The Little Yellow Bicycle Paradise collection was perfect to use with this 1976 photo.
There were a few summers when we were growing up that Mom and Dad signed us up to go to day camp. I think it was just for a week each summer, maybe two, but it left a big impression on me.
I remember being quite nervous to go, but I loved the adventure of it. We made candles in buckets of sand that we had hollowed out into shapes, tie dyed t-shirts, swam, fished, hiked…the usual activities. But the most important part that I can remember is that we got on a bus with kids we didn’t know and went somewhere new. It meant we were old enough to do this on our own—well, with lots of adult supervision, of course.
But these adults weren’t our parents or school teachers. They were mostly young adults (like the twin sisters in my photo) who were there with us as counselors. A counselor is, by definition, there to advise and guide. My apologies to any of my school teachers (many of them nuns) who may one day read this post, but in my nine-year-old brain a camp counselor was way cooler than a teacher. Teachers imparted math and history knowledge and then held us accountable with tests. Camp counselors showed us how to do things like tie knots. And there was nary a test in sight!
Way cooler.
So, here’s to my parents for giving us the opportunity to go on this type of adventure and to my camp counselors for teaching us the things we didn’t learn in school. And in case you can’t tell, this photo was taken on dress-up day (I think it was the last day of camp), and I am the little hobo with pigtails standing second from the right. 🙂
I based this layout on a nice sketch provided at the Artful Delight blog, and I am entering it into their April challenge. I am also entering this into Shimelle’s Online scrapbooking weekend challenge #8: Create a project featuring a stamp you should use more often.
I used all Little Yellow Bicycle patterned papers from the “Paradise” collection and colored in that beautiful Hero Arts tree stamp with Copic markers to match the rest.
Really well done page. It’s nicely balanced with awesome papers. I really like the double matting of the photo. And the little birds. And….well, all of it really. 😉
Thanks so much for your sweet comment, Cynthia! 🙂
This is awesome!! Great job with that Paradise collection, and I love the birds nest. Thanks so much for playing along with our sketch challenge at Artful Delight!!
My full name didn’t show up in that one, oops :P)
Thanks very much, Kelly! 🙂
Janice your take on this great sketch is fabulous! As I have already told you probably a million times, I love visiting to read your stories just as much as seeing your beautiful pages. I really love the pop of pink and the text background you have used for this layout and those birds are super sweet too!
Thanks so much, Danie. It makes me feel great to know that someone out there enjoys reading the little memories I write about. 🙂
really cute layout
Absolutely fabulous LO!! I love love love the HA stamp tree that you colored. It matches so perfectly. Thank you so much for playing along with Artful Delight this month. 🙂
It just made my morning to find your comment, Leeanne! Thank you so much! 🙂