It's only fair that I gave equal time to GRANDMAs here! To download this FREE WordArt, click below:

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Here's a page I made using this WordArt... sweet or what? It's my mom with my niece last year when I went to Italy to visit during my parent's 50th Anniversary! I used a quickpage and I added some elements to it as well.

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug2007.html

Here's a page I made using the Word Art I created. The great thing about the word 'grandpas' being 'grey' is that you can use the hue/saturation feature in PSP or Photoshop and change the color of it to fit your page's needs. Cool or what? I made this page with photos of my dad playing with my son Nicky. Very cute! I used a background page with just a couple of elements, I mainly used a mask to create the effect around the photos.

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/dec20012.html


This second image is a vintage picture of my dad when he was 23 years old! Oh... the handsome devil! I used a quickpage for this one.

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/vintage/apr1953.html

Wow! Has it been this long since I last posted? That's what happens when life takes over I guess, LOL.
This first page is a QP of course, I have no time to do pages in any other way lately. This picture was taken in 1998 when I went to visit my aunt Marisa (my mom's sister, which just happens to be my GodMother, my middle name is Marisa after her) in Aosta, in northern Italy with Nicky and my dad. My mom took this beautiful picture!

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1990s/aug98.html


This second page is three pictures from our summer visit to the beach of my family in 1968. GASP-40 years ago! Yet another QP.

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1960s/summer68.html

I did a couple of new pages today. This first one is a Winni Scrapbooking lesson-it's my sister Lorena with my dad on her wedding day in 1984. This is a rare occasion, my sister is a typical tomboy, so to see her with make-up and a dress on... all I can say is WOWIE!

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1980s/lesson34.html



Second photo... I was in my favorite city in Italy, Firenze, in 1998. Hard to believe it's been 10 years! BOO!

BIGGER VERSION HERE:

http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1990s/sept98.html

After a while without doing anything, I got the bug today. I have mucho things to do, but no gauze so I have some extra time.

FIRST ONE!

This is my grandma, or, as I call her, NONNA Rina. This photo was taken in 1978 I believe, she was 75 years old. She lived to be 101!

Used a quickpage for this one, no time to do it in a more creative way today.
BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1970s/1978.html

SECOND ONE!

My mom Laura on her honeymoon in Venice with the pidgeons! Love this one. Another quickpage...
BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/vintage/aug57.html

THIRD ONE!

Greg and I in Italy this past summer. My mommy actually took this photo, I love it! Yet another quickpage. So many ideas... so little time, what can I say?

BIGGER VERSION HERE:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug072.html

Having one of those months... some days are so bad I feel like driving myself into a lake! AARGHHH. This is the first day this whole month that I do not have a sore throat and I have nausea if I spend too much time on the computer, but I am so behind on my stuff, how can I? Nicky has been home most of the month, no break from the little yellow bus for me. Thankfully hubby is there for me... he's the BEST.

This picture was taken in the summer of 1970-my sister and I with my grandparents (my mom's parents). Hard to believe they were both younger than my parents are now in this picture and both died just a few years later. I miss them, especially my grandma.
I followed a Winni scrapbooking tutorial for this one, BIGGER VERSION here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1970s/aug70.html

Nicky's been home since his "accident". Sigh. He'll go back to school on Monday, he was in just too much pain. I am just about to go play Mario Kart for the WII with him as soon as I am done with this!
Isn't this picture amazing? I was 2 years old and I am in my grandfather's arms. He's my mom's dad. It's a RARE photo with him, I only have a handful. He died when I was 13 of liver failure. In this photo with us are my sister Lorena below us and to the side my cousins Esther, Elena and Ivo. I am probably closer to Elena right now, she's a sweetheart, she lives close to my parents so I always get news from her family. She just recently became a grandmother, imagine that! My cousin Esther's son Sabino lives and works in Australia, the handsome devil. I hear from Ivo's wife every now and again.

Bigger version of this picture here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1960s/fall1966.html

I don't feel quite as creative today... so, this page I made out of a ready-made quickpage. The pictures were really small that's why I opted for them to be smallish on the page as well. One of the pics it's actually a bit blurred even, but still, these two pics were taken the same day on December 11th 1972. Gosh... so long ago... and... what the heck was I wearing? MOM??? LOL. Oh yeah... it was the seventies, I forgot! LOL!!!
Bigger version is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1970s/dec72.html
It's been a strange day. I worked this AM and then my ex came to get Nicky and it's so strange not having to worry about Nicky for a couple of days. This is a new thing. Nicky's dad only moved to this area late last year and until a couple of months ago he would come and visit and stay with us. Tomorrow should be a fun filled day... we're all going to a Walkathon for Fybromyalgia Awareness and will try to raise EB Awareness at a booth. One of the other EB moms is in charge of the whole thing and a few other moms I know will be there as well, should be pretty fun. I just hope that my voice comes back full force and that my coughs goes away!
I am listening to Clay's new album... LOVE IT! Yey!

