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This is the right side my response to Tiffany's/whenscraphappen's SHCG Challenge to do a LO titled after a Beatles' song. The LO depicts a family get-together in Galveston TX; we try to get together annually because we all live in different states. I started writing on the photos to point out things I wanted to remember (the pet names DH & I have for our cameras, distant images of us in the background, the hotel hills we rolled down in my “Rolling The San Luis” LO, the fact that DH uses one of my purses as a murse – manpurse – to hold our videocamera aka “viddy”) & ended writing on all the photos. Don't know how well you can see this but I reduced several photos I didn't include, printed them on vellum in Word watermark mode & put them in the background, along w/ the lyrics printed on vellum, to make a sort of vellum collage & create a dreamy effect. The journaling block opens up to reveal a photo I LOVE of my nephews, parents & niece playing in the hotel pool; the photo didn't really fit w/ the others, which usually doesn't bother me, but I hid it because I wanted to make this challenge LO congruous.
Journaling: "In my life, there are fewer things I love more than my annual get together w/ my immediate family. Even if we dearly miss anyone who can't make it, as Romeo's family missed this Thanksgiving '05 in Houston/Galveston, TX, we still enjoy an abundance of memories that I wouldn't trade for the stars. After we rolled down the hills at the St. Luis on Saturday, we spent some time at the beach. The Gulf of Mexico was grayish-brown, the sun shone, the sky was clear, a cool wind blew; laughter, smiles & love overflowed. Funny moments - Daniel poking, smelling & throwing found objects, Shirley's zany dashing around behind Mom & Dad as I took a pic, Greg & I ever the tourists armed w/ 2 cameras. Poignant moments – Sally (whose brave battle against dermatomyositis wages on) & Shirley arm-in-arm touching their toes to the water, Sarah wading quite far into the Gulf seeming deep in thought, watching Dad & Mom w/ the kids & hoping maybe I can one day see them play w/ our kids. No matter what we do in life, the waves on the beach crash on w/ the cycle of life. I treasure these moments w/ my family so much."
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Thanks for spreading positivity!
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