 Okay guys, are you ready to celebrate your loved ones more than we already have? I think I have a really interesting fun project. This is going to be a three part video series, a little mini series here this week. And part one is today, part two will be tomorrow, and part three the day after that, right? So today I just want you to spend some time thinking about which loved one or loved ones plural that you want to celebrate, and I want you to gather some stuff together, yes? So, here are some things on my table, I'm going to move them so they're in camera. Some new, some old that I'm going to use. The basis for this is going to be this. This is a savings book from Bank of America from, what year, 1956, from my grandmother. And these were found in her estate, and we are going to use this as the basis for making a little sort of mini remembrance journal or, you know, mini, I don't know what to call it, but we're going to use special pieces to remember loved ones. Some from my grandmother, some from other people like these recipes are from a friend of mine's estate that passed away. These are not all from my grandmother. This particular piece is actually from my grandfather, her husband, he smoked, and these are cigarette silks. For those who don't know, you used to be able to buy cigarettes that would come with trading cards or these little pieces of fabric. My grandfather was also in the produce business, my family has a long history in the grocery business and produce, and whenever we stayed at grandma and grandpa's house, grandpa always came home from work with a watermelon, always. So I happen to find this one right on top that had a watermelon, so that was very much meant to be. Right? All right. So she always also had her little sweater sets, right, the little tiny, you know, crew neck or scoop neck under a little sweater with the cardigan on top. She always had them in a skirt. She almost never wore pants. So I have some old sweaters here that we can cut up and use some of that fabric. I also have some bins. You can see the edge of the bins here. One has trims and scraps, and the bottom one has distressed and antique vintage fabrics in it. I also have some pieces of fabric from some of her old house coats. So I want you to spend some time. I want you to gather your pieces and remembrance of your loved ones. I also have another doily. And we are going to make a little mini journal, and we are going to have fun with the process. I am also going to print some pictures from our old family photos file that we have on the internet, and I'm going to print them to use as part of this process. So print your pictures, gather your supplies, and meet me in the next video. Guys, all right. This is like part 1A of this remembrance booklet journal project. Don't know exactly what to call it, but I think I'll figure it out hopefully before the video posts. So anyway, as I am looking at the pile of things I've collected on the desk and while I was printing the photos, getting out some books here that belonged to my grandmother that were in her collection, things like that, the project started to morph into something different and kind of take on its own life. I fully expected that to happen, by the way, and it did. So we're going to start today with working on this little savings account bank booklet. I do think it's going to be part of a bigger book, which we're going to start making in part 2. We'll do the cover in part 2, and then part 3. We'll finish it up. So I'm going to take some of this stuff and kind of put it aside out of the way. All right. And we're going to take our little bank booklet, and I don't want to cover up all of the old writings that are in here or stamps or anything. I find them interesting, so I want to keep some of them. I was going to use my bag of stamps here, and I still may do that, because I do think I want to just glue some stamps and things into the inside of here, but I do have a bunch of envelopes from my grandmother's collection of things that have stamps on them. So I think that it would actually be better to maybe use some of these stamps. So where are my scissors? I'm going to actually take the whole postmark. Let's tear it. Now, I do have some rubber stamps out here and some ink. I'm not exactly sure what color of ink I want to use. I have archival ink. I have sepia potting soil, and I just bought potting soil, and I just bought watering can. I'm not exactly sure yet. We're going to get out a glue stick. We're going to treat this sort of like a grab and glue, but we're going to, this is a brand new one, does the other one have glue? Maybe finish up the other stick first. We're going to treat this sort of like a grab and glue, only we're going to use vintage papers and other such items. I kind of need to scrap a paper or plastic. My desk is a mess again, you guys. So the idea is for me to grab bits and pieces and put them in here. Now my grandmother, this is one of her many little bibles we found in her stash, and this actually has her maiden name in it, so this is one she had from before she got married. It is in Italian. I have no idea what the print, I don't know what the print publication date on it. In the back it says 15th December 1929, and you know it's old because it says her phone number is Delaware 9380, but what I wanted to show you guys is we found after she passed that she, we kind of knew this about her before, she put all sorts of bits and pieces in all sorts of places, so almost all the books in her library all had things tucked in them, whether they're prayer cards or I think in this case, in this one there's some dried flowers, yeah dried flowers. So I do think we're going to use some of these in this journal, and this one actually on the back of it says her name, Jenny, maiden name is Luccarati, and it has the original name G E N I. I'm not sure exactly why it was changed when she came over, I was always told it was something that happened on Ellis Island, which isn't true, it may have happened on the ship, it may have been a choice her parents made, I'm not actually sure. I actually like the original spelling of her name. I always intended to take some of these pieces out and use them in some art. There's more flowers tucked in here, I don't know exactly what's in here. So all the books, I've got a few books here on the table that have different things in them, I kind of like