Scrapbooking the Many Faces of Your Home

Green Thumbs’ Shangri-La
Whether you’re an accomplished horticulturist or a novice playing in the dirt for the first time, record the progress (and setbacks) of your garden. Be sure to feature the bounties of your hard work with photos of plump red tomatoes, juicy melons, golden squashes and tall cornstalks. Show off the produce in their natural state as well as how they are ultimately used in tomato sauce, at a cookout or carved and sitting on your front step at Halloween. If you’ve gone the floral route capture your blossoms both in the yard and in the bouquet that graces your home. Show the whole process from seed packet or nursery to ground prep and planting. Scan in the seed packets or plant markers to record the type of plant and all of its important information. Be sure you get both sides of the packet or marker. Arrange your plants in a variety of groupings on the ground where they’ll be planted before you take them out of their containers. Snap a picture of each arrangement and use the photos to help you decide how you want to plant them. Be sure to include all of the photos in the scrapbook so that you tell a complete story.

Backyard Break
If you plan to add a new feature to your back yard, say a patio, pool or fire pit, scrapbook the process from conception to reality and round off the story with the first cookout held to initiate it into your entertaining schedule.

Year in Review
Take a picture of your home from the same spot (or spots) on the same day every month to show a year in the life of your house and yard. If you have a hard time remembering to take the pictures, schedule a reminder on your calendars, both electronic and paper.

Home remodels and landscape redesigns are big changes in your home, no matter the size of the projects themselves. The redo affects how you relate to your home and while the changes are usually positive, there will always be a some nostalgia associated with the earlier design. Even if that horrendous green vinyl flooring makes you shudder now, in a few years you’ll chuckle when you look back on what used to be.

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