This card I made this morning for my grandma Culie. She lived in the US for 15 years then went back to Trinidad when she retired. This lady is a very classy lady, half french half portugese. she is totally creole. I haven't wrote anything about Black history month as yet but when I think of my grandma I think of all the racial issues she had to go through. You see, my grandma is one of the few that could have passed as a full blown white woman back in the day. she had grey eyes, curly black hair and fair skin. I say had because she is much tan know. When she started dating my grandfather, who was pure black, not mixed in any way, her family hated her for it. Her family was planning to send her to England, to live with her brother while studing nursing. back then that was a respectable skill to have under your belt as a young woman. Of course she was never going to work as a nurse, it was just for conversation, they wanted her to marry a white englishman preferably a doctor, which may have been arranged or something like that, basically anyone who wasn't black would have worked for the DeBique Family. So, she left her home and moved to trinidad from St Vincent another island to live with my grandfather. People used to think that my grandfather was one of her servants, like her driver or something. Isn't that weird, how time has changed. I love this women, she made a sacrifice for love and now I'm here, 2 generations later. I'm her first grandbaby, I'm her lily, her toi toi, she always says and she's my grammy or grandmere, I always say. Grandparents are huge on my list, the originators of lineage. Don't forget them, they need love too. this scan is terrible but I used basic gey alyssa, white paint on MM stamps, my own handwriting for the title and a coluzzle file template for the actually card. May arts ribbon.