This week we’re looking at chores and pocket money. Even though neither of our two examples are typical suburban experiences – one includes memories from a hotel business and the other a farm - they might still provide some inspiration! What did you do for pocket money when you were a kid? Was it linked to chores? Did you have a set list of routine chores or did you just have to do as you were told?! Would you trust your children to do the same jobs at the same age as you were?
We’d love to hear about your experiences – send your layouts about your childhood chores (or your kids chores) to aussiedt@iinet.net.au by next Wednesday 7th September!
Suz Doyle really adored this little journey back down memory lane. That’s a tiny her in the photo above, sitting outside the sunroom of the hotel her parents ran when she was young. Because of this, her chores probably weren’t very much like other children's. They included collecting breakfast trays from outside guests rooms, changing linen and occasionally even answering the fabulous old plug and cord switchboard the hotel had. She tried to remember what jobs she had when she was a similar age to those of her children now, and actually she was surprised at the scope and responsibility of the jobs she was given!
In this layout Suz shows how to create a journaling heavy layout that doesn’t look too much like a whole block of journaling – dividing paragraphs into separate areas breaks it down into ‘bite size’ chunks visually as well as literally. She included a photo of her as a child and a switchboard similar to that she remembered, as she knows her kids clearly would have no idea what it was otherwise.
Leeann decide to ask her husband Quentin about what sort of chores he had to do as a young boy. As she knew already that it would be very different to the chores of kids today. Quentin is one of nine children and they all lived on a farm in Tasmania. So here’s a little insight to what Quentin’s chores were as a young boy.
As a 7-8 year old my chores on the family farm before we caught the bus to school were: Feed the potty calves with milk, we were not old enough, to do the milking that was the older kids job 10 year olds
Collect the milk and sometimes the cream from the vat of milk; collect the bread from the roadside bread box then hurry to get washed up ready to catch the school bus. Once home from school if we were lucky sneak in 10 mins of tv then off to feed the calves, also the chooks, dogs, and move the goat onto a new patch of grass. Fill the wheel barrow with wood for one of the older boys to bring in, help in the vegie shed stacking shelves with spuds, tomatoes, pumpkins etc for sale. Then bath time, tea, followed by some tv then bed.
October afternoon farm fresh collection was just perfect for this page. The pattern papers were randomly cut into squares, distressed and then layered across the centre. To finish of the page Leeann also used some of the farm fresh shaped stickers.
