Home is Where The Heart is for a LM challenge

Today is the beginning of the new challenges over at Lasting Memories for the month. We are having some fun with the challenges this month using some Unique National Holidays. Today's challenge is honor of Dec 3rd: National Roof Over Your Head Day :) Scrap about your home or someone elses home or any home in general. Or switch: Scrap about your home during the Holidays. Seeing Christmas lights would work.
 Hi you all, this maybe troubling for some and that is not the idea for this layout. When the rain washes away and you take a look at what is left.... In 2004 we had to deal with Hurricane Ivan, he came in a week after Hurricane Jean came in. It wasn't a Katrina, but for this girl it was the worst flooding I have physically faced since I was a youngster seeing Agnes in 1972 and that was a flood that just rocked our area to a core that I still remember, even though our house didn't get flooded that year, we know of many that did. The  prompt on LOAD10: Story: Tell of what you hold fast to for security Product/technique: Use a bold paper as a background frame revealed at the edge of your page Image: A photo that includes a house. This prompt I thought about and thought about and then it just came to me about doing a layout/theme album that I have been wanting to do for a long time: You don't know how secure you feel in your home until something devastating happens to it. Nature has a way to destruct your secured feeling. Thank you for this prompt, you got me going on a project I wanted to do for a long time:

This will be my title layout to a themed album that I want to do. I used my October counterfeit kit for my layout and this layout was based on a sketch challenge last month on a Facebook group.

The top two pictures hold 2 tags that hold the journaling for the layout. Both pictures were taken from the railroad tracks, the only way to see anything during that time as the river filled up our little community area, the rest of the borough was secured by the dike. When they built the dike years ago it didn't extend this far and that is just another long story for another layout :)

 The left tag shows the vital statistics and the right tag shows the journaling of what took place that day for us.

The bottom pictures show the house after we were able to come down from the tracks and to check out the damage. There was still lots of water in the yard and the driveway that we weren't able to come up to the house that way. After the holidays I would like to work on this album quite a bit so a large focus for me in the new year. Not always protected from the elements, but it's always a roof over our head. Thank you for stopping by today and seeing what I'm up to in my little corner of the world....
National Roof Over Your Head Day. It is a day of appreciation for the things we have, starting with the roof over our heads. For most of us, a roof over our head signifies living in a house that protects us from the elements, keeping us warm, dry, and cozy. Unfortunately, not everyone is as lucky as you and I. There are many homeless people right here in our country. Some people live in a cardboard box on the street...... literally. There are millions of people around the world who live in poverty or disaster areas, and do not have a home to keep them comfortable and safe. Spend a few minutes  being thankful that you are not homeless, and appreciating your roof and home today. Also make a contribution to a homeless shelter, so others can come in out of the rain.
Happy National Roof Over Your Head Day!

Water Receding Layout

Hi you all, I'm back again with another layout :) Yep the end of the month and I got to get these posted and to the right challenge. This layout came about from LOAD18: Story: Tell of a crisis you have been through Product/technique: Use a dark background Image: Where weather is a feature. This layout fits all 3 parts of the prompt. I had started a new theme album this month with a layout about the Flood from Ivan in 2004. The title page has been done for a future challenge so you will see that at a later date. But this is the next 2 pages of the album about the water receding:

I took a single page sketch and used it for both sides for a 2 page layout. I used my current counterfeit kit, one of the fall theme kits. The sketch I used was from Scrap Much?: Sketch-y Friday with Team A | October 16 2015:
 
 The only addition I did was add another photo to the top corner on both pages. My journaling ended up on the 2nd page where the title was to be from the sketch. So the pages mirror each other.

 The left hand page: Shows the water receding and what we saw when we took a chance to look around. We had to come down from the railroad tracks to get to as the water still covered the driveway.

The right hand page: Shows alot of what we saw walking around the property. In the top corner picture all the way back in the field was what was left of the skid of pumpkins that we had in front of the garage.

 The title work I added dark grey washi tape under the lettering to get it to pop more. Fun sticker I found and wood veneers to finish it off. I also had done some inking to cover up the design on the paper but luckly the photos covered it up but you can see the ink peaking out.

 The bottom corner layering work

The journaling tag that explains the details.

 A closer shoot of the pictures on this side of the layout

This side also has some added layering Where the today sticker is you can see in the photo the water line of how high it was out back. We started losing room in the house to bring thing up from the basement so we thought that piling stuff on the picnic table would not get effected. Some did and some didn't as is seen from the water line.
This I think is going to make an interesting scrapbook. We had to take lots and lots of pictures for the insurance company and after about 7 or 8 rolls it got pretty spendy because we had to get double sets too. This helped us in 2004 to decide to buy our first digital camera. This will also provide and idea to future generations of some of the real life we do deal with, something that wasn't capture in 1972 during Agnes that left some old memories for me and at one time we had lots of paperclippings but were not found when I went through Mom's stuff.  Thanks for stopping by once again today