Home Layout

This layout today gave me a couple of problems. I needed to get a whole series of photos onto the page to tell the story, so I had to cut some of them down in size. I arranged them into a sort of square and backed them onto Jenni's favourite colour purple, HOTP Vintage range, but then found they were lost on the page. So I mounted the whole square onto white to give it a lift.

Then I wanted a very large title but had little choice and nothing the right colour (isn't that always the way?) so I used some pink patterned stickers and covered them with Adirondack Cranberry ink - the pattern still shows through but is muted now. I backed them onto white to echo the large square of photos and make them stand out enough on the page. A few rub-ons and embellishments to finish.

Now I have a record of Jenni and Tom's first home together - but when Jenni sees this she'll complain I always snap her eating! Well, if the shoe fits?!!! Just joking! They have a tiny bedsit to cram everything into but they can't afford anything larger as they're now both students. However, they seem to like living together in windy Worthing, and that's what counts!

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Here's the promised scrapbook page featuring the houseboat photos from Shoreham-By-Sea.
Houseboat Heaven? Maybe if you want to live on one. I think it would be too cold for me in winter, although there must be a great community spirit and a sense of adventure living in something so out of the ordinary.
I live in a town house (not so ordinary either) and I love it. The rooms are light and airy and I can see the sea in the distance. I'm lucky enough to be near the beach and walk there often. It’s not a sandy beach but it has rock pools to explore and an under-cliff walk that goes on for ages. In rough weather it’s lovely walking there, wrapped up warm and dodging the waves as they crash over the sea defences. Living on cliffs it’s a steep slope down to the sea - and a long climb back up!
I was born in Buckinghamshire and lived there until 15 years ago. It's almost as far from the sea as you can get (Coton in Derbeyshire, I believe, is the furthest point from the sea in England). Since I was a child spending one week's holiday in a caravan at Great Yarmouth every year, I always wanted to live by the sea, and moving here was a dream come true.
This is my home now.