Telephone card

 This telephone card was made using a die cut that was sent to me by Darnell (you can see her blog on my side bar)  Thank you again Darnell) .  My hubby cut out all the little numbers and glued them on for me...  (It took a long time to do that.  He, obviously, had a lot more patience than I have.)

Hopefully, I didn't post this before, because I made the card several weeks ago.  At least I don't remember posting it.  I made the card to put in th memory ablum I had made in honor of the dear friend I lost in January.  Carol and I would chat on the phone together a lot.  Especially when we had to shelter in place.  

I was always  so thankful for those phone calls.  We could talk about so many different things, and almost always we would have something to laugh about.  It just seemed like this would make a great card for the book that I made for my friend's dauhgter.  I made it for the last page.  

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Blessings,

Jill

Another page from my memory book

As I said in my previous posts, besides giving my friend's daughter a memory book of her Mother's pictures, etc.  I also put some of the greeting cards that I made in the book, so she could just pull them out and use them.

The above card is made from a 3D sheet I had for a long time.

 I felt like a kid going to school on  her first day when I joined the Y for the first time (as a Senior Citizen)  Since there were no pools in the area where I grew up, and through the years, Hubby and I have rarely vacationed somewhere where there was a pool....

This was a real treat for me, to have my first ever pool membership...  I was a little nervous going to the pool by myself for the first time, so my friend, Carol, volunteered to come over to my town and go swimming with me for the first time.  We had a blast!  She had a Y in her town that she used to go swimming.   I guess I should say get wet in ....   In my case anyway!  Smile.  Yes, I confess I don't know how to swim.  I was just thinking of taking swimming lessons there  when the virus hit and the pool was shut down.

The picture above is not the pool I actually got to swim in but it reminded me of the pool that used to be there...sadly, it' no longer exsists.  It was a heated pool.  It also had high  windows to look out  while I was swimming.

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Blessings,

Jill

My friend's Memory book

I mentioned on my blog before that I was doing some work on scrapbooks and Journals. I forget how much time these kind of projects take.

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I lost a very long time dear friend in January.  It hit me quite hard.  Even though I kew she had some serious health issues.  Her heart attack hit me really 0ff guard.

I wanted to do something in her memory (and something for my therapy in a way).

I came up with the idea of doing a memory book.  After I started the book and put family pictures and stories into the book...  The thought came to me that her daughter might like a copy of my book too.

so 120   6 X 6 pages later. (for both books)  I have her daughter's book finished and gave to her this past weekend.  I thought she might like it...but I never thought it would mean as much to her as it did.

I am so glad now, that I took the time to do this, (and Yes, these kind of books are time consuming).  But sometimes so worth it!

There's a lot I wouldn't be able to share, these's many personal pictures of her family and I did a lot of persoanl sharing on someof the pages...However, I am going to try and share what I can.

My friend and her husband went out one New Year's eve with us, and I put the pictures of us in the book.  I think it was the LAST New year's eve we ever went to again in a club.  smile.   It was a long time agao, but the one thing I remember was how noisy it was.  I had a terrible headach the next day.

(those things you tend to rmember) but it was not from too much drinking!  It was from the noise.

Anyway, I put the pics in the book and for my friend's daughter I also put some of my home made cards throughout the book, and this is one of them.  I made it that she could just take it out of the book and use it.

She could use it for a New Year's card,  50th Anniversary card, etc.

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Blessings,

Jill