Play pages and my month update

  It is hot hot hot and my scraproom is like a furnace. I have to keep the door shut as I have a Fiki - he is NOT allowed in.

We keep trying but he breaks too much stuff in here. Nigel's models are all on shelves in here and he has already done a fair bit of damage there.

Before it go too hot I made my 'play' pages for the Shimelle my freedom class.

I couldn't do the journalling as part pictures - it just wasn't happening for me - so I abandoned the sketch and that idea and went with my flow and this is what happened.

I find play really easy - work is the hard stuff! One of the most important things in my life is laughter and I am blessed with a husband who is a giggler and laugher too and with a best mate who is a laughter girl as well.

As ever I couldn't limit it to just a couple of pictures so I needed to squeeze more on and used a film strip again. I love film strips (I know .... you have guessed) because it means I can stick a whole mess of pictures in.

I found this double page flowed more easily than the others I have done and I think that is, in part, due to the film strip straddling both pages.

I have to think of it as one huge page and then cut it at the last minute down the join between the two sheets of cardstock.

I used some of the letters I have been keeping for something special. I made myself a promise to not keep anything for special so broke them out and stuck them on saying PLAY. They are lovely letters - really thick chipboard  - called Alphaletterz by ProvoCraft that I bought from Michaels or Joanns on holiday last year.

And yes - I succumbed to sewing on the page as well LOL

This is my page for the month in my life yesterday. We finally finished the patio. Nigel got out the new furniture and it looks wonderful ont here. It is also really comfortable which I can attest to as we had a BBQ last night to christen it all.

He also bought some solar powered lights which give a nice finishing touch. we have no power out there so they had to be solar powered and fair enough they are not bright - but they are kind of cute to see at night.

The page for 27th would look so much better if I had scanned it straight but such is life. It is straight really - I promise!

Today I sat in the sun as long as I could stand - which was not actually very long at all - and then retired to the cold shower again.

This is my page for today - which I know is early as there is more of the day left - but I don't think much of great importance will happen later.

Finally three cute pictures to share. The patio with it's new furniture. my new second patiio (well how cool is that - I didn't even have one now I have two!) and two fur babies catching the shade.

They are the same pictures as on the two month in my life pages but I wanted to show them bigger as well.

Have a great rest of the day and stay cool.

Comments

[kathy]

i love your play pages, i like the way you did a circle and then journalling around it!

[Kelly]

I love your play page - it turned out really nicely. I'm treating the DLOs like that too, basically designing them as one page and cutting only at the end. Love filmstrips too - I saw film strip tape at paperarts on the weekend.

[Marie]

Great layouts. I particularly love the film strip. It works really well.

xMx