The journal says it all really...Clip journal reads: "There was enough to be frustrated over in my childhood: nobody to play with as I had no siblings or cousins, and no children of my age close by; never seeing my parents together for “family stuff” because were on non-speaking terms; my grandma’s overcooked meals - especially the meat was always horrid; Mother being out every night on sojourns with her boyfriends…but more than anything else it was having to sit tight and being quiet all afternoon in our little flat while grandma was teaching her piano students that got me frustrated. It was then that I developed my love for books - one pastime for which I didn't get told off!Photo: 1968; Grandma and Monica Buchholz"There isn't really much on this card - a tiny strip of sheet music vellum and the musical note charm, and I have no idea where I acquired them; all the peel-offs are from Craft Creations.
This was a topic I really wanted to include in my childhood DOA, so having a "theme without a topic" was quite suitable, and you ladies really inspired me to do "something else" with the napkin. Therefore I used the little "Barn Red" Memories ink pad that must have been with a CS JR kit at some time (because they are the only inkpads I have!) and altered a faintly yellow napkin of the cheap "rough" type, to bring out the pattern in the paper and make it look more like the roses in the picture. I think it worked quite well...Clip journal reads: "One of the highlights of the year for me as a child, something that I really remember strongly, was the annual Corpus Christi celebration – just at the beginning of summer when the days were ALWAYS sunny and warm. All the catholic churches would parade their monstrances through the streets, where people had laid out “altars” made of flowers. The processions would stop at each to sing favourite hymns and pray, and then move on. And all the small girls were “flower girls”: strewing petals in front of the priest and the monstrance. I loved it!Photo taken 1968 after the procession."I also used Making Memories ribbon (because it matched the colour of my dress), Making Memories brads, Craft Creations alpha peeloffs, and a doll's house cross charm. The background paper is handmade embossed with flowers (it's really beautiful paper that I've had for ages and this inspired me to cut into it - it's a shame you can't really see much of it).
I came a bit unstuck on the theme of love in my childhood - there are lots of interpretations I could have chosen but found it difficult to contain them in a few lines of journal, and they did not suit the aim of this project for me to explore the "moments and little events" that would pop up in my memory when thinking about a theme or looking through photographs... So I chose to interpret this theme as "something I really loved":Clip journal reads:""One thing I have always loved, and still do, is fancy dress. Whether it was dressing up in out-of-fashion gear of my Mum’s or Nan’s, which they kept in an old suitcase under the bed for that purpose, complete with hats, shoes and jewellery, or best of all, at the annual Carnival didn’t matter.The photo was taken at a “Kräbbelkaffee” in 1970 – the children’s fancy dress parties that were on during the carnival season. I think Mum enjoyed coming mostly for the “kräbbels”."The background paper is CS "Key to my Heart" (I have lots of leftover bits from the 8 1/2 x 11" lock+key paper as I used them for our blessing invites); plus Pebbles Real Life labels; Metal Rimmed Stickers "Made in Canada" and EK Success Disney 3D stickers.
Clip journal reads: "Playing games reminds me invariably of my father. We played often: in summer, we would take a badminton or dart set to the park, and in winter, it was board games in the cosy kitchen at his place. He even taught me chess, which I still love – even though I never won. At best, he would let me have a draw…The photo is of Dad in 1939."Papers, cutouts and mini domino from Club Scrap "Games"; peel-off dice corners from Craft Creations; Scrabble alphas from Jolee's Boutique.
Clip journal reads: "Of course I have no recollection of my baby days – but lots of photos, thanks to “Uncle Sator”, a friend of my grandma’s. So the “Cute as a Button” idea was a good way to sneak a baby photo into this childhood deck…and after all, grandma usually made sure that her darling girlie looked as cute as possible!"Paper from The Paper Connection; peel-offs from Craft Creations; bows and buttons from my needlecrafts stash.
Clip journal reads: "Growing up well “inland” at a time when far-away holidays were only just coming into fashion for ordinary people, I have no childhood recollections of the ocean. Beach and shells were something I only knew theoretically. It wasn’t until a chance trip to Belgium as a teenager that I walked a beach, saw an ocean horizon and swam in salty water for the first time in my life. It was a cold, dreary day early in the year but I insisted that I would go for a swim – I did about ten strokes, and I was the only person there in a bikini! Photo Oostende, 1980"Papers, tag and accent beads from Club Scrap kit "By the Seashore"; brad from Making Memories; peel-offs from Craft Creations; real shells and cotton wool for the spray.
Clip journal reads: "I don’t remember Mother Goose from Germany, but Mum and Nan started a veritable collection of fairytales of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen for me. They came with records as well as big picture and text books, and I got one or two of those for every occasion: birthday, Christmas and Easter. In the picture, Grimm’s “Sterntaler” record sits between all the chocolate eggs and bunnies, and I’m reading the book.The photo is Easter 1970.""Stern" is the German word for "star" - hence the theme for the deco...Background is some embossed star paper - no idea where that came from... The stars are Jolees by You and the peel-offs from Craft Creations.
The journal says it all really...