that white flower where that white flower go. There it is, let's pull this one out, see there's all sorts of bits and pieces tucked away. Here's a note, just says notebook, and she has different, I don't know if they're scapulars, I'm not sure what they are, they're on felt, they're just safety pins to the cover page. This has notes, mostly in Italian, oops, see, it's all kinds of stuff, it looks like it's all in Italian, no idea what it says. This is from 1938, she has Jenny Bronzini, which means she was already married. So I have no idea. She kept a lot of notes on a lot of different things, and she never, there you go, piece of crochet, she never threw any of them away. And especially in the early days, they were in Italian because that was her native language. Here's another one, a Rosemary prayer book, and they all, see, they all have things tucked inside. So okay, we're going to start with these few little pieces here, I think we're going to take two of these short pages here, and I think, yeah, we're going to make it a pocket, let's get out my tiny attacher, I like this thing. Okay, so let's make it a pocket, I just took my asthma medicine, and had some coffee, so my hands are a little bit shaky. So I like that, you know, I can just tuck, I can just tuck this in right here, I like that. Okay, I think I want to do something like that with this flower. So let's get out some matte gel, and a little brush. I like the matte medium, Liquitex matte fluid matte medium because it dries pretty quickly. I don't know what these flowers were from, the romantic in me would like to me to think that there may be flowers that my grandfather gave her while they were courting. I don't know that that's true, but she was very sentimental that way, so my guess is if she saved them, they were from something like that. I cut the stem right there so that it'll fit in the fold of the seam of the book a little bit better. Okay, so I'm going to keep going with that, I'm going to zoom in a little bit for you, there we go. So I'm going to keep going like that, and adding little bits and pieces to this little tiny bank book, and I will be speeding forward through it for a little bit. Feel free to ask me questions should you have them. And again this is part of the My Year 2017 Facebook group, and this is for July and we are celebrating our loved ones. I am choosing to use old vintage family papers as part of that, and create these fun little books. So I want you to think about trying something new and experimenting with what you have around. I'm going to work on this little book. I'm going to speed through part of the process, and I'll be right back. I said I was going to fast forward through the process, I lied. I'm not going to. Alright, so we're going to get out some of my rubber stamps. If you don't know, I have my own line of rubber stamps, and you can get them in my Etsy shop, the link is in the description below. I have a particular one from a particular set that I want to use, I think. So this set here, and this is set number eleven. Let's pull this out. The first thing I need is a stamp block. Here we go. I'll just use that one, and I think I want to use this one, this little one. It's a nice size for this small journal. So the next thing we're going to do is open these two new stamp pads and compare it and the sepia one that I already had on some of this old paper and see this aged paper and see which one color wise I prefer. I have a feeling it's going to be potting soil. I just have a feeling, so I'm going to actually use that one last. I'm going to take some of this old recipe paper, which is from a different person that I knew who's passed away. Her name was Vernamay, really luscious, juicy, antiqued pad of paper with recipes on it. That gray one is kind of nice. That's watering can. Let's try sepia. Sepia, I just knocked a bunch of stuff on the floor. I think the sepia is too red for what I want, but it's nice. I do like the sepia. That's why I have it in such a big pad. This is watering can. Now the archival inks are waterproof, which is why I like them. I think the pads work a little better and are a little juicier than stays on. This is potting soil. I really could go with any of these. Any of them would work. I kind of like the gray one, watering can. How funny is that? I thought it was going to be this one. We're going to go with watering can stuff off the floor. I did dry this. I'm going to go back to that first page. I do think what I'm going to do is I'm going to go through and stamp a little bit on all the pages. Because I want this to fit back into the little envelope it came out of, I don't want to make it too bulky or too thick because then it won't fit. I do have the rest of that envelope. It has all this beautiful old writing on it. I love the way it just set the address is sort of incomplete compared to how we would do it today. I love that. Let's get this off of here. I might have to use this in the other part of the journal. I'd really love to use it, but it's really too big. I do have an idea though. I have two little boxes of the old rosary parts. I have this one little, I think this used to have a medallion in it, but it's missing. I have this one. I think I already used some of these in there. This might be the last time you see these little boxes. I don't know if you're going to see them again. This is like a book plate or something. It says something in Latin, I'm sure. Catholic action youth Rome. I don't know what it means. I just found it in here and there's something inside of here. Oh, the nails. That's cute. The original glycine bag. So maybe we might use that too. My desk is a mess already, people. This is what happens when I work on a project like this. I have all the parts out. Okay. I want to put this. I think I want to first attach this little tiny. You see that? Whoops. Whoops. There we are. Can you focus? Focus. There we go. Little tiny. I don't think that's what belonged on there, but we're going to attach that to there. Oops. Missed. That didn't work. You know what? I think I need to get a little teeny tiny brad out. Let's do that. I'll be right back. I'll put it on there with a little brad. Oops. Where am I? Either way. Yeah. So let's use. We're going to use the Turbo Tacky because it dries fast-ish. Do it here. This used to be a little envelope of some sort. It's not going to be that anymore.