Scrappy Sunday...

After celebrating Japanese Girl's Day at the Hina Doll Festival in Shunan City yesterday, Was ready to spend a little more time closer to home today... and closer to my scraproom! I finished up some projects... a productive day, really (and it's still not over, yet! Yay!). I finished this custom order wall hanging, it's a little over three-feet long. Can you guess what it's mad out of (besides scrapbook paper and ribbon, of course!):

Vinyl record albums! These are the 33 1/3 RPM size, which are 12 inches across. I started creating with records back in 2006, when the Crop-a-dile and Bind-it-All hit the crafting market. Both are strong and sharp enough to punch through the vinyl. It was fun to come back to using them.

I also worked on something for my own home. I had originally created this 3-foot wide canvas piece about four years ago, as part of a collage of my sons' pictures, which hung in my living room in Pensacola. 

Of course, with the move to Japan, I don't have the same wall space. Or the same type of walls. You can't just hammer a nail in to the concrete walls we live in, so I'm limited in what I can hang. So, this piece now stands, or, hangs, rather, alone, although that may change, depending on my mood... As for today's mood, I decided to update it, keeping the center photo of the boys together, which was taken in 2008, and adding this years' school photos, obviously taken four years later. I always seem to dress them in blue plaid shirts. I think my subconscious realizes it makes coordinating collages easier. ;)  I also added the dates and places the photos were taken.

So don't be afraid to update your creations! You are not ruining anything, you're just keeping up with the times!