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This song made me think of how traveling at a certain age can really help you find yourself.

The seventh sketch challenge, which I’m proud to have designed, has been posted at the SCRAP & MUSIC challenge blog! Head over to the site to grab the sketch and play along. This seventh sketch came with the song “Put your records on” by Corinne Bailey Rae.

My layout

In case you can’t read it easily, the journaling on my layout reads:
Traveling as a young adult has well-documented benefits, and the summer I spent in NYC is my evidence. My 1988 American Society of Magazine Editors internship gave me the chance not only to travel unescorted, but also to work in my chosen profession. The friends I made and lessons I learned really did help me “find” myself.

I had to figure out how to get around in, work in and overall survive in the big city. I had to face any fears I had about being alone in huge crowds. I had to figure out how to turn the small stipend we received through the internship into enough for food, subway/cab fare and weekend entertainment (the way I did it was to walk almost everywhere rather than spend it on subways and cabs and to eat very sparingly because weekend entertainment was so important!). The other 50 or so students who were in that internship program with me were also a big part of why it was such a wonderful experience.

That summer truly was instrumental in my development as a young adult. It would be quite difficult to put words to what it meant to me, actually. I am so thankful to my parents for encouraging me in doing it because I know it had to be hard for them not to worry constantly about the dangers that traditionally worry parents about their traveling children. But they knew how good it would be for me, and I’m eternally grateful to them for supporting it.

Product/technique notes

The bulk of the patterned papers I used on this layout are from the Little Yellow Bicycle “The escape” collection, with a little Dear Lizzy “Lucky charm” and an even older Jillibean Soup thrown in,too. I designed and cut my title using the Silhouette Cameo.

The challenge

The challenges on this blog involve following the sketch and using a title on your layout with a line from the provided music. Below I’ve included the video as well as the lyrics for this song:

“Put your records on” by Corinne Bailey Rae
Three little birds, sat on my window
And they told me I don’t need to worry.
Summer came like cinnamon ,so sweet,
Little girls double-dutch on the concrete.

Maybe sometimes,
We’ve got it wrong, but it’s all right.
The more things seem to change,
the more they stay the same.
Oh, don’t you hesitate.

Girl, put your records on,
tell me your favorite song.
You go ahead, let your hair down.
Sapphire and faded jeans,
I hope you get your dreams.
Just go ahead, let your hair down.
You’re gonna find yourself some where,some how.

Blue as the sky,
sunburnt and lonely.
Sipping tea in the bar by the road side.
(just relax, just relax)
Don’t you let those other boys fool you.
Gotta love that afro hairdo.

Maybe sometimes,
we feel afraid, but it’s alright.
The more you stay the same,
the more they seem to change.
Don’t you think it’s strange?

Girl, put your records on,
tell me your favorite song.
You go ahead, let your hair down.
Sapphire and faded jeans,
I hope you get your dreams.
Just go ahead, let your hair down.
You’re gonna find yourself somewhere, somehow.

Just more than I could take,
pity for pity’s sake.
Some nights kept me awake,
I thought that I was stronger.
When you gonna realize,
that you don’t even have to try any longer?
Do what you want to.

Girl, put your records on,
tell me your favorite song.
You go ahead, let your hair down.(go let your hair down)
Sapphire and faded jeans,
I hope you get your dreams.(hope get your dreams)
Just go ahead, let your hair down. (Baby, let your hair down)

Oh, You’re gonna find yourself somewhere, somehow.