If I'm not scrapbooking I'm thinking about scrapbooking!
Back on February 5th Matt and I celebrated the 20th anniversary of our first meeting. I’ve already posted a layout of the two of us from 1996, and now I have this one from 20 years later (we took a few selfies in our back yard).
It went by in the blink of an eye. Here’s to forever.
I followed this ScrapMuch sketch. My patterned papers are from American Crafts, the glitter stickers are from KI Memories, and the rub-on title is from Making Memories (2003!).
Just last week Matt was attending a business lunch and texted me: “What day did we meet?”
After I got over my surprise at the question (not the kind of thing he usually thinks about at a business meeting—I later found out it was because of a conversation he was having with a newly married man who was planning to celebrate the day he met his wife on February 4th), I answered: “Monday, February 5, 1996.”
And then it hit me that we were rounding the bend on the 20th anniversary of meeting each other! Wowsers.
So this past Friday we went out for a late lunch to commemorate our 20th meetiversary. It was very nice, and we took a few photos to mark the date. But you know I also had to make a special layout about this milestone. I rummaged through some photos from 1996 and found this one of us dressed up to go out (somewhere I can’t recall) on a date. It’s from the fall of 1996, but you know we just don’t have any selfies from the day we met, as we might nowadays.
My journaling on the page reads:
Matt & I met on Monday, February 5, 1996, when he came to my Manning Hall office for a meeting. Neither of us could know how much that meeting would change our lives.
How blessed we are to have each other’s friendship.
I followed this Let’s Get Sketchy February 1st sketch and used papers from My Mind’s Eye, American Crafts, and Echo Park. The title is my own design that was cut on the Silhouette Cameo.
Today Stuck?! Sketches launches our first challenge of February. Grab the sketch and play along for some great prizes from Heartfelt Creations and A2Z Scraplets.
Living in Texas makes getting any snow at all a cause for celebration for this Ohio girl. So when we had a beautiful little snowfall in February 2004 we took our sweet Oliver out to experience it. As a Texas native born in 2002, this was his first time to put paw to powder.
I used patterned paper and stickers from Echo Park’s Wintertime collection. The snowflake circle is a cut file from the Silhouette store, and I designed the title to cut on my Cameo, as well.
Charlie used to live across the street from us, and when he moved away a couple of years ago we really lost a gem in our neighborhood. He’s the kind of man you wish you knew more of—vibrant, kind, generous, funny, a storyteller.
When he came into town for his 80th birthday celebration, his daughter graciously invited us to the party. Who wouldn’t want to celebrate this guy?
Note: If the title of my page sounds vaguely familiar to you, it’s because I took a line from Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone and changed it for my needs. Remember when Hagrid hunts down the Dursley family so he can give Harry a birthday cake and says: “It’s not every day yer young man turns 11 now, is it?”
We loved to bake cookies and pick out the best ones for Santa. Here we are putting out our treats for the big guy on Christmas Eve 1975.
I wish you all a most wonderful Christmas, full of love and cheer and gratitude for all the good things this holiday means!
I used papers from The Paper Studio and Heidi Swapp’s Christmas to create this page. The Santa on the chimney image is from the Silhouette store. And I followed the PageMaps sketch below.
