February in Numbers

 

 

 

3 nights in hospital for my Dad

£56.10 saved by changing my car insurance

139 photos taken in 4 hours at the Harry Potter Studio

12 pancakes tossed and eaten

4 days of snow showers, though none settled on the ground

£125 raised at a school Cake Bake and Secondhand Uniform sale

2 lunches out

1 Valentine Disco

1 school trip to Windsor Castle

Countless beautiful butterflies at RHS Wisley

2 Valentine cards made by M and me. 1 received (M, not me)

That was February. Quite a lot packed into 28 days.
Brought to you in association with Julie Kirk's Month in Numbers

 

 

 



The King in the Car Park - Smash Page

Thanks to Sian for reminding me to look beyond my own family for page inspiration. I'm not doing a formal Project Life, but I'm counting Months in Numbers and using my Smash book for all the little extras that don't make it onto my 12x12 pages. I'm no news maven. Many of the main political stories pass me by completely, and few really impact on my life so when I am fascinated by an event, as I was by the King in the Car Park, I should record it.  I decided to use the newspaper cuttings I'd kept in my Smash book.
 
However, I had a dilemma. I finished a  Green Smash book last year and I bought a pink one for myself this year. It has some beautiful pages, but the next blank one was this:

 Not exactly suitable for a page about the Hunchbacked King (it turns out that the Tudor propoganda was based on fact - he did indeed have a scoliosis (curved spine)). About half way through is a lovely library print which I thought was perfect. My head said I needed to record things in chronological order, and of course I could have covered up the hydrangea. But my crafty heart said, use the library page. So that is what I did. I figure that by the time anyone looks at this book in the future they will be hard-pressed to remember the year that Richard was found, let alone the month, and I have dated the page for future reference anyway.

The cutting on the left-hand page opens out to give details of the skelton, and the titled is hand written with a bamboo quill and India ink. It's a bit small, and I might put a larger title over it. Sizing was always my problem when I did calligraphy more regularly.

 Having done this, I now feel free to jump around the book willy-nilly for the rest of 2013, which is refreshing as my 12x12 albums are kept in strict chronological order. But I want my months in numbers in order. Don't I? We'll see, maybe that doesn't matter either, as they are clearly titled with the month.