Photos Full of Memories

One of the things I love about being a scrapbooker is being the recipient of old photos from various family members.  It's  a precious thing, to be responsible for the preservation of moments and memories....that might otherwise be lost.  Take these photos for instance.  I found these in a plastic bag along with photos of my aunt.  These are photos I've never seen, but I love them.  They capture our family dynamic when I was a child.  Gathering around the kitchen table, visiting, with family, my grandmother preparing dinner, my dad sitting in his chair by the window.

It's so easy to dismiss these photos.  They are dark and a little fuzzy.  We all had late 80's perms.  But if you look beyond all of that, they are so much more.

Thrilling Thursday

No gorgeous room, or fun fabric today.  I'm in a feisty mood.  :)  Instead I'm going to show you something very thrilling...at least to me.

Isn't that just the cutest early 1980's photo?  That's me, by the way.  So, the photos is cute, but what is thrilling is the fact that this photo has been sitting in a box for the past 20 years at least.  And now it's been scanned and cleaned up and saved digitally for forever.

Now imagine approximately 5,000 more photos just like it.  In three big boxes.  Waiting for me to scan.  I'm strangely excited, but overwhelmed all at the same time.  Have scanner, will scan.  For the next year. I kid....but it could very well take that long.

I'm excited to share these photos with my family - and hopefully identify some of the "strangers" I can't identify.  It really is thrilling!