Lets Get Shabby

Thanks so very much everyone for your beautiful messages, emails, texts and calls supporting me through this Mother's Day. It was awfully sad, but it meant the world to me knowing that I wasn't alone.

My brother ordered my mum some flowers, and I told dad to tell her they were from me when he put them on her grave ;)

She would have done the same.

She was tricky like that!

To help myself through the day, I scheduled nothing.

My kids made me some beautiful gifts, and my husband just quietly supported me all day long.

I scrapped a pic of my mumsy. Cheap therapy?

And I just loved this challenge from the Lets Get Shabby blog....to be inspired by this pic...

Who wouldn't be inspired???

I took quite a pastel approach to the colour combo...
I even tried to mute the polka dotted pink with a layer of muslin over the top...
Lots of big blooms, like in the inspiration pic :)
The photo is of my mum and her dad. My aunt had all mum's childhood slides converted to photos and made into a hardcover book not long before she died.

When I was up in Charter's Towers following mum's diagnosis, I sat with her one day flicking through the book, asking questions and listening to her talk and share her memories.

I loved this photo, and I asked her about it.

I thought that they had been candidly shot on their way home from a shopping trip.

Apparently not.

She smiled and said "its totally posed. Look the Cornflakes box is actually open".
Yep.

Not so candid, but no less precious.

I am so grateful that we sat and talked for that hour.

Happy Mother's Day to all you beautiful mums out there :)

Thanks for stopping by!