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My layout for the NSBD challenge. It's not quite finished yet, but you can get the general idea. This is a layout about trains in my life as a child and now as a parent.
Remaining things to do:
Finish gluing down photos
Add button wheels to all photo "cars" like the first one
Add additional journaling underneath the caboose describing these photos.
The train engine and title are on a pull-out card with journaling underneath. The journaling reads:
Trains, Trains, Trains! I can’t seem to get away from them..!
I guess trains have been a running theme in my life. You see, both my parents are train buffs. Nearly every year we made the six hour trek to hot and dusty Bishop, CA to visit the Laws Railroad Museum there. When I was a little kid (as my parents still remind me) I liked it there. They had an old locomotive you could climb into and ring the bell. I also remember, for some reason, the really old Coke machine in the gift shop. Anyway, as we kids got older we started to complain of boredom more and more, and the main highlight was the motel we always stayed in – it had a pool with a sun motif on the floor of the pool. My parents (who still visit the Laws Museum from time to time) say that motel isn’t there anymore. Anyway, I think in my later teen years I refused to go and stayed home instead.
I also remember my parents stopping here, there, and anywhere to look for date nails on old, historic railroad tracks. Date nails are nails with the last two digits of the year stamped on the head. They were pounded into the railroad ties to indicate the date that the track was built. Now historic railroad buffs collect them. We found lots of date nails on our treks.
I also remember HO scale trains around the Christmas tree nearly every year except when Jennie or Mark were little. (Now Dad has built an apparatus to hang a N scale railroad from the mid-section of their Christmas tree.)
Then, of course there is the notorious train trip to Mexico. That one is going to have to wait for its own scrapbook page, it’s too good of a story. Suffice it to say that trains have always been there in my life. But I had no great love of trains.
But guess what, I fell in love with and married a train buff.
So trains are still in my life. I remember Eric and I visiting the Rio Vista Railroad Museum before we were married, and again afterwards, before we had kids. Then having two boys, well that seals it right there. Trains will be in my life forever.
But that’s not so bad. I wonder which of these train outings will become special memories for Connor and Nicholas? Hmm, maybe Eric and I should take them to the Laws Railroad Museum?
prepared on National Scrapbooking Day – May 3, 2008
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