Story time...first installment

So I've been wanting to actually use my blog for a while now. Finding the time, motivation and topics is my biggest issue. I've thought about some free tutorials and have even gotten as far as prepping pattern pieces and scanning them. However I then falter on the actual writing down step by step of how I do something as it so often 'just happens'.  I do promise though that it's on my list!

So back to my first problem... what to write (that folks might actually want to read) in the meantime.

I was lazing around yesterday in the sweltering 38C day in Melbourne (I'm NOT  a Summer Person!) thinking about general things then my mind wandered to my dear Gran. She's no longer with us and is sorely missed, however she left behind a mammoth collection of stories from when she was a wee girl growing up in Scotland, to meeting my Grandfather..to having my father...and so on.

So I thought I might take the time and write some of them down.  For me, for my kids and for others to read and maybe laugh and cry a little along side.

This is her

She was born on in September 1919 in Glasgow Scotland and was the third child. As was the way back then she was born at home. Her parents called her Wilhelmina but she was always referred to as Ina.

I will tell more stories about her childhood a bit later...but for now just a quick rundown.

This is her around 1939...hehe this was he calling card... I know a man who held onto a copy for over 50 years then again got in contact with my gran to say hi!

This though was the man to finally win her heart...my Grandfather John.  They were in love and probably would have lived their whole lives together if he hadn't sadly passed away - a story I'll get to as it was a HUGE MOMENT (not only that he died obviously...but the circumstances surrounding too!)

Some time after my Grandfather passed...my Gran's heart was again won by Mac...this is the man I knew as my Grandfather image x  Hehe 'just a wee dram'

Anyway I digress...

In among love gained and lost my gran had three children

one of whom had...well me (this is at her 90th party)...

So as I say that's a really (really) brief rundown of her life...she passed away in 2010 and is still missed terribly.  Old dear was almost deaf and very forgetful in the end but if you got her talking about her life and memories she was unstoppable.

I hope I do her justice in reliving the memories and allowing her to live on.

This is for you Gran xx