Birthdays

Huge subject of scrapbooks - birthdays - well, at least my scrapbooks.

I suspect its fairly typical in most scrapbooks.

One of those events that must be documented.

For every birthday, I take pictures of the birthday girl/boy, the cake, presents.

The usual I guess.

When the kids were younger we'd take pictures at their birthday parties.

I'd make sure to get shots of the guests, the cake, the presents.

Maybe capture a few of the games or activities at the party.

All kind of typical. I spose maybe someone would think - how boring.

But I don't. I really enjoy looking at those birthday pictures.

I love making the birthday party pages.

Birthdays are a big deal.

And the pictures and pages - well think about it like this:

Birthdays are probably THE only time you don't forget your camera.

Who doesn't take a picture of their kid blowing out the birthday candles?

And since you have that shot - the obligatory cake and candle shot - that's a little timeline you are creating for that person.

You'll always have that birthday picture.

And what they look like on that special day.

I suppose you could say the same about the first day of school picture

or the actual yearly school portrait

But the birthday picture -

It's always special.

Cos it's that person's special day.

And there is always a special smile - a real one - in those birthday pictures.

Anyway - here's the most recent birthday page I've done.

Actually I just finished it about 10 minutes ago.

And it took about that long to make - even better!

I used another one of those Making Memories Perspectives, my sewing machine and my Quickutz (this time the Zoe font).

Oh i forgot to mention - i inevitably make a pocket somewhere on the birthday pages - to hold the birthday cards. (I'm a packrat - I never throw out a birthday card).

The pocket this time is on the left hand side of this page.

I laid down a sheet of white cardstock - positioned the photos on it - placed the perspectives mat over the top and sewed down the right and left sides as well as between the two groups of photos . The perpective mat already had the large photo sewn to it.

I may actually get some more pages made today as this one went so quickly!