Someday my Ship will come...

I saw this layout on the August 2007 issue of Digital Scrapbooking magazine, the one I took to Italy with us. On one of the advertisements there was the back of this little boy, maybe 2 years old, looking at the school bus and the layout simply stated 'someday *my* bus will come'. I thought it was cute and thought nothing of it until one of our days in Venice, when we were having dinner by the Rialto bridge and Connor just stood there for a while, looking at the boats go by and though of doing a page of him waiting for a ship the moment I snapped this pics! So... all this time later, there they are!

Bigger version of this page is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/2000s/aug07.html

The papers and elements I used to make this page are from Elisa's Bits

I feel bad because my websites need updating BADLY, but this is so much more fun to do, and I feel so horrible today, I need something fun to do for me, LOL.

This photo I love. My dad and mom are holding me, and below is my older sister. This pic was taken in 1965, summer looks like, I was 1 and my older sister was 5.

Bigger version is here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1960s/jul65.html

I could not go to sleep tonight before putting together another page. I probably won't be able to make another one for several days. The BIGGER VERSION of this one is uploaded here:
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/1960s/dec69.html

I used a quickpage for this one again, at 10:30pm, after the day I had, I thank God for the QP, I saved quite a few in the past several months, and I am happy I did.

This photo was taken in Christmas 1969. From the left is my dad, my nonna and nonno, my aunt Anna, myself and my sister. As you can tell on the table is the famous Panettone and my aunt had gotten me these cute sewing cardboard pictures, they were pretty cute. The strange thing is that I actually remember them, I remember her giving them to me and then I saw my mom in the other room thanking her for giving both myself and my sister some towels for our 'wardrobe'. It's tradition in Italy to start putting things away for when the kids get married, but at 5 years old, I remember being disappointed that instead of getting another toy I got towels for when I got married. I laughed at it the other day to my husband, look, I told him, I have 40 year old towels!!! LOL Too funny!

Here's another wonderful vintage page that I made with a quickpage (cheated once again, LOL-when I find out who made it, I will post the credits) it's a wonderfully old photo of my dad and his sisters. I am still a little fuzzy on the year, I asked my mom and she's supposed to email me back. My guess is that it was taken around 1943 or so. My dad looks about 12-13, and his sisters are 2 and 4 years younger than him, so I think it's about right. The big photo is the complete original photo, then I singled out the 3 siblings in the smaller ones, on the top my aunt Anna, below her my aunt Angela and on the bottom, of course, my daddy. My grandma for some reason always dressed my aunts the same even though they were 2 years apart.
The original photo is a bit ruined, I tried a bunch of restoring techniques with PSP, some worked wonderful with some of the other pictures, but the particular degree this photo is ruined made it impossible to use some of them so I did the best I could. This is still a lot better than the original, so I guess I should be happy with it, LOL.

MAY 3rd, 2008
UPDATE: I got word from my dad, he tells me the picture he 'thinks' was taken in 1943. He tells me he's not 100% positive, but that is what I thought, so I think it's probably correct! Here's the link for the final page!
http://public.fotki.com/ebworld/personal-photos/scrap-pages/vintage/1943.html

This is my scrap lesson 30 of the Winni Scrapbooking lessons. This is probably one of my favorite vacations of my life. My mom's cousin Silvana unfortunately died of Cancer in 1974 and they were super-close, she was even my younger sister's Godmother. The following summer her husband and the children (my second cousins) who were alone and quite upset (as one can imagine) decided to vacation together with us in the Veneto region (in Italy, of course). At the time my grandparents owned two homes in a little village called Lusiana where they were born, married, and where my dad and his two sisters were born, so there was enough room and a spot for us to stay and visit the beautiful nearby spots such as Lake Garda, Venice etcetera.

I will never forget that summer. I loved both Pinuccia, who is a couple of years younger than me and her brother Gianni, a couple of years older than me. We basically grew up together. I am still close to them til this day and always make sure I visit them when I go to Italy.

Here's another page that I've done recently. I've always loved this picture! I am fairly sure it was taken in Italy in 1967, in the back of my uncle's truck or van or... whatever that was! I was 3 years old in the 'hat' in the forefront, ain't I cute? The other girl with the hat is my sister Lorena, she was 7. The other kids are our 'american' cousins (as we called them) all close in age to us. From left to right, Lisa (6), me, John (5), my sister and my oldest cousin Mary (8).

I cheated and used a QuickPage for this layout. Ha Ha. I am fairly sure the quickpage is from the fabulous Sindiego's Scraps.

I am still feeling BLAH, worse than ever, I don't know what is wrong with me, I feel very strange. I hope I am not sick! But how sick is it that Carly got voted off American Idol? I cried. BOO!!