Posted in Family Stories, Graveyard Visits, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged 19th century life, Conover genealogy, Creager genealogy, death in childbirth, decorating graves, Maineville Cemetery, Maineville Ohio, Memorial Day on May 28, 2008 | No Comments »
This page of the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day 2007 features my great-great-grandmother Emily (Creager) Conover. She was married to William Henry Conover, son of James Conover, Civil War prisoner and possible victim of the Sultana explosion.
I thought of Emily Conover over the Memorial Day weekend. I think of her every Memorial [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Family Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged Applegate genealogy, Dayton Ohio, Illi genealogy, Illie genealogy, Mother's Day, Oklahoma, Pawnee on May 22, 2008 | No Comments »
This page of the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day 2006 is devoted to my great-grandmother, Lillian Illie (or Illi) Applegate. She married my great-grandfather, John Black Applegate, son of Emily Jane Reddick Applegate.
Great-Grandma (or Grandma-Up-Dayton, as she was known long after she’d moved from the Dayton area), was also my godmother. I [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged altered books, altered photo album, Applegate genealogy, Brown County Ohio, Creager genealogy, Emily Jane Applegate, Emily Jane Reddick, Reddick genealogy on May 19, 2008 | No Comments »
Here’s another page in the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day last year:
This page features Emily Jane (Reddick) Applegate. She’s my maternal great-great-grandmother, mother of John Black Applegate, my grandfather’s father. Her mother was a Creager; she married Joseph Martin Applegate.
I didn’t have a good photo of her when she was younger. All [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Family Stories, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged altered books, altered photo album, Doughman genealogy, Hutchinson genealogy, Morrow Ohio, Mother's Day art, Mother's Day gift, Mount genealogy on May 12, 2008 | No Comments »
This page of the altered photo album I made for Mother’s Day last year is dedicated to Minerva Alice (Hutchinson) Mount. She’s my great-great-grandmother. Her son, George Dale Mount, married Helen Conover, and their daughter was my Grandma Martha (Mom’s mother).
I never knew much about Alice Mount (as she was known about the time the [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Holidays & Celebrations, Mother's Day, collage, tagged altered books, altered photo album, ancestors, collage, genealogy, Mother's Day, UTEE on May 9, 2008 | No Comments »
Last year I wanted to make my mother a special gift for Mother’s Day. I had an old, dilapidated photo album with a broken lock that I’d gotten on eBay (I’d bought it for the photos, thinking maybe there would be long lost relatives in it because of it being from Brown County, Ohio — [...]
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Posted in Attempts at Artwork, Holidays & Celebrations, collage, tagged banner, birthday, collage, crafts, Needlework, pennant, young at heart on October 16, 2007 | 1 Comment »
For my mother’s 75th birthday at the end of September, I wanted to try variations on some projects I’d seen in the Somerset Studios publications.
The first is a “Celebrate” banner. I made a triangle template and cut nine pennants from heavy cardstock. I then machine-stitched a variety of papers in collage on each flag. I bought a [...]
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