LOAD - Layout A Day has wrapped up for February 2015. One of the greatest benefits to me from LOAD happened in late January.
The theme was books from our childhood. So I went searching for my little books as I mentioned in another post and layout. The amazing thing that happened was looking for those books led me to find one of my most prized possessions that has been lost for 30 years!
I found my entire set of 56 Nancy Drew books! I really thought my mother threw these away. I couldn't find them at her house and I didn't take them when I moved. She had no idea where they were - until this January.
In keeping with Nancy Drew, I wrote the journaling in 3rd person and tried to make it sound like one of the old mysteries:
In late January, Lisa steered her
minivan into her parent’s driveway and quickly entered the familiar den. She was often called on to assist her parents
with technical problems. Today there was
an issue with the new wireless connectivity box the phone company had sent them. After working on this problem, she asked her
Mother if she had Lisa’s Little Golden Books from when she was a little
girl. Her mother wasn’t sure and pointed
her to a chest in the den. Lisa moved a heavy white metal basket filled with
magazines aside to get to all the drawers which yielded only a few photos but
no books. When moving the basket back
into place, she spotted a Peter Rabbit book.
“Where did this come from?” she asked her mother. Oh, that is one of your little reading books. I know where those are.” She followed her
mother down the narrow stairway to the basement as her mother pulled cords for
bare overhead bulbs. Gingerly her mother
pulled off coverings to reveal several cardboard boxes of books! Lots of
reading books. After a few minutes, she
said, “And here is another box of books.”
Lisa looked up and was astonished.
Her Nancy Drew books - 56 hardback books she thought were lost
forever! Here they were all were 30
years later in one box. She hugged and kissed her mother. She remembered the joy of getting a new
mystery and sharing it with her grandmother who loved to read them as
well. She liked to pretend she was
Nancy, dressed in a smart sheath, driving out in her convertible to investigate
a crime. Now she had solved her own
mystery! No discovery could make her happier than having all these precious
books from her childhood back.
For the page I used a sketch from last year which you can find in the 2014 Sketchbook.
Also I used some pearls as I was obsessed with the kind of clothes Nancy wore in the illustrations, pearls included.
Here's the process video at YouTube:
Thanks for watching and stay tuned for some new things coming along in March.
I love your page, your video, your story... ALL of it! That sketch was perfect and using the lacy circle and pearls were a perfect 'Nancy' touch!
ReplyDeleteLoving what you've done with the sketch and the journaling was so fun!
ReplyDeleteGreat page Lisa and I love how you did your journaling!
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