Photo Friday

Before there was Shutterfly and Snapfish and Picaboo... there was real-life scrapbooking! =)  Mom and I spent hours and hours together at the dining table with our boxes of glue sticks, tons of fun-shaped scissors, tape runner, shape cutters, heart and star-shaped punches, corner snippers, and mass amounts of colorful paper for every event!  Chatting and organizing and reminiscing and scrapbooking (we definitely got better as time went on)!  There's a lot to be said for the ease and permanency of digital scrapbooks, but I love the memories of making real scrapbooks, too! ❤

This = the cover of one of my high school scrapbooks, a Mary Engelbreit drawing I traced and then colored in with colored pencils. =)

I scanned several of the scrapbooks into Google Photos a while back, so here are some random pics and events from my Junior and Senior years at CHA... for each photo, we chose the best shape, cut them out by hand, glued them to a paper we chose for backing, cut out around that, then glued it to the page (after laying everything out to make sure it was how we wanted it).  Then I would write a page title or individual photo captions.  Then we'd move to the next page.  We have approximately 15-20 notebooks books filled with pages like these, so be impressed! lol

I'll start with Jenny Womble and I having a slumber party while being the "Big Sis" to Morgan and Tori. =)  I loved our balcony pics in PJs and then being dressed up. =)

Mavs games with Julie Methvin (she was Rach's "Big Sis" when Rach was in 7th grade, and her sister, Jennifer, was married to Eduardo Najera of the Mavs)... so we got to go backstage when they played the Spurs and meet Tim Duncan and David Robinson and Dirk Nowitzki and Steve Nash and such.  It all would've meant a lot more to a true sports fan, but I did have fun! lol  Had Shark Tank been a thing then, I'd have been much more psyched about seeing Mark Cuban!!

Junior year JSB (Junior Senior Banquet, CHA's dance-free prom equivalent) - we took lots of pics at Mom and Dad's before.  Here's 2 of the 12 pages from that event. lol

I liked that my hair was more down than up, and I loved my dress.  It looks white, but it was a pretty soft pink with beading all over the top and a flowy skirt, and we got it from Cane (future Project Runway designer) at Southern Charm.  We had to get straps added to fit CHA's strict dresscode, of course.  I went with Kris Munn, our friend Kara's cousin.  We literally met earlier that day and haven't seen each other since, but he was nice, and it was fun and wasn't awkward! #winning  (Girls outnumber the guys in most every grade at CHA.  Three out of the four girls going in the limo together with us came with guys that were not in our class, so we were all getting to know everyone and that made it feel easier for my introvert self.)  I'm laughing that we got a pic of each couple standing out of the sunroof of the limo (bottom left), and I'm sad that we cropped our only copy of our pics back then so small and we had no way to zoom, edit, remove red-eye, and lighten shadows back then!  We did a great job with what we had to work with!

Hey, what better time for a friendly game of pool!? lol  The "posed candids" have been a longstanding Muecke tradition!

Jennifer Diane Womble's birthday fun - I won the costume contest, but Jenny deserved it with those boots!  That hippie costume is still in my closet and has served me well for many years. lol

Lots of random fun events with friends, 90% of which is me hanging out with Rach's friends and other younger friends!  So many good memories of making posters and cheering for CHA, playing Catchphrase with super-competitive and hilarious guys, and fun dinners with friends! =)

Fun snow day sister pics (in four different clothing options) at 9121. lol I was especially proud of this page... so please note the combo of glued-on snowflake-punchouts and hand drawn snowflakes at the top, plus my snow-covered letters and the Let it snow x3, plus the triangles with alternating backing forming a hexagon with a snowflake at the center, plus the heart-punches at the bottom corners that we perfectly centered around the cute snowmen! lol  So much work for what it was, but we had fun making it, so whatever!

And here's one with our former Sheltie dog, Kelsey Chelsey Muecke! lol

I may throw these scrapbook pages in here and there just because it's fun to reminisce and because we worked hard on them! =)  Happy Friday, and I hope you have a lovely Labor Day weekend!! ❤