Belle

But, you're right Belle, everything I look at is a trip down memory lane.   It's so sad I can only do it for a bit of time and then stop.  🥲

I found the easiest way to do it, is to open the image and just download it. It goes into your download file and is already on your computer. Quickest way. I copied some of the layouts that you did for her to send them to you. 3, I think. 

Thanks Belle, that's so kind and a good tip, but I have lots in my downloads so would have to make a separate folder.  I do have lots of pages she made back when we were scrapping "together" and she'd send them to me,  but if you look at her Gallery pages her notes are so "Jody" I want to save them too.  So I'd have to screenshoot each and every layout page and it would take a lot of time and space.  Space I could figure out, time - don't think so...   🥲

I can't see anything here, Belle but knowing Cindy, it has to be a lovely post.

Oh, no... did the web link not come thru? Okay, here is the content of the post I pulled from Sara Arell's self-written obit.... 

Sara Gaffney Arell Obituary

Obituary published on Legacy.com by Church Street Funeral & Cremation on Aug. 25, 2023.

This is my story.
 

If you are reading this obituary, it means that I have taken my last breath here on this beautiful home, my beloved mountains of Western North Carolina. I was born in Brunswick, Georgia, January 9, 1945, to the most wonderful Mom and Dad, Nell Campbell Gaffney and Ralph Leon Gaffney, who made the brilliant decision to move to Hendersonville, NC , and rear their two girls here.
 

My beautiful blonde, blue-eyed sister, who always had to be first, was called too soon to heaven many more years than she should have been, and I have missed her terribly! Mama and Daddy both left way too soon and left a hole in my heart that could never be filled.
 

I am writing this myself because I know if my obit was written when I was 80 or 90 that whoever wrote it might not write about my interesting, loving and very meaningful life and you the reader might be bored. I'll start with, "Wow, what a wonderful life I've lived!" All the little things about me that most of you already know – Immaculata, Hendersonville High, and the joys having my own mom as a teacher just made life a party! I was so fortunate in so many ways.
 

I started my grown-up life two weeks after my 18th birthday giving birth to daughter Deborah Leigh! All bundled up in a tiny pink blanket. When the nurse handed her to me, I knew immediately that my career was now set in stone and being a Mama would be my forever title from that day forward. February 19, 1963, was the first day of the rest of my life and Debbie and I would be doing it together! I was in love! Our first three years together were just out of a dream – she and I did everything together. I wore short white denim skirts with white sneakers, and she wore the same – every day we dressed alike. She was my twin, but for one thing – she had a temper and I've never had one. My little red-headed, freckle-faced munchkin was my best friend for life!
 

My sister Nell Gaffney Mims had moved from these much-loved mountains to Savannah, Georgia, to be with her then husband, John Mims. He was in the Air Force, and they were stationed at what was then Hunter Air Force Base. Debbie and I packed our worldly goods into my 1966 silver Mustang and headed for Savannah. My little 3-year-old and I thought we were going for a short visit – little did we know it was the beginning of the rest of our lives.

I've never been a fan of blind dates, but brother-in-law insisted he had a buddy I just had to meet. I groaned, but said I'd meet him. I walked out the front door where my Mustang was parked to see the hood of it opened with a guy in fatigue pants and his head under the hood. It wasn't until he turned around that I realized I wasn't breathing – my heart was beating so fast. That, my dear friends, was on November 11, 1966, and on December 30, 1966, we married each other in the sweet little white chapel at Hunter Air Force Base.
 

It would take a novel to write all of our adventures during his 26 1/2 years of service to the Air Force, but they were happy fun-loving years. I had never been happier, and the happiness just grew and grew all those years. When Debbie was five, her Dad and I gave her a tiny little gift – Mark Richard Arell, born September 7, 1968 at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina. Our hearts were full. Big sister Debbie doted on her little brother. We survived through the many military moves the temporary duty, and much time apart, but our love was so strong and nothing could have come between what we had. On August 16, 1973, our family grew again with the birth of another son Brian Campbell Arell at the Medical Center on Keesler Air Force Base, Mississippi. We were one big happy family. Our children weren't put to bed by the sounds of Mommy singing sweet lullabies, but by the roars of nightly military planes practicing touch and go landings – we lived almost directly across from the flight line. It was at Keesler Air Force Base that we found a calling to be foster parents. Foster parenting brought us such joy.
 

