One of my projects for these cold months of January and February has been to organize all my photos and get some albums made up. Of course, the first one I did was of my new granddaughter, Leandra Joy. I call her Sugar Wings, so it was fitting to add wings to her pictures, here is my favorite.
Usually, I am a bit of a workaholic. But for the last few months, I have been more of a putter-er. I keep busy and keep creative, but haven’t been "working" so much as just enjoying making things pretty. I’ve helped family repaint and redesign rooms and helped our contractor gut and redo our new wonderful bathroom. 
The room used to be my son’s, but since he is out and has his own family, we knocked down the wall and turned it into a master bath. The walls are chocolatey brown with tons of gold glitter mixed into the paint and the ceiling is the palest pink I could make. I lined the glass fronted cabinets with old sheet music and filled them with dried flowers, soaps, sea shells and apothecary jars. Doing a lot of the work myself helped with the budget, along with scouring sales to find the best prices on tiles and supplies. I also got curtains at the Goodwill store and remade them to fit the window.
After all the physical labor of redoing the bath, I was ready to sit down in my studio and get going on some scrap booking. When my grandma died a few years ago, I found an old album under her bed and after all this time, finally got it out and salvaged it. I used her photos from the early 1900s as well as some pictures I had inherited from my mom when she passed away a couple of years ago. I hadn’t been emotionally able to go through hers and do anything with them, and felt guilty about stashing them in the closet. So, taking advantage of a slow (and ice cold, here in KS) time of year, I made up an album in honor of Mom and Grandma, trying to reuse as much of the original album as possible.
I bought papers from hobby and scrapbook stores, one of them being a reproduction of an old ledger. After I had glued these three photos in place on the page, I noticed that centered between them was my grandma’s name!!! You can see it on this page "Mary Phillips", I have highlighted it by using an aging ink around the word and around the pictures. Mary is pretty common, but put with Phillips? I think that must mean that she is happy I am care-taking the album she started almost 100 years ago.