some scrapping

Here is a fairly 'orange' layout (with a fairly, I mean VERY ordinary photo). Double click on the image if you want to read journaling.

This lightweight cotton blanket or 'throw' was a gift to eldest girl last Christmas and she drags it around the house with her.  She has always been a decent reader but has really got into choosing her own books and reading for pleasure over the past few years. It's a great thing and I'm not complaining, but being a reader and having night owl tendencies do have it's downsides, which are seen the next day with a tired and possibly grumpy girl.  Of course we tell her to turn the light off and go to sleep, and God love her, she gives it a go, but half an hour later when sleep hasn't come and she is still awake, she can be found under her covers reading by the light of a nintendo DS.

This old patterned paper has been sitting in my stash for years, just waiting for the right moment, and the moment arrived with the orange, pink and blue that came through in this photo.

The next layout is also of eldest girl. A photo you may have already seen as I took it in Melbourne last year on a horse & cart ride. I love the cathedral in the back ground. This was her favourite photo of the trip so I scrapped it as a 6x8 enlargement on a page of it's own.

We went to Melbourne for ballet and I hadn't yet scrapped any of the ballet related Melbourne photos, even though that was the point of the trip and the main story that had to be told.  In the following image below, I added the other remaining key photos of our Melbourne trip and a block of journaling to a 8x10 'canvas' in photoshop and printed the whole thing out as an 8x10 and stuck it on a 8.5x11" piece of green cardstock and these two Melbourne layouts sit beside each other in her album.

And yay, it is done. I was so mad at myself for leaving the scrapping of this event so long. The photos were taken in Sept last year, and the story was there THEN, and it was hard to take my mind back 8 months and scrap it. It was a really great time for us, and I wish I'd scrapped it at the time, might have done it more justice. Well, never mind, it is done now, and we both love looking back on these photos, and I hope she'll enjoy reading the story in years to come.

I know I'm at least a good week late with these - sorry, but I'm lucky to have got here at all!