Sweet Shoppe Designs

This is for the Diving Challenge

1. The center cluster was shadowed for depth, the photos and elements near them for shallow.

2. I did Forward- 5 Different Arrows
I did Inward- The 4 frames framing my quotes
I did Reverse- The photos and journaling are mirrored from a vertical center line
I did armstand- the word art, the heart and the word strip are upside down.

3. The journaling is my 9/11 story which I was FINALLY able to scrap.

Journaling is: September 11, 2001- It started out like any morning. Left the apartment at 6:45 and as I got on the subway I was give a flyer for the primary Mayoral elections for the day. I got to the Trade Center at 7:45 and as usual walked around the Mall a bit before getting my coffee and going up to work. At 8:40 I went tio the bathroom. While in the bathroom I felt the building shake. When I got out everyone was standing at the window looking up at tower 1. There were papers raining down all around, it looked like a ticker tape parade. I was pushed into the stairwell because the evacutation bells were ringing. Walked down 25 flughts of stairs only to get out and see a gaping hole in tower one and fire everywhere. People were screaming. The n the people started jumping. It’s a sound I’ll never ever forget, bodes hitting the ground with a sickening thud. My heart broke into a million pieces. As the bodies were falling around me, someone appeared in front of me and asked if I worked for Fidelity. I said yes and he told me to go back upstairs because it was safer up there. I went upstairs and called my mother crying. I told her a bomb went off in the trade center. As I was talking an airplane flew by and BOOM the building shook. I screamed that another bomb went off and hung up on my poor mother.

I bent down to get my stuff to evacuate again and when I looked up my two friends were waiting for me. We ran down 25 flights of steps (again for me) and got out. Again, the fire, the bodies falling around us. We immediate began walking down towards the tip of manhattan. We were walking back up to head towards Penn Station when we heard what sounded like an explosion. I looked up and the top of tower two was falling. Next thing we knew a HUGE cloud of smoke came barreling towards us. We began running and ran for our lives. The cloud enveloped us. I remember thinking “f this is how I am supposed to die, so be it, but I don’t feel ready to die. We ran and ran and decided it was best to get off of the island. We began walking over the Manhattan bridge. While on the bridge, tower 1 fell. We just stood quietly and watched. We found someone on the bridge who took us into her apartment until my father could come get us. My life change that day. My innocence was lost and it would never be found again. I suffer to this day from a crippling fear of flying. It has affected every aspect of my life. I have nightmares every year as the anniversary approaches. Those hijackers took so much away from not only me, but from the entire nation. What a sad day for me and our country.


Credits:
Cindy Schneider set 122 VERY altered
Lost in Space- Shawna Clingerman and Kristin Cronin-Barrow
Masked Marvels- Julie Billingsley
Star Spangled- Melissa Bennett
Boom Boom Clap- Libby Pritchett
A Quiver of Arrows- Jullie Billingsley COMING tomorrow to SSD
DJB You Make My Heart Sing
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