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La vie en rose

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on May 19, 2013

The second sketch challenge has been posted at the new SCRAP & MUSIC challenge blog! Head over to the site to grab the sketch and play along. The challenges on this blog involve following the sketch and using a title on your layout with a line from the provided music. This second sketch came with [...]

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The accidental selfie

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on March 5, 2013

My mom likes to have photos of people, places and events, but she doesn’t really like to take photos. She has just never learned much over the years about any of the cameras she and Dad owned, so she isn’t comfortable with one in her hand. And once her film camera started acting up a [...]

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Gossip girls

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on February 21, 2013

I’ve met a really fun group of women just by shopping at my local Archiver’s scrapbook store. Every person in this photo, except me, works or has worked at Archiver’s. We met because of a shared hobby, but when we get together, talking about scrapbooking is not on the agenda! We all gathered on January [...]

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Believe

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on December 17, 2012

Isn’t this a sweet photo of my husband’s sisters on Christmas morning? I date this photo at circa 1980 because Thyia, the baby of the family, was born in 1976, and she looks to be about 3 or 4 years old in this shot, don’t you think? I really love Thyia’s little Dorothy Hamill haircut [...]

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So grateful for you

by Janice Daquila-Pardo on November 16, 2012

Sometimes you have only one photo from a whole day of celebration. And sometimes that’s actually all you need to be able to tell the most important story of the day. When Phil and I were growing up, our family always made the two-hour drive to Pennsylvania to spend Thanksgiving with the extended family from [...]

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