My Dad

Hello Robin's Nest Readers

I have been working on a 8.5x11 Album

about my dad.

My mom died a little over a year ago, 

and over the last year my sisters, dad, and I have

been cleaning out lots of things

from their home.

Dad has been taking all the photos

and scanning them into his computer.

I have been waiting for him to get most of them

scanned, which he has now done,

and the sorting began going through

all the photos of 84 years of life and family.

Each of my siblings received a little box

full of photos that had them in it.

I asked dad if I could take his and mom's photos

home with me and make some scrapbook albums

about them.  

Of course, he said yes.

Years ago, mom made a book about herself

while she was young growing up in Germany.

She stopped in her book about the time she

came to the United States, so after

that all pictures have been in the old sticky

albums used years ago for photo storage.

She was pretty faithful in getting all the

photos in those binders.

What a chore to take them apart.  

I even used a hair dryer to heat up the 

glue on the back and pull the photos off without

harming them.

So here are a few pages of my dad.

More will follow this month,

with these very old and precious to our family,

photos.

I have kept the book fairly simple.

Each page only has a few photos, 

and I have tried not to put anything on the

photo itself.

Here is dad before he joined the

Air Force in the 40's.

I used the Men's Plaid CS

Here is a very precious photo,

as there are about only 8 photos of with my

dad in them for all of his years up to 10.

And not very many more of him through to the age of 20.

Here he is with 2 of this brothers, 

dad is in the middle,

he is one of 11 children in his family.

I used Red and Green plaid (back side)

Bright Green Mini Dew Drops.

Everything else is retired Robin's Nest

My dad was basically kicked out of High School

for being wild.  He had his own

Motorcycle, and until I did these photos,

I didn't even know there was a photo

of him and his cycle.  It is pretty cool.

I took the original photo and scanned it in and

printed out a close up of him on his

motorcycle.  It isn't clear at all

 but it does give us the jest of what that famous

motorcycle looked like.

I used

Glitter Wind Flame CS

Flame Sticker

Men's Plaid

Black 6mm Dew Drops.

Well this is all for today.

I have not journaled on these pages

only dated them.  Dad has written a story

about himself that he printed out 

for me and I have inserted pages of his story

along with the pages I have created for his book.

There are many pages that I have left him a

section to journal in about himself.

I have also added a few notes of things that I have 

observed in the photos, so he can tell about them

to the family.

(He had a broken arm in the picture of him holding me

as a 3 month old baby, how did he break his arm?)

Have a great day.

Robin's Nest papers have been great to

work with on old pictures, I have been very

excited to use them with 

black and white photos.

Ciao,

Robin