“Summer afternoon - summer afternoon; to me those have always been the two most beautiful words in the English language.”
~ Henry James
Isn’t this just the most wonderful quotation? It sums up how most of us feel about summertime I’ll bet!
There is just something about summertime that is easy, lazy and a bit more laid back than the rest of the year. In the South where I grew up, summer afternoons were spent on the front porch where my mother had a deck of cards to play solitaire, a stack of magazines and plenty of room for neighbors to join us there for a tall glass of iced tea. We always had company & I’ve lots of great memories of our front porch! Summertime was when the fans were softly humming along with the cicadas, naps in the afternoon, cousins visiting from out of town, fresh vegetables, watermelons, playing with the hose or swimming and generally just being lazy.
At a family reunion in April this year, my cousin Rick brought an old scrapbook and showed me some photographs taken of the two of us as toddlers in 1948. I knew when I saw them that I would just have to scrap the distant memories that I had of that time. What fun I had looking at these “new to me” photos and what fun it was to scrap them too! I hope that you can dig up some oldies to scrap with us this week.
For the prompt this week we will be scrapping a layout about a special summertime memory of your youth . . . or a summer’s day of someone that you hold dear! Remember that photographs & stories from the 1970’s and earlier qualify as heritage here at Designer Digitals. You will find wonderful summertime scrapping products in the Designer Digitals store!
Anna {annaaspnes}, Katrina {katrinak} & Fiona {applechick} from the DD Creative Team are joining me {readstoomuch} in creating pages about summertime memories near & dear to our hearts.
The first summer’s day page is from Fiona, don’t you just love the beautiful blending and grunge that Fiona has on her layout? Fiona said that “this is little old me working hard on a sandcastle on a beach near Edinburgh circa 1959.”
Fiona has used an incredible number of products from the store . . . and she has used them flawlessly! Check out Fiona’s gallery to see the amazing blending of products in her “Portobello Beach”.
Anna has created another delightful heritage page for our blog today. This is Anna’s grandmother in Yorkshire, England on a summer’s afternoon. Anna’s summertime memory is by far the oldest one created for the blog today. Anna said, “I wish I knew more about this photo. I wish I knew more about her, my Grandma Davies.”
Anna has only used ArtPlay Palette MiniKit No. 5 from the store for her “Summer Afternoon” layout.
You are going to fall in love with this photograph of Katrina and her two sisters. The page title “A Girls Gotta Wash Her Hair” tells exactly what this darling trio is doing . . . in a little red wagon full of water! Katrina says . . . “The thing about this photo that gets me? It isn’t the fun childhood memory as much as the three of us. Being together. Enjoying the same thing. Completely having fun together. No worries. No decisions to make. No one to care for or check in with. Just us being sisters. Being goofy.”
Katrina used Worn Page Edges No. 02, First Blossoms & Stitched Borders Red No. 01.
It is going to be so much fun seeing all of the summertime fun pages that you post in Heritage Gallery. I have posted my layout “Growing Up Together” there this morning! See you there too!
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Hope youre having a good summer - and that summer, where ever you are, is a happy one:)
