This theme gave me an instant layout idea!Journal reads:" This is our first car – on our first “big outing”. At the age of 45, my mother decided to get a driving licence, and after many lessons and two tests, she finally held the coveted document and bought this 2nd hand Opel Kadett (Opel is the original Vauxhall brand from Germany). It served us faithfully for many years, and many trips, the first of which was in 1974 to visit her sister, my Aunt Inge, in Bockeroth near Bonn (a distance of 133 miles). After years of getting around on buses, bike or foot, and holidays by train, our first road trip was a real excitement!"All the cutouts are from Club Scrap kit "Road Trip"; brad from Making Memories, and peel-offs from Craft Creations.
The journal says it all:"I figured the only way to get a monochrome layout with a photo was to use a b&w, which gave me the opportunity to sneak in a baby photo of “how it all began”. Not that this is a memory, of course, but it is an anecdote that both Mum and Dad have told me. They had never wanted children and by that time, didn’t get on well anyway, so the necessary prerequisite didn’t happen very often. Talking the days “before The Pill”, when one New Year’s Eve they got a bit too tipsy and forgot about all the precautions - I happened… I’m born on 30th September, which makes me exactly a 9-month child and kind of validates their story… Photo: 29th November – almost two months old"There isn't much on this card other than the photo - the two coordinating ribbons and the brad are from Making Memories; peel-offs from Craft Creations, and the mini tag was a leftover from a Scrapmuse kit.
I was brooding quite a while over this theme until I settled on the idea of milk which was one of the banes of my childhood...Journal reads: "For my grandma, the Essence of Bovinity was certainly milk – much to my chagrin when I was a child. I’ve never really liked the taste of milk but it was hot milk with pepper for colds, hot milk with honey for sore throats, lukewarm milk in the evening to help you sleep and cold milk in the morning to wake you up! Even the strawberries came cut up in a bowl of milk…. Passport photo 1977"The paper is from HOTP again; peel-offs as usual from Craft Creations; and the 3D stickers are Jolee's Boutique "Breakfast".
The title sprang to mind immediately when I read the theme: Wild Thing.The journal reads: "My Nan and Mum desperately wanted me to be the sweet little girl that was always well-behaved and playing quietly and that they could doll up with pretty dresses and bows in my hair - really something to show off to their friends. But that wasn’t me! In my heart of hearts I was a wild thing who loved being out in nature, climbing trees and playing Indians. My greatest childhood treat was an afternoon at a pony farm, and from that day on, I wanted nothing so much as to learn horse riding!Photo: 23.7.70 Ponyhof Ebental/Rüdesheim"Papers and cutouts from HOTP Scrapper's Solutions "Boys"; cowboy boot charm from Club Scrap "Wild Wild West" kit; peel-offs from Craft Creations.
This theme gave me an instant layout idea!
