Generations

Here are some LOs i scrapped this week for my family history book. I have been very slack lately but maybe i have my mojo back again, as i have done 3 LOs today and completed 1 that i had sitting around since last year. Here's hoping!

BABY ME is me (duh!) when i was about 9 months old. I started this last year, and finally completed it today.

SALLY AND HER SISTER - this is my great-grandmother (thats her on the left) and her sister Ellen. Isnt this the most gorgeous photo! I love how the photographer has set this up.

HANNAH - this is my great-great grandmother (mother of the Sally and her sister). She looks pretty cranky, eh? But i think its just cause she is not smiling. The photo was taken in 1915 and i found on the back of the original my grandmother had written her name and the date. Wasnt that lucky - and how special it was to see a sample of my grandmothers handwriting when she was about 13. There is a good case for you doing hand journalling on your pages!!

I read somewhere recently that the reason noone smiled in photos back then was because it took so long for the photo exposure time that they would have had aching face muscles - and they wouldnt have been able to stay in the same pose for the required length of time.

I consider myself very lucky indeed to have these old photos.
cheers
Debra