Friday 1 July 2016

Five on Friday - Memory Makers

Thank you for all your beautiful messages, prayers and healing thoughts for my husband he was deeply touched and humbled by your concern.  Despite not been to good we have had a fun week catching up with films that we had not watched, crosswords and reading.  We had a fun afternoon looking around the house for groups of five, you would be amazed how many things we found.

This week we are joining Amy over at Love Made My Home for the weekly get together and highlighting five mediums for treasuring our memories.

One

Photographs on mugs.  Gifts from our Grandchildren.  They are actually not used for drinking out of, I use them as storage in my craft room.




 
I see them everyday and everyday they made me smile.
 
Two
 
A beautiful wooden tray, filled with photographs.  It was Bertie's first trip to Disneyworld, lots of wonderful memories to treasure.
 

 
It actually stands on our desk by the computer so that we see it everyday.  Once again treasured memories recorded.
 
Three
 
In the same vain, coasters from the first trip to Disneyworld for Lily and Daisy.
 

 
They stand on the coffee table in the lounge in a beautiful stand.  Once again a major event in our Grandchildren's lives recorded so that we can treasure the memory.
 
Four
 
Scrapbooks.  A wonderful hobby and a enjoyable way to record special occasions.
 
 
Rain never stops play here, I will go into the craft room and do another page or two, it always brightens my day.
 
 
Five
 
Photograph albums
 
The ever increasing collection.  This is where all the oddments go.  I made a stack of albums using Harris Tweed so they do look good on shelf.  They are well loved albums that the children and I love to browse when they visit.  A visual reminder of events in their lives.
 

 
We have Victoria and the boys visiting this weekend, so I am off into the kitchen to get some baking done.  Scones, trifle and a carrot cake are on the agenda for sweet treats.  What have you got planned?
 
See you soon.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

44 comments:

  1. I really like that tray idea. How clever! I have a set of those coasters with christmassy pictures in that come out every year in December.

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  2. Beautiful memories to place around the house and you feel them so near to you. Have a beautiful day!

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  3. Sending continued get better wished to your husband, cannot imagine the pain that the RA must give him. Love to you too as it is not easy watching a loved one in pain. Sending strength your way xxx

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  4. Family is so important, you have a wonderful collection x

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  5. I love the personal mugs, coasters and tray with all your pictures on them, such a special way to display those memories. Family is so important - I hope your husband feels better soon. Have a great weekend and enjoy your baking xx

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  6. Such a lovely post all about family and remembering. I made a photo tray for my parents almost exactly like yours! Now so many of my photos are on the computer and its an ongoing challenge to deal with them! Have a good weekend.

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  7. How lovely to be surrounded by items that bring happy memories everyday. I love the scrap books and Harris Tweed photo albums. Have a wonderful weekend with your family and I hope your husband is improving and his pain is subsiding.

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  8. I love to have pictures of my little beauties around the house too. I think the only place I don't have one is the bathroom....lol.
    Stiil sending healing thoughts for your hubby.
    Have a lovely weekend-x-

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  9. Hello!
    Love your collection of photos...
    Especially the precious one of your little one with Mickey Mouse.
    Hope your husband is on the mend, and you two enjoy a cozy weekend. : )

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  10. Youare so amazingly crafty, Lorraine!

    Glad your hubs is feeling better! I am so sorry that I have been offline so long. Life has been crazy busy.

    Hugs.

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  11. It's lovely to see all the photos around. I love scrapbooks. I keep meaning to do more of them - I certainly have the photos for it. Love the mugs. Look great and are great storage too.

    Have a lovely weekend

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  12. Ahh You have wonderful memories!

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  13. it's fourth of july weekend and I've got lots of family visiting us. I'm excited:) love the mugs with the photos, so sweet!!

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  14. The scrapbooks are a lovely idea and it's so great that you are surrounded by photographs of your loved ones. I hope your husband is feeling a bit better. X

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  15. As always I enjoyed your five. We have some cups like yours, in addition I had a Mouse Pad made for my husband with one of his pictures on it.

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  16. Lovely photos to remember lovely times !!!
    Have a great weekend !
    Anna

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  17. Five great ways to preserve memories. Using the mugs in your craft room is a great idea. This weekend - we're flying off to London!

