Sepia Saturday

This is our inspirational photo for Sepia Saturday this week !


Well here is my three chaps



The person on the left is my Grandfather Robert Edwards, I am not sure yet about the one in the middle and on the right. What I can guess is they are family relatives as I have another picture of the three of them as young boys along with my Grandfathers brother, Basil. This i turned into a scrapbook layout.



I also did this one of my Grandfather as a little boy.... Yes Boy but if he was dressed like this today we would think he was a girl!



This is what I did with this photo for my Family History album



I made this scrapbook layout with Ancestory paper from K&Co and stamped flowers from Heartfelt Creations, that I layered and glued together.

My family history Album is a mix of photos information and scrapbook layouts, I hope the generations that follow me will enjoy reading the information I have put together for them!
I will try and share some of it with you over the coming months of Sepia Saturday!

To see more photos of times gone by just pop over to the Sepia Saturday blog.

What's on your work desk Wednesday

I've been busy on my desk this week, here it is



Firstly you can see I finished my layout I was just starting last week, here is a close up of it.....it's a very Autumnal picture.









Hope this gives you a bit of an idea of how it came out!

I used the Creative Expressions gilding wax with there blending solution to make a painting medium and painted the Heartfelt Creations flowers, I had stamped then cut them out with the matching Heartfelt creations die.



I also painted this I cut out with a spellbinders die


Shaped and moulded my flowers and glued them together with my glossy accents glue.



I then stamped my scarecrow and coloured with Prisma pencils and then blended with Creative Expressions blending fluid and a paper stub.


Thus the end result was this layout



If you would like to go visit other crafty desks ....
Click on the link on the right hand side of my blog marked Stamping Ground and the lovely Julia will explain how you can see desks all around the world.
Thank you for visiting my desk this week
P.s
My husband has informed me I have to have my craft room all cleared up and tidy by Thursday night as the man is coming to put my skirting board on around the bottom of the walls!!!!! ....... Help!

Sepia Saturday

A man with two wives



This was our inspirational photo this week!
Was he a man with two wives?

Well here is my contribution this week....
These are two of my family photos the first is my Great Grandfather Basil Edwards and his second wife Kate


And this one is Annie his first wife


Here is a scrapbook layout I did with these photos




The story is a sad story.......
Annie and Basil were married and had four children, one of which was my Grandfather. I was told by my mothers cousin George,who was taken by his mum to visit his Grandad Basil and Grandma Annie, as a small child, that she was a lovely lady kind and loving. She had a small gift for him on one visit of a little tin clockwork mouse, she had hidden in the bottom drawer of a dresser.

Grandad Basil on the other hand was not so nice and kept a stick by the side of his chair, and would say to George that if he moved he would use the stick to hit him.He was so awful to my Grandfather, his son that he left home before he was sixteen and went to live with his mothers mother in Boston and did a carpenters six year apprenticeship. My Grandad had won a scholarship to the Grammar school but Basil would not let him go, as in his eyes there was no point, as he expected my Grandfather to join him and go to sea as a fisherman like he had done, with his father.He was not poor, he had been brought up as a child in a household with servants.Sadly he was not nice to Annie and friends would tell her to leave him, as she was a fantastic dressmaker she could earn her keep, she would not hear of such a thing and said she had married for better or worse and she was his wife and would stay put, she had not come from such a good background as Basil's had.
In those days it did not take much for a man to get his wife put into an asylum. He got a doctor to sign the forms and she was sent to Bracebridge Asylum, near Lincoln,where I found her on the census.
He soon after went on to marry Kate his second wife. He got his comeuppance though..... He died a couple of years later still in his 50's!

My mother and I only found all this out a few years ago. It helped my mother understand why her father never took her to see her Grandad and Grandmother.

What's on my work desk Wednesday

A fresh start on my desk this week................



You can see my middle space is clear ready to start on a new project.
You can see my box of Heartfelt Creations stamps on the right , to the left you will see lots of bits, embossing folders, pearl swirls, dazzlers and above there is gilding wax,cosmic shimmer polished silk glitter, cosmic shimmer watercolour paints some texture paste and gilding flakes, plus other bits and bobs! At the far back my album for Project Life and front left some heritage scrapbook layouts in a folder and a box of photos.
Below is the new project I am starting on



You'll have to come back next week and see how it develops!

For the first time ever I have put blog candy on my blog, details at the top of my blog on the right!

If you would like to look round other crafty desks just click onto the linked marked Stamping Ground and the lovely Julia will explain all.
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Sepia Saturday

This was our photo for inspiration for this weeks Sepia Saturday, the picture came from a collection owned by Brett Payne (same name as my husbands Great Grandfather!)

My problem came when I looked through my photos and did not have very much I could link with this lovely picture of ladies in a park having afternoon tea!

So this is the best I could do....



This picture was taken in 1936 in the park in Boston, Lincolnshire. It is of a lady called Ada (on the right) and her daughter( born out of wedlock) She is the sister of my Great Great Grandmother.
And my Scrapbook page link is one of my Grandfather a Lincolnshire born man, who worked for the local council as a gardener. He mainly used to look after the flower beds in the Tower Gardens Park at Skegness. Which reminds me of a little story my dad told me..



