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Adryane

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This was going to be my AnnaLift but, after reading it over, I think it doesn't fit the "crush" theme ... it does use the same template as Anna's page :)

Journaling: Growing up, there was a pencil sharpener in our garage. It was mounted right outside the backdoor. I used that sharpener for more than twenty years. I loved the feel of the grinding wood, the tiny pencil shavings, and all the possibilities in those sharp little points. Over the years, I've had all kinds of pencil sharpeners, even a fancy electric number. That one rarely worked and, even when it did, the pencil point usually broke part way through the sharpening process. My mother eventually sold the house I grew up in. The pencil sharpener was forgotten and may still be mounted outside the backdoor. A few months ago, while exploring our new home, I was looking around the workshop in the garage. This is what I found mounted to one of the walls a pencil sharpener just like the one from my childhood. It was old and rusted and perfect. I quickly retrieved a pencil from the house and gave it a run through the grinder. Again, perfect! I think even my husband has grown to love this sharpener. I say this because of a package I found in the mail today. It held 144 beautiful, unsharpened no. 2 pencils. I asked my husband if I could have a few, then went to the garage and sharpened twelve. Each one brought a smile.

Credits
Anna Aspnes
Artsy Layered Template No.38 (rotated)
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28909
ArtPlay Palette Scholarly Solids (background)
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28511
ArtPlay Palette Scholarly (transfers, overlays)
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28512
ArtPlay Palette Poppy (brads)
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27660
KreasedTransfers No.1
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28580
EdgeTransfers No.1
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28722
ArtPlay Palette Science (ruler brush)
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27674
DifferentStrokes No.2 BrushSet
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27957
ArtPlay Palette Red White Blue (doodled boxes)
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27661
ScriptTease Learn Overlays No.1
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28531
FotoGlows No.2
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27709
ScholarlyStamped No.1
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28509
ArtPlay Palette Crush (doodled heart)
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27629
WoodShop Alpha and NumberSet No.1
http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=28716

pencil is a photo I played with

Thanks for looking :)
Amazing page! This is fabulous on so many levels and certainly it fits as an AnnaLift.............your rediscovered a long lost love. Beautifully done, Adryane!
 
Love the way you've added so much significance to this photo that tells us something about you and your childhood. Great that you found that pencil sharpener too!
 
I totally adore this page!!! What a story! It evokes such memories and loving feelings!
 
I agree, SO much more than a crush! More like a warm connection with home, with constancy, with satisfaction and possibilities! Adryane, you are a gifted storyteller--the words, the photography, the art, the pencil markings, the touch of red.....enjoyable, memorable!
 
Oh, I love this story and layout! Until we moved four years ago, for more than 30 years, we too had a pencil sharpener mounted in the garage:) This is wonderful!!!
 
Great story and great page, I love sharpeners too, one of my favorites quotes from the movie "you got mail" ... he says... I will send you a bucket of sharpened pencils.... ohhhh

what's up with having them in the garage?
 
the art rocks, the embellishments and there placement is perfect but what really got me was your words, you're so articulate it is almost like i can hear you tellimg the story.
 
Ahhhhhh, now THIS is exactly what scrapping is all about - recalling, and indeed reliving those memories. Totally fabulous story - my favourite kind of page.
 
WOWie, Adryane. You have connected all of us to our childhood with this. Your journaling is powerful and your blending is amazing. The little heart and fotoglow above the sharpener are icing on the cake. I LOVE THIS ONE!!
 

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