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  18. A lovely post, have a lovely weekend x

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  19. Great memories. Enjoy your visitors :-)

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  20. I love the idea of you and your husband looking round the house together for things to share today. You found wonderful memories to share and I hope that you enjoyed that and enjoyed remembering the memories together too. I wouldn't use those mugs either, they are too precious for that aren't they! Thank you for joining in with Five On Friday. I hope you have a fun weekend! xx

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  21. What lovely ways to record special times with special people. I love scrapbooking and love the coasters and tray idea xx

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  22. Friday already! seems they go so fast. your photo tray is so cute and clever.

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  23. After seeing what you are making in your kitchen I think I should plan to visit you! Fun photo treasures. Have a nice weekend.

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  24. Your Harris Tweed covered albums are lovely and as a scrapper myself I enjoyed the peek into your scrapbook. Have you ever looked at the website uk scrappers? It's a great place to meet other paper crafters.
    Happy Scrapping!

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  25. What fun ways to keep memories alive.

    Diana

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  26. Photo mugs, coasters, and tray are neat ideas for memory preserving! Thanks for sharing :) We are gearing up for July 4th celebration and an outdoor wedding on our property next week. I hope you and yours have a great weekend! xx

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  27. Scones, trifle, and carrot cake are three of my favourite things!!!
    I didn't know you were a fellow-scrapbooker. It's a fun hobby.

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  28. Wonderful 'memory keepers'! Love all these ideas for keeping grandchildren close in heart. So nice to have home-made treats from Grandma! <3 xx Karen

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  29. You have so many wonderful memory gifts.. you are obviously very well loved and so is your husband. Gosh, a carrot cake sounds yummy. I've been craving a key lime pie. Have you ever had one? We're having our 4th of July here on Monday.. fun times! ((hugs)), Teresa :-)

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  30. So many great ways to display favorite photos!

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  31. So lovely memories! They stay more and more during the life... lucky, who can all store them, so many nice ways...(I use mugs too for my coloring pencils)
    Have a good weekend

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  32. A lovely collection of memories and great to have them on display so that they make you smile everyday. Have a lovely weekend. xx

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  33. I love to do creations with photos too and still have two mugs of my grandson when he was a little baby. I also love to create collages or photo shop !

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  34. Oh your grandchildren are so cute!! I am expecting my first grandchild in October and I'm so excited!!

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  35. Your photographs on mugs are wonderful. You have come up with such a good idea to keep them clean and alive. Your photo albums are original and beautiful.

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  36. I'm so sorry to read about your husband not doing well. I hope he's feeling better soon. Chronic pain is so horrible. I'm loving all of your photos!! When my father passed, we had to clean out his apartment and I took the mug that we had given to him when my three sons were little. It had their photo on it. I have it in my cabinet but I think I'm going to bring it into my office so that I can look at it every day. Lots of wonderful memories in all of your photos!! Have a beautiful weekend, my friend!! xoxo

    ~ Wendy
    http://Crickleberrycottage.blogspot.com/

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  37. I love these ideas. I feel you can never have too many photos of children and grandchildren. The memories are wonderful. Moments in time, captured forever.
    Blessings,
    Betsy

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  38. What wonderful treasures. I have always wanted to do scrapbooking, it's a lovely idea.

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  39. Scrapbooking is fun. I have one where postcards are placed. Usually they sit in sacks I bought them in or ziploc bags to keep them safe. I think the grandchildren would enjoy seeing old photos. I have a photo mug of son's family. I don't drink from it any more. It starts to fade. I'm making a cake for picnic after outdoor church Sun and going to the rodeo. Glad hubby is getting better, slowly but surely. Continued prayers. Hugs!

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  40. Such wonderful treasures! Love this post.
    Meredith

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  41. Having all those keepsakes is wonderful! I hope your husband is starting to feel better. It must be hard for both of you when he's suffering from a flare up of his arthritis.

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  42. Your keepsakes are so pretty. I started scrapbooking many years ago and I just don't enjoy it. I have most of my photos in some sort of album, but my older ones need updating as they are the sticky page kind. I have been trying to put those picture in scrap-books. Yours are very pretty.

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  43. What lovely ways in which to preserve memories. For me I'm finding it easier to blog/record our memories having originally started a memory making album for our eldest.

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  44. I have some of the photo mugs, too. They are so precious!

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