Tail end of it

Thank goodness we're at the tail end of Mike being sick, although he's still using it as an excuse to get out of the dishes. Men are really really bad at being sick aren't they? I use a very general sweeping statement there I know. But women might be knocked to the rafters with being sick but they still keep on keeping on. Beds still need to be made, meals still need to be cooked, things still need to be tidied and put away and cleaned. Part of our multi-skilling perhaps? Who knows. Just that often if we don't do it, it doesn't get done.

Okay, rant over!

Mum is coming to stay today for a few days, I'm so looking forward to it. Again madly cleaning yesterday. te he. Everything is clean enough, but you know how it is, you want it to be perfect for your mum.

Onto scrapping. I was thinking the other day how funny this is. Although not scrapbooking per se (because I didn't even know what it was), I loved when I came home from travelling overseas, that I would put a photo album together. It had to be perfect. Perfect placement of pictures, stories typed up on coloured paper, memorabilia inserted such as tickets and the like. Everything pristine and a pleasure to view.

The great trend in scrapbooking I think at the moment and I've jumped on the band wagon with full force is to distress things. I love this look. This antiquated, crumpled, torn look. Obviously perfect for vintage pages, but why did I do it for the Molly page shown in my last post? Who knows. I just like the look.

Back to my photo albums of my trips. I would be horrified if I had torn a ticket when putting it in the album and any crease marks from folding memorabilia were straightened out as much as I could and if pictures weren't exactly perfect they didn't make the cut.

How funny that my way of thinking has gone 180 degrees.

Another page for the family book. There are not many baby/toddler pictures of Trevor, I'm having a hard time finding them but there was a reason. Mum and dad with a sick baby and a toddler (me) in tow, really didn't find time to take a lot of pictures of him. Thank heavens for the digital age today, nice and quick and instant.

Credits here.