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Courageous Sweet Marie


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This is about my DH's Aunt Marie - Journaling Reads:

 

What a prickly package it must have been to be a woman in the 40’s and 50’s, a time when women were ruled by stereotypes and unwritten standards of how women were to behave and live. I marvel at Aunt Marie and the independent life & choices she made, often at the dismay of her family.

Marie never married, living instead with her sister Beatrice. She supported herself by working her entire career on an Air Force Base, the most masculine of environments.

These are not out of the ordinary by today’s standards but are quite out of the ordinary in the context of the 1940’s and 1950’s standards. What a brave, bold and independant woman she must have been!

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Oh WOW PattyAnne this is so beautiful and I love your whole design! The faded photo on the textured bg is gorgeous, I love the color and the roses tucked around your page are just lovely and fit in so well. The lace, the key the tucked photo. All of it is just gorgeous!

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Stunning, gorgeous and wonderful in every way, your journaling is terrific, the blending of the photo and use of embellies make this page extra special, awesome work! :)

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Patty Anne - this is just the most beautiful layout - I just love it - you did such a nice job on it and I really have enjoyed looking at each little detail on it.

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PattyAnne - this is GORGEOUS! I love the beading work, the font, the journaling, the photo blending, the photos, the frame work, the background ... everything just FITS. And you're right, she was a courageous woman to do what she did when she did! Your DH and his family must be very proud of her!

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OH my goodness, PA..this is such a beautiful page. I love the softness of it, love the roses and beads and lace...all the layering. I just want to study it to find all the details. And you started with such wonderful pictures, they are real treasures.

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This is absolutely Beautiful Patty Anne! What a wonderful example for tomorrow's generations and what nostalgia it must be for those of that era :)

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This is just SO pretty and your journaling relates a moving story. I come from a family with strong women on both sides. I was a child of the late 40’s/50’s, with a mother that seemed to easily merge being a great wife and SAHM with also being her own person with lots of outside activities and abilities that covered an unbelievably wide gamut of traditional and non-traditional things. And she found in my father, someone who was able to handle her strengths and independence (remember, I said ‘both’ sides of the family—he had strong, non-traditional sisters to grow up with). And she spent 15 years as a teacher, living on her own before she met and married my father. When Daddy went off to war, she rented rooms out to fellow teachers and took a night job working in factories to replace the men who went to serve our country.

 

And then there was my great aunt, who was like a second grandmother to me. Again, on my mother’s side, she never married, lived on her own, taught high school German, and adult English classes for German immigrants during WWII. Let’s see, working backwards, she must have been born around 1878!

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