What's On Your Workdesk Wednesday?

Oh no, I've done it again. I tidied my desk up yesterday without photographing it and now it's Wednesday again!
Oh well, I can show you the 3 layouts I was working on. I have such a pile of To-Scrap photos at the moment and so little time, that I thought I would try a technique suggested by Shimelle in her recent 'Explore' class, namely, making Stage A layouts. These are basic layouts, not completely finished but good enough to to be put in your album until you are ready to finish them. I like that idea. I hate having half-finished stuff laying around.

I did 3, all using sketches or starting points by Shimelle. This is the fastest scrapping I have done for ages.
 The first is a very old photo of myself aged approximately 9 feeding a solitary duck. I don' remember the occasion, but I do clearly remember the pink sundress I'm wearing which was a real favourite. I think I insisted on wearng it every day that summer, and obviously into autumn with a long-sleeved top underneath. The long hair and Alice band look lasted through most of my primary school years.

With this photo of my daughter intently watching a ladybird crawl up her arm, I cropped it in tight and added a vignette in Photoshop. I love the lighting now. The expression on her face looks so like me in the picture above!

The 3rd is a layout of my son'e 9th birthday, at which I was not present having come home from France a week earlier than he did. Fortunately my mother-in-law sent me these photos. Grandma and M made him a Wii-shaped birthday cake and he chose to spend the day at Le Parc Ange St Michel, a nearby theme park. His birthday gifts of an MP4 player and Wii Disney Sing Star were great hits and he karaoked well into the night!

I like that I can finish these off when I have time without the guilt of having them lying around and, oh look, I've got my journalling written now too! Result!