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MOC Day 1: Blind Scrap: Finding Joy

I am big on decluttering but I also love arranging what I do have, and decorating the place. We have just moved and this little corner brings me joy, with its glass vase, little antique jug that was a present from my mother decades ago, and a painting of a Tui (native NZ bird) given by my daughter to her bird-loving father. :-)

Be Gentle Messy Paper Pack
All That We Were (leaves)
Days Like These (leaves and bow)
HMV Wishing (Thread)
Wake Up Happy (Paint)
Fasten It
 
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Have just moved cities, and am now very close to places that harbour some really painful memories. But I find I've moved on enough to be able to pretty much 'let it go' ;-)

I used "Hear My Voice: Healing" by myself and Rachel Jefferies.

Thanks for looking :-)
 
MOC Day 3: Too busy with moving!

MOC Day 4: rescrap a layout.

When I saw this challenge, I decided I would re-scrap the first layout in my gallery at The Lilypad, whatever it was.

Turned out it was a page I still love, from this time in 2016

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So I decided to just have fun playing around with a completely different colour scheme this time :-)

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(Darcy templates, Be Gentle Collection, Whale of a Time collection, Beach Days collection)

 
MOC Day 5: Multi-photo

Decided to restart my monthly summaries (mostly because looking through them is the only way I can remember when things happened!). Have a bit of catching up to do, this is from this time two years ago. Despite being 'the height of summer' the weather is just as atrocious this year!

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I used my "Messy Merged" photobook templates
 
MOC Day 7: Heirloom

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With the templates from "Hear My Voice: Carol Singing" plus "Finding Balance" collection

I no longer have much that could count as a ‘family heirloom. What I did have was thrown out in the great purge of 2019. I have no time for sentimentality anymore Other than when it comes to photos and M & E’s artwork, plus a few of their favourite books But this necklace from B, the first real piece of jewellery he gave me and the big present for our first Christmas back together I hope may be an heirloom of sorts.I love it and wear it at least once a week. Obviously I know there are no guarantees. I hope there will be no second ‘purge’ but all I can do is hope. And be grateful for what I have now. It’s photographed on the grey blanket we couldn’t resist buying in Berlin. Although the gorgeous yellow throw that was my birthday present on that same trip went in the purge, this one for some reason I decided to keep!
 
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MOC Day 8: Technique

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This is me when I looked far too young to be travelling around Europe sleeping in a car ;-) Turned a corner and came across posters for some 'friends of friends' bands so a photo had to be taken.

I used Destruction Services paper and "Hear My Voice: Hurting"
 
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MOC day 10: Photos and words (Not waving but drowning/Lost Years)

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Ooof! Haven't put this in writing before, so this was a cathartic (possibly useful!) challenge. May delete from gallery after MOC! A photo from 2007 and a photo from this week.

I used "Hear My Voice: Healing"
 
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MOC day 13: Lyrics

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"Hear my Voice: Hurting" by myself and Rachel Jefferies

Powerful song by Lucinda Williams. Not about me, if you know what I mean ;-) But eerily describes someone close to me who also loved Lucinda so it speaks to me, even if painful.
 
MOC Day 14: Scrapping as therapy

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With "Hear my Voice: Connecting" by myself and Rachel Jefferies

THAT’S ME with Mary the car in the Black Forest in Germany. While I will never regret those amazing months spent driving around Europe and sleeping in Mary, I do sometimes wonder if I have spent the rest of my life trying to recapture that feeling. The freedom, the excitement, the sense of the world opening up to me. Completely removed from ordinary life, as was possible in those pre-internet days when a phone call back to NZ would be prohibitively expensive (I only made one, from Greece, when K was born) and the only contact I had was an occasionally postcard sent to my parents. Nowadays there is nothing that surprises me and little that is novel to me and you can never truly disconnect. While I love spending time in places like Singapore, London, Australia that feel like second homes, maybe I need to find places and things to explore that are very different.
 
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[Days 15 and 16: too busy ;-)]

MOC Day 17: Document Your Day

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With "Hear My Voice: Wishing" template and papers. Clockface from "One Day at a Time"


3.50 AM Woke before the alarm as usual. Up at at my desk and doing the usual round. XXXXX isn’t published till next week, but XXXX is back.

I work on the next BYOC collection for The Lilypad. The papers are finally coming together.

6 AM - we have a new power supplier and they offer ‘an hour of power’
(off peak free power). I put on the evening’s dinner to cook and do two loads of washing.

7AM - XXXX is published and XXXXX wants me to join him swimming at the pools, like he did yesterday. The rain has stopped and the plan is for him to run there and me to walk, after heading off slightly earlier. He overtakes me by the marina, but then I beat him to the pools after discovering a sneaky shortcut! That makes me laugh.

8.30AM - I get back to work on designing the papers for BYOC, and I check facebook for potential flats for XXXXX, who has been told her place at XXXXX is not secure.

10.30 AM - I go to the supermarket but I buy too much and it is very heavy carrying it home, so I have to stop a lot! My pain is flaring a bit today and I am tired.

1 PM - We head to bed for our usual siesta, and I sleep deeply for an hour.

4 PM - I finish the papers for the new collection! Good news text from XXXXX. She has been granted a place, so can stop the hunt for a flat. She is equally relieved and a little disappointed I think.

5 PM - I ring my Mum and have a great chat. Then finish making dinner while listening to the audiobook of Hannah Gadsby’s memoir. Then I do some scrapping for my own albums.

6.30 PM - XXXXX is home and we watch the news, then an episode of “For All Mankind”, another of “Bump” and then read in bed for 20 mins.
 
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