This year for spring break we wanted to
do something fun, special or exciting.
Not being able to travel far from home,
or staying away over night, presented a touch of an issue.
So we looked on line and saw that
the Henry Ford Museum was close enough
to fit all our needs!! Vashti was so excited!!
She had been there before with school,
but never really had enough time to see everything.
To top it all off, the Titanic Exhibit was going on.
I am all into the history and facts of Titanic.
(not James Cameron's movie!! Please!!)
So I was super excited too!!
We had such a nice time there.
Everything was interesting to see, but we all
loved the Titanic Exhibit the best!!
Before you go into the exhibit, they give you a card
with the name, and info of a passenger.
Vashti and I got ladies, Tim got a man.
(Go figure, huh??)
Tim and I got people in first class,
Vashti got an 18 year old mother with a
10 month old baby, in third class.
The picture and story of her person were
part of the exhibit. That was cool to us!!
At the end of the exhibit, is a wall with all the survivor's
and victims listed so that you can see if your
person lived or died. We all lived.
We were so fascinated by the people
we were on the ship, that we came home
and did all kinds of searches on them.
We found out so much info and pix of them,
that I knew I HAD to scrap them!!
I was so excited!!
Here are the lo's I did for each of us on our person
from the Titanic!!
First is Tim. His person was Edward Nelson Kimball.
He was in cabin D-19 and got off on lifeboat 5.
This was my person: Helen Churchill Hungerford.
She was a women's libber!! (I so am not!! *L*)
She got off on lifeboat 6.
Vashti's person: Leah Rosen Ake (and her son Phillip)
She was waiting to get on a lifeboat when someone
grabbed her baby and threw him into boat 11
as it was being lowered.
She had no idea what happened to him and wasn't
able to get on life boat 12. She got off on lifeboat 13.
The following day, she was on the deck of the ship that
rescued them and saw a lady with her baby.
The lady refused to give her the baby saying it was hers.
Leah had to appeal to the ships captain and give info about
his birthmark and circumcision in order to get him back.
(all this type of info is on the lo's)
I took the cards we were given and copied them onto cream
colored paper. Then I dropped tea on them to give them
the stains and let it dry. I used TH's ink on the edges,
and then I sprayed it with water,
crinkled it all up and laid it flat to
dry. While it was wet I rubbed the edges to get the tears
and such on them. When they were dry I added
a little more ink to them. (I did the story spots the same way)
For the first two, I tried to embellish a bit
more since they were first class, a little less on the last one
since it was third class!!
I hope you enjoyed this little journey with me.
I hope that if you get the chance to
see the exhibit in your area, that you will!!
It was very interesting!!
I'm really blogging this for the record
of our trip and adventure!!
Thanks for stopping by!!
Until next time...............tootles!!
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