Scrapbooking sketch of the week
It’s Thursday today. Somehow Wednesday seemed to completely disappear from my life this week. I’m not sure how that happened, other than spending most of the hours driving to a school prom, photographing a school prom and driving home from said school prom. Except we don’t have a car anymore so part of that time was interesting process of walking to the next town to pick up a car I can drive. Because although I can steer an elephant, I cannot drive a manual transmission.
True story.
Apologies if you now think less of me as clearly everyone cool should know how to drive a stick-shift, but I have tried to learn three times and each time I have decided I would just be a terrible driver with all that extra stuff to remember. I figure there is enough unpredictable stuff out there on the road that I want as few unknown variables behind the wheel as possible. And while The Boy can drive a car that lives at the end of our road, I have to journey to the nearest available automatic. Not that you really need to know any of this. I just somehow got onto this topic and I’m a bit unsure how to get to scrapbooking now so I’m just going to put the next image here and we’ll all quietly act like that was a seamless textual transition, okay?
This week’s sketch features three photos on three boxes and that means it a bit of a variation of March’s 4×6 Photo Love, but this time the pictures are smaller and there’s nothing hidden on my layout. On my page, I tried moving things around a bit and making the design a bit less like a grid. Now I’m thinking I’d like to try a second version and keep it just like the sketch, so that may appear here soon.
The red and green colour scheme is a little unpredictable, but those photos are actually from Christmas day, so I wanted to do something a little holiday-ish without going over the top with Christmas embellishments. I tell you that because The Boy looked at this layout and immediately asked, ‘Why did you make it look all Christmas-coloured?’ and when I reminded him we spent Christmas with elephants, he hadn’t remembered that. Today’s validation for why I scrapbook.
So no matter what your theme, colours or preference for nicely lined-up grids or haphazard boxes, I’d love to see what you create from this sketch!
As always, the weekly sketch is no-stress and just for fun! If you use it, I’d love to see, so please leave a link so we can see!
There were so many great pages submitted from the sketch last week. I loved them all! These are nine of my favourites, each with a little twist on how they adapted the sketch to work for their choice of pictures and and design. Click on the corresponding link to see each page in more detail and read about how these pages came to be.
Top row, L to R: one, two, three.
Middle row, L to R: four, five, six.
Bottom row, L to R: seven, eight and nine.
Thank you to everyone who joined in last week!
xlovesx
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14 July 2011, 22:23
I love the very funny back story… Just last year, at the age of 48 I drove an automatic for the first time. Scared me I’m telling ya! I only pushed in the “clutch” twice, and nearly slammed into the dashboard. BTW, I love grids, so I hope to work on your sketch next week.
14 July 2011, 23:12
I learned how to drive stick in a vw camper van with no reverse.
…Generally I try to stick to automatics!
Love the post. :-)
14 July 2011, 23:41
Thanks for the sketch Shimelle
I can’t drive a standard either and I tried 4 time, not worth the energy lol
15 July 2011, 01:54
no stick shift driving for me!! i say the same thing…its too many things to DO…when i drive i want to do it with minimal effort…lol and prom pictures?? how fun!!
15 July 2011, 02:56
Ha! When we moved to the UK, my husband (another stick-driving Brit) said I would have to learn. I took one lesson and cried like a baby! It was awful and made driving not very enjoyable! I am glad to say we are back in the U.S., so the pressure is now off!
15 July 2011, 06:26
LOL! I am so there with you. DH has been noodging me to learn to drive a stick-shift because there are some models that only come that way and our car needs replacing. Plus they are cheaper. But I have tried before and agree – too much to remember, and I am worried in a panic situation old habits will take over and I would make the wrong choice of which way to swerve, 20+ years of US driving still controlling my muscle-memory. Adding shifting to that is a recipe for disaster!
MA
15 July 2011, 08:11
Here in Ireland if you pass your test in an automatic, you aren’t qualified to drive a stick shift…I think (or maybe that’s just what my DH told me when I had decided I could never learn to drive a stick shift!) You have to resit the test. That was enough incentive for me, and in fairness, once you learn stick-shift it does come pretty naturally (eventually!).
15 July 2011, 23:32
I loved your story about the stick shift! I can’t drive them either! Like Tinkersdamn,I tried to learn in a VW camper too. Darn near (as we sometimes say here in Texas)left it on a hill once when I got stopped at a red light and couldn’t get it in gear again! Thankfully, most cars here are automatics! BTW, I just recently found your blog and love it! I love that you are in England and have followers from all around the world. If you ever get to the Dallas area of Texas, I’d love to show you around!
16 July 2011, 01:41
Thanks for the great sketch Shimelle! It prompted me to create a page about myself and my own daily life, something I rarely do!
16 July 2011, 03:35
I’ll be honest, I usually skim your sketch posts, look at the pictures, watch the video….but I’m glad I read this one all the way through. It was hilarious! =) My boyfriend is going to try to teach me to drive a stick shift, but I’ve pretty much already decided I can’t do it. I think you’re right…too complicated, too much to think about. =P
16 July 2011, 12:10
Got this weeks done too
Thanks Shimelle
18 July 2011, 04:41
Loved your post! My brother taught me to drive a stick shift as soon as I got my driver’s license. My truck is a stick shift. It’s just something that takes lots and lots of practice! But once you learn, it’s like riding a bike, although I was never very good at that! LOL
19 July 2011, 08:34
Thanks for this sketch. I had lots of fun challenging myself with this one.
23 July 2011, 07:18
A little late with this one – I’ve been so distracted by all the CHA posts and videos! I definitely went a little AWOL with this sketch; I start with every intention of following the LO, and then just veer off in a totally different direction :)
3 December 2011, 01:27
good!!i like this fbhbblog!!thank you!!!