The Moving Was Over And Done

Two moves in one month... at last all the moving has been done and both daughters are in their new homes, even if they are a tiny bedsit and a University room!

For this layout I used Basic Grey papers from the 'Sugared' collection and a sheet of Anna Griffin paper with words on that has the same colour combination of green and red. I used watered down gold paint and wrote the title over it. The Library Card is a free download from twopeasinabucket - here's the link if you're interested - http://www.twopeasinabucket.com/class_pdfs/makeminemini_week_4_librarycard.pdf

Finally I added pegs and ribbons to represent  the masses of clothes we had to carry in the two recent moves. It's actually a layout for a challenge on Dreamgirls.

For Karen's move to Bournemouth we had to hire a van for her 27 boxes! When we got there we found she was on the top floor of the student house and had to carry them all up three flights of stairs. After the first four boxes I was worn out, and my husband carried most of them in while Karen and I started the unpacking. To be fair to Karen, four large boxes contained cooking utensils and 'essential food' that my husband insisted she had to take 'so she wouldn't go without!' There were also two boxes of cleaning stuff he insisted on taking, and did we need it! The room was filthy with a thick layer of grime over everything..... but with a bit of elbow grease it was soon clean enough for her to move in. She now tells us that the house is infested with cockroaches too! Even so, Karen is thoroughly enjoying herself and seems to be the only one in her house prepared to cook food from scratch. Don't know how long it will last once her course starts though!

Young Catlover and Our First Date

This is a layout I did yesterday featuring photos of a very young Jenni in our garden at Aylesbury. She was fascinated by this furry creature that would always follow her around......next door's cat! She didn't have any hair until she was 9 months old - Jenni that is!

The papers and alphabet stickers are from the Basic Grey Sugared Collection. Also the border, hearts and Girl Journaling block are in the same collection, on the Element Stickers sheet. When you like something, and I'm a fan of Basic Grey, you've just gotta have it all!

In an earlier post I said I met my husband in Aylesbury. To be exact, I met him at Stoke Mandeville Hospital where he was a Porter and I was sent there for 6 weeks placements in my training as a Radiographer. On my first placement, I asked at Reception for a key to the Nurses' Accomodation and he was the porter on duty. Afterwards he told his colleagues he thought I was 'a snob'!.....

However, two years later, after I qualified and started working there, he asked me to go to the cinema in Harrow to see Neil Diamond in 'The Jazz Singer'. Of course he didn't tell me he had never driven to Harrow. In fact he hadn't long passed his driving test and hadn't driven outside of Aylesbury!

Inevitably we got lost. By pure chance (or was it meant to be?) I recognised where we were and directed him to my Great Aunt's flat where we asked for directions! We eventually got to see the film (having missed the first showing) and had fish and chips in the car afterwards. Very romantic eh?

Actually he is quite romantic. He often buys me flowers or chocolates 'just because' and never forgets my birthday or our wedding anniversary. He even remembers how many years it is since we got married - something I'd rather forget now it's over 25!