One day he had gone to see his dad at work in the Tower Gardens when a young very pretty blonde women, had throw her arms round him and given my dad a kiss..... This got back to my mum, as it was witnessed by a neighbour, mum was all guns blazing by the time my dad had got home...... Turned out dads sister had just arrived back in the UK and had come to look for her dad to say hello and also found her brother, who she was thrilled to see!!!!

What's on my work desk Wednesday

Here it is......no it's not the same as last week .....honest!



Now the same scrapbook layout is on my desk as last week, thats because I did decide to take the knife to it and gut the photograph in the centre out! Felt a bit scary cutting round all the flowers but end result is now straight and I'm pleased I did it !



So this is it put straight and I am now happy with it!



Also on my desk you can see my Stamperama shopping on the right ... Here is a close up. ( I got some paint from Paperartsy, and some plain white card not shown in the picture )


I have also made a couple of cards this week using the lovely Lavinia stamps, here they are..






Thank you for the kind wishes regarding my flood, as I write I have four fans still going and a machine taking the water out of the Air. Seems I still have another week to put up with this before the carpet can be put back and cleaned!
Then the ceiling will have to be dealt with! Flooding really does make a mess of things!
Powerful stuff fire and water! Which makes me think, must get back and check my dragons(Dragon vale) the youngsters have been talking about it so much I thought I ought to give it a go! Now I have been doing it for a while seems I now talk their language!!!!!

If you would like to visit other crafty desks .... Just click on the link on the right hand side marked Stamping Ground and all will be explained by the lovely Julia .

Sepia Saturday

Welcome to Sepia Saturday



My contribution to the blog site this week which is about contraptions is this photo



This is one of my ancestors, still trying to work out who,but you all might be able to solve this! What is the contraption he is using? And around what date would it have been in use?
Any thoughts from you fellow Sepia Saturday folk? Here is a close up of my ancestor maybe the bikes in the background could help you date this ? You can also see the top of the contraption in his hand .... I think it's my great great grandfather, just not 100% yet!



I also thought I would show this picture,this is my great grandmother his daughter, with the family car.



And to Finnish I have a scrapbook layout I made of her to show you. Sadly I only have two photos of my Great Grandmother the one above and the one on my layout. She was a lovely lady and an amazing dressmaker I was told. I made all the flowers and little bits and bobs on this layout ,except the dress form which I purchased. The backing is made of burlap fabric. I even photo copied then aged adverts from papers of that time.

What's on my work desk Wednesday

Here is my desk this week



I have sorted it out and cleared up since last week and now have projects I am working on scattered around the desk.
I started making lots of Heartfelt Creations flowers last month you saw rows of them as i cut them out! After cutting them out I shaped them with my ball tools on a foam mat, took a few hours.





After that I glued them together and started on my scrapbook page



I carried on placing flowers around the page till it was full



Then I added lots of little gems to give it a bit of bling!



Then the page was finished. Here it is close up



Am I happy with it .....I'm just not sure ......I did it on a slant now its all glued down I don't think it works as well as if I had put it straight!!!!!! So I think best I sleep on my thoughts and see how I feel tomorrow about it .....

Just a sorry that I did not return all visits last week, I normally do, but the upstairs bathroom flooded and I had water coming through the ceiling, the smell of wet plaster.... Yuck, now it's the smell of wet carpet I had left it thinking in this heat it would dry out( how wrong I was) when we get back from my hospital visit to the eye specialist, we will rip it up!

So if you would like to have a look round some other desks this week please click on the link on the right hand side of my blog marked stamping ground and all will be explained by the lovely Julia.

Lavinia Stamps

I was looking through my Lavinia Stamps this weekend as you can see here



And some of my layouts....... Where I tried different mediums for the backgrounds.









And made this tag



I am entering this post in the Lavinia Stamps challenge blog

http://laviniastamps.com/blog/category/the-challenge/

Sepia Saturday 188 ... Life on a fishing boat in the 1930's

This is the first time I have joined Sepia Saturday




I found this blog while I was visiting a craft desk on Wednesday on WOYWW ( what's on your work desk Wednesday) . So I thought I would have a go and join in as I spend as much time on my Heritage/Ancestory hobby and I do on my Scrapbooking
This is a scrapbook layout I did about my Great Grandfather Basil Edwards who like his father and his grandfather was a fisherman. He lived in Grimsby where he worked. This layout shows life on the boat catching the fish and also the other side


Of catching mines in the nets of the boats. I also incorporated his death certificate which shows just how dangerous it was, as that was in fact what killed him.
I did a second layout on the same theme showing life on the fishing boat, washing the decks down etc. both a little different, not sure which I prefer, the main thing is I am recording my family history for the generations who follow me. That way the photos are not just passed down in a box with no names or stories and get thrown away, by those who have no idea that it is there past, the people who have them there genetics to make them who they are today!


If you are interested in family history and Scrapbooking, I have written a series in Scrapbook magazine about Heritage Scrapbooking, part2 in out now and can be purchased in most WH Smiths.



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