WARNING: long post… Lot’s of stuff!

It’s been a while, but I made a lay out for ScrapMojo again.
There’s been some changes on that challenge blog and from now on
they’re doing only one challenge a month instead of the 2 they normally did.
This gives you longer to do them, which I am happy with ’cause I usually love
their challenges, but I can hardly find time to make all the lay outs I want
– or have to make – in one or two weeks!

Anyway, this is challenge #36
“Desperate times call for desperate measures. We have all been through some
tough times or seen someone close to us struggle. We challenge you to make
a page about how the economy has affected you. Tell us your views or maybe
how you have survived these tough times. The second part of your challenge
is to use something square or something recycled.”

The first thing I thought about, reading this, were my shoes…
I have quite a few pair of shoes, but last year a lot of them got tattered,
and I didn’t have the money to buy new ones or even let them repair….
And every time I saw my shoes I had an old nursery rhyme spinning through my head… 

It’s an old, Dutch nursery rhyme my mum recited for me when I was little…
I’ll try to translate… (“Koen” is a Dutch name…)

“Koen, will you repair my shoe?
Yes miss, I will do that at once.
Koen, will you make it strong?
Yes miss, that’s my daily job.

Koen, is my shoe finished yet?
Yes miss, you can pay it now.
Koen, I don’t have any money.
Well, than your shoe stays here…

‘Cause Koen isn’t that fond
of customers without any money

Bye, Koen!
Bye, miss without a shoe!

(of course it rhymes in Dutch….)

Here’s my lay out.

 
I kept it
quite simple…
White cardstock,
some spray ink
and I sewed the
squares with my
sewing machine.

I printed
the rhyme
on vellum.

And I finished two more pages for my “Book of Me”
(don’t start giggling – no secrets this time!) 

The prompt for page three was “iCreate”
“As women who create through scrapbooking and art journals,
we all have a relationship with our creative minds.
This prompt encourages you to talk about that relationship.”

I used old dictionary paper for the background, sprayed it with ink
(leaving some spots/words open – see detail picture)
and a black and white sharpie for the journaling.
(The black is my “daily” and the white is my “creative” side)
The paperclips show ’cause I used them on my former page, as is
the big paperclip, which I put a gelsticker on to make it fit to this page.

Journaling in Dutch:
I talk – I scrap – I laugh – I paint – I love – I write –
I cry – I photograph – I sleep – I blog – I dream – I fantasize –
I breath – I glue – I eat – I stamp – I walk – I cut – I read –
I calligraphy – I drink – I draw – I work – I embroider – I listen –
I live!

 
The words
left open
to read
after spraying
the ink:
painting,
writer,
photographer
etc.

The next page in my Book of Me had to be about school.

“Today’s prompt is about school.
You could really create a page about anything relating to your time in school”

A simple page huh? But I like it!
I had that “black board paper” in my stash for ages!

This is 1971 – I was 7 years old and I went to school in my hometown,
a very small village with a small school. There are 3 classes on the photo!
Yes, we stayed with 3 classes in one classroom.
The teacher began teaching class one – putting them to work.
Then class #2 – putting them to work and then she (class 1,2,3)
or he (class 4,5,6) began a lesson explaining things to the left over class.
When you were in 1st class, you heard all the explanation/lessons of class 2
and 3, so by the time you were in 3rd class you heard it over and over
and already knew all the stuff. 3th and 6th class were the best for me!!!!

I wrote the teacher’s name and all the names of my class mates on the page.
That’s it.

And now, I wanna point something funny out to you…
My dear {heart}friend Lena is playing this BOM-prompts too –
she puts her lay outs on SIStv, and when you take a look at her
BOM-pages in her portfolio, you’ll see the same school building,
and her school photo taken in the same year (notice the way
the children are positioned in the classroom) on her “school page”.
I was in 2nd class on my photo (with the female teacher) and she was
in 4th class (with the male teacher)

We go a long way, being friends, and it is very funny to compare our pages!
(Had to giggle about her “secret” page – we were partners in crime there!)

And Jeanet tagged me…a book tag!
This are the rules…

1. Pick up the book that you have most handy
2. Turn to page 161
3. Find the 5th complete sentence
4. Cite the sentence on your blog
5. Pass it on to 5 other unsuspecting blogger friends.

I do have a from-top-to-bottom filled bookcase (yep, a passionate reader!)
and I like to re-read old books now and then.
I started in “I.M.” by Connie Palmen again the other day.
She’s a Dutch writer and so my sentence is in Dutch…

“Het verlangen naar God valt voor mij volkomen samen met het verlangen
naar mijn vader,” heeft hij gezegd.”

(“The desire for God corresponds completely with the desire for my dad,”
so he told me”)

And now I have to pass it on to 5 other bloggers…
Let’s see…

Ah, let’s give Angèle something to do since she gave me a challenge!
(I’m still puzzling over my “yellow LO” dear…)

And of course her daughter Vivan (will she be reading the same book
as her mum?)

And Helen… does she have time to read?

And what about Danielle?

And, uhm, let’s see if Michelle does anything else but scrap.

So here it is ladies! You’re next!

I’m off to diner now (my beloved baked French fries, mmmmm!)
See you all on Friday then, with a new Lotus challenge
and maybe a BOM page – or two!

Je t’embrasse!

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