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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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I have visited the country of Mexico only once in the mid 1970s. It's fascinating country with a very diverse geography, history, ethnicities and culture. (The part of Mexico I saw was off the beaten track in central Mexico. It's a country that is much more interesting if you get away from the tourist resorts.) I'm uploading 2 full colour papers and a crest.
(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 ).
The second paper features a sugar skull design. For those who don't know sugar skulls are used as offering on Day of the Dead (Día de Muertos in Spanish), usually October 31-November 2. On this day, people visit the graves of their dead relatives and leave flowers, favorite foods and drinks at the graves. Although it is frequently combined with "All Saints Day", it is preChristian in origin It is celebrated throughout Mexico and in areas where there is a large Mexican population. Sugar skull candies are also part of this celebration although I saw them for sale even we visited at another time of the year. They are also given as tokens of affection. Sugar Skull motifs have become quite popular in design, even among people who don't have Mexican heritage.
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paper, skull, day of the dead, mexico
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