Just Jot It January – Justice

Just Jot It January – Justice

#JusJoJan Daily Prompt – January 15th, 2018

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Your prompt for January 15th, 2018, brought to you by the lovely Barb, is “Justice.” Use it any way you’d like in your post. And make sure you visit Barb at her blog, “Gallimaufry,” to read her post and say hi! Here’s her link:  https://barbct.wordpress.com/

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We’re supposed to write about the word ‘justice’, if we want.

I’m going with something a little different, but with the same sounding word, ‘Justiss’.

Here’s the story, which may or may not have a bit of coincident or even a touch of synchronicity about it.

Quite a few years ago, here in town, my brother-in-law had a job as a Certified Nurses Aid (CNA). He’s had this type of job for years, in many different locations.

One of the duties he had on this one was to care for an elderly couple. Their last name was Justiss.

Later on, my BIL moved on to other jobs and other towns.

Quite a few years had passed, and evidently so had Mr. and Mrs. Justiss.

Now, here’s what’s odd or weird, or whatever you want to call it.

I love going to yard sales. So one day we go to one, and I buy some old scrapbooks. There were 12 of them, all one dollar each, and were huge, heavy books. Most were filled with Christmas cards someone had collected from friends and family, and also lots of seasonal newsletters, and one book had photos. These scrapbooks went as far back as the early 1940s!

It turns out that these books had belonged to the very same Mrs. Justiss, that my BIL had taken care of years before. The lady had written all kinds of things in her scrapbooks, along with her own address. It was the same one, same name…everything. I asked the yard sale lady where she’d gotten the books, and she told me from an estate sale.

I still have them all, and think it was probably my most favorite find at a yard sale.

What do you think?

 

photos of part of a page and the cover of one of the scrapbooks…

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© 2018 BS

 

 

 

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge – Lines & Angles

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge – Lines and Angles

Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Lines and Angles

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Lines and angles I found around the house:

• angled curtains & window blind lines
• stacks of scrapbooks
• tools in garage
• tools in garage

 

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© 2017 BS

MANIC MONDAY # 5 – SENTIMENTAL JOURNEY

MANIC MONDAY

https://flipflopseveryday.wordpress.com/2017/08/06/manic-monday-5-challenge-sentimental-journey/

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Welcome back to another Manic Monday! Today’s theme is called ‘Sentimental Journey’.

Sandi, at “Flip Flops Every Day”, is counting down the decades with this challenge. This theme is from a song featured in the 1940s, by Doris Day.

As always, there is only one rule to this challenge. That is to use the song title somewhere in our post. The rest is up to us what we want to write about. Easy!

Join in, and see other entries by clicking the link above.

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Sentimental Journey brings to my mind my many scrapbooks. I have several decades of the ones I’ve made.They don’t go back to the 1940s, but I started mine in the 50s. I think my first one I made was when I was in the 4th grade. I still have it, and it is filled with all kinds of sentimental ephemera, such as notes, letters, cards, keepsakes, and whatever else I found to put in there. I also did some embellishments with drawings, stickers, and magazine cut-outs. It’s fun to look back at all this.

Since then, I’ve made many more scrapbooks along the same lines. They are mostly a big mish-mash of all kinds of things I saved. A few are just for certain places I’ve visited. I’m always saving little things to stick in a scrapbook. It’s fun to make them, and also fun to create all kinds of pages. Anything goes, in my scrapbooks, so it’s definitely a sentimental journey looking back at these.

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Here’s a couple of pages from my first scrapbook, and then a couple from more recent ones.

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Now, here’s a song about a scrapbook. I’d never heard it before, until I looked up the subject, so was amazed there was one. It’s a pretty sad song, though, but fits in with the sentimental journey theme, I think.

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“My Scrapbook”, by Jeannie C. Riley, was written by Bill Rice, and Jerry Foster. It was released in 1969, on the album, “Yearbooks and Yesterdays”, on I believe the Charley label.

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© 2017 BS

WHAT’S the DIFFERENCE?

WHAT’S the DIFFERENCE?

 

There are lots of words. I like words. I write words. I like to learn new words. I even like to read the dictionary. Some words have similar meanings, some are opposites of each other. Some words are used for a certain situation and time period, then they evolve into another word entirely, for the same type of activity.

That is what I am writing about today. There are three that seem to have switched places over the years. These are….

1. Photo Albums

2. Scrapbooks

3. Smash Books

Take the photo album. For many years it has been thought of as a place to put your snapshots in book form. You buy a book that has blank pages designated for this purpose. There are lots of ways to stick them in and be a bit creative in the layout. In earlier days you would purchase little stick on photo corners to hold the photos in place. Mostly they would be arranged in a row, with maybe a caption underneath saying who was in the picture.

Later on there were the magnetic photo books. You’d peel back a clear film on the page, arrange your pictures on the sticky cardboard, then pull the filmy plastic back over them to protect them.

There were also books that had separate picture sized holders which you just slipped your photo into.

