LOAD 2 - quicky calendar layout

Today's prompt was 'If these walls could talk'. The idea being you'd talk about your room from your childhood or student dorm. I think I'll keep those stories under wraps for a while longer;-)

I went off-prompt to do a quick calendar layout for my parents. For the last three years I have given them and my mother in law an empty calendar for Christmas and then send them a new layout about their grandson each month. I am running a little bit behind but that's okay.

The layout is about my son's end-of-theme parade. The whole school had learned about Brasil for six weeks and it was finished off with a carnaval parade around the neighbourhood including drummers and Brasilian dancers. It was really great but Thomas was very overwhelmed by all the noise and people. Luckily a teacher noticed and made sure he was walking with some kids he knew. That's when he gave me this radiant smile!

LOAD Day 2: Taking a stab at something new

Thursday on LOAD 513 are about weapons and today's clue is 'Taking a stab at it'. You could literally run a knife over your layout or pierce some holes. I took the more symbolic meaning of trying something new and scrapped some pictures of a vintage layout workshop I did at Essies in Almere:

For this layout I kept it a bit more toned down than the one I did in the workshop: tearing, distressing and inking the edges with Walnut stain. The font is Calligraph421 BT, I really like it. And I already know I will use it again in the future because there is a Pirate layout waiting to be made:-)

So, what new thing would you still like to 'take a stab' at? Still on the do-I-dare list is sewing on the page. I really dread my machine playing up and it all becoming one big tangled up mess. But I already know I will do it, I can try anything!