Yesterday & Today Begins In One Week & A Giveaway

I am really interested in documenting through scrapbooking my heritage and Chinook Indian family history.
Thanks!

I really want to document my love of New England in the Fall even though I've never been there to seee it in real life.

5th Grade April Fool's Day Joke (on me!)

my engagement! i can't believe i haven't done that yet!

I don't have anything about my childhood. I would really like to preserve something for my kids and grandkids about when grandma was a little girl

I'd like to document my dancing hobby, in particular the friends I made during that time.

i would like to document the great travel opportunities i had growing up (my first road trip was at 7 weeks old)
i would also love to document what it was like for my parents to grow up under apartheid, what it was like for them to have an arranged marriage, and so much more!

I guess I'm not sure of the direction I would go but I want to do something about my mother and her dying from cancer - maybe something on her life, our relationship, or how her death affected me and my dad. It's seems so overwhelming to attempt but I don't want her story to be forgotten. I want my kids to know what a special person she was and my relationship with her since they didn't get a chance to know her.

I want to document the 8 years I spent working in anthropology and museums. Good luck with your class Ali!!!

My mother died 7 years ago and I have these beautiful black and white photos that need to be scrapbooked. I want to document her story.

Thanks for the opportunity be be in your class. I would do a story or two about my maternal grandmother, who made the most awesome cinnamon rolls and was the greatest listener!

What in incredible opportunity! I would love to explore the relationship over the years with my grandmother. She has Alzheimer's and we are slowly losing her a little bit at a time. I want to put my memories down before they disappear, too :-(

I would love to win a spot in your class. I think I would try to capture the time in my life right now as I am still figuring out the transition to full-time stay-at-home mom.

I would love to document my journey with having premature twins.
Katie

I just received a few hundred photos from my day of his childhood and even my grandparents when they were younger. I would love to work on that. And maybe some of my own childhood photos & my husband's photos.

hum, a story i would like to document. I have been meaning to create a childhood album for myself that highlights most of my fond memories from childhood, just haven't gotten started yet - mainly because i don't have any of the photos - but if i was motivated enough i'm sure i could go to my mom's and find the pictures and start this project.
i would love to win!

I would like to capture the time during college when I was a yearbook Editor. When I look back at my pictures, I remember the friends I had and all the wonderful experiences.

I would like to document my relationship with my best friend since we were Kindergarten (going on 30 years next year!)

I would like to document the growth of my children.

I would like to document this story: when I was younger, I loved to bake with my Nana. She lived with us and helped my parents raise us (my dad a sailor out to see often and my mom a working mom who put in 40+ hours to help pay the bills). It would always seem that a the last minute, one of my four sisters or I would remember that we needed something for the school bake sale (remember when we did bakesales and not Innisbrook for fundraising?) and of course it was always 9 or so before we remembered this. I would stay up and help my Nana bake whatever it was - cookies, brownies, a cake. I loved being up late and alone with her. In a house full of seven women, time with my Nana alone was not a frequent event. Sometimes my Mom would help out too, which was a bonus. We would talk and sing to the radio. Sometimes she and my mom would even teach me how to waltz, jitterbug or foxtrot. One of my favorite photos is of me and my Nana dancing in the kitchen with our aprons on and the mixing bowl and measuring spoons in the background! Nana taught me how to measure...rounded vs. level, how to mix, turn the bowl the opposite direction as the mixer and be sure to use a spoon to scrape the sides, what the purposes of baking soda vs. baking powder were and why you didn't want to mix them up. My favorite recipe of all time was for Nana's Texas Sheetcake Brownies. Not only were they DIVINE tasting, but my favorite thing to do - and Nana always let me do this - was mix the sour cream into the batter. It was the last thing you added and I loved to watch the creamy white blend into the chocolate batter and make all sorts of browns and tans and every color in between until it swirled together and became all one color. Loved that. Writing this all down, I can hear my Nana's voice and feel her hands guiding mine on the mixer, her palms worn smooth by years of hard work. I can smell her...I can't pinpoint it, just that "Nana" smell...the smell of baking and comfort and HOME! Wow! I have yet to do any pages from my childhood and what started out as a brief entry for this contest has turned into journaling that brought tears to my eyes as I typed. I am saving this away and doing a page about this the very next time I scrapbook. Thanks Ali!