There’s a body of thought that says that kids are too busy these days – oversubscribed with extra curricular activities from sports to music lessons to dancing and gymnastics. Is it different from when you were a kid? Is there any time (or interest) in stamp and coin collections these days? Maybe you collected swap cards? Are you inundated with pokemon cards? Send us your pages by next Wednesday 29nd September to aussiedt@iinet.net.au.
Kathie and her sister both trained as ballet dancers for a great part of their childhood. Kathie’s sister in fact left school after year 10 to forge a career in the arts. In this layout, Kathie reflects that she would have rather played sports, particularly tennis and netball; however, her mother had different ideas. For both sisters it was strictly piano and ballet lessons; exactly as their mother had done many years before.
Kathie has contrasted a photo of her mother as a girl, in the focal photograph, with smaller index prints of herself and her sister. She used a base of Sassafras’ Sweetly Smitten papers – they are delightfully light and feminine with just a hint of a vintage overlay. As such, they were perfect for her theme, and for her photos which span twenty years. The layout is embellished with an eclectic mix of Prima flowers and odds and ends from Crate Paper’s Emma’s Shoppe and Restoration lines.
Most definitely a favourite pastime and one that Leeann has in common with her 2 eldest girls today. Leeann’s girls have an assortment of collections as did Leeann when she was their age. The only real different was Leeann’s little collections were found objects from second hand shops which ended up as her news at school each week.
Leeann created this page around the idea of bits and bobs using clouds, punches buttons, bling, overlays, pattern papers, inks and stitching. She also took a photo of one of the many collections that the girls have and also used a pic of the girls and recorded when they first started this collection. Leeann wanted to personalize the title so she added 3 simple words to it - just like me…
