2016-02_Feb-TLP-Art-Journal_Wishes-Box_web
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- Credits: Shadow box & wood burning style from Paula Kesselring, Other items from Etc by Danyale - Love out Loud, Pandemonium. Quirky Heart - M3 December 15. Valorie Wibbens - Welcome. Paislee - Welcome. Amy Wolff - Bubbles. Bella Gypsy - All Things New. Laurie Ann - Heart Song. Lynn Marie - Mixed Media, Tea Time, Party Girl. Nancy Rowe Janitz - Feb 2016 BYOC. Little Butterfly Wings - Welcome, M3 August 15, M3 November 2015, M3 December 2015, M3 January 2016. Just Jaime - Welcome. Sara Gleason - Welcome. Lynn Grieveson - First Light.
Journaling reads:
Funny how memories just sometimes are not meant to be forgotten. Over 50 years later and I still think about the things I didn’t get as a child. One year at Christmas time I begged my mother for a Barbie, the original issue Barbie. She didn’t want me to have a “mature” doll, so she refused. Aunt Cathy came to the rescue a year or so later, but my Barbie wasn’t the first version... And then there were the go go boots that all of the popular girls in school were wearing. But sorry to say, they were never to be mine. And I survived... Fast forward 30+ years, I am married & we love to vacation in Door County. We both dreamt of a house by the water, but the stipulation would be that we couldn’t see land on the other side. A perfect home was up for sale, but at the time, in the 1980’s it was $175,000 and we couldn’t afford it. Now the house is probably worth several million dollars. A missed opportunity. Lastly, I had always hoped for an early retirement, being able to quit work at least in my 50’s. Well, that number has come and gone and I am still a slave to my employer. Early retirement hasn’t happened and if it does, it will be only by a year or so. My hopes, my dreams, my wishes that never materialized, but I am a survivor in spite of them all.