To me, that is a photo album.

Next we have scrapbooks. People have been scrapbooking for many years. It would consist of a purchased blank book, usually large, with paper pages. On these pages people glue in all types of things. These could and did include photos, but also souvenirs, mementos…something you wanted to save to remember. There could be bits of colored paper, cards, ticket stubs, newspaper clippings, and whatever the person felt like including in their book. It was a personal record of their interests and reflected their individual personality.

To me, that is a scrapbook.

Here is where it gets tricky, and the words seem to have switched places.

What people of today are calling ‘scrapbooking’ is by my reasoning, just a pretty, decorative photo album. Photos arranged on a page with some cute purchased thematic stickers or cutouts pleasing to the creator of the book.

What was once actual scrapbooking is now called a ‘smash book’. It’s the same as it always was, just using a different word.

When and why they switched, I don’t know. I have been doing the traditional scrapbooking since I was a kid. There were a few years that I didn’t glue anything into books, but I saved all my bits and pieces of items I would eventually use to fill them. When I did begin to do this, I found the words had changed as to which was which.

All words put aside, though, if you like doing pretty photo albums, or scrapbooks, or smash books, it is a wonderful and creative process. It is fun to look back at the pictures and remembrances that you saved, and for later generations to look at and have more of a sense of who you were at that time in history.

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***note, this was written on my other blog in December, 2013

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© 2017 BS

IS IT IN the CARDS?

IS IT IN the CARDS?

I’ve heard the expression, ‘it’s in the cards’, before, but what does that even mean? Does it mean it is fate, luck, or a cosmic plan? I don’t know about all that, but it’s fun to think about.

I could go on speculating about these kind of deep subjects, but maybe another day. This time I have some other kinds of cards in mind.

I have a lot of cards. I never set out to have any kind of collection of them, but it sort of turned out that way. Over the years, I’ve saved most of my old library cards, and video rental cards. Every where we lived, different states, cities, towns, and countries, I’ve always found the library there. It’s always one of the first things to do, after getting settled in our new place. Some were large, some were small, some were on the Army/Naval/Air Force bases, some were on university campuses, and some were even book mobiles. It didn’t matter, as I can find books to check out any place.

The same goes for those video rental stores. I’d sign up for a card at all kinds of places, from the big name ones, to drugstores, furniture stores, grocery stores, and wherever they rented them. Big ones small ones, I didn’t care.

Anyway, I saved most of these cards. I don’t know what happened to many more…maybe we had to turn them in when we moved, or they got lost. So, I have cards. Here’s some photos of them I’ve put in a scrapbook. (excuse the marked out parts – you know how it is) 🙂

Did you have a lot of library or video cards?

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© 2017 BS

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN – DAY # 4 – CHRISTMAS CARDS

CHRISTMAS COUNTDOWN – DAY 4 – CHRISTMAS CARDS

https://ourrandomview.wordpress.com/2016/12/04/christmas-countdown-day-4-christmas-cards/

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This prompt asks us to tell something about Christmas cards. Do we send any…do we receive any?

Yes and yes. I’ve always sent Christmas cards to friends and relatives, and have received some from them. Some years there are more, sometimes less on my list, but it stays pretty constant. I just sent out mine for this year on Monday.

One year I made my own to send. I painted a picture on the front of some cardstock, and wrote a little poem inside for the greeting. People seemed to like them. Maybe I’ll do that again someday. I used to always get a box of cards that had a variety of pictures on them. Then it was hard to decide which one to send to which person on my list. Next, I got some boxes of the same picture cards, which made it easier.

There was a cool thing that happened one time. Some wouldn’t see it that way, but I was very happy about it. At an estate sale one summer, I found a bunch of these huge scrapbooks for sale. There were 12 of them, and each one only cost a dollar. These scrapbooks were pretty old, like from the 1940s on up through the 90s. They were just filled completely with Christmas cards someone had saved and pasted into these scrapbooks. There were all these old cards, some photos, and lots of handwritten letters, and Christmas newsletters, that this person had saved over all the years. It has been so interesting and fun to read these, and see the cards from long ago. … Did I say these scrapbooks were huge? I’d never seen such large ones before, and filled, they all weighed probably 20 pounds each. It was a trial to fit them all into our little car, for me to take them home, but we managed. 🙂

Here’s a few photos I took of some of the cards… these I believe were labeled from the 1980s…

  

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© 2016 BS

SOMEDAY

SOMEDAY

Archaic and Arcane,

A mystery, just the same…

A dig through the Antiquities

Of our Ancestors…

A Story told,

A Life so bold;

The Remains of the Past still Haunt…

The Photos of those Unknown,

Showed Children, through their Ages…

Old fashioned Clothes,

Unsmiling Faces…

Fill the book of Scrapbook pages.

Who are these Mortals?

They are Part of Us.

Their Past lives on and On.

Remember them,

Learn from Them,

We will Be Them…Someday…

Just a Photo for our Future families

To Dig through.

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