Working Poor

My siblings are all grown, and I'm the only one with children, and they are grown. One sister does give our parents something each year, and another will sometimes, but they are the ones with money.

I want to get all our remaining family pictures and put them into scrapbooks for my mother. Many of these photos are damaged, or have disappeared over many, many moves. I just got a couple, of her father and mother, with one of my sisters and a cousin who are the same age. I'm going to scan them in and fix them in Photoshop, then send them off to Snapfish to have copies made for my sibs. It will be the only picture I have of my grandfather, who died when I was nine, just about four years after this picture was taken.

I've done scrapbook pages for my mother, and shadow boxes for her and Daddy (his was about his Army career). Those went over well. I made a scrapbook for Mama to put the cards she receives each year. I have paper and stuff from when I was able to buy it, and it's just sitting there, waiting to be used.

I'm thinking about making each sibling a personalized ornament this year. I got large plastic ornaments from the Dollar Tree, and I've put my son's graduation tassels in them. I need to cut vinyl with the school name and theirs to put on them (I have a Cricut machine, which is an electronic die cutter and a program to make things to be cut out).

I need to finish making a reborn baby doll for Mama. A sister bought the kit, and I've been doing the work on it. Not much left to do, but I've gotten distracted and it's been taking me a while to get things done on it. First one and likely only one I'll ever do (unless she talks me into another one )