Twice The Story

Originally when I started to think about designing this layout, I wanted a lot of journalling. The journalling is much more impressive than the photos are in conveying the story. When I went to scrap, I had something else I wanted to say too, something from a Canadian Tire commercial; something I said that day. The tone of that thought, and the "story" journalling were completely different (although I could have made it work). I've been thinking about using my calendar stamp as a journalling block (I saw this done somewhere, but can't remember where exactly). I thought this page would be a good place to use this technique, and to have the more casual writing there.

I used all sorts of products on this page: the big cream coloured paper and the striped paper are both scraps. The brown polk-a-dot sticker and red eyelet sticker are both from a Valentine's/love Making Memories sticker pack. It's nice to know that products can be used not for their intended purpose. (I've seemed to be stamping on all my layouts lately. It's good; I have a lot of stamps that I've never used on pages!)

When I stamped the calendar onto the page the days of the week didn't show up clearly (notice that part of the grid also didn't stamp properly). I got a little bit upset for a couple seconds (possibly minutes!), then thought of re-stamping it on another paper, and putting that on top of the image on the paper. I used the back of the striped paper for this, which coordinated perfectly (using up more of my scraps).

The journalling says: (in the calendar stamp) Wednesday April 14 for days like today we wish we had a generator. We would have been in the trailer all day watching DVD's! (on the transparency) Wet, heavy snow fell hard, blanketing most of Southern Alberta, knocking out the power to most of the city. Justin and I were sent home from work shortly after getting there (Justin was only at work ten minutes, and I was there for about an hour and a half). After being at home for an hour we stopped by mum's work, picked her up (dad drove her to work because of the road conditions) and went over to their house - most of the West side had power. We filled the Blazer up with gas; the station was rumored to be the only on with both gas and electricity. The lineup was incredible; it took close to 45 minutes. Mum made us a familiar lunch - Lipton's chicken noodle soup, baking soda bisquits and honey butter (it made me happy and made me think of coming home for lunch in elementary). When we got back to our house at about four, our power was back on. From what we can tell, our power came back on at noon. Even with living in Ontario, and with winters that used to involve a lot more snow, this was our first "snow day"!

Just goes to show, sometimes you just need to have another look at your stash, and see it in a different way. Also, it was pretty weird to be scrapbooking a page about snow, when it was about 25 degrees outside. I finished this layout on Tuesday, less than a week since that snow day, and it was beautiful out!