80th Birthday

My sister had a lovely 80th birthday party on Sunday though her birthday wasn't until Tuesday. One of the collections of photos on display included an early picture of us and our brother. His son got a nice picture of the three of us again. This time my sister got to be the little one as she was sitting down. I think by looking closely you can see we still have a bit of the same look now as then. Amazing how time does fly!

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Designer Credits: Shabby Chic Rooms, Part 3 by Retro Designs
fonts: harrison, HansHand

Long Ago at Niagara Falls

Another challenge this month was to scraplift a layout from Elisa's gallery (EHStudios). I did my version with an old family photo of my father, brother and sister at Niagara Falls.

The first time my parents took me to Niagara Falls we continued from there west across the Niagara Frontier crossing back from Canada to the U.S. near Port Huron. We went along the St. Clair River and Lake St. Clair and made a memorable stop at Greenfield Village, an historic reenactment village near Detroit, Michigan. I wonder if this earlier trip might have been in March of 1940. That would have been my parents' 10th anniversary of their eloping to Ripley, New York. Even if it wasn't quite then, it must have brought back those memories when they traveled the same route part of the way to Niagara Falls.
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Designer Credits: 
-scraplift of EHStudio: Something Wonderful
-gray paper, flower, swirl: ZuzanaH Designs - Let Love Be Your Energy
-floral paper (yellow, desaturated): Lydia Designs - Happy to Be Me
-background paper: Fei-fei's Stuff - Party On Blog Train
-brown paper (gold, desaturated): Lydia Designs - Party On
-striped and dotted papers: One Little Bird - Party On
-blue paper: Fei-fei's Stuff - Cool Bliss
-snowflake cut from blue paper
fonts: Girls are Weird, Staccato222 BT