As always with old photos, there is a back story not immediately obvious on first viewing of the photo. When I found the photo on the left hand page I just thought it was a happy family snap of mum's relatives and then I realised the significance of it. This was the last photo taken before mum embarked on a full day's journey to join dad in New Guinea. She must have been filled with mixed emotions leaving Melbourne for the first time to go to some wild place!
Today's pages come out of the vault. They were made 9 years ago but the words hold true today. Yesterday being Mother's Day, my daughter posted a link on Facebook about how she will become like me as she grows older. It got me thinking how similar we are and how like her grandmother she is too. Then I remembered these pages.
These are 2 more pages from my Book of Me album. I want future generations to know the character traits that run in our family.
It's Father's Day in Australia on Sunday. My darling Dad passed away 8 years ago but I wanted to honour him here today. This is a layout from the vault, made just a few days after his death. Scrapbooking really is my therapy and making pages of this gorgeous man helped me get through those first hard weeks without him.
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