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More holiday blasts from the past

December 22, 2009

More holiday blasts from the past

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SUPPLIES Layered Template No. 22 • I Believe Solids (Mindy Terasawa) • Winter Reverie Paper Pack (Jessie Edwards) • Archer font

In a maddening search for all of our Santa Claus-related photos last week, all I could dig up the one you see above. Our Santa shots have apparently gone missing because I searched high and low in this house, and came up nearly empty handed. I was planning to do a whole series of digital pages to add to my Christmas album, using this new template, but alas, no other Santa photos were found.

Then I dug a bit harder and found this:

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SUPPLIES Layered Template No. 22 • I Believe Solids (Mindy Terasawa) • Winter Reverie Paper Pack (Jessie Edwards) • Archer font

Yep. The year was 1968. That's me, so busy making sure Santa got my entire list I didn't even bother to look at the camera, which clearly had my older brother Mike mesmerized.

Although the number of photos from my own childhood pale in comparison to the sheer numbers of shots from that of my kids, I'm thinking sometimes it's not about quantity or even quality: it's just that there is one here or there or really, anywhere.

Thanks, Mom, for the scan, and more importantly, the memory.

 

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  1. Susan W. says

    December 22, 2009 at 7:20 am

    Those are great layouts! I’ve been thinking about {gasp} going hybrid. I love that title, “A Christmas to Remember”. Can you tell me where I could find it? Is it just a font or part of a digital package?

    Thanks so much for your never ending inspiration! xo

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  2. margie says

    December 22, 2009 at 7:31 am

    oh my gosh, Cathy, that is your face!

    your two little ones have great eyebrows. Look at how much they look alike in that photo.

    Reply
  3. cathy says

    December 22, 2009 at 7:43 am

    Hey Susan, the font for that title is called Bleeding Cowboy, and it’s free!

    In the template, it has been rasterized so that anyone can use it, without having to have the font on their computer.

    Reply
  4. Nancy says

    December 22, 2009 at 7:48 am

    You sure wear your emotions on your sleeve, your face says it all! Too funny.

    Reply
  5. Caroline says

    December 22, 2009 at 7:58 am

    That is one scary looking Santa. Too funny.

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  6. Jennifer Larson says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:02 am

    I agree with Caroline–I’m not thinking Jolly Old Elf when I see the first layout.

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  7. Valerie says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:30 am

    I love this template and idea. Will the template work with a virtical photo?

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  8. cathy says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:54 am

    Valerie, well… both of the shots i used were vertical. I just scanned them at 600 DPI then converted them to 300 dpi to get them larger.

    : )

    You just have to be willing to crop some things out!

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  9. Elizabeth says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:54 am

    I think that Santa looks a bit like Sean Connery around the eyes!

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  10. cathy says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:55 am

    Really? You know what’s funny? That is the Nordstrom Santa (or was) and his beard was real, and he was a very popular Santa. We went to see him for three years in a row, then i just got tired of going to the Mall of America at Christmas. Now if only i could find those other Santa shots. Arghhhhh.

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  11. Sony says

    December 22, 2009 at 9:15 am

    Your Nordstrom’s Santa looks kinda like a grizzled old Sean Connery!

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  12. Cynthia Friese-Hassanein says

    December 22, 2009 at 9:31 am

    Oh! what a awesome surprise:) I just posted on my Blog this morn two of your Holiday templates I used!!!! on Sunday. This was the first time I used a digi template. And loved how I could focus on telling the stories instead of the design. Thank you Cathy:)
    The one of you and your brother is priceless. I love his Christmas-y trance stare:)

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  13. Jean says

    December 22, 2009 at 9:52 am

    Your brother’s expression is just priceless. Love photos like that.

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  14. Elana & Roland Geyrozaga says

    December 22, 2009 at 11:24 am

    I just love this template – thank you for creating it. I made a layout with it yesterday and posted it on my blog this morning: http://geyrozaga.typepad.com/a_day_at_a_time/2009/12/visiting-santa.html. The whole thing took me 10 minutes, and I’m pretty new to digital scrapbooking. Keep those templates coming!

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  15. Susan W. says

    December 22, 2009 at 11:42 am

    Oh very cool! Thank you! You may turn me into a hybrid scrapper after all! 🙂

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  16. alexa says

    December 22, 2009 at 11:50 am

    Yes, thank-you to your Mum for snapping so happily and keeping it. It reminds me that we don’t have to agonise over how to take the ‘best’ picture (I don’t mean any disrespect to your Mum here – she did great!). We just need to record the event … With family about to descend, that’s a useful reminder! Thank-you

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  17. Elisa says

    December 22, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    Don’t feel bad about not having enough Santa Photos. By the look of that Santa chances are the kids went running from years to come. He is pretty scary looking. Happy Holidays to you. I can’t wait until your class starts I think I am more excited about the class then Christmas. Go figure, I just love your design style.

    Thanks for all you do.

    Elisa
    in Florida 80 degrees right now (oh how we suffer 😉

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  18. deb says

    December 22, 2009 at 4:19 pm

    How did you get a photo of Gimli (sp?), the dwarf from Lord of the Rings, with the kids? AMAZING!!!

    Debkins

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  19. cathy says

    December 22, 2009 at 4:32 pm

    LOL!

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  20. Rachel Smith says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:19 pm

    Cathy, that is one creepy looking Santa, and your brother looks like Ralphie from A Christmas Story, only without glasses! He looks like Santa just told he would shoot his eye out with a Red Rider beebee gun!

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  21. Deb J says

    December 22, 2009 at 8:59 pm

    I think it is so much fun to do comparison layouts like this. I also think it is fun to just make layouts and not worry about staying in “order.” Fun stuff.

    Reply
  22. Jody says

    December 23, 2009 at 2:14 am

    I had no idea that Sean Connery spent December 2000 working at the mall!!!!!

    Reply
  23. Jane Toft says

    December 26, 2009 at 1:20 pm

    Ah, so that’s where George Best was in the wilderness years!

    Reply

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