More school layouts

Here are the other two Origin's layouts I promised you. To answer your question Christine, yes I did use most of it, so I went out and bought more!!
During her junior years Lauren's reports were peppered with comment like "must learn to moderate her views in light of discussion", "needs to be more appreciative of the contribution of others". Lauren always saw things in black and white and it was her way or the highway. As I said in the previous post she was always loud, she was also forthright, she did learn that others sometimes have something valueable to add but she didn't suffer fools gladly and her inability to hold back on her own views did lead to her have the unenviable title in her year book when leaving secondary school as - Person with least tact. It makes a mother proud!!!

The double layout is of my younger daughter Holly when she left her junior school in England to move here. This layout uses the PaperTrey Ink stamp set - Friends til the end. Holly was a much more easy going character who didn't make waves, which made the end of year reports a little less "interesting" to read.

School Days

Here are a few school layouts of Lauren, the papers in both are from Basic Grey's Origins line, which I absolutely love. I was round at Claire's for a stamp night and she showed us this fab paper and the layouts she had done with it and that was it, the day after next I was at the shop buying it all up, unfortunately the shop had sold out of lots of the smaller embellishments, not that that deterred me, I tracked down what I wanted elsewhere. It all just matched perfectly with the not particularly flattering school uniform colours. I have done two other school layouts for years 4 and 6 which I will put up later. Lauren is at Uni now so these are a bit of a blast from the past. Don't be fooled by the innocent looking unsure face in the year 1 layout, Lauren was brim full of confidence and so competitive, always had to be first to finish her work (even if it meant it was rushed) always first to get in line ( the teacher knew this and would often lead the line out from the rear, much toLauren's annoyance) or the first to volunteer when the teacher asked. It was a good school though where they nurtured her talents and directed her competitiveness into her work. She was full of life and for the most part loud. I had to laugh when her Head teacher was chatting to me one day he said"I never need to ask where Lauren is, I can always hear her"Only as she progressed through High School did she quieten down.

So young

Now you can tell how old this photo is because Kevin has hair, well a bit anyway, he never was over endowed with the stuff! We just look so young, compared to how old we are now, Kevin has only got a few days to go until his 50th birthday. We look happy but we didn't enjoy the holiday that much and couldn't wait to come home. The weather was raining most of the first week and then when the sun came out it was so hot we got really burnt (no sunscreen in those days, rather you slathered oil on to get a tan) and ended up staying in our room for a few more days, we were so sore. There wasn't a huge amount to do/see there, we had done most of it during the rainy days and we like to be occupied, the beach is okay for a few days and then we are bored. But don't let me put you off, plenty of other people think it is great. I am sure with such a passage of time that more touristy venues have been opened too.

Everything on the layout is Kaiser except the large scalloped circle which is Crate paper.

At last it's finished

I started this layout whilst away for the weekend with my scrapping/card making friends last July, I finally finished it a few weeks ago, I love these Kaiser papers, so bright and colourful

All papers and embellishments Kaiser, with the exception of the "Life's a beach" surf board, which is from Jolees and the thongs/flipflops which were in a button pack.

Need a babysitter?

This is Holly posing with her school project - to look after an egg as if it is a real baby for three days. She was lovingly named Penny by Holly and was nurtured carefully to start with, until the novelty wore off. After neglecting (read smashing, dropping, cracking and then covering with sellotape) two "Babies" in less than two days, the school declined to give her a third!!

Background paper - Prima, all other paper - My Little Shoebox
Large alpha stickers - (egg and baby) Basic Grey, "Penny" - American crafts
Small alpha stickers - My Little Shoebox

There is nothing like a friend

I love the colours in this layout, blue is a real favourite of mine. This was Lauren aged 3 with her great friend Claire. The two little babies are Joshua (Lauren's brother) and David (Claire's brother). The tag at the top of the layout pulls up to reveal a large amount of hidden journalling.

All of the paper, round tags and flowers are from Scenic Route. The leaf sprays are stamps from Paper Trey Ink, as are the sentiments. Rub on letters from Doodlebug

You can't keep a good girl down

This is Lauren, after surgery, she is supposed to be resting but I can't keep her out of the kitchen, she loves to cook as my stamping buddies will tell you, her fudge and shortbread are very scrummy. She is not allowed to put any weight on the feet, therefore she is confined to a wheelchair until such time as the surgeon feels they are ready.

Poor old Lauren has been unable to walk very well for months and this last month she has more or less been confined to the house. Back in August after some training (she is a triathlete) she said her ankles were hurting and it has got steadily worse since then. When she was operated on, the surgeon found that the sheaths to both achilles tendons were actually stuck to the tendon itself, allowing little or no movement. He has delicately separated them and made incisions in the sheath to relieve the tightness and as the scar tissue grows across these incisions the sheath should increase in size.