Scrapbook Every Day Because Every Day Changes * Crank Phones to Cell Phones

I saw this pin from the I Waste So Much Time blog.

I have often thought about doing a layout about phones 

because they are so much a part of my daily life!

This image may be just what I need!

And so here I go with some stream of consciousness things about phones for the layout...

• My Papa was a Bell Telephone man - insulators, climbing poles, get stories from Aunt Clara
• Aunt Clara worked for "Ma Bell", too. Who was "Ma Bell"?
• There is some family story about my Mom having the first phone in Roxbury, KS - it was a "crank phone". 
• The old crank phones had rings specific to a household, anyone could listen to the conversations, & there were "operators" - one ringy dingy....
• My husband used to recite old phone numbers to put me to sleep! hahaha - never was good in math class. I apparently have "numerosomnia" (I love making up words, though).
• I had a pink flip phone.
• I survived being a teenager without a cell phone
• I played in an old telephone booth as a kid. You could bake a kid in there in August. I figured out how to survive without a label on it saying, 
• "Do Not Put a Kid in Here in August. Kid could bake."
• People in small rural communities still give their last four digits as their phone numbers "-5555" (not kidding)
• I have no idea what my kids' phone numbers are.
• Getting a phone other than black was extra, rotary dials, touch tone, Princess phones

Photos are so EASY to get now - another layout opportunity!

What I might like to add for photo support:

the image above

family members on the phone ( I have a cute one of my kids - including tin can phones)

my Papa and my Aunt Clara

My Mom - Miss I LOVE My Phone 2015

my old phone booth play house

Crank phones - "old time days" really weren't that long ago!

How To Use Your Phone Today for Tomorrow's Scrapbook

• Camera
• Take LOTS of photos
• Upload LOTS of photos
• PRINT the photos you want 
• VOICE RECORDERS!
• Record a note to yourself WHEN you take the photo. You can include
• Quotes *kids say the darn-dest things*, Who, What, Where, When, Why, interviews of the participants, songs that came to mind, FUNNy moments, best/worst, etc.

What do you think?

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mary