Thursday 11 July 2013

bird is the word - courage

i did this page a very soon after the word came out but then with school holidays, hubby on holidays and having the inlaws up for a week i never stuck it down. 
so i finally did today. 
this word was so easy for me to use and all i had to do was to find an awesome quote that went with my photo. 
some of you may know that my husband is in the army and has had several deployments overseas during his career. this is a photo of him in afghanistan in 2008. i was 3 months pregnant with our second baby when he left and he returned 4 days before our son was born. 
this photo was taken out on patrol. the previous night the had been involved in a firefight with the taliban. his pack has a bullet hole in it and the bullet actually went through a plastic sachet of tuna that was inside. his pack was sitting about 2 metres away. whilst out on patrol he came across a cache of weapons that the taliban had tried to hide and they were expected to have been used in the firefight the night before. 
obviously due to operational security he wasnt allowed to tell me what had happened but that he was ok and not hurt and that i wasnt allowed to get upset by the story the media would run as they like to hype everything up. due to my father in law being in the army too he was able to get a friend to drop off the army paper (that had this photo splashed on the front page ) to my house prior to normal delivery and at a special request from my father in law, the officer who dropped off the paper was to be in civvies as he knew that i would panic having someone turn up on my door step in uniform and that is not what i needed being so heavily pregnant. 

so here is the sketch that i followed

and here is my page

and a close up of the quote


and a close up of my cluster


i love to use recycled things so i have added a stamp with the rising sun on it, some hesh from my husbands yowie suit, and a broken zip with a kangaroo on it. 

thanks for looking and any comments you may leave. 


9 comments:

  1. An amazing layout and a person we all should be proud of, I love this creation.

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  2. Oh wow, that quote is amazing and this layout is a wonderful take for the word courage challenge.. thanks for joining in at BITW too!

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  3. Wow! I know I have heard parts of that story before but never the whole thing at once; we are so proud of your man for the job he does and you for how you keep it all together for him at home. It is a wonderful page and the cluster items are so meaningful. Stunning Bel.

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  4. Love Your clusert, and the amazing story!
    Thx for joining us at BITW :)

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  5. Precious layout! Thank you for playing along with Bird is the Word!

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  6. This is such a stunning layout! :)

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  7. This is a beautiful memory and you've really chosen your elements well too. Love it.

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  8. Such an AWESOME layout!!! It is memorable and heartfelt. I want to thank your family for all of your sacrifices. Thanks so much for playing along with us at Bird is the Word.

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