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greenpalm Aspiring Dreamer Registered: February 2008 Posts: 17 users gallery	Journaling: My mother brought me home from the hospital in this mint green dress. She stuck the tiny matching bow into my wispy copper peach fuzz with Karo syrup. My little nursery was decorated in the same shade of green. Even now, green remains my favorite color. When I was expecting Eleanor we, like my parents, did not know if she was a girl or a boy, but I laundered the little green dress and hung it in the nursery closet so it would be ready…just in case. She was born at home, so there was no trip home from the hospital. Instead, she wore the dress to our traditional first dinner out. When I looked more closely at the dress, I discovered that it is handmade. There is tiny delicate hand embroidery on it, and it is clearly hand hemmed. I wondered who made it. I dropped Chug an email to see if she might know. In her response, I was suprised to learn that Allison and Wendy each wore the dress home from the hospital too! That made me wish I had sent it down to Austin to Allison, when Eavan was born, so she could have been included in the tradition. Chug has forgotten who made the little dress. Mom would have remembered, but some things were just lost along with her. At least we have the dress, and each other. Journaling: February 20, 2008 We lost my mother to Leukemia 5 years ago. Next week is her birthday. Chug is her cousin, and like an aunt to me, as they were both only children. Allison & Wendy are Chug’s daughters, Eavan is Allison’s daughter who is 9 months older than my daughter Eleanor. The photos are of Eleanor & me, each wearing the dress at age 2 months. I scanned and extracted the embroidery from the dress to use as an element on the page. I also scanned my mother’s handwriting from the back of the photo of me and blended it into the photo, then did the same with my handwriting on Eleanor’s photo. This is for the Little Dreamer Designs Blog Challenge, and was heavily influence by Dagmar. BG Paper - Misty Mareda, Pumpkin Pie Gina Miller Old Cottage Ginghams Green Solid - Kaye Winiecki Blush 3 Prints: Jen Wilson, Being; Nostalgia 1; Sweet Candy Stitches from Katie Pertiet, Flossy Stitches, recolored Single Embroidered Flowers - Bette Duganitz, Bette’s Embroidered Alpha Poly Clay Flowers - Kaye Winiecki (I have been dying to use these!) Swirl - Obsidian Dawn (part of iscrapbook library) Textured Bracket from Jackie Eckles (I’ve never used a bracket before, thanks for helping me grow ) Katie Pertiet: Border Die Cuts No.2 Leora Sanford Frayed Fabric Templates 3 Fonts are Morning Limerick BTN and Dyer Thank you so much for looking. A lot of heart and soul went into this layout.
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Dagmar

Day Dreamer

Registered: April 2007
Posts: 305

23 February 2008 9:22am

OMG - this gives me chills! I love that you put your mother's handwriting on your page and then then a part of that dress!! Wonderful wonderful page!!

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Michelley-Jelly

Registered: April 2007
Posts: 1,805

23 February 2008 9:58am

This is beautiful!! Such wonderful journaling, thanks so much for sharing it with us! Smile

Scorpio Sue

Registered: May 2007
Location: outside Chicago
Posts: 2,115

23 February 2008 10:29am

Absolutely adorable. What a great tradition and love the mint green.

Crissy

Registered: April 2007
Location: Utah
Posts: 1,556

23 February 2008 10:32am

This is WONDERFUL!! I love everything about this LO, especially that scanned in embroidery from the dress. How very Creative!! TFS!!

Jackie

Registered: May 2007
Location: Germany
Posts: 1,196

23 February 2008 10:43am

this is so beautiful - love the scanned embroidery, too!

jodo

Registered: April 2007
Posts: 1,680

23 February 2008 10:50am

WoW! This is a really beautiful page and a beautiful story. What a precious tradition. Great work!!

Susan Toon

Day Dreamer

Registered: May 2007
Posts: 254

23 February 2008 11:25am

Oh WOW....I love everything about this. What a keepsake

Ana Amorim

Visionary Dreamer

Registered: April 2007
Location: Brazil
Posts: 788

23 February 2008 11:36am

I also LOVE the scanned embroidery!!! What a sweet-lovely-wonderful composition! TFS!

tsajones

Moonstruck Dreamer

Registered: April 2007
Location: Pacific Northwest, USA
Posts: 1,430

23 February 2008 11:50am

This is wonderful! I love your journaling, it is so special and your daughter will love to read about this sweet dress one day and maybe even have her daughter wear it Smile

You did a terrific job with this challenge, your page is beautiful!

aneal
Day Dreamer

Registered: May 2007
Posts: 269

23 February 2008 12:46pm

this is just beautiful work -- I love all the authentic personal touches. These are the types of things that really make this hobby special.

Janet Phillips

Aspiring Dreamer

Registered: May 2007
Posts: 69

23 February 2008 2:30pm

Wow...what an amazing page! So much work and love went into it! I love that you added scans of the dress and of your mother's handwriting!

lhanks

Aspiring Dreamer

Registered: May 2007
Posts: 195

23 February 2008 4:51pm

beautiful page!

jennifer22

Visionary Dreamer

Registered: May 2007
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 593

23 February 2008 5:14pm

Wow! I love the embroidery- what a fabulous idea and you executed it beautifully! Your journaling is so beautiful, too. I love the details in your story- like the Karo syrup!- it makes page come alive! And of course, the photos are priceless. This is such a treasure!

LaurenReid

Visionary Dreamer

Registered: May 2007
Posts: 606

23 February 2008 7:11pm

awe, what a sweet sweet memory to have scrapped!!! amazing extraction job!!! thanks so much for playing with us! xo

alb52

Registered: April 2007
Posts: 714

23 February 2008 9:43pm

wow this is just fab.
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