BIG Project
One day when I met Matt for lunch, I was looking around his work building and came across some history/scrap books. As I began to look at these two oversized books, I noticed how horrible of shape they were in. These books were the perfect example of what can happen to articles and pictures over time. These articles and pictures were from the later 1980's and up. Some of the articles were barely readable. Everything was turning yellow, the pages in these books themselves were begining to 'decompose' Lucky the articles that are more recent (early 1990's) were legable and not being 'eaten' by the book.
Well I took it upon myself to ask permission from the "boss man" of the unit to redo these books in hopes of retaining the history. As you all know, scrapbooking is a love of mine so I got quite excited when I got the 'ok' to carry out this 'mission' Matt did however make sure it was clear that I was to have him approve what I was doing. I knew he was afraid that I was going to go crazy with stickers, and cut-outs, and other girly scrapbook things. But I promised I wouldn't do anything that he wouldn't be proud of.
So here is where the adventure begins... EVERYTHING in this book in stuck on the pages. There is no way I am able to pull the articles and pictures out without completely destroying them. So now I am getting really mad at whoever it was that made these in the first place. I had decided that I would just cut out everything and make copies and pack up all the originals. Of course the originals are going to continue to be eaten by page that remains permanetly attached to it..... Well this is all well and good but what about all those articles that CAN'T be copied because they are in such horrible condition... Here is where the time consuming task begins. I am going to go search the libraries in hopes of finding these articles and printing them.
I am also hoping to recruit my friend Angie to help. She too loves to scrapbook and she is also an army wife.
Needless to say this is a BIG project, but I am excited to be able to do this and preserve the history of this unit.
Well I took it upon myself to ask permission from the "boss man" of the unit to redo these books in hopes of retaining the history. As you all know, scrapbooking is a love of mine so I got quite excited when I got the 'ok' to carry out this 'mission' Matt did however make sure it was clear that I was to have him approve what I was doing. I knew he was afraid that I was going to go crazy with stickers, and cut-outs, and other girly scrapbook things. But I promised I wouldn't do anything that he wouldn't be proud of.
So here is where the adventure begins... EVERYTHING in this book in stuck on the pages. There is no way I am able to pull the articles and pictures out without completely destroying them. So now I am getting really mad at whoever it was that made these in the first place. I had decided that I would just cut out everything and make copies and pack up all the originals. Of course the originals are going to continue to be eaten by page that remains permanetly attached to it..... Well this is all well and good but what about all those articles that CAN'T be copied because they are in such horrible condition... Here is where the time consuming task begins. I am going to go search the libraries in hopes of finding these articles and printing them.
I am also hoping to recruit my friend Angie to help. She too loves to scrapbook and she is also an army wife.
Needless to say this is a BIG project, but I am excited to be able to do this and preserve the history of this unit.
posted by amy at 12:20 PM
2 Comments:
Mama used a blow dryer to heat up the adhesive on some of Mamaw's old photo albums to get the pictures off the page. Newspaper articles may be too thin to pull off without tearing even with that method, but maybe it is worth a shot. Don't get mad at me if it doesn't work, though! :)
12:15 PM
That is a great thing to do for the 1-101st. I bet you'll learn a lot while you are doing it also. Sister is right that the blow dryer does help take pictures off but I dont' know how it works on articles.
7:06 PM
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