Journal Progress Photos

The pages for my class journal have taken a huge leap forward.

I played with TAP (Transfer Artist Paper) 

for the very first time over the weekend.

Photo on the left is my mother and 

the photo on the right is her sister 

(taken in the early 1950s).

The final two-page spread includes a 1955 photo of me

with my feet in the Pacific Ocean.

(I'm still drawn to water ~

lakes, rivers, streams, ponds, fountains . . .)

The tatting and crocheted laces were made by my grandmother,

the same woman who made the flimsy that became

my mother's quilt (all the way through

assisted living and skilled care ~

until the constant laundering wore it to shreds).

The book I started with was my aunt's.

I know because her name was in it.

DH scanned the inside cover of the book

to capture the library rules 

(double click to read ~ worth your time).

The faded so-soft piece of silk came from Spirit Cloth Jude.

My grandmother as a dashing young woman

(surrounded by fragments of her handwork).

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I am very much enjoying this class 

and have at least two more journals gestating

(one involving the bodice of my wedding dress

and the other DH's grandmother's buttons).

All in good time . . . 

Quiltdivajulie