Your work is truly beautiful. I love all the distressing and stitching. Everything about this LO compliments the photos just right. I so much love your detail.
Natalie, your work amazes me time & time again! You always put such love, detail & texture into your work & it pays off in a BIG way! I love the gorgeous hand made compass, fab old photos & beautiful design!!! I always enjoy reading your descriptions too! Thanks for taking us along your mothers travels!!!
You always surprise me with such amazing, unique designs! Love that piece that looks like a patch work quilt. ( I spent many days as a little girl out in the garage with some of my older neighbors quilting~such sweet memories). Gorgeous photos, distressing and texture! Heritage at its best ;)
WOW...that Mariners Compass sure is spectacular and an amazing backdrop for these wonderful photo's!! As always your details are outstanding and so beautifully done along with the beautiful distressing and layers!! I could look at this all day!!! Absolutely beautiful... love it!!
Just stunning work here again Natalie, I am in awe of this one as well. Your attention to detail is fabulous, love everything about this and the story to go with. Hugs to you friend, hope your weekend is magical!
Oh wow! I LOVE what you did in the background circle of this layout and all of your amazing distress work. Stunning layout and design. It's a favourite for me!
my goodness natalie; that quilted design is absolutely breathtaking! Your page and journalling are beautiful and I love that your love of history was kindled by this special trip of your mother's...I'm just in love with this...total fave!!
Natalie this is a masterpiece. The quilted mariners compass is really clever and I always enjoy the interesting stories behind your pages. This lo should be in a magazine, well done. Fave.
This is so beautiful! That compass a great detail and the story to those photo's is just simply wonderful. A lot of work went into this LO, can see that on all the lil details that you used.
Oh, my GOODNESS!!!! Awesome story and LO, Natalie! Love your design, Mariner's compass and the tapeing and bedding stuff that you used! It looks like you have been finding SBing supplies in the garage.....and I LOVE THAT....why not?!!! Your creativity simply amazes me, Natalie!
Natalie, being a quilter I adore that Mariner's Compass!!! The colors just sing, but importantly is the story and representation of the compass. You have some wonderful treasured photos here and you have done a fab tribute to them all. I feel the love coming through!!!!
wow, loving that layered distressing and fantastic stitching...gives the page so much dimension!! So much heart ans soul goes into all your beautiful lo's...I always look forward to seeing the next one!! Love the continuity between the two lo's, so different yet with elements that link them together...love your journaling too!!
As always you took me with you in history. I always make some time when you finish a layout, sitting with a coffe, always take a quick look, than read the story, and then I always take a long look in close up. Surching the whole layout and enjoy the details. I think it is so nice to have a family story and to know it. Your layouts always give me a feeling that you take your time to make them , without any hurry and full off love. Perhaps I am wrong, but that is what they feel like. LOVE them all the time
stunningly beautiful and feel so honoured you have shared this amazing creation with us all, a wonderful wonderful story, precious fotos, dont know why makes me think of the movie south pacific, and your patchwork hilight very delightful..fave and more....xo
This is another page that goes along with a previous double page layout I did a while back called "Road Trip 1945". It shows the siblings at a different site in Washington, DC in 1945. The colors on this page are more muted than the first layout, but similar, and some of the elements are the same to give a sense of continuity. Basically the wording of the opening paragraphs is the same as the first layout....the sisters and brother traveling together to Massachusetts, after returning home from the war in the Pacific. (the brother), small details about the requirements the Marines had for traveling...all the same as the first page.......and then here is where it picks up: "here we see the siblings posing in front of the Washington Monument. Although it is difficult to see the Monument in the photos it is there! This was a "monumental" visit for Mom in so many ways. She had a great love of history, and this visit, no matter that it was a brief day long one, was a fulfillment of a childhood yearning. The visit fanned the flames of her desire to learn and see more of our country's great landmarks. And indeed she passed that love on to me. As a child I was taken to many historical sites. Mom gave me a very thorough lesson wherever we went. There were times when I most definitely did not appreciate this and was not a willing student! But today I am so very grateful that this monumental visit impacted my life in such a wonderful way! I have inherited the history bug!" I made the patchwork quilt pattern - Mariner's Compass - as a backdrop for the photos and included the four points of direction. Of course this page is oriented North, the way the travelers were journeying home!
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