What an amazing page! I love the fact that you used your creativity, which is a part of who you are, to bless and encourage your husband. To show him your love for him. The symbolism is fantastic.
I just love this!! What a special way to capture the struggle your husband, and you, have been dealing with. The story behind it makes it that much more striking-standing on its own, the layout is fabulous, too!
Very cool...love that song (my era) and the bricks pp is so perfect. What a beautiful family and a great layout. What an awesome idea this layout is...I'll pray for your husbands recovery and that the brick wall will be totally filled in.
Oh Sonja, what a beautifully touching page. It's gorgeous in itself, but the sentiments are beyond awesome. My heart goes out to all of you as you fight for your husband. On another note, Carlo is already a heartbreaker, look at those eyes (his dad's, right?)!
FANTASTIC!!! I love all the work you put into this and the story behind it brought tears to my eyes and I love that he has put a pic of it on his desk!! So well done!
Well, that answers why the graffiti on the wall and I LOVE how the brick wall was done and even more so when I know the story/feelings behind the layout.
AWESOME lo. Thanks for sharing your story - hopefully, brick by brick your DH can strengthen his health and overall happiness. It sounds like he's got a really GREAT foundation on which to build. love the bricks! (geeze, I GOT married in 1980 - Yes, I am THAT old!! - LOL).
Oh my...you are on a roll. The fussy cutting of the bricks is wonderful. It looks actually like a graffati wall!!! What a wonderful photo of your family.
This is really a gorgeous lo. Your work with the background of graffiti and bricks is really awesome and the fact that there is a meaningful story to go along with it makes it so much more important and meaningful. Thanks so much for participating in the music challenge and sharing this layout and story with us.
Wow SonjaC! This is such a fabulous layout, such wonderful work! I love your brick work on this. I can see why your story prompted this layout. Good luck to you and your dh as he battles his demons.
this is a beautiful lo. thank you for sharing your story and your lo with us. I love the brick work on here and all the graffiti in the bg. of course the pic of your family is beautiful as well. the whole meaning behind this lo is truly touching. great job
Sonja I hope you print out what you wrote here and save that too. I know you have had an awful struggle but look what art you have created with that. The execution of the meaning is beyond amazing it is so very creative and expressive and beautiful. I love that picture of the three of you too.
WOW! To both the layout and the story behind it. First, thank you for sharing so much of what you are feeling and what you and your family are dealing with. And the layout is fantastic. I love the way you distressed and made the bricks. The title is perfect and I love the screw brads. I love the way you framed the photo for the wall and the title looks great!
Ah yes, this page... I love challenges here because they inspire me to do pages that I otherwise never would have considered.
This particular page is for the Music Challenge: Category 1 with twist. The object was to use the lyrics from a song somewhere on your page and the twist was to use a song from the year you were born. I pulled the top 100 billboard hits of 1980 (yes, I am THAT young!) and #2 was Pink Floyd's 'Another Brick in the Wall'. (It should be noted I considered the #1 song "Call Me" by Blondie and #4 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen.) I like all those songs, but something drew me to The Wall. They lyrics talk about building a wall between one's self and the rest of the world, shutting out the pain in a negative way. Well that didn't apply too much in my life until I thought about my DH. He has a rare disease (nasty thing really) that has taken a significant toll on his and our lives. In the last three years since diagnosis, he's battled denial, anger, jealousy, depression and dependence on medications and substances. We're not out of the woods yet and the dark stuff always lingers like graffiti on the wall. I wanted to make a page to hang in our entry way to remind him daily of his wall of defense - against those dark things - to add another brick every day. His wall is his family; his son, wife, both sets of parents and friends, as well as the other aspects of his life that make him happy and work to block the madness within.
Like I said, we're a long way from a completed wall so this one is only halfway covering the graffiti'ed background, but he's already taken a photo of this and placed it on his desk so I'd say he's already added another brick.
Clearly scrapping is my outlet, isn't it?! :) I actually had fun making an inky mess of the bg trying to make it look like chaos and like a graffiti wall. I used the album cover and my Gypsy to make the title look as much like Pink Floyd's cover as I could. (I love my Gypsy like that!). I also have a metal frame I wanted to use to include some journalling, but I didn't like how it was looking so will maybe add it later...
So this is also for the Cricut, Boys n Girls: boy/girl and Hoarders challenges. That bg stone-printed paper, the halloween rubons and the K&Co frame are old old old as are most of the embellies. That ribbon and eagle pin are actually off the hangtag on a pair of jeans DH bought. I saved it - waste not, want not, right? :) The corrugated sprockets are from a RAK I received through Scraps of Darkness more than a year ago (eek!) from the beautiful Reneabouquet's Etsy shop. Thanks Renea!!
And thank YOU for looking and for letting me share and vent!
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