Sew Many Memories

I was over at my mom's house Tuesday evening looking through some old pictures with her and came across this one of her.  It isn't the greatest of quality, but it made me think back when I was young and what a seamstress my mom was.  Now mind you, when I was a little girl, little girls wore dresses almost all the time.   Boy how times have changed!  My mom would make my sister and I beautiful dresses.  Always full of lace, or smocking, or embroidery or appliqueing.  I can remember one of my favorite dresses had flowers embroidered all along the bottom. Now I know this page has a hodge podge of embellishments on it, but they all symbolize my mom and her sewing.

 I made this layout and entered it  over at Sketchy Thursdays.  The winner will get a spot as the guest designer for the month of June.  Here is their sketch:

I am also entering this over at Practical Scrappers where their current challenge is patterned paper.
I think just about all of the paper I used is October Afternoon, plus a little of Cosmo Cricket.  The beautiful crochet flowers I bought from AnnieDesigns. You should check out her etsy shop, she has some beautiful flowers. The cute little thread, sewing machine, safety pin, scissors  and mannequin are by Maya Road. The chipboard letters SEW are by Pink Paislee.