We had the opportunity to move to Izmir, Turkey, and spent over 2 years there in the mid-1980s. From there, we moved back to Shaw AFB, South Carolina. After over 26 years, my beloved Rich called me from a temporary duty in Saudi Arabia and told me when he came home, he was putting in his retirement papers. We moved back to my hometown Hendersonville and the biggest surprise of all – he became a police officer for the city of Hendersonville. He served there for 25 years and then retired again! I relished and adored my role as the wife of a man who by all standards has more integrity than any other man I've ever known. He's always encouraged my love for our roles as foster parents (we fostered over 21 children), my role as a sexual assault advocate and guardian ad litem. I never once doubted that I was the love of his life and neither of us went very long without saying I love you to the other.
 

We were blessed on May 22, 1990, with Christopher Patrick Gaffney Arell – Buster, our youngest son.
 

My precious children Debbie Arell-Martinez (Ed), Mark Richard Arell (Kim), Brian Campbell Arell, and Christopher Patrick Gaffney Arell – I know you will keep me close in your hearts forever. No one will ever love you as much as I do. Thank you for letting me be your helicopter Mom.
My beautiful grandchildren, Jerrica Wild (George), Sara Wiggins (Steven), Lucy, Campbell, Rose, and Dirk – Nanny loves you more than you know.
We're lucky enough to know our great grand-children, Landon and Carter and soon-to-be baby Wiggins – I'm glad I could be in your lives for a little while.
Rich, my beloved husband, you truly were the love of my life.
 

Sadly, I was preceded in leaving this beautiful earth of ours by my sister Nell Gaffney Harden, my parents who I loved so much Nell Campbell Gaffney and Ralph Leon Gaffney, my maternal grandmother Sadie Johnston Campbell, my paternal grandfather Roy Chester Campbell and my much-loved in-laws Eleanor Clark Morse Arell and Albert Armand Arell.
A Visitation – Celebration of Life will be Saturday June 3, 2023 from 2:00 PM till 4:00 PM at Church Street Funeral & Cremation, 125 South Church Street, Hendersonville, NC 28792. Flowers may be sent to the funeral home for the family, or family ask that donations be given to the Henderson County Foster Parent Association at PO Box 2332, Hendersonville, NC 28793.

Wow!  It's an amazing thing, but the last few days i've been going over the names of all the many friends I met on SG, and Sara was certainly one of them...problem was I couldn't remember her name! I could remember Rich, I could remember she was from Hendersonville....it has worried me for a few days. I'm sorry we lost contact. She was a special friend, 

Wow!  It's an amazing thing, but the last few days i've been going over the names of all the many friends I met on SG, and Sara was certainly one of them...problem was I couldn't remember her name! I could remember Rich, I could remember she was from Hendersonville....it has worried me for a few days. I'm sorry we lost contact. She was a special friend, 

This is so touching...I got choked up..I remember her beautiful loving pages and her many comments. Such a wonderful lady gone too soon.

Very touching. Thanks for sharing Belle. She was surely a great friend to me as we.. 🩷💜💚

I just found Sara's obit -- she wrote it herself! And it is full of her personality. She is missed, to be sure. Sara Gaffney Arell Obituary - Church Street Funeral & Cremation - 2023 (legacy.com)

She sure lived an amazing life, and such dedication to family and children. She was a real role model.

Oh I'm so sorry to hear this! 

Thanks Jane. Everyone is safe on the farms. Nedelene is Knysna got so much rain. The homes in the town are all flooded. Luckily, her farm is okay.

Jan, my son at the House on the Hill farm, said he always prayed to one day have a farm with a river. He bought a farm with a river and now, after the heavy rain, he has got two rivers. 🙄

The worst is over down here but the storm is moving up the coast. The warning level has dropped from level 9 to level 6.

I always tell my son, one day, I'm going to buy a caravan and move onto the farm. He said he would put me next to the river. That's where all the flooding is. 🤣

Thank you for caring. Hope your family is well and stay safe.

I love that you keep your humor even with all this worry about your family. Hugs to you!  

Thanks so much for the update, Belle, I was just coming to ask how everyone is doing.  I'm glad your family is safe and ok.   Take care, thinking of you.   💜

From what I understand there will not be a Challenge Chase this month no worries you didn't miss anything.

You might have noticed: It's there now. 

Happy Anniversary Belle! I'm so glad you're here! 

Happy anniversary Belle. So happy to get to know you!

Happy anniversary my dear!

And, you're right, sometimes the hosts who live further west where it's even earlier now post Friday night so that the challenge will be here when we wake up.  Lots of time differences on SG, right?  😄

Celestine is posting the challenge and she  is in different time zone so will post a little later I think. 

Well, I got up at 6:15 a.m. CST on a Saturday start the Weekend post (which was long and complicated with all the links), but it has been up nearly 2.5 hours! I just now saw this!

