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Today I did my monthly volunteer work for the county (but miles away) family history centre in the library. I was reminded of a day when a woman from Texas came here (to Ontario) looking for family info. It just so happens that I had written about her ancestor's hotel built in my home town in 1900 and I was able to show her what I had and to take her and her husband for a drive to show them what was left to see (the foundation outline only). That was back in July 2022, and we had a lot of fun with the materials she brought along which included some very old photos. In the pic, I'm at left, she's in the middle, and another volunteer is right. Just a lot of elements and blending and playing going on.

here is my day 7, day 6 is not finished yet

Down to the wire with these, but here are Days 3 and 4.

And Day 5.

My father had a "family Bible" with entries of our Dutch Terwilliger ancestors going back to the early 1600's also. They arrived in the New World by sailing up the Hudson River and disembarking in Kingston, Ulster County, New York. Across the river is New Paltz, where we found a set of paintings of the ship, the Gilded Otter, in an antiques shop, split on two wooden boards. My daughter Laurey has been pursuing our genealogy via Ancestry.com. I tried reuniting the two sides of the ship, though not super successful in my eyes, a few years ago, using PSP.

I am very lucky that my ancestry is mostly French and French catholic churches were very detailed for records. Most church records that have not been destroyed in fires for example, have been microfilmed or compiled. I have one branch that goes back 15 generations, and around the time Champlain came to North America, around 1608. And then, some books have also ancestry further in Europe.

I would love to have my family tree done, but the records for Jewish immigrants from Eastern Europe are close to impossible for me to find. I can only go back as far as my grandparents who came to the U.S. as children at the turn of the last century. Too bad I'm not a celebrity or Dr. Henry Louis Gates Jr. could do the work for me on Finding My Roots! 🙂 One of these days, I'll invest some time and money to see if I can trace my roots.

I don't mind at all. It's for my FB gaming group, CGL Fabulous Divas. The game is City Girl Life which is very similar to The Sims. It gives us a different theme every day so I make a Daily Look post. The game is dying down so after ten years or so, my group may be closing soon. On the upside, I'll have more time to devote to my scrapbooking lessons! BTW, I didn't name the group; I inherited it. 😁

Rene before my first husband and I could get married in 1960, he had to be baptized into my Lutheran Church as he had been raised Bible Baptist and they didn't do infant baptism. It had to wait until you were of age to make the commitment. He was 23 that year and I was only 19.

I started researching in the 90's before information was on the internet. But Cyndi's List was an essential resource since the lady that did it compiled all known places to go to find information in a website. I made trips to several larger libraries to research. I did start out with a lot of information because my grandmother had done research back in the 1950's... all by writing letters. She wanted to prove DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) but never got the definitive proof needed. Word of mouth does have the ancestry going back to a man who served in the war. I actually started a project last summer of transcribing all the membership, baptism, marriage and death records for my church onto a spreadsheet. It's been on hold since October because of all my medical stuff going on. But when I'm done, I will give a copy to our local library's genealogy section (along with a copy to the church). I actually found out that my dad was baptized at the age of 25 and joined the church the same day!

When I was in College, I got into genealogy and there was a big library of compiled parish records of most of the Quebec province, and some outside. I had notebooks of notes to transcribe. We didn't have computers back then, to access all the information that is now easily available.

This is what I'm currently working on: Carole's Pencil Sketch2 script. Having a lot of fun! I did the four cats and then combined them with papers and embellishments from the ID-Circle of Life Kit. I have a total of 5 images; one for each cat and then the composite layout. All the backgrounds are from the kit. I also included a folded edge on the lower left sketch of Mommy in the composite. EDIT: Didn't care for the layout so I revised it a bit.

My dad was not raised attending church. His mother was Catholic, his father never went to church and wouldn't allow the kids to attend the Catholic church. So all of the 13 kids that got married usually joined the religion/church their spouse attended. For dad, it was Methodist. For several others, it was the Catholic church. Grandma never forgot her upbringing and when she attended weddings of grandchildren that were in a Catholic church, she kneeled when it was appropriate to do so. The family is split pretty even between Catholic and Protestant. I told an uncle about what I found and he said that in the last couple of years when he converted to Catholicism from Church of Christ he had to know his baptismal date. So he checked with the church he attended the whole time he was married previously. He was also in his 20's. Mom and Dad had gotten married in Mom's church about 4 months before he joined.

The dog in the 3rd picture makes me smile each time I see this. A sweet-looking Doodle perhaps? Not what I would expect to see in an old wild west environment, but I like it anyway.

I have also played with the pencil script here are my photos the last one I used also the watercolor script

I guess you can't teach an old dog new tricks! I do not remember PSP being this hard 12-15 years ago when I was doing digital scrapbooking Anyway here's day 4.

And day 7.

And finally Day 6.

this is my day 6 template

My husband has done a lot of research into his and mine family history, for almost 20 years he had his own website. But now it is almost impossible to find new data. In WWII a lot is destroyed and over the years a lot of books that in the old days were kept in the churches went missing as well. He got as far back as possible ( somewhere in 1600) and a branch of both our families came from Germany and France.

Being adopted I find all your ancestry stories to be fascinating. Thank you for sharing them so openly. Ann, I didn't even notice until I read your post about you putting the two halves together.

