Mom's Family (Journal)

Welcome,

Wanted to share the Journal's I made using some of Mom's family photos and papers from the Echo dying I did from her funeral flowers/leaves.  I shared that earlier. 

The cover has a pink doily that her mother Sylvia made (my name sake) and a very old clothespin from a favorite Aunt of hers.  

Paper from the funeral flowers I Echo dyed

Grandpa with uncle Richard, Grandma Sylvia, and 3 children.  

This photo is upside down and the NEW BLOG I don't know how to delete or turn it proper way.

Mother with school photos

Beehive hair do's Washi Tape and Forget Me Not flower packets

More Echo dyed leaves

Mom and Dad's Wedding photo in front of her parents farm home. 

Fabric from her favorite kitchen curtains She did a LOT of sewing.Our Clothes and Crafty Items

Center Page of Journal is Palm Leaf dyed from her funeral spray. I do not have any photos of  the Roses

My sister played the Clarinet and so did my Uncle below.

Mother's brother who was killed in a car accident at age 19 going back to college

Newsprint of Mom and Dad's Wedding  1945

Some of their favorite entertainment other then being with family, was Bus trips to Casino's and Bingo. She loved cracking gum.

Her 1 year older sister and her husband below

Family photo time at their home.  

Echo dyed tracing paper

A snippet from a favorite blouse,  a favorite for sure was HOT Coffee, even to age 91

And the backside.  

I enjoy making 3 of these Journals.  I have yet to finish mine, so what the same order but I will be adding more pages for my own personal items we shared together.   

WOYWW #590

Welcome, what a beautiful fall day.   Time to share our desks, Ms Julia  HERE can guide you to more fun spots

My desk:

I really cleaned the area on Monday...the right top brown bags are waiting to be a journal. The other oddies are from our little adventure. Yesterday my 2 sisters and niece went to the Apple Orchard about 50 miles away and had an awesome lunch. Homemade chicken pot pie and delicious apple salad, did a little shopping for fall foods there and enjoyed our time together.

I've have to shuffle hubbie from the fields of beans so this is short sweet. I also below posted a journal on my Mother's family and papers made from her flowers. post below.  

Have a great day.

A Journal Mom's Family

Welcome,

Wanted to share the Journal's I made using some of Mom's family photos and papers from the Echo dying I did from her funeral flowers/leaves.  This one is for a cousin who always spent time with her when visiting the area. 

The cover has a pink doily that her mother Sylvia made (my name sake) and a very old clothespin from a favorite Aunt of hers.

Mother's mom, her Dad hold her brother, and the 3 of them at a young age 

Family photos, Forget Me Not seed packets and her Wedding day.  

Above is Mom's sister   this Journal is made for her daughter (my cousin) She was one who ALWAYS spent time with her, each day when she visited our area.  She was very close to my Mother. 

This is a palm leaf from her Spray of Flowers  Echo dyed.  Somehow I've no photos of the Roses.

My Aunt on the left and the 3 of them on the left at a young age. 

Above is my Mom in one of those Fair Machines and a piece of Echo dyed paper from the tiny leaves

Above is my Mom's brother....he was killed in a car accident, age 19 going back to college. The page to the right of this were Mom's favorites..HOT Coffee, Cracking gum (Beamans' Clove) and BeeHive hair do's

The back cover.  

This was a fun project. I was pleased how it turned out. I have yet to finish mine !  It will be a bit larger as I am adding more of my personal things to it.   Thanks for stopping by.

WOYWW #589

Welcome it's already Wednesday, the day we share our workspace.  You can be part of the fun by visiting the  STAMPING GROUND blog for all the updates. 

My desk:

Gathering ideas for some fall birthdays.  I know one likes vintage, all enjoy fall. I haven't had much desk time. Our weather was beautiful and I made more Echo papers.   You may have to click the photos to enlarge. 

My DH planted gourds and Ornamental Corn, a few ears inside this photo. I gathered up the husks, some purple, some natural.  Picked the purple to boil in water to see the colors.  Then:

Drained the water, a very pretty color and layered the papers with husks between layers, tied with twine, added colored water, rusty metal pieces,( nails, small chain, etc) to a big old roaster, topped with 2x15 pieces of wood and topped with  heavy rocks.

Remember wear gloves when working with the colored waters.  Use big oven mits when removing "HOT" rocks and quickly know where to take them. I use an old cake pan and they sit outside to cool.  

The colors were a very subdued blue tone. When I separate the wet papers I lay on an old window screen to dry. Preferable outside in the sun. Wind can be a factor somedays.   

Above are the papers   and  below is a 12x12 white cloth napkin (had stains) wanted to see what would happen with fabric.  I like it.  I'll use muslin the next time as I will have more use for a few Echo fabric pieces.  Hoping to do orange and red leaves as the trees turn color

Well a busy week, awaits. Crop time is about to happen, Thanks for stopping by. Stay Safe and I hope your area has settled into all the new rules with school kids and the pandemic.

WOYWW #588

Welcome, just where does the time go?  Wednesday's is the day we share our workspace. Ms Julia at the  STAMPING GROUND invites anyone to play along. Some of us have been blogging friends a long time.

My desk this week:

Some sticks I picked up from our wind storm.  My attraction was the variance of colors. And an idea I've had at some  point and times. We were very fortunate to only have leaves/sticks plaster our house and yard.

80 MPH winds just north destroyed trees, corn crops, buildings. And hail was more gentle here then there also. 

Then I picked up leaves and Echo dyed papers with them and some avocado peel, boiled with tea bags and water for the colors here drying on a screen.  

Leaves removed and this is what I'll use in journals eventually:

The very bottom one to the left was on the bottom.  I have chicken wire at the bottom of the roaster and It picked up the design great.  Much darker as my water evaporated.  I'll have to watch more close the next making.  You'll have to enlarge the photos for better images.  

I am playing catch up in various areas of our house,  as hubby took the rainy day to go to the casino.  I had to bow out  I worked with Salsa, Roasted tomatoes, Yellow beans all day yesterday and now have left leg and sciatic pain. We also turned on our furnace. It was only in the 40's here today !!! What a crazy world we live in.  Temps and Rain are to be here all week.  Even snow in States West and North of us.  

Thanks for all the kind comments last week.  Hoping things are good your way in many ways.                                                                                                                                                       

WOYWW #587

Thanks for stopping by.  It's 6 AM  and temps are 52 and darkness.  Days are shorter and our weather is up and down. Just like CoVo and most of our lives right now.   Thank goodness for our gatherings and internet service.  You can visit our Wednesday gatherings by visiting our hostess at the STAMPING GROUND 

My desk 

The BIG numbers and Alpha were recent online purchases.  The pink cut outs are the colors I am working with, but they turned out not to be the right sizes for my project.  I should be able to share my last few weeks work shortly.  I ran into issues, as our 2 month old printer had to be sent back to HP, it crashed and a new one was sent.  I was in the middle of making copies of necessary photos so it has put me on a delay.

It was cleared off yesterday as I moved my 4 projects up to our office. Way to much humidity, my glue was not drying.  I moved the dehumidifier from working in the storage area and now it's working on getting my space back to normal.   It is an unusual year here !!!! 

I was busy last week working with garden produce: tomatoes, green beans, cucumbers. His garden is pretty much done except for squash, gourds and pumpkins.  

Eggplant

Kohlrabi

Will be a busy week, want to start with Fall projects inside and out.  Have a great week  and  I hope you are all in good health and enjoying some fun times.