This was a really hard week and it happened to coincide with some discussions on scrapbooking forums about documenting rough weeks. Amy Tan shared a layout about a rough week and started the discussion going. It is always an interesting topic, as I think everyone prefers to write about happy things and ignore the unhappy things, who wants to remember those later?
I am finding that PL is pushing me to include these things more, as I am including the week as an overall, so good and bad are included in it. I included a card from the Studio Calico PL kit with “Grow Where you are Planted” written on it and used that as the starting point of my journalling, where I said that plants need manure to fertilise them to grow, and sometimes it is the tough stuff that grows our strong character too. The kids had been home ALL WEEK sick and yet not languishing on the couch, insipid and quiet, they were quite stir crazy, but contagious enough that we could not visit with anyone else.
Left Page including a lovely self portrait at 6.45am in front of the computer with the headset on for Paperclipping – I kept waking up all night worrying I would sleep through in the morning and miss it, so I was kinda bleary eyed and looking dishevelled LOL.
Right Page with a couple of empty park visits to break the monotony of home, an unexpected “date” with my hubby, stopping at a cafe on the way to a meeting, just the two of us. Precious luxury, possibly my favourite moment of the week!
This week’s layout used a mix of the Studio Calico February PL kit and some Elle’s Studio tags, the ones with labels at the top. It was a pretty quick one to put together, as I let the products do the work and simply added words and photos on top. I think there are very little embellishments, except a couple of flair badges from Ormolu, which I stuck on TOP of the page protectors, after reading the suggestion on a message board. I certainly prefer it, as the page protector is not straining to contain the fat embellishment, it looks much better this way!
That’s it for today, coming up next is the weekly Currently list. This time we will combine Catherine and I into one post.
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