My nephew Jacob graduated high school last week. This album is for him.
The chipboard album was an inexpensive one by Recollections from Michaels. The Bo Bunny papers & stamps were perfect elements to display his senior and graduation night photos.
Have a great weekend my friends!
It was so much fun having Chris go with me to the US Food Show at Stage AE in Pittsburgh. Bob said he was my body guard. I was proud to introduce him!
I added the tomato brads to match the pack of Heinz tomato seeds I picked up at the show. Heinz is located in Pittsburgh. I planted the seeds!
Thanks again to Jennifer Shaw for the "Little Brown Dress" collection. It is so easy to make a page when you have the entire collection!
Bob asks "How did I do?" after our drive along the River Road Loop. When he asked me what I wanted to do Saturday, I replied, "Take me somewhere I'd never been before". I'd been to Opekiska Dam before but not to Hildebrand Locks & Dam. The farm and wetlands were so pretty. May 2013
Last summer Wonderful West Virginia magazine put out a call to citizen photographers across the state to take pictures from sunup to sundown on 1 day-September 15. The only criteria: to capture a moment of West Virginia life on this day. More than 5000 photographs were submitted. Bob's photo was one of 70 selected. At 2:30 pm he captured this man cutting a meadow along Stewartstown Road in Monongalia County. This magazine celebrates 150 years of West Virginia statehood.
Bob asked me to use the paper with the cameras for this layout!
To see the layout I made last year when Bob and I ventured around the county on that Day in the Life of West Virginia, click here:
Pop Pop Harry Reeves opened this confectionery on Piedmont (WV) Hill after he married Grandma Marie. My Mom and her sister Margaret, Marie's daughters from a previous marriage, worked the store and worked alternating shifts. There was a soda fountain and some canned foods. It was during the war, so there was not a lot of food. When my Dad (Harry's son) came home from the war he'd give the girls a ride home when the store closed. Mom says he'd often bring them chocolate milk. It wasn't long after that Mom and Dad married.
Mom is pictured sitting outside the store (she was 19) in1944 .
When Bob asked what I wanted to do on the day before Mother's Day, I said, "Let's go to Grafton", where Mother's Day was born. Grafton is a small West Virginia town 25 miles from home. Anna Marie Jarvis, the founder of Mother's Day, lived here as a child Her Mother, Ann Jarvis, founded Mother's Day Clubs in 5 cities, where the ladies treated wounded Civil War soldiers. The Mother's Day Shrine is here, and on the day we visited, a Mother's Day tea was being prepared. The alter was decorated with white carnations people sent in memory of their mothers.
Grafton was a booming railroad town in the early 1900s. There is a huge train station and train yard, with a few working trains still running by. The beautiful train station is where Hillary Clinton campaigned. I bet the Secret Service had a ball with this one.
There are only remnants now of the past. The title of my layout came to me when looking at the picture of the now closed theater.
"Remnants of the past are here, as are we, in 2013. "
My Dad, who has macro-degeneration, took this picture of Mom and I on Mother's Day. I love it!
The words are from the song "I am your child" by Barry Manilow:
"I am your child. Whatever
I do, you taught me to do.
Whatever I am, you
taught me to be."
The garden archway is a digital brush from Cottage Arts. I sized it, then determined the size of my picture. I combined the picture with a partial oval shaped frame prior to pasting it into the archway opening. The journaling block is another digital image, this one by Carina Gardner.
After cutting it out, I added some splatters of paint.
The leaf mask smudged with mixed media white ink was the final touch.
