This card was created using a Simply Betty image which I coloured in with my prismacolor pencils.
I am entering this card in the following challenges Friday Sketchers - sketch 142 Simply Betty Challenge Blog - Recycle it - all my cardstock pieces are from my scraps bin and the ribbon and flower are leftovers from another project.
I completed this layout for the Lyric Challenge at Scraptures. I made the butterfly embellishments by cutting out stamped images,colouring them in with my distress inks, and adding black laquer to them. I also punch out some butterflies using the Martha Stewart punch and added some flat back pearls and some stickles to them. This is for the make your own embellishments challenge at the Simon Says Stamp Challenge Blog.
I chose to use some of the lyrics from Pink's song Perfect. A friend recently reccomended I watch the video for this song and I love the message it sends. My daughter and her friends organized a Perfect day at school in which they didn't do their hair or makeup and wore their track pants to school to prove they are perfect just the way they are. If you haven't seen the video check it out.
I used my Prismacolor pencils to colour in this digital image by Elizabeth Bell, A Tasty Read, which can be found here . I am entering this card in the following challenges.
I have been selected to be a Guest Designer for the month of March at Scraptures. I will be working with the scrapbooking kit, I am so excited but also a little nervous. I hope I can live up to the wonderful example the past guest designers have made. Throughout the month of March I will be posting all my creations on my blog once they have been revealed at Scraptures. I hope you will pop over to the Scraptures Web Site and check out the challenges and the creations that the other design team members have made.
If you are interested in being a Scraptures Guest Designer check out the Scraptures Blog for more information.
Check out this Blog for some fabulous new digital stamps. Sylvia is very talented and her digital stamps are adorable. Seriously hop over to her blog and check them out.
I post previously about my Great Nana, now I would like to introduce you to her husband, my Great Grandfather; Stanley Harold Bird.
I believe this to be a picture of Stanley Bird, taken in England. I would guess him to be about 4 years old.
Stanley Bird.
I am not sure of the dogs name.
Date of birth: November 4 1893
Location: Ipswich, England
Date of death: May 22 1973
Location: Branson Hospital
Burial: Mount Pleasant Cemetery (no headstone)
On May 23 1973 an obituary for Stanley Bird appeared in The Toronto Star and read as follows:
Bird, Stanley Harold – Passed away at the Branson Hospital on Wednesday May 22, 1973.Stanley H. Bird of 227 Ellerslie Ave.husband of the late Florence Bird.Dear father of Mrs J F Wilson (Audrey), Mrs J Greaves (Bernice) and Mrs S Tucker (Marion).Brother of Jack of Nova Scotia and Dudley.Also survived by 5 grandchildren.Resting at the Murray Newbigging (hard to read) Funeral Home 739 Mount Pleasant Rd. ( at Eglinton)Service in the chapel Friday .InternmentMount PleasantCemetery.
Stanley's Mother: Jane Wright
Stanley's Father: John Bird
Stanley's Siblings: May Bird born abt 1885
Barbara Bird born abt 1886
William J Bird born abt 1889
Dudley T Bird born abt 1897
Stanley's parents
John and Jane Bird
Timeline
Birth: November 14 1893 Westerfield, Suffolk, England
Residence: 1901 Census - Ipswich, Suffolk, England
Residence: 1911 Census - York South, Toronto, Ontario (immigration year - 1906)
Marriage: 1921
Death: May 22 1973
According to Stanley's recruitment papers he signed up for duty on May 18th 1918
Stanley's recruitment papers from WW1
W. Armstong, R. Towers, S. Bird, H. Ross
Married to Dorothy Florence Hazel Milliken on Aug. 3 1921 at St. Clements Anglican Church Toronto, Ontario.
A copy of the marriage certificate.
Dorothy and Stanley in their Going away outfits after their wedding.
Dorothy and Stanley Bird
227 Ellerslie Ave Willowdale, Ontario
1960
The house that Stanley and Dorothy lived in after their marriage
In creating this post I have come to realize that I don't know much about Stanley's personality and the way he lived his life. I am going to have to sit down with my Mom and Uncle and pick their brains for info. I do know that at the time of joining the military he was working as a grocer clerk and eventually owned a grocery store with his brother Dudley. It is my understanding that he did not have work during the depression and that they took in borders to help make ends meet. After the depression Stanley worked at Beechams which made brill cream.
