Don’t be frightened, there’s no fire around here, but this was the challenge
over at Scrapping out LOUD!

“Fired up! 
FIRE! – Your house is on fire, your family and pets have escaped and taken your scrapping stuff with them…..including albums and photos. What is the one thing you would grab to save from the fire? and why? “

Now isn’t that a question we all asked ourselves one time… like when you where a kid? I remember when I was in primary school, questions like this where common, it was like a game we played: “You move to a deserted island, what would you bring with you?” or (one of the heavy and meanest ones!)
“One has to die, who would you pick, your mum or your dad?”

I don’t remember what my answer to the first question was back then,
but I definitely wouldn’t answer the second one! I just couldn’t! (Still can’t!)

Anyway, I knew my answer
to the “Fire question” right away…

I also used Jessica’s sketch 
to scrap my “One item”
(well… in my case it’s about
50 items but they’re in one
plastic box – and although
that box is quite heavy to lift,
I would run for it to rescue
that treasure!)

My diaries!

 Journaling in Dutch:
“My diaries. I didn’t count them, but it must be about 50 of them.
Books and exercise-books. Each of them filled with my daily experiences
and reflections. I began writing in 1975, I was 11 years old, and I never stopped. In my diaries, I documented my whole life. As years went by,
the embarrassing pages – which I read with shamed indignation (my first kiss!) – make room for better written and more mature pieces.
This is my life in words. My dear diaries.”

The background paper is “Prima Marketing”.
The blue paper is “Cosmo Cricket”.
I copied some text from different diaries/years onto the blue pieces (you can see my handwriting changing over the years – from 1976 to 2003 – and you can try to read it (for the Dutchies) but I was keen enough to pick paragraphs that aren’t that intimate… about school and stuff…)

The diaries in the picture are “Chinese diaries” – I liked those ones best
when I was young!

 
The inside of a
“Chinese diary”
looks like this…

 
…and I let those
images return
on my scrap.
(I used gold ink to
fit with the gold
on the diaries/photo)

Also, I made my “A-photo” today! ASPIRIN! 

I swollowed quite
a lot of these
little suckers
last week…

I had lots of
headaches and
didn’t sleep well,
but at least
it lead me to
my “A-photo”

I also have a “C” in mind, but I need more (sun)light for that one, and the weather over in the Netherlands has been horrible the last couple of days! (Sorry Jessica! Your hubby caught a cold, rainy week over here!)

Today, I bought me a bunch of plants and flowers to put in my flowerpots in my garden. It may not feel like summer yet, it sure looks that way when I look out my window! I’ll take pictures as soon as the sun is going to shine (the forecast predicted a sunny weekend and higher temperatures, so keep your fingers crossed!)

And that’s all for today, folks!
I’ll be back tomorrow with yet another lay out ’cause you know:
Friday is Lotus Paperie day!!!

See you then, je t’embrasse!

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