A Follow-Up

A couple of weekends ago I headed out of town for my annual scrapbooking camp retreat.  A group of us women go about 40 miles up the road to a boy scout camp and use the facilities for a scrapbooking getaway.  It is so much fun.  We eat in the cafeteria style dining room, scrapbook for 20 hours a day in a room that is heated by a woodstove, and sleep in cabins equipped with bunk beds.

This is no light packing trip.  It takes a while to get all my scrapbooking stuff loaded up.  You never know what you might need.

My main project for this trip was something I have been thinking about for a while.  For those of you that follow my blog, you may remember this little treasure that I found in Sumpter at the swap meet in May.

It took a while to decide what I was going to do with this old drawer.  It finally came to me.  I decided to use pictures from various places we had been, along with all the scraps of travel embellishments I have accumulated, to make a fun display.

The first step was to sort through all of the photos.

I also had to make the decision whether to remove some of the slats to make bigger openings.  I went back and forth on this until I actually sat down and looked at the drawer.  All of the slats were nailed in pretty good, and I was a little worried about damaging the drawer by trying to alter it.  I decided that I would work with the drawer exactly the way I found it.  This made it a little challenging to find some pictures that were skinny enough to fit in the openings, without cutting off our heads.

I went through our photos and laid out the pattern for how they would fit. 

After the photos were laid out, the next step was to go through the embellishments and find ones that would fit in the leftover openings. 

During this process, a few of the pictures got moved around based on embellishments that I really wanted to use.

This project took the better part of one day to finish.  That takes into consideration that I took three breaks for meals, and had a few distractions by the socializing side of this trip.

In the end, I am really happy with the finished project.

I love that the drawer comes from one of our adventures, and includes memories of other adventures.  Now the decision on how to display it.