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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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- 2.86 x 3.31 inches
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By request, a crest for Austria.
Part of my Austria series (it includes an Austria Flag Flair / Brad, a general Austria Word Art Crest and a Word Art Crest for Vienna. (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 ).
Austria is a mountainous landlocked country in Europe with German as the primary language. Since the Middle Ages, it was a duchy ruled by the Habsburgs. In the 19th century, it became the Austro Empire and then the Austro-Hungarian Empire (the largest country in Europe then after the Russian Empire). The assassination of the heir, Archduke Franz Ferdinand was the trigger for World War I. The empire collapsed after World War 1, Austro-Hungary was divided and large parts became parts of other countries (Slovenia, Czech Republic, Croatia, Poland, Ukraine, Italy, Romania and Montenegro). (Personal note: My mother-in-law's family is originally from one of these places - Galicia which now belongs to Poland and before that the Ukraine. Many Galicians emmigrated to western Canada. They were German speaking, but always referred to themselves as Austrians.)
I visited Austria myself in the 1980 and saw Innisbruck, Vienna and Salsburg. The Alps in Austria are beautiful.
Font: Girassol Regular
used Marisa Lerin's The Good Life: April 2020 Travel Stamps Kit - travel template (#238159)
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thanks!
Loved Austria. Vienna had it's highlights, but loved Salzburg better with it's Getreidegasse, & Sound of Music history. A group of us walked up to the fortress one night, & I saw fireflies for the first time.
Love it - loved Austria. Really enjoyed the description you gave. Will have to get them all. Thanks.
thank you