Book of Me LOs - October Challenge

This month's challenge was to make a page about 10 things we love, 10 things that make us smile and 10 things we like about ourselves. As usual, I've made my adaptations to suit the Dual BOM album I'm doing for Sean and myself.

Part 1: what makes us smile - kit "Fizz" by Club Scrap; font: Spin Cycle + Space Cowboy


Part 2: what we like about each other - kit "Chapter One" by Club Scrap; fonts: Stocky + Minion Pro


Part 3: 10 things we love - kit "Ivory Elegance" by Club Scrap; Font: Santana regular/black

First pages of our recent District Bellringers' Outing

On 10th October, we had a great time visiting and ringing at eight churches and seeing a working windmill in the Redhill area, with about 40 people attending from 14 different churches in the district. It was wonderful bright and sunny day, ideal for photography!

A summary page of the eight churches - more detailed in separate pages below.

We were due at the first church at 9:30am when it was still slightly misty and chilly before the sun came out to grace us.

A beautiful flower arrangement in a beautiful morning spot: the porch at St Katherine's.

All the churches were still lavishly decorated with autumn style flowers and props, as the weekend before had been Harvest festival. St Katherine's was one of the best for the flowers!

It also provided this very funny scene of ringers "gathered around the pumpkin" which adorned the font in the middle of the ringing chamber.

The bright and cheerful Fly Agarics always remind me of fairy stories from my childhood - these were spotted in the churchyward of the 2nd church.

Lunch was at Bletchingly and entailed a 10-minute walk from church to pub, partly through the idyllic Church Lane and past the Manse cottage.

A break from ringing in the afternoon to make a short detour to Outwood mill, the oldest post mill in England, where we received a short tour of the inside. The photo is the view from the upstairs window.

Book of Me LOs

It's been a long time since something went into this blog but I did a lot of paper scrapbooking, finishing a wedding keepsake book for my friend Emily (which you can see on my website - click here and look down the links page for "Emily & Giles Wedding") and tried to keep up-to-date with my Book Reviews and Faithbook pages...
But now I'm taking part in the new Book of Me challenge with Club Scrap, doing a page for each topic for both myself and Sean. With three topics a months, that's quite a few pages and here are the September ones:

The first pair is on the topic of names I've used the CS Apothecary kit and one of the templates included and made the pages to match. Fonts: Andreas Typewriter and EK Lollipops


The 2nd pair is on the topic of roles in life. I used the CS Matrix kit and one of the templates that came with it. Font is LDC.


The third pair is on the topic of personalities. I used the CS Gimme a Ring kit and one of the quickpages that came with it. Font is Honey Script.

I've followed the same challenge some years back, doing a traditional scrapbook for myself only (for Sean this is the first time). So I'm trying to cover additional angles or changes in my pages and sometimes refer to what has gone before. You can see the old pages on my website (same link as above for Emily's book but page down to find the link called BOM).

The Dance Story

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Jayne Print
LO completed: 25.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge and based on a quickpage that came with the "Memoirs" kit, adapted and added to.
Three of the women from our dance group (Emily's practical project for her Masters degree!) presenting a worship dance during the signing of registers at the wedding of Emily and Giles.

Hypericum

Kits used: "Memoirs" and "Body & Soul" by Club Scrap
Font: Exocet
Template: Club Scrap ("Memoirs")
LO completed: 25.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge. I used the complete photo on the clipping mask for the matte and zoomed in on it for the actual photo.
These are the boring bushes that grow between our and the neighbours' paths to our front doors - they come to live for a month in summer and look really lovely and bright.

Test Station

Kit used: "Matrix" by Club Scrap
Font: LCD
Template: Pink + Blue Designs
LO completed: 26.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge.
One of Sean's current project: designed a photovoltaic cells array for our roof to harness solar energy.

Birthday Boy - Birthday Cake

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpages)
Font: Kristen
LO completed: 23.07.2009
A double page (Birthday Boy left side, Birthday Cake right side) about Sean's birthday - created for Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge. Both sides using quickpages from the kit.

Memoirs - Irish Dancing

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Patrick
LO completed: 21.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kit challenge and based on a quickpage that came with the kit.
Photos from the 25 year celebration show of the dance school Eleanor and Zoe go to. This was the highlight dance (last before finale) which featured Eleanor in her competition Irish dancing costume and wig!

Hollyhock Harmony

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Script MT bold
LO completed: 21.07.2009
Created for the Club Scrap PSL summer kit challenge and based on the quickpage that came with the kit, modified and added to.
The hollyhock in our garden was wonderful this year!

Cornflower Beauty

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap (including quickpage)
Font: Jayne Print
LO completed: 23.07.2009
Created for Club Scrap PSL summer kits challenge.
Photo taken during the photo session in the church yard at Emily and Giles' wedding. The title refers to the lovely cornflowers she had in her bouquet and crown, and also decorations in church and on the carriage. The flowers were all grown in our allotment.

Chance Encounter

Kit used: "Memoirs" by Club Scrap
Font: Bradley Hand
LO completed: 26.07.2009
LO completed for the Club Scrap PSL Summer kit challenge.
The photos were taken a few days before in our allotment where we found this rare endangered snake - really cute little thing!

St George's Day Album

Kit used: "Liberty" by Michelle Coleman (July kit from Scrappers' Guide)
Fonts: Eras medium + Lucida
Album completed: 04.07.2009
St George's Day is the English equivalent to the 4th of July, so although much less elaborately celebrated, it seemed the best choice for this somewhat patriotic kit. It's a good thing the Union Jack has the same colours as the Stars+Stripes...
All pages are based on the quickpage album that came with the kit, and for 2-page layouts I have added the full layout as well as the single pages for more detail...

Homo Meerkats

Kit used: PYP June by Laitha
Font: Beyond Wonderland
Layout completed: 30.06.2009
A layout completed for a forum challenge - the kit came in greyscale and you had to change everything to colours to suit your chosen photo.
The photo is from the Churches, Crypts and Clerics walk of the London Goth Meetup Group in March 2009 and came to me from one of the other walkers, done up in sepia as it is here. It shows me sitting next to my friend Eve but it was the funny posture, all four of us sitting in the same way and looking at the same thing, that inspired the title...

More Book Reviews

Theese are the latest book review pages published on my other blog:

The Long Afternoon
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/long-afternoon.html

The War of the Worlds
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/war-of-worlds.html

The Secret Garden
http://petrabooks.blogspot.com/2009/06/secret-garden.html

LOs completed 11th June 2009.

Time

Kit used: "A Time for Everything" by Valerie Brumfield
Font: Century Schoolbook
Template: Michelle Filo
LO completed: 11th June 2009
A sculpture we saw at Spring Harvest and which totally fascinated me.
LO for the GDS Be Inspired Challenge - the inspiration was a LO made with clock pieces which for me translated into the "Time" theme...