A Sincere Love of Family ~

Mom just loves her cousins, so when we decided to have a retirement party for her in 2002, she was really hoping her cousins would come. Mom grew up very close to many of her cousins - some right across the street! (Lucky girl!) All but one came and she was absolutely delighted.

It's three years later and I FINALLY got to the scrapbook that I was going to create for her to capture the special event. This is clearly my favorite layout. It is the "cousins" layout. I did two different layouts - one for then, one for now. This is obviously the "then" section. The paper is completely crackled and old fashioned looking and I used scanned copies of old black and whites. Adding a little brown ribbon seemed to finish it perfectly.

I delivered the album to mom on Christmas this year (2005) and she was very pleased.