I hadn't shared this page as I wasn't sure when it was due for publication. Turns out it was ages ago LOL.
I was asked to do the take 5 challenge by Scrapbook Inspirations and this was what i made. The chipboard circles were great fun to use as frames once they were inked and embossed to make them shine.
I seem to have so many pictures of Emily eating ice-cream it looks like all she ever does.
It's not - promise!
The My Freedom prompt today was to write about your first job - and ask people to reply about theirs.
Mine was as cheap child labour!! Seriously - my parents owned a small family run hotel and as soon as I was old enough - 11 I think - I was part of the family running it. I was the waitress for evening meals. (They tried to get me to do breakfasts when I was on school holidays but let's be honest - it was never goingt ow ork now was it!) I loved it. I had the proper white lacy apron and could do silver service and everything. I got proper wages too, long before my friends were earning any money. And good tips. Trouble was the 'boss' was pretty strict and he made me save half of everything i earned. I hated him making me do that, but when I used the money as the deposit for our first house I viwed it a little differently and I am so pleased he made steady saving a part of my regime.
I also went out, a few years later, to work at my Aunt's much bigger hotel. I would have been better to do breakfasts at home. I had to get up at 5.30, cycle there,be there for 6. Lay up, serve breakfasts until 9.30 then clean the dining room until about 11 then drag my poor aching body back home. It was hard work.
Don't forget - tomorrow it is time for Magical Memories prompt 3 and it's a great one.
One final thing -a friend sent this link and it is just amazing.
Please please click on it - whoever set this all up is one clever person. Skillful or what!
Lovely layout! :D
That billard dominoes actually made the Greek news! LOL :D :D
Posted by: Eleni Gratsia | July 22, 2008 at 08:48 PM
What a neat video. Someone sure is talented !
Would have loved your first job Karen. Mine was detasseling corn. Seven days a week for a month, I spent my days walking up and down the rows of corn, plucking the tops off. And then I dreamt about it at night! Woke up more tired than I went to bed. I think I was 12 or 13 when I did this.
Posted by: HeatherC | July 23, 2008 at 12:46 PM