MISS YOU ~ ANOTHER FREAKING SCRAPPY CHALLENGE

Happy first day of Spring for those of us here in Oz :) I am looking forward to warmer weather and to start walking again.
The start of a new month means a new challenge over at Another Freaking Scrappy Challenge , and the challenge is......

Scrap some memories of your parents, guardians, whoever raised you. Suggestion: How did they meet?
What did they do that you remember the most? Good or bad memories, whatever you wish to scrap or art journal about

This is my take on the challenge

Miss You

This is my Mum and Dad, all dressed up to go to a wedding. 

My parents met at school when they were only young in the village they grew up in , Borenore. My parents and their parents before them lived at Borenore their whole life. My three brothers and I were also raised at Borenore until we got married and moved into town. Two of my brothers moved further afield to different cities and at times other countries.
Dad was a wool classer in his younger days. Mum could grown anything and was a good cook and I believe and excellent horse rider.
Dad a smoker from about 12 years of age , I remember car trips with his hat on the side , smoking his Benson and Hedges and me getting car sick ( I am sure the cigarette smoke didn't help). As we got older Dad stopped smoking while driving and also didn't smoke in the house. He gave up smoking several times, the last in his nineties. Mum Hated it and it wasn't worth Dad smoking around her. 
Dad was a quite man, but when he spoke you took notice. 
Mum was tiny , but feisty. If you upset Mum you knew! She was very clever though and like I said, cooked , had a beautiful garden with very little water at times. We always had to save the washing up water and bath water for the garden. Mum was a lovely sewer and knitter. She made some beautiful clothes for my children. I have kept the special things she made to hand down to my children for their children. She preserved fruit and made amazing apple, blackberry pies and beautiful Pavlova's . My poor husband thought like Mother , like daughter, boy was he in for a shock ! I don't particularly like to cook.
I have lost both my parents in the last five years, Mum less than two years ago. They both lived till in their nineties and I miss them.

Gorgeous Flair is from StudioFourteen40's new "Always" range . It truly is a special range of flairs and I would encourage you to check them out.
I have used lots of misting , masks , texture paste rub ons  and stamping to create the background.

I always try and include a bird on the layout for Mum as she loved birds.
Thank you for calling by . I hope you can join us over at AFSC , we are an easy going lot, that just want to inspire you to get those memories down.
Love and Peace
Mary x