Hi everybody, welcome to my blog!
I love doing the scrapbook challenge that Debbi Tehrani
& co think up every week at CSI:Color, Stories, Inspiration. Come and play with us, it's great fun! (http://csicolorstoriesinspiration.ning.com/)
As its Mother’s Day today in most of Continental Europe, I
thought I’d scrap another photo of mother for the Case File 120.
Here she is
in the picture with my younger sister Anneke.
I struggled with this challenge. The colours did not come
together and the vellum that looked so beautiful, now seems ‘dirty’. But, I
solved it somehow.
The colours are all there: The
blue, the white and the salmon pink, no problem. The bright green is in a
little heart at the bottom and the kraft brown is the frame of the photo.
Evidence:
Textured paper, mixed media background and gesso. Also raindrop shapes,
scribbles (the stamp top right) and the fun bit of placing something upside
down. (the button and the scribble stamp)
Testimony:
I’ve made a vellum holder for my journaling.
My journaling:
“As it’s Mother’s Day
this is in honour of my lovely mum Anny (here with my sister Anneke). In the
photo they are both all prettied up for my parents’ 60th wedding
anniversary in 2010.
My mum is from a strong and tough generation. She was 16
when the Second World War broke out and The Netherlands were occupied by the
Germans. How hard that must have been to spend her teenage years in hardship
and deprivation, and suffering real hunger that last winter of ‘44/’45.
Mum is very intelligent, a real ‘wise old bird’. If she
would have had the opportunity to study, she would have had a university
education, but again that was not her destiny. She decided (with my dad of
course) to be a ‘stay-at-home-mum’ for me and my sister which we both
appreciate and we grew up in a stable and loving environment.
I’m proud of my mum. She is independent, in spite of her deteriorating
eye sight and mobility. She still uses her computer (with special software and
huge screen for the partially sighted), and travels to Spain and the UK to
visit her daughters. Of course she doesn’t like us living so far away but she
optimistically says: You’re only a phone call away. In fact, I Skype her every
weekend and we have long chats.
Next month she will be 90 years old and my sister and I are
looking forward to spoiling her for her birthday.”
Mum doesn’t know I’m doing this page so it will be a
surprise for her when she reads my blog.... I love you mum! xxx
Thank you for stopping by.
God bless and..... keep on scrapping!
Lisca
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