My new kit, Fancy Fringes 2 has been released in the store at http://www.deco-pages.com/ I had so much fun with this kit! This is a scrapbook page I created with it...
This page was created for my son Matthew's Scrapbook, so the journaling reads:
Joseph Bifulco
Your Great-Grandpa
Matthew, this is my Grandpa. He was my Mother’s Father. His name was Joseph Bifulco. He was born in the United States, but when he was a young boy, his Mother and Father took him to Italy. His Sister Julia told me that their Grandmother hid him and when it was time for his parents to come home, he was left to spend his childhood and early adolescence with this Grand-- parents. When he was 17 years old, he was sent back to the United States to his parents.
My Great-Aunt Julia told me that she remembered the day they went to pick him up on Ellis Island from “the boat”. She said he was so handsome!
The memories I have of my Grandpa were that he loved my Grandma very much. I remember them kissing and hugging. He would sing to her. They would cook together. My Grandma was very affectionate to us too. I remember big gatherings of all the family at Christmas time. My Mother was one of 8 children. We would all come together at the Christmas Holiday.
My Grandma passed away on Christmas Eve when I was in the 5th grade. My Grandpa passed away, two years later, on the day before Thanksgiving. I remember, after that, the Holidays were always bittersweet for my Mom.
I remember Grandpa & Grandma used to speak in Italian when ever they did not want us to know what they were talking about. I don’t know if my Grandma spoke Italian because her parents did, or if she learned it from my Grandpa.
This photo was taken at the front door of my Grandparents house.
Another page I recently did was with a photo of my Mom and Me that I recently found. It was taken around 1977!
I love this photo of me and my Mom. It was taken in 1977, so I would have been about 13 years old. I loved using Little Sister by Lorene Hill for this page. Believe it or not, people were always asking my Mom if I was her little sister! (Ha! Bet it was a man too! She was so beautiful, all the men went ga-ga over her!) I also did a little Scraplifting on this page, hope you don't mind Lorene, but the page you did of your daughter and the kitty worked so well for this photo too, I just couldn't resist a little copy cat action!Here is a link to the Little Sister kit by Lorene Hill in our store...
http://www.deco-pages.com/product.php?productid=16773&cat=0&page=1
and this is an example of what it looks like in action:
