Design Recollections

Distress Inks CJ Entry

Had a bit of a ‘distressing’ day in more ways than one.

I woke up feeling a bit unwell and it took a few hours to shake of the tummy aches and pains.

I went to bed quiet early last night as I was so wiped out but I felt no better for it today…Bummer!

Then I spent the morning upsetting myself as I sorted through a ton of clothes belonging to Nicholas that he no longer fitted. So many lovely outfits that I paid such a lot of money for. Nicholas was my one and only baby. He arrived amidst such sheer joy and delight that I thought all my Christmases had come at once. I have a wonderful local children’s boutique, run by a friend, and it was impossible to resist all the outfits I had so admired through the window for so long. I can’t say I went overboard but I did buy a number of irresistible outfits and I found it very hard today to part with them.
NMP Express

I don’t know any little boys that they would fit, all the little ones now are girls. It seemed wrong just hand them onto the charity shop. I would and I will if I have to, but some may now have found a home that will appreciate them due to a silly post I made on a scrapping forum about them. I have fretted all day that folks with think me a frivolous snob buying such things but he was so unexpected and such a dream come true, I found it impossible to resist. I am fortunate to have an understanding husband who completely understood.

I did this layout last year (NMP Express) and this was entirely about his clothes. This outfit is from a fantastic company called ‘Vanilla Park’. I thought he looked so cute in this, a real olde fashioned train driver look. I bought the dungarees, trousers, 2 t shirts and a padded checked overshirt. It came with hats and matching drawstring bags lol! This was one of the layouts that won me a place on Jillybeans Design Team. They must have liked the clothes too

So anyway, I feel better having done it now, was very silly to store and hoard so many things. I still have to fetch down from the attic a rather large collection of baby to 18 months sizes that I kept. Some things I can’t part with, all the ‘firsts’ of course and a couple of outfits that were very special.  This one he is wearing on the right was his adoption day. That cost me a small fortune LOL! and its staying put!

I set up a small shoot this afternoon of his Christening Robes, one final stroke before I package them off in proper storage and send them to the attic. I cried with joy the day I bought this outfit. I waited all my life it felt for just that moment. I recently did a CJ entry on the Christening, don’t know if I mentioned it here although the pages were in the gallery. I am not ‘in your face’ religious but I do have faith and I certainly felt truly blessed on the day I had all four children christened. There was not a dry eye in the church.

My Children’s Christening (CJ Entry)

We are funny creatures us sentimental hoarders. I have the oddest collection of bits & pieces, maybe one day I fill find the courage to get rid of the junk but for now, some of these clothes are off to pastures new.

Just to make my distressing day complete I finished a CJ entry on ‘Distress inks’, it has been a funny old day!

The Christening

Until later xx………