what a lovely lo and a heartwarming story. A story worth preserving for future generations (the real reason for scrapping). TFS. Hoping that the making of brittle every year brings a smile to your face as your remember your Mom.
Thank you for sharing this beautiful story with us. I am happy for you that you have pictures, because I regret never taking pictures of my mom baking. Althought that was her, baking all the time. The layout is precious and beautiful!
Sweet journaling, I so enjoyed reading it. I know you cherish these memories and I think it is wonderful that you make a toast to your mom as you make the brittle, and as you continue to do so, her legacy carries on. All your pattern papers work so well with the reds, precious page
I love this story and the way you scrapped this. I know that your family will come to love these pages and the memories you are able to share. When we don't write them down in another generation they disappear. I know there were many stories that I wish I had written down and are now lost forever. Great job Sharon.
Thank you for sharing the peanut brittle story and memories of your mom. The red textured paper is neat with the strips of paper coming down. Love the rose and gears and all the matting!
Now this is the way I like to work, my "mess" is really organized as I know where everything is, in a way. I like flipping thru my piles looking for something as I know it is somewhere, just which pile......found it!
I love your journaling, and the stone? with the ladybug on it. You are incredible for taking time for the special notes on back. I guess I am the opposite, I journal on the front
What a sweet story and sounds yummy! My family also has a peanut brittle recipe we covet and it does indeed make the house smell like heaven! Great page, Sharon!
I agree with Pat. That's what mine looks like if it is clean. You have an awesome space to work in. Love the shoes off as well. Being an Aussie girl that is the first thing that happens everyday when I finish work - sometimes even in the car on the way home!
That is the best memory ever! Oh I love the story and I would have surely loved to be an apprentice! Your mum was obviously a very generous and warm hearted woman. I love that you are keeping the tradition going. Hopefully the apprentice is now the master chef and can pass it on for future generations. This page is an absolutely magnificent tribute to a very special memory and person. The colours are beautiful and I love the cogs and clocks representing the passage of time and the tribute to heritage. Your banner tag is amazing and I love the paper it made from. This is such an amazing page. Love everything about.
Oh my, what a pretty LO; love the title but the very, very best was the sharing of your memories of your mom making peanut brittle. My MIL made peanut brittle every year at Christmas time for year and years and years. People she knew and people at her church would put in orders months before the holidays. I never learned to make it but I think my DH's niece did. I'm so happy you have these precious memories and pictures.
I got all excited reading the journaling and then went and looked at your scrap mess and forgot what I was doing so I had to come back here and tell you how wonderful this project is -- considering that you did it for the LEFTOVERS challenge. All scraps. That's fantastic. Once you get the hang of that challenge, it's really a lot of fun, and it is fun to dig through all those scrap papers and find a bunch of things to put together and make work. This turned out so pretty! And a lot of real estate agents will tell you to put an 'apple pie' simmer on your stove so that your house smells like home cooking. Guess your brittle is proof, huh? Thanks for playing in the Leftovers Challenge. I'm going to have to get to work on mine for that one pretty soon. Month's more than half-gone and I've not even started it yet.
I see your shoes on the floor, which means, I assume, that you're barefoot again. If I lived in Florida, I'd be barefoot all the time too! What a great room! And that's what MY desk looks like when it's CLEAN. LOL
Oh my what a lovely tribute to your mom and her famous brittle. Makes me want the recipe. I adore the way this story describes how giving and loving your mom was and how her tradition continues without her. Love the colors on the layout and the font on the title.
Great symbolism with the "old" flower-style pattern and newer modern arrow papers. Hope the GDs learn the technique so they can continue the tradition!
Well over 50 years ago my mother (Helen M) acquired a peanut brittle recipe that is the best one ever hands down!! She was given the recipe by one of the older ladies in the church (Margret Eddy) after mom had assisted in the making of batch after batch for the church bazaar. Something they did together for a number of years.
Mom continued to make this peanut brittle each year for friends and family. On occasion she would pass on the recipe to those that asked for it but after just a few years she quit passing it along because the process is unique and the people that would try could not perfect the method and in one case burned their counter top and blamed mother, maybe in an off hand manner but mom took it to heart.
From then on mom would only give the recipe to people that would “apprentice” with her when she made it. NO ONE took her up on that condition saying “Oh you will be around to make it for me”. No one that is until mom moved to Florida and began providing the peanut brittle to family and my co-workers each year…she continued for the rest of her life.
As the years went by one lady Joyce, wanted to learn how to make the brittle and I having never learned myself took lessons too. For 5 years we made peanut brittle with mom every fall (the only low humidity days) for the Thanksgiving holidays and Christmas.
This one of the last pictures taken with mom there for the event 2014… by 2015 she was just watching and giving advice. Joyce and I did the cooking, while my sister Jean took pictures.
2016 was the first time we made peanut and cashew brittle without mother; we did it in her home with a toast in moms' memory! The day we were making the brittle a couple called at the last minute wanting to view the house as it was on the market for sale. We told them we were in the process of making candy and could not leave the house… That couple ended up buying the house, as the lady said, “The house smelled so good it was like coming home”.
It is almost time to made this years brittle, and first doing so in my house. Each year we will drink a toast to mom!
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