Taz-Tangs Corner: Odds and Bobs that didn't get published before, somehow.....

This page is a conglomerate of pages started, but not published. Why? No clue, really. If I'd have to venture a guess, I would say, probably pilot error. Sometimes I want something, the template of the blog thinks otherwise, and I have no way to make it change it's mind. ROFL!

So, how am I going to attack this puppy? Carefully and gradually!

I seriously hope I'm not giving you whiplash, but on the other side, it's kinda funny what I thought would be great to put out there.... and looking back, I couldn't tell you why I thought that. Some things are bittersweet, some made me realize how chaotic our life has been, and some.... I just have to shake my head and let it go:-)

So, in no particular order......... this is what you "missed". LOL!

Boo's 365 Project: This is a designer I used to CT for. She was BUSY!!! I couldn't really keep up, as is evident in this "page that never happened"

You will have to read this page from bottom to top if you want to start at the beginning............ So sorry :-)

I will have to go thru her store, but I think I missed a couple of months here..... LOL.

I'll be back with an update in a little while.

APRIL

MARCH

See what I mean?

February...

I know I had a February, somewhere........ Where did it go?

JANUARY KIT - THE REMAKE

So, now that the idea is sorted out... I will start doing things the right way. I will leave the pages I made, alone, but will start the book for 2011. A whirlwind year, lots of downs and some ups, but overall, not a bad sumtotal :-) At the end of the year, I will make the coverpage and backpage with all the kits combined.

JANUARY 2013

The 365 Synergy project that Booland Designs is hosting over at the Studio is beginning to take shape in my head............ finally. I don't think I had a clue what to do with it, until I started looking at the pages the other CT's were making..... THAN it finally dawned on me, that it is meant as a monthly, progressive album that, when finished, spans one year............... YEAH!!! Blondie caught up!

I hate to say it out loud, but sometimes I think I didn't just loose memory, but brainpower too. Stop laughin :-) I used to have a good comprehension rate but these days, I very often feel like the slow cousin, they use short sentences for. And the sad part is, I'm very thankful when they do!

LIFE BOOK

Did I ever tell you that I've been trying to put separate scrapbooks together?
1 for Mike, 1 for me and one for both of us? This would hold part of the family tree, our growing up years up to our meeting, and the last one would be of our life together...... than, I was going to do one more, of our family tree from before our families..... this one would also include the extra information I found, that's not really part of our family goings on, but part of the history of our family... A tall order for sure, and I'm pretty much convinced, if I were just a tad more organized, all of them would be well on their way to being ready.... but they're still only in a stage of one page here, one page there, pictures that are put together to go on one page, information that needs typed up.... so basically, it's a mess...

A couple of years ago, I found out that it's called "A LifeBook". Not the mess, but the idea! LOL.

Well, I'm not going to publish it or anything, but just to have everything kinda sorta in one spot, I figured I would follow the LifeBook Challenge at Vicki Pasterik's site. I tried for 3 years. The first year, was ok, except that I couldn't get the stories I needed from my favorite subject.... Yep, my silent partner, Mike. I had parts of some of the stories, couldn't get my hands on the pictures I wanted to use, and just kind of blundered along. The second year, I figured, I would do mine. I knew the stories, and even without most of the pictures, I could at least make the journaling pages, and fill in the blanks later........... that would be a NO on the progress for that one too. The third time, I thought I was sooooo smart, and I would fill in the pages I needed for either/both of the previous years, but I forgot about the time difference. You see, it's at a very doable time in the US, but it is 2AM for me! I tried staying up (and would fall over about an hour or so before the chat would start) I tried to set the alarm, and although that seemed to be the better method, I slept thru a lot of the chats. This last go around, I did wake up, but for some reason always had a heck of a time logging into the site, and at 2 in the morning, my brain did not want to kick into troubleshooting mode, so I would try a couple of times, half hour maybe, and than happily go back to bed, until it was time for Mike to get up. Where am I going with this? I'm going to do it on my own, with the schedule I have for the chats. I will improve the pages I have but am not happy with, and at the end of it, I may have it printed, or print it at 8x8. We'll see how the finances are at that time, and how many pages it turns out to be. The good thing on the page count will be that we don't have kids, grandkids, retirement or golden years pages.... But those may very well be taken up by cars and homes, so we'll have to see.