Thanks Belle! ♥️

So pretty ❤️

Oh no! I hope everything is OK. Gotta have a love/hate relationship with this technology. Love it when it works, hate it when it doesn't!! 

The guy got it going again and I did my backups. He said I must bring it back today, but I think I will try to finish the month first. 

Oh Belle! What a salutory lesson for all of us. I used to be so good at backups but have slipped the past few months (as I have with everything scrapping). I need to think very seriously about rectifying the situation quickly.

Congratulations, Australia!

Congrats Australia!

Congrats Australia!

https://scrapgirls.net/forum/profile/25025-jana_2worldsart/?status=70203&type=status

oh ok, thank you Belle!  😊

Yes they are normal paper texture 

check my youtube for tutorial

@Celestine thank you. You are a honey 🍯. 

You are right of course, @Celestine. I do have products under SYN (for Syndee) but maybe they were freebies? I'm a little confused about that.

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You can delete all your messages at once if you click Go to Inbox, then look to left in upper left corner there's a square with and arrow pointing down. click on that then choose select all rows. A message will pop up with a delete icon. Click on that!

I had so many messages. I've never deleted a message in all the years that I have been a member. Thanks Barbara and Anne-Mari. 

Thanks, ladies for helping Belle with her questions. I was unavailable most of the day yesterday after I posted the WWC and the July Game.

I think it's still too early (8am) to be posted here, Belle.   😊

❤️It's posted HERE!❤️

Congratulations Belle!!!

So happy for you and Jock. May your relationship 🐶'be happily ever after.'

Thats wonderful news and looking forward to seeing all your LO's of him  

I've got my computer back. I have found my Scrap Girls but I don't know how to get and icon on the desktop. I never had this problem before. When I downloaded SG it automatically put an icon on for me. I'll do some more tomorrow. 

Wait! What?? There's an icon for SG we can have on our desktop? What exactly did you download?  So glad you got your computer back and sounds like most if not all was saved. YEAH!

I'm still trying to find the icon Tracy. It's getting late now, I'll carry on tomorrow.

Belle, according to the roster I have there is no Monthly Challenges this month which I think is  because we will be having a week of games and challenges at the end of the month for Sale-abration.  There is the Layout Bingo happening this month. 

Anne-Marie is correct.   

Thanks for clarifying - I was wondering too!

Oh yah - Memorial Day! Remembrance Day in the UK? I forget the dates/holidays now that I'm at home ALL day EVERY day! 

Sorry, sorry!  We did go on a short trip to a nearby resort town, just for a couple of nights, and I totally forgot to post the challenge.  It's there now.  Forgive me!  🤪

No worries - hope you had a nice time!

Sorry, I didn't see that you had it below your journaling. I want to scrap lift this one for the LSL

Hi @Belle, sorry I am delayed in responding.  I am honored that you want to use my layout!  Thank you.  Here are the supplies that I used:

Supplies Used: SBA_SSStyles_BasicShadows_6501_ColorMatch_Large http://store.scrapgirls.com/ScrapSimple-Tools-Styles-Paper-Borders-6401.html http://store.scrapgirls.com/ScrapSimple-Alpha-Templates-Photo-Collage-Numbers.html https://store.scrapgirls.com/ScrapSimple-Embellishment-Templates-Continental-US-Super-Biggie.html https://store.scrapgirls.com/By-Plane-By-Train-By-Automobile-Collection.html BHA_Expedition (Retired)

I didn't think I could do this for 100 days but we are coming in to the home stretch. It has been a lot of fun and everyone has done a great job! I don't know if I could do another 100 but I have enjoyed doing something creative every morning.

I've enjoyed it too but I think I'd need a break before starting another 100. At least I got familiar with all the kits in my stash and added a few more. Thanks Laura!

It's been really fun watching all of you create so much gorgeous stuff on a daily basis. If it comes around again I may just join you. 

I didn't realize she had you posting the layouts in a section rather than a specific gallery. We would usually use the Hodge Podge Gallery for games like this month's but since the 100 days challenge is using it, I created  a Leave Some Love &Scrap-Lift Gallery for the game and we can move the layouts there.

I knew you could fix it April!  It took me a few tries, but I'm moving the layouts I can find and putting them there!

@Belle  I moved the layouts I found that you'd posted into the new Gallery, please let me know if I've missed any!  😊

Happy Anniversary 

Amazing congratulations!

Congratulations!

Yeah that really sucks for you guys. We appreciate all your love you give us. 💛🧡❤️

I'm sorry you have to deal with this Belle!

Just started doing backups and the power has gone down  for 4 hours. Hopefully we will be getting our batteries and inverter by middle Feb.