Afraid I've not been feeling terribly creative this week and the blog has been neglected a bit as a result.
So I thought since I can't seem to come up with any new projects at the moment I might see if looking back at a recent one helps boost the creative spirit. ;o)
So, here is the full album of heritage photos that I made with the help of almost the entirety of my remaining Crate Paper Pretty Party stash and who knows how many tiny letter stickers... oh and some lovely Maya Road kraft envelopes that have been begging to be used in a scrapping project.
Let the photos begin...

I don't know about you but I always leave making the cover until the very end of a mini-album project... This time that plan didn't work quite so well as I completely forgot about the strip of paper I'd saved to use on the cover and promptly found it after I'd photographed it all. Oh well, but I think the final result ended up ok. Plus really glad those Amy Tan Thickers I got in Florida fitted nicely on the front - just!

So this pic is of my great-great-grandmother and by a weird twist of fate this portrait was taken about 5 minutes from where I work while the family was on tour with their circus acrobat act. Also I broke into the lovely egg box of findings I was given at Easter because I knew the watch face charm and rose trim would be perfect for this page.

Up next we have the parents of my great-grandfather who died when he was just a little boy. There are a lot of Fred Woods coming up - which makes things rather problematic in keeping people straight on Ancestry... but there are 3 consecutive generations of Fred Woods to differentiate in this project!

Here's a great pic of an advertisement used in Fred Wood Snr's Saddler's shop in Wakefield. Fred Wood senior (father of Thomas Stott Wood) is on the right and his second son, wait for it, Fred is pictured in the middle standing on one of the trunks they also made and sold to demonstrate the high quality of goods. I think we have a couple of those trunks in my parent's attic - there are definitely a few valises...

And moving on a few years here's Fred Snr and his wife with their children at home in the garden.

I used up some items from my scraps bowl to juz up these journaling pockets. Always nice when you can use up little bits you've been hanging onto. :)

And now we're back to the Stebbing line with this lovely photo of all the Stebbing sisters together (who later made up the dance troupe for the circus act) - my great-grandmother is on the back row there. I had to list all their names on a separate little card and pop it in that lovely Maya Road kraft envelope as there was just no way to fit them all on easily! Some fantastic names like Queenie, Ouida, and Buller.

And it's back to the Fred Woods - with Fred Wood Snr. when he was a younger grandfather with little Fred Wood his grandson who was orphaned at such a young age - looks like they were out on a Sunday stroll together with Mick the Jack Russell and his studded collar and rather portly body. I love looking at any old photos but the ones with pets in are always interesting to see, the look of certain dog breeds can also differ quite noticeably compared to modern their looks. But it looks like Mick was a rather loyal sort and wanted in on having his photo taken. :)

So we're moving on a good few years now to just after WWI and here's my great-grandmother went onto marry little Fred. We now have a bit of a debate going on as to who these two babies could be and whether they really could be siblings. On the back of the photo the very old writing reads "Baby boy 16 weeks old". We had always assumed the larger baby was my grandma who was the first born in Feb 1918, the next recorded baby was a boy who was born in 1919 and died in infancy. So quite a mystery!

And here we are moving on a few years to the photo my great-grandparents sent at Christmas in 1921. My grandma looks a bit sullen there with her curly hair and her baby brother isn't looking overly impressed either. :)

And rounding off the vintage photos - here's my grandma years later in the 50s looking very much like the Queen (as she did in later life too! Standing joke...) having her portrait taken while on holiday in Scarborough.

And finally the back cover - I quite like the idea of dating completed projects like these as it's interesting to remind yourself when you actually made it. :o)
And on that note, I'd best try and see where my creativity levels are at and get some cards made, I still have a card to catch up on!
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