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About Me
I'm a 65 year old living in Toronto Canada. I started paper scrapping in the 1990s & switched to digital in the early 2000s.
I've been happily married for 35 years with 2 adult children. We have a married adult daughter & a late son. (He had multiple severe disabilities - nonverbal autism, severe intellectual disability, atypical bipolar disorder, epilepsy and was a XYY male. We lost him 5 years ago at age 25 to SUDEP - Sudden Death in EPilepsy). I consider him my greatest teacher. Graham's photo and memorial page are here: https://www.autismbrainnet.org/donor/graham-brown/ (The same photo and tribute are also on the North American SUDEP Registry Our Stories page which he shares with others. Graham's donation was a joint donation to both sets of researchers.)
I'm retired but originally a children's librarian (public library) and then a supply (substitute) teacher. My favourite classes to teach were kindergarten, grades 1-2, middle school and especially special education. I particularly liked teaching students with autism or intellectual disabilities or adhd or learning disabilities or who needed behavioural support.
My hobbies (other than digital scrapping and photography) are knitting, board gaming, reading, journaling especially bullet journals, fountain pens,listening to a wide variety of music, classic movies and foreign language films and cooking (low carb/keto now since it controls my Type 2 diabetes.) I have a big interest in history, geography and different cultures and read a lot in these areas. I mostly read nonfiction but I do enjoy science fiction and fantasy. My husband and I share our home with 3 rescue kitties.
I consider myself a beginner with scrapbook design and I am enjoying learning.
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- 1784 x 577 pixels
- 5.95 x 1.92 inches
Description
An element featuring the word Canada in a banner shape. It can be used for layout about Canada Day (July 1st) or layouts about Canada in general.
(For those who'd like to see all my designs including other travel crests and brads, my designs are here: https://www.digitalscrapbook.com/anne-maclellan/designs ).
For those who are interested, this element was made with a pin given to all soldiers in the Canadian Army in World War 1.(Both the maple leaf pin and a banner pin with the word "Canada". )
There is a story behind these particular pins. They were given to my husband's grandfather. He was very badly wounded at the battle of Vimy Ridge in April 1917 and lay in No Man's Land for 12 hours before the stretcher bearers found him. For over a month, there was doubt whether he's survive. He endured 4 leg amputations (repeated gangrene because of no antibotics then) but survived and eventually returned to Canada. He met his wife in a rehab hospital and lived to be 81 years old.
These pins have been donated to a local historic museum/archives where there is a display with my husband's grandfather's letters, photos and artifacts on display as he represents all the soldiers who returned from World War I severely injured.
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elemenr, word art, canada, banner
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- Uploaded Sat, 06/20/2020 - 13:23
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Thank you so much
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Thanks again. I will make good use of them with photos of my maternal grandfather in his uniform in 1915-6.