Rose Album Collage – Happy Valentines Day 2015

To wish you a Happy Valentine's Day 2015, I'm sharing a collage/frame I made out of shabby old papers and another Rose Album Mat: Again I chose 4 of the Petrine Wiik sisters to model my frame. You can use my Belle Epoque sisters as is, or download the empty collage and add your own…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part XIV

Here is  my completed Valentine Display with images I have of my ancestors. Many of them are wedding pictures, and I have added all of them into romantic vintage frames. All of the images today can be clicked on and blown up BIG: I'm not entirely happy with my garland, I think I might redo…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part XIII

I decided there will be TWO bonus posts in my Valentine Series. I have TWO important things I want to share with you, firstly today there will be some NEWS! And secondly tomorrow I will show you my finished Valentine Project, and maybe give you some ideas on how these can be displayed 😀 Today…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part XII

Last but not least in my series of Valentine Sweethearts, at the center of my family tree, there is me. I chose a lovely Rose Album Mat (ya'll know how much I love roses): Here I am with my daughters on The Norwegian Constitution Day (May 17th) a few years ago. I have searched "high…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part XI

Here is my other Sweetheart Cherub, my youngest daughter Torunn as a baby: I am adding my photos digitally, then printing the finished image on matte photo paper (Canon 170g matte photo paper). I then glue the image onto thin cardboard (cereal box) with spray glue, before I cut it out. After cutting I also…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part X

I also have Sweetheart Cherubs at home, this is my oldest daughter Guro as a baby: I am adding my photos digitally, then printing the finished image on matte photo paper (Canon 170g matte photo paper). I then glue the image onto thin cardboard (cereal box) with spray glue, before I cut it out. After…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part IX

When my grandparents at Bakke got married, they had already had a prolonged engagement. My Grandmother bore her first child some time in the years to follow. The child was a boy, and he did not survive being born. They named him Nils, and nearly never talked about him again. Their second son was born…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part VIII

My Grandfather Kåre was born to my Great-Grandparents Peggy Eugenie and Adolf Margido in 1925. He married my Grandmother Gunvor in 1948: Kåre was 23 and Gunvor was 21 when they got married. Gunvor was only 43 years old when her first grandchild (me) was born, younger than I am now!!! They were later divorced,…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part VII

While I know quite a lot about my paternal family, I know very little of my maternal family. My mother travelled far from her hometown Trondheim, coming to our area to train as a seamstress. And she never left, since she met my father and got married. Trondheim is only about 8 hours away today,…

Valentine Sweethearts – Part VI

My Grandpa Ola was the oldest son home on the Bakke farm. Some of you might remember his sisters Ingeborg and Lise who emigrated to America in the 1880s. You have also met his parents Nils and Helga before. For Nils and Helga's 1898 wedding picture I have chosen a beautiful album mat with little…