This old house.............and a double dawg dare...

I love this picture. 

This house is "the homestead" of the Anderson family.

My grandfather's mother's family.

It speaks to me. 

It makes me emotional.

It draws me in.

And I have never even been there.

Never heard about it until the photos surfaced.

But I love it all the same.

And I can't even tell you why.

The card at the lower right has writing that was on the back of the photo.

Yes, yes, a capital offense to scrapbookers everywhere,

but in this case, they're forgiven.

My aunt's, great grandmother's and I'm hoping my great great grandmother's

may have been recorded there for posterity.

And I can so live with that.

I used the original photo which is small and printed it in a 4x6

because I was trying to see all the loiterers on the porch.

But alas no amount of enlarging is gonna make that happen. 

So I included it as well because I liked it.

Your double dawg dare - is to take an original photo, make a print of it and use both on your page.

So my pal Lisa Rufkin Swift did a series on the joys of using

6x6 paper pads. And I paid attention.

Which I know shocks ya'll.

So that's MME from a 6x6 pad that I adhered to a 12x12

page because I knew I'd screw up the whole sewing thing without pins.

So they're all stitched together 

with messy stitching thanks to stalking my other pal

Mz. Ashli over at purplemailbox because I can do messy(now)

and I can thank her for the use of twine, splatters and other scrappy fun stuff.

I also discovered from watching gitter girl/Shimelle's videos - pop

dotting only the top of your embellishment gives it a fun and different dimension.

It appears I'm an equal opportunity jacker.

And because I'm in a sharing mood I thought I'd warn you that

 I have another 6x6 pad in my possession.

I know you're surprised 

again.