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Heather J. Landry
July 6, 2008

Trash-July Basic Grey Sketch

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Not crooked IRL! My scanner hates me! LOL This one is for the Dream Girls Blog Challenge for moving journaling. I hope it fits. We had to use something around the house to stamp. I chose to use a wadded up paper bag (I used it to distress the cream cardstock). Which also kinda counts as using an office supply because it's what Dh takes his work to work in. I also altered some big brads that I bought from Office Depot by embossing them with copper embossing powder. AND I used a hole punch to punch out the little dots. Lots of office supplies. LOL

I made my own "trashy" letters by stamping brown paint with foam stamps on the same lunch bag I used to stamp the cardstock, so it was already crumpled and full of ink. Then I cut them out with about 1/4 in away from the paint.

Journaling says:

Most of my life I've been called trailer trash, and have been made to feel like because of where I grew up I am somehow less of a person than other people. It is true that all of my life up until I was 18 years old we lived in a trailer. In Port Sulphur until I was 12 we lived in a single wide trailer that was so small that my younger brother and I shared a room until my Step Dad put up a partition to split the room we shared in two. Once he did that we had even less room than we did before, but we had some privacy. When we moved up to Belle Chasse, La. I remember shopping for houses. We looked at several, but I remember that my Step Dad said we'd get more room for the money that we had to spend if we bought a trailer. So we ended up with a doublewide trailer this time. It was nice at first, but quickly deteriorated. My Mom still lives there. It has messed up carpet, plumbing, anything you can think of has had to have work. Whenever kids at school would find out that I lived in a trailer they would look down on me. I was ashamed, and rarely took people to my home to visit. We didn't have a lot of money growing up, and it really hurt me when people judged me by the clothes I wore. We only got to buy clothes once a year before school started, and that's what we wore all year. Mom would put them on layaway and pay for them over the Summer. As a result, I am not quick to judge anyone. I get angry thinking about the people who judged me growing up, and how awful they made me feel. Just because I lived in a trailer does not mean I am trash. I am intelligent, and capable. I'm creative, and independent. I am a lot of things that they never got to know because of their prejudice. Yes, I lived in a trailer, but I am NOT now, nor have I ever been… trailer trash.


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