WHAT MAKES YOU ANGRY?

Over at AAM, this is the question for the current challenge. As I've said, FREE is my operative word this 2010 - - took a lot of guts to do this one.

Hidden Journaling (note tucked inside the kraft envelope):

Four years and four months had been gone but still, I haven’t come to terms with your death. I’m so sorry if I haven’t come home as I’m still not ready – a fact that makes me feel angry. Why haven’t I found the courage to deal with my pain after all this time? I can’t be consoled, I’m still mourning for my loss.

Please whisper a prayer for me, Ma – that I be the best wife and mother, that I be the best that I can be like you’ve always wanted.

I miss you, Ma.

Supplies: Used scraps of my Cocoa Daisy October 2009 Kit. Butterfly punch: Martha Stewart Crafts, Cardstocks: Bazzill Basics Paper, Die Cuts with a View, Papers: GCD Studios, Die Cuts with a View, Making Memories, Cosmo Cricket, October Afternoon, Overlays: Hambly Studios, Ink spray: Tattered Angels, Ink: Ranger, Pearls and flowers: Prima Marketing, Pearl conchos: All About Scrapbooking, Stickers: Jenni Bowlin Studio, Prima Marketing, Brad: Making Memories, Other: Kraft envelope.

Love these flowers. I'm thinking of doing more romantic layouts this year - - gotta start befriending Prima flowers.

I really wanted the other MS butterfly punch (I think that is called the royal one), but then this is the only one available here so I got it (this is the classic punch). Have to wait for a bunch of MS punches to arrive here in my lss (patience is a virtue). Also I kinda improvised on my kraft envelope. I really wanted those from Maya Road, but they are still not available here (arrrggghhhh!!!!), so I got this coin envelope from a local department store. Not bad eh? Plus they're dirt cheap. Stuck an MM brad and it's good to go.

This picture of me and my Ma is taken using my celphone. We were riding a bus when I took this one, I think we were off to see my Ma's gown designer for my wedding that month.

By far, this is the hardest layout I have ever made - - halfway through doing it, I wanted to give up, I didn't like what I was doing. I have an idea of how this layout should look like in my mind but I don't have the papers and the embellishments on hand (I wanted pearl swirls, not available locally too). I don't know, I guess, I'm just emotionally compromised. LOL.

Hope you can play along with us over at AAM. To see the other takes of the DTs, click here.

janis