Challenge #4 - Leigh's Layout

Oh My Gosh!!! This layout took me FOREVER!!! I started with one picture, then added a second. Then I finally found the kit I wanted to use which worked perfectly for me, though I'm not sure if it met all the requitements for the layout. So we will see. It took me 2 days to make the layout in and amongst cleaning the house with my DH (we have been doing a full clean of the house since the beginning of the year). Now it has taken me a little over an hour today to complete the journaling, usually journaling is not as hard for me but in this instance it was a bit harder. I had to stop a few times, too many tears. So, without further ado I give you....Someday....

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Journaling Reads:

Someday I’ll be able to tell you all the stories I want to tell you about Grand. Someday I’ll be able to tell you about all the special things Grand was to me as a mother without crying my eyes out first. Someday, we will be able to talk about Grand, and you will be able to ask me more questions than just “Mamma, Do you miss her?” and “Grand is in Heaven, right?” Someday all these things will be true about when we talk about Grand. Then there is Grammie, Oh what a truely special relationship you have with Grammie. How Blessed are you that you have Grammie to watch over you while you are here, and your angel Grand to help watch over you from above. I know in my heart that Grand watches over, and especially sits with Grammie as an angel on her shoulder also. The greatest Blessing is knowing that SOMEDAY we will all be together.

Ok, so hopefully we will get good news and we will be on to the next round, as nerveracking as it sometimes is, this has really been a whole lot of fun!!! Thanks again to all who have been by and commented, it does mean soooooo much to us. Until next time....

Blessings!!!

Kerri's Take on Challenge 4

uff, that was difficult! It was a challenge with journalling and not only that but from the soul. Well, I read the rules, re-read the rules and hoped for some hints. Later in the day they put up some tips on what to journal about. One of them was, what would you want your children to know, well, I would want them to know just how my husband and I were meant to be together, so I journalled. Then I had to find out just what sort of elements I was allowed to use, 3 of them had to be "arty" or "altered art". I looked this up on the actual site and saw that a Cupid would be considered "ephemera" which falls in the category "altered art". So here's hoping that this layout qualifies for the fourth challenge

Credits:
Mad about You by Scrap Shana at Been there Scrapped that
White paper by Sweet digi Scraps
Alpha from PlayDate by Sweet Digi Scraps at BTST

Journalling reads:
Dear Boys,
Cupid had his work cut out for him with Mummy and Daddy. I truly believe that we were meant to be from the beginning.
At the beginning of our lives, we lived in different countries, Daddy in Germany and I was in England, BUT even then cupid was working on getting us together. The towns we lived in were twinned. Eventually I moved to Germany, and when Cupid thought we were ready, he got us in the same pub together at the same time. Daddy even recalls seeing me there (it was carnival and everyone was dressed up, but there was only one Pippi-Long-Stocking there, and that was me). I recall looking around and thinking "there are some cute looking guys here, shame they are mostly drunk" - I was designated driver and stone cold sober. So unfortunately Cupid had no luck that time.
Two years later Cupid saw to it, that I changed jobs and was working for the same company as Daddy, even though it was in two different towns. A few months into the job and my boss sent me to headquarters to meet the people important for my job. Daddy was one of those.
As soon as I laid eyes on Daddy and walked into his office, I turned a very bright shade of crimson. Luckily Daddy did not know that normally I am very pale. As I headed for the hotel that night, I knew, didn't understand, but I KNEW, Daddy was something special.
2 weeks and lots of emails later we were together. And 4 years to that day, you, Robert, were born. We got married 14 months later, when I was 16 weeks pregnant with you, Richard.

and like Leigh said, thanks for following us here and in the galleries, its fun to read all the comments!
CU soon