Remember met Erin Reed.............

Vandaag hebben wij wel iets heel speciaals, zeer emotioneel, frustrerend en wat voor Erin

een dag is waar zij elk jaar weer mee geconfronteerd wordt!!!

Ik heb besloten om haar verhaal dan ook niet te vertalen en het in haar eigen zeer emotionele 

woorden aan jullie te vertellen.

The 7 year anniversary of my daughter Kristen's death was coming up and my son asked 

to see pictures of his little sister.  She passed away very unexpectedly of SIDS when she was

4 months old and it forever changed who I am. 

You never get over a loss of a child, but you work though it.  My way of working

through the pain is my creative outlet, it was the reason I really started to scrapbook and delve

deep into the art and craft world.   

The picture is of my husband and I at the funeral home the day before the funeral.  

We chose to have her body embalmed, but just for us to view. 

We felt it would be odd for our friends

and family to see a dead baby, and I still feel a bit weird letting people 

see the pictures of here like this, I would rather everyone see 

her alive and happy.

When we went to view her that day a friend came with the program 

Now I Lay Me Down To Sleep to take pictures of our last moments with our daughter.

I have not looked at these pictures since the day of the funeral when she gave them to me.

They went on a shelf and I really just have not had the strength to see them again and 

bring up all the memories of that painful day.  Time has gone by, 

and my son who is now 10 (he was 3 when she passed) is still asking tons of questions 

about what happened to her and asked to see the pictures. 

There was a lot of crying on both of our parts while viewing the pictures, and I decided 

it was time to do something with them.

My emotions are fully obvious in the picture and tried to convey that feeling of pain,

anguish, love, frustration, hurt, numbness, and just anger into my layout.

I used a ton of paper tearing, layers of gesso, other mediums, stencils, splatters, misting, and really

just getting mad at my layout beating it all to hell as a poured my heart into the piece.

 Erin.....