Camera charger + genealogy scrapbook + notebook + rooster

Camera charger made it here and now I can share my lovely little projects with you!

This week may end up looking like I created something every single day, but that probably won't be the case.  The projects will be from last week when I could show them off because I was camera-less.

Remember ancestry addiction that I'm currently working through and that box that my mom shoved all precious family documents and stories into?

Well, I decided to remedy that situation by making something akin to a Genealogy Scrapbook with one of these...

An old binder I got at the thrift store...shown is the inside.

Above is the once boring outside.

And here's my personalized, embellished, kluckingbear-a-fied remake!

I'm really happy with it. 

The tree graphic is from Graphics Fairy...I printed it onto freezer paper backed linen and then zig-zagged it onto the background fabric. 

I used velvet ribbon, a doily, a vintage button, some trimmies, and some upholstery fabric I had on hand too.

No genealogy specialist would be complete without her own matching notebook for details she finds along the road while searching ancestry.com.

Gotta love that shine off the solid silver (or maybe it's my camera skills)

In other news...Anyone need a rooster?

Zeus.  Zeus was a girl, then he became a rooster.  He was nice, then he beat up our other banty rooster named Pie-Head and started picking on all the hens.  Bad Zeus.  Zeus needs a new home

Life on the farm...

I'll be linking this project to:

Show& Tell at Blue Cricket Design



Family Tree Obsessed

For Christmas I made Family Trees ala Sutton Grace for my husband's family.

Pardon the photography...wanting a better camera for Bday in March (hint, hint)

Joel's mom passed away last year and they didn't know much about her family background other than her parents' names, so I thought doing a little research would be a nice way to remember her.

I used Ancestry.com and it was great.  It does cost about $15 a month to use, but I was able to find several generations of family with factual information like censuses, birth records, and death certificates.  I highly recommend using the site if you'd want to find out more family info and have exhausted all family resources.

WARNING:  Ancestry research is highly addicting!  I have to limit my time or I forget to feed myself and brush my teeth.

Joel's family done...now I'm want to do mine!

My mom has a lot of background info, but it's all CRAMMED in this box!

So, I've been spending A LOT of my free time sorting and looking up really, really cool family info, but I have done a little necessary crafting.

I'm making an album to hold all my family info, of course!

I found a couple of old file/data holder things at the thrift store for only a $1 each and they're capable of holding a ton of stuff, they're just ugly, so they need to be prettied up a bit.

Just posing different elements, but I'll get to sewing, mod podging, etc. soon.  Then my precious family info can be safely nestled in archival, acid-free paper...uncrammed and unfolded.