So why "SUBVERSIVE ELEPHANT" you ask? Some time after my ex-husband left I was telling my Mother that he regarded me as a bad influence on our children. In perhaps THE most revealing Freudian slip of my life I declared, "He thinks I'm a subversive elephant"

Sunday, October 22, 2006

So you think you know me?

Like many of my fellow scrappers I am signed up to Shimelle's online class with this title. It has taken me a while to get moving with it, mostly due to lack of photos, but also to the fact that I decided to do it in 12 x12 format. Most of the others are making a special book and going for 5x7 or 6x6, or something else more manageable. NOT ME!! I want to include these pages in my existing "Book of Me", and that means 12 x 12. I've managed a compromise in that the actual twiddly bits of the page are concentrated in a 7 x7 square which is then stuck on the white 12 inch page. I've only stuck three sides so I can add any amount of writing! I think this will become more necessary at a later stage. The prompts are all to do with mood - Happy, sad, scared, relaxed etc, and I think I could write a novel on sad. Hell, I AM writing a novel on sad!! It's not a novel I want to share with everyone who glances through a photo-album; and it may well not be what they want to read there, so a home for hidden writing is a GOOD IDEA!

Here's my first page. You may find that yellow is NOT my best colour, but it is a happy sunshine colour, so I had to work with it. It also seems to have come out an odd bluish colour here. It really is a white background with bright yellow bits!!


Phoebe came to spend the day on Friday so I introduced her to the joys of Club Penguin, of which Dom is already an enthusiastic member. Phoebe loved it, so she now has her own penguin, and is looking forward to spending time with it, and its pet puffle, on Wednesday. On Saturday morning beth was logged in as Dom, and I was logged in as Phoebe and we were playing with the penguins AND talking to each other on the phone. How sad is that??




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