The good old days…

 

 

 

Lyngstad – May 17 ..early 60`s…

I was browsing Face book earlier this evening and I found this photo posted by an old friend of the family. Gunnar and my brother are seven years older than me and from my perspective Gunnar was always there when I grew up. The boys were always hanging out together.

The last time the family had Sunday dinner together we talked about this. I was trying to convince my brother and his wife how important it is, writing down their stories. Coming straight from Jessica Sprague’s class; Stories in hand, I was really burning about this. I know I am fighting a losing battle to get them to write anything, but that is not stopping me from trying.

We got to talk about the good old days. We talked about my brothers first job and how Gunnar’s father became his first boss. My brother started out as a TV repairman.  We all have clear memories about the first television, and we remember when my father came home with the color TV.

But, we had all forgotten those crazy years my brother worked in the TV business. The dishwasher, the car stereos, the video, the satellite, the video camera, the hairdryer….Man, there was an ongoing stream of newbie’s and we were right in the middle of it. And…we had forgotten all about how big this was for us. My dad had the best time in his life and I think Gunnar’s dad also had exiting days being responsible for getting this new fashion things into people’s home.

About the photo and the importance of it…I don’t have a photo of “the old road”. Nowadays the road is on the other side of the river.

Photo book at Blurb.com…

I just had to try out Blurb.com. I did try almost a year ago, but that did not work out so good. My old computer worked to slow. I downloaded the program once more on my new PC and it worked so much better. The pages just popped up in no time.

This is so much fun. Jessica Sprague made a deal for her class “Stories in hand” at Blurb.com. We get a deal on one book ordered before December 5. That don`t give us much time, so I better work fast.

The best thing about this; the stories keep coming when I work on the book. Going trough month by month, little stories from my own childhood keeps coming.  This might be a nice and easy way of combining the past and today….

I did try and copy one page in to my blog but all I got was the front page. So this is all I got to show for myself.

Cleaning? No way, this was much to fun. I am saving the cleaning for another rainy day…..

Wow….

The album is…, originally uploaded by elinjanne.

…the album is ready to get filled up with stories.   I can’t believe the work Jessica put into this free class. When I logged in today I found 50 pages ready to print. So…what to do….I did not have that number of cardstock so I opted on printing on plain paper. This album might be just a prototype. I will be needing help from my extended family to fill in the blanks here so I might have to do some translation.  Since this is an album we will be working with I will have to make it bigger and sturdier.

Okay. I am off to work for a few hours and then I have a flight for Trondheim in the afternoon. I will be back tomorrow and I am so looking forward to see what great things Jessica have in store for us next.

Stories in Hand…

The Album, originally uploaded by elinjanne.

I joined Jessica Sprague’s free class: http://www.jessicasprague.com/, Stories in Hand.

I would like to come up with a plan to keep track of the stories we have to tell. One thing for sure, I do forget. My mother used to say that I would remember it all when I got older. I am not so sure about that. I did not want to buy an album for this. I wasn’t even planning on using an album, but that was before all the cute albums kept turning up in the gallery. I have a weak spot for cute projects when it can be downloaded readymade.

So I found some plain cardboard and some card stock and made this album. Now, I have to wait until tomorrow to see if this girl got a good plan to get me writing…