School days – best days of your lives or thankful the nightmare is over?! No matter what your recollections, this is bound to be a page that would interest your children, and your children’s children! Write about your memories, the changes, how much easier or harder kids seem to have it now…
Send us your pages by next Wednesday 22nd September to aussiedt@iinet.net.au.
It’s easy to see how proud Nic is in this photo, while Abby starts school, Nic remembers her own school days. Her journaling explains how Nic feels life back when she was a child was a little easier, with less pressure to keep up with the other kids, no cell phones, no facebook, everyone wore what they liked, and no one seemed to judge! This layout is a lovely chance to express how different things were back when Nic was a child, but also to record how things are for Abby now. Nic chose to use fabulous new release papers by BasicGrey – Piccadilly, due out soon, is a wonderful bright collection of amazing colours and patterns. Nic has splashed strips of colour across her page with varying papers and toned some of them down with white paint, just to let the photo shine.
Suz had reason to visit her old primary school earlier this year and was sad to find it was closing down. It was an old school and so near the centre of Melbourne that the land must be very valuable, but it’s a shame that it will no longer be there for future generations of little catholic children. Though she couldn’t find a photograph of her at the school she did find one of her older brother looking rather special in a blue corduroy suit, so she used that to juxtapose the old and the new photographs. You can recognise the distinctive arches in the background of both shots.
Suz based her journalling on information she found about the school’s history and her own memories. Click on the pic above to enlarge it to read. She used the unlikely combination of Bo Bunny’s vintagey Et Cetera range with Fancy Pants bright glittery Off to School embellishments.
