This is for my BOM (book of me) and the challenge (from Challenge Masters) was to scrap about MEDIA. (I feel obligated to put something in ( )s here since I seem to have that theme going this post)...
Is that why I like my newspaper? - because it is paper and ink? Could be...
Here is the journaling for those of you who care to read it:
I just can’t help it.
I know Internet News is up to the minute and easy access, delivered right to my computer screen but I love my NEWSPAPER.
And my newspaper is the Dallas Morning News.
I love doing my personal check of the weather as I go outside first thing in the morning to pick it up off the front sidewalk. I love the smoothness of the paper that no one else has crinkled.
I love folding the page “just so” to work my Sudoku puzzle.
I love sharing the paper and the kitchen table with Randy on the weekends.
I love that my friend Liz asks “Are services are over at the Church of the DMN?” when she calls on Sunday. She knows I’ve been reading the Dallas Morning News.
I love having the crucial supply if someone has a paper-mache project or needs to wrap dishes to move or needs a current event for a school assignment.
I love being able to “save” a record of what was happening on the day my children were born (or when a world changing event occurs.)
I know that newspapers are a dying breed but I sure hope they hang on for a few more decades. Life will not be the same without my newspaper.
Note: The print on my title lettering is from the first printing of my journaling (I didn't like the shape I chose) So this layout has "recycled" paper on it. Another great thing about newspapers... recyclable!
And here is some punch news:
Run, do not walk, but RUN to Lucia's blog each day this week. She did the entire alphabet in punched animals. (a fundraiser for her kid's pre-school) You have to see the awesome job she and her mom, Anita, did!!! And check back everyday - you don't want to miss her whale!
What are you doing still here? I told you to go check out Lucia's blog!
I love the layout and your journaling! I gave up reading newspapers some time ago, I just never seem to find the time now lol.
ReplyDeleteI LOVE the newspaper, but since I left the nest, I have never subscribed. I was getting sad everytime I read about kids being bullied on the bus, or some youth found torturing a kitten. When I go to mom's, I read it front to back.
ReplyDeleteWhat else I love is this Book of Me. What a great idea. I rarely make the scrapbook as I'm also the photographer. I'm going to spend a little bit of time on that site tomorrow..... I have joined groups, just haven't done anything yet!
I'm going, I'm going, Geez!
ReplyDeleteLOL, love the page, I need to make mine for my BOM. I have one page, but a girls gotta start somewhere.
hugs,