If you haven’t already joined in, we’d love to hear from you. This week we’re looking at the daily routine – what did you do ‘back in your day’ that’s different from what your own children or kids of today experience. Mum’s after school baking, or fighting over who did the dishes, television before breakfast or walking to school – ring some of the everyday changes between now and then. Louise and Danielle both look in different ways at how the pace of life has changed.
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When Danielle spent some time thinking about her childhood days, she realised that the single biggest difference for her own children is in the technology, but that's a whole other topic! One other significant difference, though, is in the freedom she and her sisters had as a child to explore the neighbourhood freely and walk to school alone from a young age. Although Danielle now raises her kids in a fairly safe area, she generally drives them, or walks along with them, to and from school each day.
School is something that we each have in common with the generation before us, in some manner, and is a great topic to think about how things change over time. Danielle has used a layered photo effect here to allude to the echo of the previous generation, even though she only used one single, modern photo. This was achieved by printing one of the photos in black and white, and layering the smaller colour version over the top.
Studio Calico Mister Hueys colour mist in Bluegrass has been sprayed over the background patterned paper to create a darker area, over which the Hambly textures rub-on was applied. Birds hand-cut from a second Studio Calico patterned paper, also from the Countryside line, flit across the page. Sassafras patterned paper has been cut into strips to create a photo frame and journaling strips. Jenni Bowlin milk cap chipboard buttons add a nostalgic feel.
Louise says: "One of the biggest differences for my children's childhoods, from my own, is the huge leap in technology. These days they all have computer access and are very technology savvy from a very young age. It's quite a change from when I grew up writing letters or being allowed to use the telephone."
Louise wanted to highlight this difference with a layout featuring her two boys on their toy laptops. Featuring some Sassafras Lass papers along with some of their 'Foldies" flowers with an old paper doily for detail, she has brought together the old and new in a modern, yet vintage look.
The journalling reads: "How different things are for you. We never had computers, we wrote letters. The world was a much slower place. You both are already computer savvy, and I can only imagine how people will communicate in your futures."
