At Ease...Time to Celebrate!

Hey everyone, Carole here hosting the blog today.  Can you believe it's July already?!!  The time is flying by!  Maybe it's just me, but doesn't it seem like it was just the beginning of 2010 and now it's halfway over?!  For a while there the time was at a stand still for us though.  The days couldn't have dragged on any slower and we found ourselves stuck, living in limbo land.  We had been awaiting my husband's discharge from the Navy, for what seemed like an eternity!  Finally we got word of his discharge date and a moving date.  That was about two weeks ago, and I'm happy to say that my hubby and I can now go on with our lives as official civilians! Hip, hip, hooray!!  We will definitely have something extra special to celebrate this 4th of July!

We were so excited with my husband's new status that I couldn't wait to do a layout!  I wanted to honor the moment he came home and took his uniform off for the last time, removed all his pins and ribbons, and kicked off the saddest pair of dress shoes that had walked many hard miles.  The side of one of his shoes was so completely blown out, there was no saving them.  I couldn't help but take a picture of them for the layout because they were so representative of how hard my husband worked while in the service.

The muted colors and regal designs of the Batik collection were perfect for this layout.  These colors are not your traditional choices of red, white, and blue for a patriotic layout, but I like that.  I mixed up different collections and thought a bright pop of color from the Rockabilly collection, coordinated unexpectedly well!  I love how the stripes from the Rockabilly paper mimics the colorful ribbons on my husbands uniform shirt!

I also used some journaling spots from the Kraft collection and circled the date of my husband's discharge. I also tucked a large circle shaped Kraft journaling tag underneath the main photo that states the years

 1998-2010.

Congrats Babe to nearly twelve years in and twelve years done!!  Happy 4th of July America!!