My favorite thing about scrapbooking is that you can tell the stories of your life, or the lives of family members in a beautiful way that will bring back beautiful memories.
Growing up, I remember my grandmother telling me that she'd had three fathers.. For a girl growing up at the turn of the century.. or pre-depression years, having three fathers was unusual..
Her father had been a miner in South-eastern Kansas. By the time Velma was born, he'd become ill and it was recommended that he move the family to Arizona to try to improve his health. Unfortunately, he died by 1916 and Velma was only 3.. she never really knew John Budd.
By 1920, her mother had remarried, this time to Frank Olin Hermance, a man who thought that by marrying a woman with several children, he'd be exempt from military service. This wasn't the case..
Whether he died or they divorced is uncertain, but by 1930, she'd married James E. Lewis. They had several children, and all of the children loved him. He was the "daddy" that they hadn't had.
To commerate this man in my album, I created a layout with one page being an 8x10 photo mounted on 12x12 paper, and a journaling page accompanying it.
