Guest Gutter Girl

I was asked to be the guest designer over at Gutter Girlz, I'm so excited, check it out here, I even got my very own post!!!! However, I did have to think long and hard about this challenge, ... nothing immediately came to mind. And then, suddenly everything just fell into place. I even used all the prompts that were given: I used part of the lyrics (Maneater) - I adjusted them a little bit- as a background, used "swallow" as the title, and I splattered white paint onto the brown background paper. Oh, and I machine stitched my title, what do you think?? I don't think it's a look that would work on every LO, but I do like the look of it on this one!

Most LO's are made out of love, this one was created out of pure hate. I don't like to admit this, but I hate those people in the pic with all of my heart. This is why I didn't want to create a "beautiful" LO, I really wanted this LO to reflect my feelings towards these people. It's also why I changed their heads into skulls ... I still can't make a LO with their image on it.

The beautiful baby in the middle of the pic is my daughter Chloë, and the skulls are her ex-godparents, my husband's brother and his wife. A few years ago, we had an argument, and right there and then my BIL announced we should look for other godparents, because they didn't want anything to do with us anymore. My girl, about 4 or 5 at the time, was shattered. She had bad dreams and a fear of being left by me as well for many months to follow.

I'm not a vindictive person, you have to do a lot to make me stay mad at you, but don't ever touch my babies!!! Like I said before, I don't like to admit I hate those people, I don't like to hate anyone, it eats me up inside. I wish the day would come I would feel nothing when I think about them, but unfortunately, that day hasn't come yet. Hence the "hate-stitching" at the left of the page.

The journaling reads: "The mere thought that these people are on all our important photographs is not pleasant, but the fact that our sweet daughter wears their name is almost too hard to swallow".

That's why I made a copy of our marriage certificate/book (don't know the English word for this) where also our children are listed, and added the silver circle around Chloë's full name (just so you understand what that little book is doing on the LO).

Anyway, that's the background of the LO. I do hope you like it, despite the dark message it brings.

Xxx Peggy