WET!

WET! Bailey & Kendall, March 2006 at Six Flags.

Patterned paper-Basic Grey Euphoria-Helio, Delirium, Elation & Bless.

Rub-ons-K & Co Wild Saffron & Roam.

Flowers-Basic Grey, Flora Doodles & Michael's.

Thickers-Roller Rink Glitter

Pen- American Crafts-Precision.

65 and Still Alive

65 and still alive.

Since 1943 there have been 12 US Presidents

Casablanca won best pictre.

I’ve lived in 4 states: Iowa, CA, NJ and TX

Will celebrate 45 years of marriage on
Dec. 27, 2008.

July 1943

Bread-9 cents

Milk-62 cents/gallon

Eggs- 62 cents/dozen

Car- $1,100

Gas-21 cents/gallon

House-$8,011

Stamps-3 cents

Average income-$2,561 a year

Minimum wage-30 cents/hour

Dow Average-136

Hot new toy-Chutes & Ladders board game

July 1st, Pay As You Go--first withholding tax from paychecks

(from dmarietimecapsule.com)

Supplies:

PP-BG Oh Baby! Madison, MM-die-cut scallop (AMR kit), DCWV-Nana's Kids, Daisy d's Leger.

Eyelets-Stampin Up!

Stickers- Brenda Walton/K & CO, K & Co Grand Adhesions/Glitter flowers and Glitter Flies.

Journaling block-MM Spiral Journaling Book.

Lace-Bo Bunny/Bella Journee

Rub-ons- Rinker Ink-Botanical Bliss, Color Bok-Memory Boutique

Flowers-AMR kit

AMR is www.allmomentsremembered.com

Loved

This is my take on the sketch at creative-scrappers.com.

This is my DD at 5 months in 1966 and my mom is holding her. My mom died 7 months later, so this is really the only good picture of the two of them. All of the paper on this LO is from allmomentsremembered.com kits. The Hambly overlay is from the same kit.

Looking Back

Journaling:

This picture of my Dad and my six brothers was taken in the early 1950s. My dad died in 1953 just prior to my 10^th birthday. There were eight children in the family and my sister (13 years older than me)

was married and out of the house. We lived in a 3 bedroom, one-bath house and boy, was it crowded.

I don’t remember much about my dad, mainly stories from my older siblings. I do remember when

he’d come home from work he’d be so tired, he’d lie down before dinner. My younger brother and I would climb on the bed with him.

Our elementary school was up the block from our house and we were at recess and I saw the ambulance pull away from our driveway to take my dad to the hospital. He died a few days later.

I’ll never forget seeing the ambulance as it drove past the playground where I was standing…the last time I saw him was before I left for school. I didn’t know he was sick or that he’d die. But the memories of that ambulance are in my mind forever.

My oldest brother (standing just behind my dad) became the father figure to the three of us who were the youngest. We would give him Father’s Day gifts every year; we’d make special cards too.

I remember when I started junior high school and I wanted to wear lipstick and he & my mom wouldn’t let me. The only thing I could wear was like Chapstick…it was a very light orange and no matter how hard I rubbed it on my lips it still looked like I was wearing Chapstick!. Once my

brother took me to get my long straight hair cut and a permanent wave (that’s what it was called in the 50s.) Since I was really skinny and had the long hair he thought I’d look better in short permed hair. NOT!!! My hair was so curly and I hated it and so did my brother. He never said anything about my hair after that.

Mom's Wig

This LO is about my mom and her wigs in 1966. That's me in the blue (8 months pregnant), my mom and my MIL. I was pregnant with Cindi, and that's her in the playpen 1 year later, in 1967.

Only items not from the AMR kits are the pink Bazzill, transparancy, polka dot pp is DCWV and flowers are RAKS & Mikes, Mike's stamps. The journaling explains the whole story. TFL

Journaling reads:

Mom’s Wig…
I was pregnant with Cindi when I found out mom had terminal cancer.
I was in my 6th month when I heard the news. The picture shows me
at 8 months with mom, Etta, in the center and my mother-in-law,
Bette. A friend had a baby shower for me and made sure mom was
strong enough to come. Mom is wearing a wig and you have to realize
back in the mid 1960s the wigs were all synthetic and you bought
one-size-fits-all styles. This wig was her ‘going out in public wig’ and
of course it didn’t have a tight fit.

One day she had taken the Greyhound bus from the San Francisco
Bay Area to Lake Tahoe so she could gamble. Gambling was her
‘escape’ from the cancer. This day it was very windy and she was
walking across the street to another casino and “Swish!” Her wig
went flying off her head. She picked it up and put it on and walked
on as proud as could be. That was my mom, a very proud woman.
Her ‘casual wig’ wasn’t really a wig, but a wide headband with some
fluffy yarn/stuff that she combed back to make it look like hair.

That’s my daughter Cindi (11 months old) in the playpen wearing the
‘casual wig.’ This picture was taken about one month before mom
passed away. The following month, six days after Cindi’s first birthday
and four days after mine, she died. It’s as if she waited for Cindi to
have her first birthday. We had the birthday party at her house as
she was lying on the couch watching, still wearing her wig.

my scraplift of Karlynn's :LO

Kindergarten, early 1970's

Top picture is Jim walking home form his first day of kindergarten. He is wearing striped pants and he used to all ways say I dressed him "funny!" But of course, that was the style of the '70's! (1973)


Cindi is dressed in her '70's white patent leather "go-go" boots. She is excited about taking the bus to kindergarten. (1971)

Both Jim and Cindi are getting ready to go to school in 1974, Jim/kindergarten and Cindi/3rd grade.