I'm doing some catching up here, since I decided that photographing my LOs instead of scanning them probably wouldn't result in some sort of lightning bolt coming to get me.
This is for Pencillines Sketch 243 which you can see here. I've used an old photo of my cousin and my uncle, who weren't very far apart in age, taken in the back garden of the house I used to live in. This house had a rich family history, having been let to my father's parents many years before I was born. They moved there from Pimlico, and by the time I was born, living in the house were my mother and father, my father's sister and her husband, their three children and my father's mother.
My grandmother died when I was young, by which time my little brother had been born. Eventually my aunt and uncle moved out with their three children when they were given a council house, and for a while another aunt and uncle, who had lived there before with their two daughters - one of whom is in the photo - moved back in.
In the end we had the house all to ourselves. It was a very nice house, with four bedrooms including a master bedroom with its own balcony, and we had a playroom in one of the three reception rooms. One day the owner decided to sell it as she was getting old, and offered it to my parents for £16,000. (I should mention here that the house was in Fulham, which if you live in London will mean something to you. If you don't live in London, it's next to Chelsea, lol.)
My father was a gambling man, as the song goes, and was unable to get a mortgage from any bank because of his appalling lack of savings/money generally. So my mother spent weeks trailing round all the banks pleading for help, as she had always dreamed of owning her own house. In the end she was forced to give up, and the owner said that instead of buying the house themselves, if my parents dealt with the selling of it, she would give them half the proceeds. The estate agent who came to see the house immediately bought it himself, and our half of the money was enough to buy a three-bedroomed house in Wimbledon.
Looking at the price of houses in that area now, they're around three quarters of a million. No wonder my mum wasn't very impressed with my dad.......:(
Now, I was going to find another LO with old photos on it but I haven't done one recently so here are some very new ones! I took these last night, as it was Midsummers Day and when we were driving home I saw that the trees were casting very nice shadows on the grass over the road!
I saw a layout by Jessica which included some lovely flowers made from Lily Bee papers, and as I had some in my stash I thought I'd have a go too. Hope you can see the LO from that link, by the way, as I can't make that particular post come up by itself! It's in the June section, anyway.