I have some pages done already for Mike's book, from last session of LifeBook chats. This was a random picture to match the Journeys kit from StarSongStudio, but it came out really nice, and I think I'll keep it :-) Eventually I want to clean up the picture, and restore it, and make it bigger, but just to show off the photograph... I think, I'll make the picture page size, once I've fixed it up, kind of like a magnifying glass was put over the page, and display them side by side....

While I was putting the page together, I discovered things I hadn't caught all the previous times I looked at the pictures.

the Sellers, show up in a couple of other pictures, but I cannot find a family connection, yet

Mikes dad is not in the picture, and neither is his youngest brother.

By the age of the children, it HAD to have been taken after Ben (Mikes grandpa) died, but possibly before his Uncle Keith was born, which would make it between February and October of 1929. I cannot see Iris clearly enough to make out if she's pregnant or not... maybe after I clean up the photograph. But that would make Lawrence only 7 years old..... so where was he?

SO, this little exercise did a couple of things... It raised questions that need answers, and I have a page for LifeBook... Cool huh?

LIFE BOOK, The Catch up page:

Here I will post the pages from Mikes book, as far as they're done/re-redone.
I have 2 covers, I don't know which one to pick, and the pages I have done, I'm not always happy with, or I have more information than when I made them..... Not sure if it's part of the process, or I'm just extremely nit-picky, but I keep changing these every time I look at them..... LOL

I think I may print these in 8x8 with written comments on the facing page, interjected with stories, as I find them out. I know that a family tree or any type of genealogy is not done as long as anybody is alive to add to the story, but if I have to wait until he tells me everything... I don't think I will ever get that old, so I will fill in the stories as I hear them.To folllow the LifeBook series, these pages will work until I have the stories to go with them. And who knows, maybe, just maybe, by having the pictures on pages, it will speed up the process of getting the stories?

The Cover:

Let me know which one you like better?

I love the fabric of the first one. To me, it feels like one of those old fashioned photo books, but Mike likes Steampunk, so that would make the second one better........

I just had a thought... I could just let him pick one!

You see why it takes me F O R E V E R to get anything done?

Birth:

Since I made this last year, I found out that there is a Birth Announcement for Mike, so when I get that, this page will more than likely change to include that.

Transportation:

He's had a bunch of cars, motorcycles and trucks so far, and I'm sure there's more to come, so I will add to this section as I find information/pictures and worm the stories out of him. LOL.

I revamped this page in 2012.

Hometown:

To this section, I want to add pictures and such to make it more "Mikes" town, but we like this story so much, it HAD to be included.

Grandparents:

There are no pictures of Mikes maternal grandparents. I SO hope to find some, somewhere. I know there are a bunch of Morey's out there. I just don't know how to contact them.

Siblings:

I have found some pictures from his siblings, and I will scan them, clean them up, and include them on additional pages. I guess having to go thru EVERYTHING you own, makes you find things you had no idea existed..... Oh, the memories :-)

What I do for FUN!:

This is just one of the pages for this topic. I found these pictures, and could not resist scrapping them. So this section will be extended also.

The extraction is his bike. He bought it in 1982 in Holland, it traveled back to Nevada with him, to Iowa, to Phoenix, Texas, and back to Iowa. He gave it away before we moved back to Holland in 2011. I wish he could have kept it, even though he can't ride anymore. We found out that the person he gave it to, to ride, had sold it before we even left the country...

The Inlaws:

Pedigree Chart

LIFE BOOK The sequel:

Here, I am going to post the pages I make for LifeBook, so if you're interested in this, but not everything else that goes on my blog, you can safely come here! LOL

It will be updated by week, with the cover on top, and slowly work it's way thru the book to the back cover....

I Hope you come back often, and maybe get inspired to start one of your own.

If you are:

Check out the webpage and information on how to get started complete with schedule and posted pages for inspiration at http://www.victorianrosedesigns.com/.

WEEK 1- The Cover: