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this is my in-laws' wedding photo. Unfortunately, I don't know who everyone in the photo is. The original photo was very yellowed and I made it black and white.

Still working on it. I guess this is about midway in the total trip. We are now in Wyoming and will be there for a couple of days. The campground is 7000 feet, and with my COPD, it is pretty tough breathing at first. Second day I felt better and went with Joe and Laurie to some of the places they went to on this day. The flag and seal for Wyoming is from the web and the curvy road sign is from Pixel Scrapper (also the 2 rv's on the concrete road).

GRANDDAUGHTER ANNA & HUSBAND, TJ, VISIT HIS FAMILY IN SOUTH KOREA - SEPT 2023 - Anna and Tj live in San Jose, California. She is the daughter of my daughter, Debbie, and aunt to baby Magic and Raja. Anna is a Speech Language Pathologist and Tj is a Senior Software Engineer for Meta. They've been married for 6 years and have 2 cats. All papers and embellishments are from Marisa Lerin "Korea" kit except for flag and map from Google search. Scraplift: Travel Challenge Day 8 by Mary Solaas (mostly for paper layer design). cass-date stamp 13-softlight layer effect +reverse shadow. Font = Agency. This is a departure for me. I usually prefer cleaner, less fussy pages, but this just worked this way, I guess. Maybe it's the Korean influence. ?

Master Class - Paint Shop Christmas 5 - Carole has us drawing gnomes for any of our projects.

Thanks, @Julie Magerka, but I have trouble drawing a stick figure!

There's no deadline. Keep at it!

E = Enchantment: a magical spell or charm

I also noticed on CF a couple of days ago, a free course on DRAWING gnomes. You can really get your fix that way!

C = Candy of course.

I find all your pages outstanding, Mary. The layouts are very effective. The offset papers and photos are very pleasing to look at. Driving around the Black Hills has always been on my bucket list and, thanks to you, here I can do it virtually.

And now for pages 15 and 16 - the Badlands. Had to edit it to put the date stamp sticker on it.

It is surprising how some folks act during times of deep sadness. When mom was in the hospital, she shared a room with a woman she knew in passing at stores etc. They both delivered their babies within a minute or two of each other. Robert was the lady's son and I Dorothy arrived on the scene. So, Robert and I in time passing shared the same school's name but in different states. Roberts family soon bought a beach cottage a half block from ours. We shared a 13th birthday party as Robert and I had become good playmates and were good friends. That winter Robert fell off the back of his dad's truck, hit his head and was pronounced dead. We attended his funeral. Two weeks later they sold their business, house and beach cottage and just left. Her husband later wrote my Mom . "She could not bear to see me still alive and her son gone".