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Pipe Dreams
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Pipe Dreams

I love Anna's new Snow Fun kit, but in the part of California where I live, we don't get much snow (heck, we don't get much rain, but I digress...) but the colors in her Snow Fun kit are perfect for some old photos of my mom I've wanted to scrap for a while.

I've mentioned on previous layouts how, when she passed, I inherited boxes and boxes of memorabilia from my mom--photos and newspaper clippings, postcards and letters. It's been just over three years now, and I have yet to finish sorting it. As I'm going through it all, sometimes a photo will capture my attention, and I'll want to scrap it while my own thoughts and feelings about it are still fresh. These are two of those photos.

Journaling reads:
"When I knew her, my mom was not a camper. In fact, she had very little use for the Great Outdoors. If it would mess up her hair, if she couldn't take a daily bath, if there was no place to hang up her make-up mirror, she was not interested.

She was, however, always mischievous, with an earthy sense of humor that embarrassed me when I was younger but delighted me as I grew older.

These photos of her surprise and intrigue me, as they were taken on a camping trip to Yosemite she took with some friends c1954. Mom? Camping? And whats with the pipe? I suspect the pipe belonged to her then-beau, and she was just having fun posing with it for the camera.

It has been a real eye-opening experience, going through my moms old photos. I am seeing glimpses of who she was, before marriage and children, before divorce and hardship, before failing health. Although it was wonderful to inherit her boxes of photos, I am reminded once again that I wish Id known about these before she passed; I wish I could ask her about the playful young woman in these pictures."

Credits
Anna Aspnes
ArtPlay Palette Snow Fun Kit (background paper, frame) http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=29473&cat=383&page=1
Artsy Layered Template No. 43 (altered) http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=29423&cat=383&page=2
CineFilm Overlays No. 01 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27976&cat=0&page=1
CrochetedSnow No. 01 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=29471&cat=383&page=1
12 x 12 Distressed Edge No. 06 Overlays http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27990&cat=0&page=1
LoopDaLoop JazzedUp No. 01 http://www.oscraps.com/shop/product.php?productid=27857&cat=0&page=1
Stitched by Anna Brown No. 02

Fonts: Traveling Typewriter (page title); Ariel Narrow

Thanks for stopping by!
lOVE the jounaling...
if i didn't know better it looks like a contemporary photo!
She was a beauty!
xoxoxosue
 
Oh Shirley this is wonderful!!! I agree with Sue that this looks like a contemporary photograph - very NOW! Your journalling has just reminded us how important it is to tell our kids about us - not to leave anyone guessing. I adore your page and the sweet journalling! :)
 
fantastic... what a gem... love the spunk and you've scrapped this perfectly Shirley... I had a pipe in college... who knows why... but my hubby, then beau, made it clear that the pipe was not coming into this union... silly girl...
 
Oh, this has that 40's/50's movie feel--like a Katharine Hepburn kind of girl! Shirley, thanks for sharing these treasures and your thoughts via your captivating page!
 
Check out the Standing O!

https://ozone.oscraps.com/forum/showthread.php?p=321736#post321736
 
Wonderful page. Love to read your journaling and thoughts evoked by those pictures.
Love the hearts coming from the pipe :)
 
I know what you mean about not being able to know your mom when they were young and carefree! - heartfelt journaling! these are such fun photos, she is beautiful! love your title! gorgeous work!
 
Your journaling is beautiful...as is your mother...love your blending and those smoke hearts...beautifully scrapped..glad you got that standing O...well deserved!
 

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