I blame Deb.If she hadn't posted recently about her travel journal for her up and coming trip to the UK, I wouldn't have been thinking about them.Travel journals, I mean.Many years ago, before I knew that scrapbooking had been invented, I made travel journals.My, doesn't that sound grand?In reality, I can remember making two. Only … Continue reading Travel Journals
Hello to the first anniversary of my FiL's death. As it happens, The Brainy One and my SiL are meeting up with lots of relatives this week for lunch.Hello to resumption of routine after half-term.Hello to continual perusal of property websites.Hello to the car's MOT. Fingers crossed all is well.Hello to picking up scrapbooking again: … Continue reading Hello Monday
Phew.We're back home.We're back home after an action-packed four days.There was a motorway or two.There was time spent with cousins.And I even appeared in one family group.There were houses that weren't right for us.There were houses that weren't on the market, but looked as though they could be right for us.There were houses that we … Continue reading That Was The Week That Was
Hello half-term.Hello to travelling to mum's for four nights.Hello to viewing three houses. Fingers crossed.Hello to cups of tea, chat and laughter with family.Hello to feeling better. All of us have been under the weather recently.Hello to going to the cinema. Wreck-it Ralph for The Boy Child and maybe Lincoln, Hitchcock or Flight for us. … Continue reading Hello Monday
It's worth repeating what I said in last week's Scrapbook Saturday post: Miss Smith's Telling Tales is continuing apace and her suggestions for a different take on a page, combined with telling the story are consistently thought provoking and inspiring.Prompt 5 was about making use of a banner. Not as a mere embellishment but as the focus of … Continue reading Scrapbook Saturday | Telling Tales
We are all in the living room. The curtains are drawn. Both lamps and wall lights are lit. The Brainy One is sitting at the end of the three-seater brown leather sofa, with one eye on The One Show on BBC1 (where Professor Lord Robert Winston is rabbiting on about his childhood home) and one … Continue reading Simply a Moment
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Hello to more snow falling.Hello to feeling physically sick when realising that our War Memorial has been vandalised. Poor command of the English language somehow only adds insult to injury. Hello to a large supermarket shop. The kitchen cupboards look as though they belong to Old Mother Hubbard.Hello to the possibility of house viewings. We … Continue reading Hello Monday
Regular readers know that we have made the decision to sell our house and move back to the area where I grew up.With that in mind, here's my top ten of things to know when it comes to selling a house (to be taken tongue-in-cheek).1) Do tidy up and de-clutter before you ask the agents … Continue reading 10 Things
Miss Smith's Telling Tales is continuing apace and her suggestions for a different take on a page, combined with telling the story are consistently thought provoking and inspiring.Prompt 2 was making use of hidden journaling, especially when part of the story you're telling is not for public consumption.The tag behind the photo holds the extra … Continue reading Scrapbook Saturday | Telling Tales
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