Really nice, Anja! I especially like the one with a little touch of color.

I haven't made anything with it yet, I've had the script since yesterday and am experimenting, I think this is such a cool script! me and Poncho, a photo of a horse that I took on one of our walks, and my daughter, years ago when she still worked as a tour guide

Week 4 was a week of storm damage and the arrival of the first snowdrops. I chose a photo of the snowdrops because it was a happier image.

Week four and the start of the Tulip season! 🌷 Tulips are now widely available in the shops and I bought a bunch. It will take 3 or 4 months before they will be in bloom outdoors; the ones we can buy now are grown in glasshouses. The start of the season is always on Tulipday, which is the 3rd Saturday of January and is celebrated in Amsterdam on a square in the city center. There is a huge display of tulips and when the official opening is over, people can come and pick a bunch of tulips for free. I have never been there because it is not where I live. I'll buy them in a shop, but it always gives you the feeling that Spring isn't that far away!

P52 Week One I am finally on board. I used Arial for this card. Two scripts were used: Custom Playing Cards and the new Counting Cards. Both very versatile scripts by the way. I love having the the choice of Vector format for the lettering on the Counting Cards Script - thank you Carole for thinking of the user and giving so much versatility to us. The Custom playing card script is very cool. It makes mask for the photo, but you have the option to turn off the mask and put the photo between the bottom and 'suit' layer...but dont be like me and forget to use the magic wand and clip off the extra photo bits or you wont get that round card corner from the bottom layer. the second photo I add is how I will choose which card to do for each week. It's all going to be the same photo and deck (isnt that the weirdest looking deck of cards?) so maybe I'll only post the turned over card every once in a while. the little Magnet I made is from this round (what I thought was a) deck of cards, only about 2 inches in diameter. It's called 5 Crowns and has and extra suit. I thought they were cute and were a complete deck. well, there is no Aces or 2's so I'll have to make up something. And I changed the color as the clubs were green. I needed a way to show an off-white playing card in the forum which is white so I chose to use the Counting Cards script and place in on a background. It's fun getting back to PSP. I will still be behind, but I'm going to catch up after this coming busy week.

I have a gas stove so the broiler is on the bottom. It came with a broiler pan with two layers a slotted one and a drip pan under it. I make sure after I have put the steaks on a plate to take the pan to the sink and use the sprayer to rinse the " good stuff " off the top into the pan below. Then I empty the water with all those good seasonings into a pot to make some Au Jus to use with the steaks or put away for later. I guess because the steaks are pretty lean there isn't a lot of fat in it. Of course with today's prices I don't do many steaks anymore.

I think I need to be reminded why you do "Divas" as layouts. If I did know, I've forgotten. Hope you don't mind.

Yes, it comes with 34 brushes!

This was one of the dingbats in today 2/26/24 free font on Creative Fabrica. " House-Plants-29702631" I used one of them and put it on a wood background and did the cut out the way Cassel showed us how to do in the recent workshop. I thought it turned out pretty so I am posting it.

I am glad to see those workshops being enjoyed by the participants, even though they are repeated. I guess the next workshop will be an easy one for you!

@Cassel I just want to say "Thank you!" for the 2024 Template Workshop. It proved to be a wonderful refresher course since I took the 2022 Challenge. I did learn some new things, used kits from other designers where I have been prone to use my own things lately (which isn't so bad I guess); that neat tool of using blend modes and opacity to produce new takes for backgrounds; also learned new things to think about from the other participants in this workshop. Thanks again.

I just check it out and it's a cool script. I'd also add to watch the video, it's very good. Michele, does all those brushes shown in the video come with that script? that alone is worth the price!

I take it: pets. 😺 Here are my Ferals with better photos. I call the young male Thunderbolt and the adult is Mommy. I used a new kit from Gingerscraps called The Circle of Life based on The Lion King. The new word is: Valentine.

"I take it" Children. NEW WORD -- Pets. (dogs, cats, fish, mice -------)

I don't have a slow cooker, but I'm glad you were happy with your results.

Interestingly, just this weekend, we tried a new recipe for chicken breasts. It was soooooo easy (5 minutes prep). It is to cook those breasts in the slow cooker. NO LIQUID added, yet, it generated almost a cup of its own juice and the meat was so tender.

Lesson 3- Bit behind but it's what I can do right now. Font is Villanesia and Yoshieka. Flowers are made with cass-folded flower1 script. Caspian is the first child from my second daughter's son and wife, Connor and Whitney.

I take it 🙂 I started without a template, wow, to fill it when you don't have an idea how to fill it.............was difficult. I started with the photo and then mats, looked in my stash for spring elements and found a freebie form Carole too. The result is maybe not as nice as earlier projects, but it's ok. Used blend mode, texture effects/blinds. The new word is children 🙂

Good question. The Clip to it script was created to simulate the "clipping mask" in Photoshop, and it will use the paper/photo you place on top of the shape. The Raster-to-mask will do the same thing as the Clip to it EXCEPT that it will stop at the mask creation while the Clip to it will ALSO grab the layer above (paper or photo) and move it inside the mask group. So the Clip to it might be more convenient when you want to use a specific image/paper, while the Raster to mask will stop after the mask group creation when you might not yet have decided on the paper/photo.