Beautiful Weddings.

I went to three weddings in August, all beautiful and so fun to be a part of. These pictures are from Betsy's wedding, my next door neighbor for 17 years. The Anderson's have always been as family to us, and this wedding was a true celebration of this friendship. Dad performed the ceremony, mom did the flowers and Rory and I did our part by eating lots of Coldstone wedding cake (brilliant. every wedding should have ice cream cake.)

Betsy's older sister, Jennifer, was my best friend all growing up and basically we tormented Betsy as the little sister. When I was scanning family photos a few weeks ago, I came across this picture of me and Jennifer having a sleepover. It is amazing how life flies by.

BeccaGroves Font.

I typed that. And it's my handwriting!!! Isn't that incredible?!!!

And it wasn't really all that hard either. I simply wrote out my letters on the following sheet (printed from yourfonts.com), scanned the sheet, and uploaded my personal letters. The letters you see above is my first attempt...the scanner picked up something on the small p, so it has a long space after it (hence the uppercase P's used above.) Rory helped me fix this problem, so I'm about to upload a clean-little-p version. It cost me $10 per upload (should have only taken one time) and I know from reading about it that I should have been able to do this for free. But by the time I got to the actually typing my handwriting stage I was so excited I was happy to hand over the money. (again, if you do your research, you should be able to do this for free and you really ought to give this a try...) Here's the sheet I scanned:

So go play!! I love digital scrapbooking but the thing that has bummed me out is always using a computer font instead of personal handwriting. Well lookie now. The BEST of both worlds!

Chapter Two: Us.

I am so excited about this week of scrapbooking. All of the assignments have to do with family.

Hello Japan!

So I just had Rory look at my google analytics (tells me how many people read my blog) because for about a month now it has said that I only have one reader, and that my one reader is in Japan. Now I knew I couldn't really just have one reader because know from emails, conversations and comments that you, dear friends from college, high school, seminary, minnesota, nebraska, cousins, sisters and new blog world friends are out there and that you're reading.

But to my one reader in Japan...Konnichiwa! I can't believe I went global so fast.

Scanned + Scrapped = Success

I am completing one layout a day in this Jessica Sprague class. I would post more, but this first week the pages were "all about me" and it just feels very vain. But these last two pages were less about me and more about what makes me me. I borrowed the scanner from work and all my mom's photo albums a few weeks ago so I could start scrapbooking with pictures from my childhood. What a joy! I love mixing old pictures in with the current ones. So fun.

These scrapbook pages are set up as templates, so I simply drop the paper and pictures in and play around in photoshop until I'm satisfied. It means that some of the layouts I adore and others I can handle, but don't love. (ie: I adore the "influences" layout, and can handle this layout below. What it really means is that scrapbooking has never been so easy. Ever. I will print these out either as 12x12's or 8x8's (I am thinking 8x8) and throw them in an album and tada! An album made with one layout a day!