This is terrific! Love the boot with the butterfly...The pp mat behind the squares with mini brads...The dangling coins..The eyelets..Everything!! Where did you get the peacock feather pp?
Sounds like wonderful luck or coincidence whichever you want to call it (I think I like Divine INtervention in this one)! Wonderful trims you used with these pages!
I don't know how you get so much detail on your layouts without making them look cluttered. this is just so perfect and so pretty, love the beads and the coins, the eye chart, the the the....I could on and on-Pat this is just awesome
That's an amazing story of coincidences!!! Loved reading your story and and looking at your WONDERFUL lo -it's so full of GREAT "oddities". Quite the treasure you've created here.
Life is full of odd coincidences. This photograph is one of those.
The little boy on the right is my husband. He's six. His older brother, standing in the cabin doorway is ten. The year is 1965. The camp is YMCA Camp Takatoka. A few years later, Tommy would go to camp himself, to the same camp.
Fast forward. It's summer of 1976. I'm looking for a job for the summer. I read about a camp looking for summer camp counselors. I figure "beats staying at home all summer." Turns out, they have a horse program. I spend four summers there, working in the horse program, until I graduate from college and get a "real job." During staff training, snakes are an afternoon discussion one day, and the program director talks about first aid procedures for snake bites, using a ten year old boy, bitten by a copperhead a few years before, as an example.
That same summer, the girl in the picture, Tom's sister, was working as a camp counselor at the next door neighbor camp, right up the road, but our paths never crossed and we never met.
Fast forward some more. It's 1988, and I'm back doing volunteer work for the camp - helping with off season horse clinics and weekend conference groups. I mention to the Program Director that I'm getting remarried. She asks who the lucky man is.
I say, "Tom Gent." She says, "BILL Gent's son? I know Tom. He came to camp here! Bill was our sail boat director for years! They are a wonderful family! You know his brother got snake bit his first summer here, right? How did you meet Tom?"
Fast forward some more. It's 1996, and I am taking over the equine program at YMCA Camp Takatoka, with my wonderful husband's blessing and support, and getting my director training from the same Program Director who I worked for all those years ago.
That first summer I was the Equine Director, my BFF - who I hadn't even met yet - was working at the same camp that Tom's sister did all those years ago. She contacted me to see if we had some extra tack we could share, and that's how WE met.
It did not even OCCUR to me that our lives would all overlap in such an odd set of coincidences. It really is a small world!
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For the March Steampunk Challenge, using Graphic45's Olde Curiosity Shop papers. I did a loose lift of the skeleton 5th & 1st by Yuka Hino, but tried really hard to put my own muscle, skin, and makeup on it.
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