Adventure by Patti Senter.  Supplies: Digital Kit: Life’s Journey by Swissaroo for Scrapstreet.com, Fonts:  Myraid Pro, Minion Pro.

Journaling:  My roots come from Europe, my Great Grandparents were from England and Germany, my dream would be to visit where my heritage began, to walk the land, smell the flowers and get a feel for them.  If it had not been for an adventurous young man in his early teens that set off on a Merchant ship from England to  Canada in the early 1900's to join his brothers, I may never have been.  That was my Grandfather Fred, sailing from England to St Josephs Island, Canada.  Later he would meet my Grandmother Clara and together they would begin a family in the Eastern part of Washington and Oregon. Eventually my family ended up in SW Washington a far distance from the lands in which my blood began.  I look at me today and wonder if I would have had the nerve to leave my family behind, knowing in my heart of hearts I would

never see them again for lands so far away.  It was lives full of long days and hard work to carve   out homes for themselves.  I wish I had known my Grandfather, to be able to hear his stories of home and family, to get a sense of me.

My Grandmother Clara (Kiehl) came from Kiel Germany.  I do not know as much about them, but when Amber was in High School she had the opportunity to stay with a German family and they in turn took her to visit her Ancestors area.  I have seen pictures of the beauty here, much like my Pacific Northwest and I hope that perhaps someday I will be able to see it firsthand as well.

Würzburg by Jorinde Van Dongen. Supplies: Digital Kit: Life’s Journey by Swissaroo for Scrapstreet.com.