The Watch...

The was a layout that I created over the weekend from one of the cybercrop challenges. It was a recipe challenge which meant that it had to follow very specific guidelines: one piece of polka dot paper, one piece of striped paper, one sheet of cardstock, one rub-on, one title using stickers or chipboard, one ribbon or rickrack, three buttons, and one optional other (which for my layout, was th journaling block.)

Well, this turned out to be a rather plain layout, but it tells an important story.

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The journaling says,

"February, 2008

One of Katherine's favorite toys has always been Ben's watch. She will spend hours chewing on it happily. As he prepared to leave for Iraq for 4 months, we talked about how much she was going to miss his watch. Well I should have known that Daddy was going to take care of his little girl. When it came time to pack, he bought a new watch so he could leave the other one for her. A quiet link to her daddy."

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The two photos...the one on the left is her with him with the old watch and then the one on the right is her trying to take off his new watch the day that he left for Iraq.

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My added embellishment was the journaling block from Creative Imaginations. Papers are SEI, Bazzill cardstock, Making Memories buttons, trim from Hancock fabrics, rub-ons (the row of watches) from 7gypsies, alpha stickers are Scenic Route.

smiles,

Christi