A very pretty lo. So glad you got to have a relationship with your mother. Alcohol has caused a lot of pain for people. I also love the butterflies you make. I'm going to try to make some. Thanks for telling how to make them.
First of all, this page is absolutely stunning!! Second, what a treasure to have this photo of your mother. A beautiful and touching layout, thank you for sharing!
Wow Celia, I love your beautiful and heart felts journaling! Love all the flowers, the beautiful pics, the bling and the colors! Thank you for sharing your life story!!! Favs, of course!!!
completely breathtaking! I love the story that you provided here, and the photo of your mom is a wonderful addition to this page. I love all the flowers and the lace and pearls!
Your photos and lo are exquisite!Your story so bittersweet,it brings tears to my eyes!God meant for you to have those photos!He knew how much they would mean to you and your siblings!This is a fave!
Gorgeous, amazing, beautiful LO! Love the pictures and what a great story to go with it! So glad you did meet your mother. I love the way you did the flowers and the feathers just bring out the softness in the pictures. Into faves!
What a story. . From what I gather, you turned out to be and amazing persone. God bless your Father for being strong and ever present in your life. The LO is beautiful and I can tell it comes from the heart.
I can hardly type thru my tears........... What a beautiful story.....so full of sadness, but love too. I never got to know my dad, he was an alcoholic too, and died before I got the chance, so I know how that goes. I can feel your mother's regrets that I know haunted her after she became sober. It was good that you had an open heart full of love instead of bitterness, a place for her soul to rest and gain strength from your love. You are beautiful that way.
Wow wow wow...This is beautiful!! So full of magical delight!! Thank you for sharing the story and that bit of history!! Glad you got to know her if even for a little while...She looks like the ballerina you find in a sweet music box...Precious!!
So i think im missing something, you have to give the back story on this. this is an amazing story, did she give you up fr adoption? Im a lil lost, anf have to know, im so intrigued. Either way you are blessed to have some information and memories of who she was at her best.
This is of me, at the age of 5, playing dress up. I always wanted to be a singer and actor and dancer, and wrote my first song at this age.
On the upper right, is my Birth Mother, who was in ballet, unknown to me, since I hadn't seen her since I was 3.
She was in Drama in High School, and in many plays. She also was a Concert Pianist, and of all things, a SCRAPBOOKER! We're talking like 70 some years ago! LOL!
Another thing we both had in common, was our love of flowers! She had roses growing everywhere, as did her Adopted Mother, who was really her Aunt. (My Grandma McDowell lived in my home town of Puyallup, so we did know her)!
And, God Blessed ME to end up with our Mothers Photos and Scrapbooks, and the only pictures I have of her! As well as mine and my Brothers Birth Certificates.
A guy who'd gone to High School with my Brother Brian, called one day to say he'd bought an old barrel at an Auction. It had been left at the Tacoma Train Station all those years, and was placed for Auction that day! The barrel was filled with china and crystal, and a box of photos and scrap books. And, he saw our Birth Certificates, so he called to say we could have the box of photos. (he kept the rest of her things). I'm so very thankful for the kindness he did by telling us, and letting us have the only photos we would ever have of our Mother.
When we were over 18, we both did meet her. She was a good Friend and in my corner her last years of life, for which time and moments I shall ever be grateful to God for. She took great joy in knowing I became an ordained Minister, even though she was too far away and elderly to come be at the Ceremony.
When I was married, and owned a house, I'd send her paint samples when I'd paint, and a part of the package that showed the curtains I'd bought to match..kinda like an Old Fashioned Scrapbook page! I wanted her to be as much a part of our lives as possible, and let her share in things like that by sending her samples and photos, and the pictures off of the packages.
She also was 'The Statue of Liberty' for South Dakota in a Parade, but that's a whole different Page to Scrap! Coming soon at a Gallery near you! LOL!
Thanks for looking! Celia
As Requested: The back ground to this story:
When our Parents Divorced, my Father got my Brother Brian and myself, our Mother got my 1/2 Sister, Rosemary, and our baby Brother. Dad tried to find them, and adopted Rosemary, even though she wasn't 'his', to give her a home with her 1/2 Brother and Sister. He found that both of them had been abandoned by our Mother. Rosemary was in a Foster Home, and we found her. So, he tried to find my baby Brother-the one whose art work is in my gallery here-and Dad was told he had been placed up for adoption. We didn't meet him until he was turning 18.
Our Mother suffered from alcoholism. So, Dad was a Single Parent way back then, in the early to mid 50's!
It wasn't until later in life, she quit drinking, and became a beautiful person I was glad to know!
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