This is TOO too cute! LOVE the pprs and design here! What a fabulous story of your Dad and what a funny, unique cat Carlisle was! My dad's a woodworker too and he had his own 'Shop Cat', though she never got the hang of shoulder sitting, I like to think she was right there with him when he was working! :) Really amde me smile this one! TFS!
Awwww! how wonderful that he had such a big heart for kitties! Loved the story! could you please tell us what kind of printer/scanner that you just got? it looks like it does a wonderful job!
love those pics! My dad had a little chihuahua that rode on his back like that, and the squirrel we had did that too...so cute! Love your creative embellies and the verse is just perfect-terrific LO and story.
What a wonderful LO to capture your memories of your dad, Powerhouse, and Carlisle - I love all the tool shop embellies, especially the sandpaper and your parody of the Walrus and the Carpenter is so creative and funny. This gets my vote for innovative, heartwarming and funny. I'm jealous of your new printer/scanner - just wondering what kind it is. I'd love to have something like that and my old printer is not doing to well right now.
The title and journaling are a take-off on Lewis Carroll's "The Walrus and the Carpenter". Journaling reads: "The time has come," the Kitty said, "to talk of many things: of hammers - nails - and powers saws - of boards - and screws - and awls - and why I like your shoulder so - and whether you feel my claws." The photos are of my Daddy and his cat, Carlisle. Carlisle loved to ride around on Daddy's shoulders in the garage and in the garden. When he was a kitten he would sit in the top of Daddy hat and ride around! LOL! He was quite a cat. I love these pics of Daddy, doing what he loved, working out in his workshop, probably making another wooden toy for one of the grandkids.... "Powerhouse" - just something I remember him calling himself! LOL!
The design is based on a PageMaps sketch. I distressed the edge of the cream cs and inked it. The photo edges are all sanded. The little bits of "sandpaper" are actually pp that looks like sandpaper, torn and inked. I used an assortment of silver brads, some that look like screws and assorted tool stickers. The title is stamped, then handcut and inked. The little slice of "wood" with the date was made by punching a circle from the pp and adding a dark brown edge - cut crookedly. Thanks so much for looking!!!
This wonderfully clear and straight pic of my layout - courtesy of my new printer/scanner - It will scan 11-3/4 x 11-3/4 - close enough! And such a great clear, and did I mention straight - pic! And I can now print on my 12x12 paper! YAY! :)
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