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flowerfriend
Neat-o
Registered: August 2007
Location: Montana
Posts: 990
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Letters From the Past
my journaling: 2/15/08 A year ago I was in the middle of sorting my mother's old letters and I made this 8.5x11 size scrapbook page for an album of my retirement projects.
Mom and Dad moved to Oregon in 1970. To my delight, as I hadn't remembered, I wrote her very detailed letters about my life, my family and our community. Mom had saved all of them. (I have all of her letters, also.)
This letter from March, 1974 had all the details of redecorating my sons' attic bed rooms. These are my treasures and I am so glad that she saved them.
Pink letter from 1974: I have been working on Brett's room for nearly two weeks. I scraped and sanded the walls, filled the holes and attempted to fill the numerous cracks, then I put a primer coat on. We've had quite a time with colors. I had gotton him a bedspread with the colors in it he wanted - lime green, lemon yellow and purple, plus a few other colors in an abstract plaid. I wanted to get lighter colors for his walls. He wanted the walls green and the ceiling yellow. Well I ...
(this project will be a page in itself later!)
Scrapbook page journaling: 2.25.07 Mom loved to write letters and send out cards for birthdays, holidays and special congratulations. She also loved getting them from her family and friends. I think she saved almost every one she ever recieved. So it has been a labor of love the past eleven days sorting through every thing of hers that I have stored for the past six years. There is so much love and caring in each item. It is all quite amazing. I know that she enjoyed and appreciated every single thing that she ever received. For our family there is a rich history of their lives in those letters. I have loved looking back at the ones that I wrote and I think that they will each want to do this also, so I will be getting these to them all soon.
I was able to get all of these letters to my family and they did appreciate my efforts.
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Credits (make sure you have at least 1 product from KB and Friends): KB and Friends: background paper form Jennifer Schmitt's Comfortable Elegance
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Program: Microsoft Picture It!
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Fonts: Colwell, CK Script
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Carol
Designer
Registered: June 2006
Posts: 3,862
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Sat February 16, 2008 9:11pm
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That is so wonderful! You have a priceless family history to treasure.
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'Tis the fairy The Lady of Shalott. --- Tennyson
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malacima
The Cat's Meow
Registered: February 2007
Location: South East Europe
Posts: 1,481
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Sun February 17, 2008 12:55am
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priceless!wonderful!
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and fan of Altered/Heritage
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naughtsncrosses
The Bee's Knees
Registered: September 2007
Location: Canberra, Australia
Posts: 2,175
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Sun February 17, 2008 6:19am
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Oh, what a wonderful collection and a fabulous trip down memory lane for all those folks who receive this precious gift. Wonderful layout!
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Edeena (aka NaughtsNCrosses)
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Avatar - glittery overlay from Betty Jo Martin's Dumplin' Creek
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LemonaideLinda
The Bee's Knees
Registered: July 2006
Posts: 1,770
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Sun February 17, 2008 8:05pm
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You are so blessed to have found the letters your mom saved. I'm sure you'll put them to good use with lots more of your "storyteller" LOs that I enjoy so much!
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JAndersen
Dynamite
Registered: February 2007
Posts: 506
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Tue February 19, 2008 10:07pm
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What a cool page - great photos of moments to remember! I love the title. Wonderful page!
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Jen
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