was 12 when he immigrated to the United States with his family back in 1913. He joined the U.S. Army before age 18 and was thrown out because of his age, then he joined the Navy - which is the branch of the military that he was in when this photo was taken. We will also be meeting a lot of relatives from his branch of the family tree at the reunion tomorrow for the first time...

And this last one's of my husband's great-grandparents, Nicola & Angiola Maria (a.k.a. Nicholas & Maria). Taken circa 1940-1941...

Two more to go and I. am. done. Woooohooo!! I've really enjoyed the process on this whole album. But I am ready to move on to other things. Enjoy the rest of your Saturday and thanks, as always, for stoppin' by...