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{Maxwell Wedding Lace Collage}

May 9, 2012

I was asked a few weeks ago by Helene Huber of 2amscrapper.blogspot.com to contribute to an article she was writing for Unruly Paper Arts about “Wedding Lace” and jumped at the chance to create something using my Grandparent’s wedding photo.

I always love heritage work of any kind (remember I started out as a scrapbooker) figured that I could create something with fabric rather than paper. My Paternal Grandparent’s Peter and Jeannie Maxwell were married in their homeland of Scotland and would eventually settle in the United States.

I hope you can pay this new site a visit and see the entire article and see the beautiful work of Helene Huber , Lynn Stevens, and Lynne Moncrieff.


http://unrulypaperarts.blogspot.com/2012/03/detials-details-details.html

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{Home SWEET Home Altered Book} as seen in Somerset Memories

March 22, 2009

I was thrilled to receive this copy of Somerset Memories in the mail on Saturday. In the April-May 2009 Issue there is an article (pages 82-83)I wrote about my Grandparents coming to the United States from Scotland…


They would have two more children in Terre Haute – Uncle Jack and my Dad, Stewart.In 1928 they moved to Detroit, Michigan where they would live the rest of their lives. Grandpa was able to get a job on the assembly line (Ford Motor Company) and Grandma worked at Ferry-Morse seed company.

They originally lived in the “Corktown” area of Detroit (old Tiger stadium for those that know Michigan) and would end up on the northwest side. Grandpa died in 1968, a week after we celebrated our birthdays (I was born on his 70th birthday) and Grandma continued to live there until 1984 when she could not care for herself or the house by herself.

I used a chipboard house book from Maya Road that I covered in various K & Company papers. Sepia paint was added to the edges of the book. Various embellishments (Karen Foster and EK Success), chipboard letters (that spell out Maxwell),mini safety pins and brads, stamps (Sugar Lump Studios and Paper Bag Studios), bubble wrap stamping, K & Company stickers (monogram), ribbons and tags complete the book. Journaling was done on the computer and cut into strips.

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{Wedding Shrines}

August 24, 2007

Today my step-niece Chandra is getting married! :) It sounds like it will be a beautiful ceremony – her colors are ivory and sage. I wish her and her hubby Kevin the very best in their life together!


As an ode to marriage here are two shrines that I made with some of my own relatives. My grandparents Peter and Jeanie Maxwell on their wedding day – December 29, 1916. They were married in Saltcoats, Scotland. I even found their wedding favor card with their name and date. So I made a copy and added it in the shrine.


My Great-Great Uncle Lemuel and his bride Ella back in 1903. You saw their photo a few weeks back when I made their wedding layout. They are were such a handsome couple. They were married in Livingston County, Michigan.

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{Brother’s Serving the U.S.A.}

August 6, 2007

This is an album I have been working on since April. It has the history of my Dad, and his two brothers during the years serving in World War II. I made pockets in the album to hold documents from that time (discharge papers, draft letters etc.) My hope was to record the history of 3 brother’s that served the U.S.A.

Love in the time of war is not fair. Waiting and watching your son’s
leave for war is heartbreaking. Sometimes all you can do is put a knot in your faith and hang on. This was my Grandmother’s life during 1941-1944. Her three son’s James, Jack and Stewart would serve in the United States Army and were stationed in various parts of the world.

World War II affected the entire Maxwell family. My grandfather Peter Maxwell and my Great Uncle Bob Murray would work in the defense plants. My Grandma Jeanie Maxwell worked at the bomber plant.
My grandparents were immigrants from Scotland who had become U.S. citizens, yet they felt their duty to support their new country.
Even their relatives back in the old country (Scotland) were not facing their son’s going off to war. They felt terrible for my Grandparents.

I am fortunate that my Dad kept a box containing photographs and memorabilia from his days in the service. Dad had shared some of what the box contained years prior with me. Dad was stationed on Saipan during the Japanese surrender. He had taken photos of that historical event and kept them in his little box for years. We had documented basic facts about his days in the Army as well as his older brothers Jack and Jim. But while I milled through his box one day after his death, I found a multitude of family treasures.Uncle Jim’s Bronze Star medal and his original draft letter (in envelope) dating back to September 2, 1941, Various Army roosters, discharge papers and a treasure trove of personal items.

I decided that a album needed to be made of all 3 brothers, their
photographs, memorabilia and historical information. Not only was I blessed to have my Dad’s war mementos, but his two brothers also.
Dad was the youngest of the three musketeers and the last to leave this earth – but I had the basic information on their lives during the war from previous interviews. Within the album I made pocket pages to contain scans of documents for future generations to view.

I am an Army Mom myself, and I am awaiting my son Andrew’s deployment to Iraq. I am dreading this day beyond what words could ever express. Yet, I am proud of my son and try each day to respect his wishes to serve his county. I must remind myself of my own Grandmother saying good-bye and letting go of three son’s during World War II and all the other mother’s who have faced this before me. I wonder how my Grandmother survived all three of her son’s being sent off to war in different parts of the world? How blessed she was to keep the knot in her faith and have all three of her soldier boy’s return home safely after the war was over! Godspeed!

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