Journaling: Play with Abandon A little nonsense now and then is cherished by the wisest men. ~ Roald Dahl Assets Used: Anna Aspnes Travel Template Album No. 5 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/Travel-Template-Album-No.-5.html Artsy Layered Template...

Journaling: Boating on Lake Louise The photograph with the four of us, Jack, Pat, John & Ann is one of moms favorites. This was the only slide she had printed at the time. Even though it wasnt printed the one of John driving the boat at 20 months is also one of moms favorites. The...

These photographs called for a different orientation. Rest Here Assets Used: Anna Aspnes ArtPlay Palette Moorlands https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Moorlands.html ArtPlay Palette Moira https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Moira.html MultiLayered FotoBlendz No. 5...

the Quarters at Lake Louise Assets Used: Anna Aspnes Travel Template Album No. 5 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/Travel-Template-Album-No.-5.html Artsy Layered Template No. 289 https://www.oscraps.com/shop/Artsy-Layered-Template-No.-289.html ArtPlay Palette Moorlands...

Journaling Lake Louise is located 170 miles Northwest of Anchorage off Alaska Hwy 1. In 1955 the Air Force and Army obtained a recreation site on Lake Louise. The site was operated by the Personal Services Office at Elmendorf AFB. Mom & Dad loved going to Lake Louise. We camped there...

This slide was blurry. My solution was to use filters and light to emphasize the blur. Assets Used: Anna Aspnes Various Brushes

Journaling: Fur Rendezvous known locally as Fur Rondy is held in February of each year in Anchorage. In addition to the dog sled races and the fur auction 1961 ushered in several new events to the festival. Car racing made its first appearance with ice racing on Sand Lake. Carnival rides by...

Journaling: Santa Claus House was the creation of Con Miller. Shortly after Miller & his family arrived in Fairbanks, Alaska in 1949 he began dressing up as Santa Claus each Christmas to the delight of all the village children. In 1952 Miller decided it was time to build a trading post...

Journaling: Just six weeks after our arrival in Alaska the vote was 64-20 Alaska was now the 49th state. In preparation for the expected celebration, forty-nine tons of wood went into building what would be a historical pile. An extra ton was added for Hawaii. Located at Ninth and H in...

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Letter: Here it is Saturday & no furniture yet. Jack checked out an overstuffed chair so we have one comfortable chair to sit in. Were kicking ourselves all over for not sending our TV set. Jack wants to buy one now. And I suppose we will. Were seriously thinking of buying a rug. We got a...

Journaling: Moms Melmac dishes are long gone. Hers were the blue, green, pink and yellow you see to the right. Once there were four of us children mom assigned us each a colored plate for dinner. John got the blue plate, my favorite color at the time. Paul was green and Joan was yellow...

Letter: When we arrived at the Hostess House here on the base Jack discovered that [the] Lennons (the couple from Sebastopol) had reserved a room for us with a crib. Jerry OGrady met Jack at the Guest House & invited us over for dinner that evening. The apartment we have is right above...

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I have left mom's punctuation and spelling errors as was originally written. Dear Folks, Guess youre wondering how we all survived the boat trip. Well we made it & all in one piece. Arrived here at Anchorage on Monday May 12 but we docked at Whittier on Sunday about 6:00 P.M. Since...

Journaling: It was 1958 and Alaska was still a territory. Moms first surviving letter was penned on our first overseas assignment, Elmendorf Air Force Base, Anchorage, Alaska. Yes, Alaska is considered an overseas tour of duty. Previously we had tours at Travis Air Force Base, California...

Journaling: As an Air Force wife, Mrs. Patricia A. Gilchrest wrote letters home to her family from far away and exotic places. Her tales are sometimes humorous and sometimes heartfelt. Whether venting her frustrations or sharing some small detail from one of her childrens, her husbands or her...

Mom's letters is a companion book to Dad's Military books. ArtPlay Palette Bravura https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtPlay-Palette-Bravura-.html AASPN_ArtPlayPaletteBravura_LWMoments ArtsyTransfers Bravura https://www.oscraps.com/shop/ArtsyTransfers-Bravura.html MultiMedia Flowers No. 5...

These books are a redo of the books I did for my Dad back in 2004. When I did the first version (the "real world" version), I asked my siblings to write a letter to Dad that I included in the timeline for when they were born. My brother John is a "lefty" and his handwriting...

Journaling Dad stayed in Santa Rosa for 10 days until the 27th of November at 23:00 hours. From there he went to San Francisco and boarded a commercial aircraft to the Seattle Tacoma Airport arriving at McChord AFB at 0600 on the 28th. He checked into transient quarters for the night and...