What creative talent, your LO, your writing fills me with desire to try to "tell the story" as best I can. I too am creating the saga of our family and experiences for those who come after me.
How incredibly exciting to post your very first page created here at sb.com! I can't say I would post my first page ever, ha ha! That said, your design is WONDERFUL! And how precious that you started with this amazing photo of your grandmother! I don't know how you did it, but you made snow seem beautiful and romantic! (I shall return to read your description over again and over again when I'm in the midst of a blizzard here up north! lol!) Your writing is as enjoyable to read as your page is to view! BRAVO!!!!
Wow!!!!!!!! Your very first work of art is totally amazing!!!! LOVE what you did with the great old photo!!! Reading your description is a joy!!! Fab work!!!!
Outstanding page! I thoroughly enoy reading your descriptions...and you write as a true poet! What a spectacular photo to have in your collection! Your pages will definitely be treasured for generations to come! You have a very creative energy coming through in your work...and I look forward to seeing your style as you continue to scrapbook! No doubt, I can tell you are hooked :)
Fabulous description - and a beautiful job on your first LO. I've never visited the Yukon Territory but I hear it's stunning in June & July. Wild flowers peep out from the snow in early June. My sister went there and loved her visit. (Pierre Berton was one of the most wonderful tellers of Canadian history that ever lived. My hubby read many of his books.)
Your first layout is stunning!!!! I love your photo - your grandmother looks like she was having a BLAST!!! I really like how you framed her in red! Congrats on moving from observer to participant!!!!!!!!!
And so the journey from observer to participant joyfully begins! :)
This is my first scrapbooking page ever (and just about the first paper craft project of any kind I've made since grade school!). I created it on October 28th, and have subsequently made two other pages since then. To say that I am in love with this hobby (art) would be a massively understatement.
The photo in this LO is of my maternal grandmother as a young woman (circa late 1940s), as she frolicked merrily in a mountain of snow in her hometown of Dawson, Yukon, Canada.
For as long as I have memories stretching back I can recall hearing tales of the Yukon from my grandma (who goes by the endearingly sweet moniker of "Grannie"), about a land as wild and untamed as it was beautiful. Nestled under a blanket of northern lights, fraught with the dreams and heartaches of a million gold rush participants (of which her father was one, trekking over the Chilkoot Pass), this arctic land seemed like another, entirely memorizing, world to a little girl living in the southern tip of British Columbia.
Though I poured over works of writers like Pierre Berton and Robert Service as I grew up, nothing captured the spirit of the Yukon so eloquently nor as vividly for me as the stories (and few photos) from my grandmother herself. From these tales a call as gripping as that which lead arctic pioneers to seek gold in the barren arctic tundra in the first place, imbued a fascination in my soul with the Yukon.
One day I will get there in person. I will see the horizon of snow, the waltzing sky, and the remnants of a frenzy for riches myself, but until that day, I have photos like this to remind why the - as the journaling on the page says - the Yukon flows like gold dust through my veins.
~ Heartfelt thanks for checking my page out. Any questions about this LO, please don't hesitate to ask! Wishing you a blissfully creative day!
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