It is the end of the summer term and have had so many working hours this week finishing off the school accounts and preparing for the new academic year starting in September, I decided its time I took time out to do something for me!Something that will calm my mind, focus my creative energies and allow me to switch off for a few hours.
I recently found an old photo of my Mum and Dad's wedding and it was in such an old format (it was 2 1/2 inches x 3 1/2 inches) I had to have it professionally repaired and printed. I was so impressed with the final result I just had to create a 'page' of their wedding day. I hope you like the finished result of both pages. It was a very small wedding and is so obviously in a time of austerity following the end of the war. I just love old photos, they tell a story on their own.
My scrapping bug has again bitten and so I aim to spend the afternoon scrapping as well. The dinner can wait, the housework will still be there tomorrow and the washing can do itself in the machine. Today is for me!
I have just found a fabulous layout online that I plan on making. I need to really think it through as its a jigsaw puzzle pattern. I want to use it to fit the pieces of jigsaw of my life together in a scrap page. Its quite an exciting project for me.
In fact this isn't the only page I have lined up and waiting to be sorted out. I have a box full of photos that I printed especially for scrapping. A huge box of scrap papers, another box of bits and pieces to decorate the pages with and my dear husband purchased a wonderful cricut machine for me to electronically cut out letters and shapes. So there is no excuse for not getting on with things, its just the pace of life sometimes!
So I have made a mid years resolution (I never keep New Years resolutions!) it is simply this:
I mustn't take life so seriously and have to make time for me at least once a week.
Life must not be all work and no play.
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