Scrapbooking with Calendars

While cleaning out a closet I ran across several calendars I had saved from previous years. For some reason I have a tough time throwing these away and find myself saving each year’s calendar. I sat down with one of the calendars and started to thumb through the various months. All sorts of amazing and wonderful memories poured through me when I saw all the notations. There were notes of our relocation to Chicago, Connor’s and Haley’s birthdays and parties, Haley’s first dance recital, my prenatal check-ups and the BIG event, Parker’s birth. This calendar was so much more than a chart to keep track of our appointments. It was an amazing glimpse into our personal daily lives.

This got me to thinking how we can incorporate the calendars of our lives into our scrapbooks. These calendars we keep provide a peek into more than we realize. They share the next step into our daily moments and events. By adding calendars to our scrapbook pages, it allows us to share a peek into what we may now think mundane and boring, but to future generations interesting and insightful.

Here are some ways and new twists on how you can incorporate calendars into your scrapbook layouts.

Calendars can be as simple as shown through this layout. A month and a special day are highlighted to show the birth of a child. This is a nice reference as well for knowing what day of the week your child was born as I know I never remember.

Another idea is to showcase those monthly baby photos that everyone takes. Instead of just the standard photo and notation of age, what about doing as Maureen Spell has. Add a few calendar dates that are relevant to the time of the photo with little tidbits and facts that were important. Maureen even added handprints and footprints.

Your layouts can also be detailed reproductions of actual calendar pages. This page highlights events that were important to my daughter, showing her birthday, dance recital and a party she was invited to.

Here is another version done by Andrea Steed. Her sister-in-law keeps a monthly calendar of her son’s milestones. These little notes that she jots on his calendar are perfect for contributing to his scrapbook. Not only are they beautiful pages of him but monthly notes about every little thing. These little things are the memories that fade the quickest and this is a wonderful way to remember them!

Although there are many more examples and ideas, my last one is a different twist on a calendar. Instead of a month or week, I highlighted a special day in my daughter’s life. This day my 8-year-old daughter was scheduled to have surgery to repair a hernia caused by her asthma. I was with her through every moment, except the surgery room, and would not have had it any other way. I wanted to share everything she and I did that day.

All these layouts are great examples of how to think outside your calendar as a wall decoration by making it an important part of your scrapbooks!

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