The theme for L.O.A.D. is "Past Perfect," so many of the prompts deal with memories from one's childhood. I have a box of photos and several albums my mother put together that my brother handed over to me last fall. For some of the prompts, I started going through the photos looking for specific photos, and then coming on some I'd never seen. This first layout uses one I don't think I'd ever seen, a photo of my mother's sixth grade class. There were also photos of her first and second grade classes as well, but one of them had suffered quite a bit of damage over the years.
Patterned paper: Lime Twist (MME) & Skate Shoppe (Basic Grey); number die & buttons: Papertrey; circle punches; sticker: October Afternoon
The prompt for the next day was Then and Now. I didn't have anything particular in mind until I came upon this page from one of the photo albums. The pictures were taken on February 12, 1951 and my mother commented that the temperature that day in Kansas was 82°. It happened that February 12, 2012 in Rochester was one of the coldest days we've had all winter, so I went with that. Both the photo above and the album page were scanned with my new Canon scanner. I've been wanting one on my desk for awhile, and this one is perfect: very small, stands on it's side behind my computer monitor when not in use. It was also relatively inexpensive (less than $100).
Patterned paper: "Fresh" by Pebbles; calendar: Jenni Bowlin; alpha: Paper Studio; twine: Canvas Corp; tag from stash; handmade flower from a PTI challenge a few years ago.
Journaling:
As I sorted through some more family photos, I came across this page in one of the albums. The photos were taken on February 12, 1951 in Hays, Kansas. The baby is my brother who would have been just two months old. I was not quite three. My mother made a note in the upper right-hand corner that the temperature that day was 82°.
Today, February 12, 2012, in Rochester, New York, it’s 19° with gusty, bone-chilling winds. It was nasty enough earlier that we canceled the Presbytery Youth Worship service for this afternoon. It makes me wonder about global warming.