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GentlewoodFarms
June 8, 2010

If Only Time...

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If Only Time Would Stand Still.

My project for the following challenges :

#1. Scraplift the person in front of you. I lifted Jamie's (jhusk) memories LO.

#2. Negative Space. I shrank the whole of Jamie's LO, scooted it into the corner, and framed it with jute. I'm pretty happy with the final effect.

#3. Use Your Scraps. Part of the reason I had to shrink Jamie's layout was because of the size of paper scraps I had to work with. I'm trying to clean up my smaller pieces and these three papers said, "we can play together and be nice to each other," so that's how it went. The cardstock base has a hole in it where I cut out a circle for another project, so it's a scrap too. The little metal hearts are leftovers from a package of six that I used for a class project last year. The jute is also the last on the roll, so I think EVERYthing on this page is a scrap or the last "use it ups" of their kind that I have.

#4. Heritage. The twist this month was to do a dad layout. This is MY dad, the way I'll always remember him.

I always journal on a separate page - white paper on black cardstock. Then - depending on how private it is - I slide it either behind my layout or on the back of the page before it so that it faces the page.

The hidden journaling for this LO reads :
This photo of my dad was taken in South Carolina. He's around 35 years old and the major in charge of Mag 311 at the Marine Corps Air Station in Beaufort, South Carolina. His job at Beaufort was training pilots, preparing them for the war in Viet Nam. He looks too young to be shouldering so much responsibility, but he'd already been to Korea, the Bay of Pigs, and nose to nose with the Soviet fighter planes along the coast of Japan. He was well qualified and outstanding at his job. Not long after this photograph was taken, he was sent to Viet Nam to take over a squadron there and spent the better part of 1967 and the early part of 1968 being shot at every time he took off the end of the runway. Several of his planes were fatally wounded, but he returned without a scratch, and he would tell you that it's because he was the greatest fighter pilot in the Marine Corps. As far as I'm concerned, he still is. In fact, he's probably the greatest man I've ever known - a real American hero. I've always been so proud that he was my dad. And this picture - this is the way I'll always remember him.


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