Sunday, 2 September 2012

August in Numbers


I haven’t joined in for such a long time, I always keep meaning to!
Julie has been hosting this for a while now, encouraging us to keep track of our lives through the numbers it throws up. You can find it if you clickety-click here.

So here is mine;

19 – the amount of days that I wasn’t at work this month. This hasn’t happened since 2005. It is one of our busiest months at work and it is usually manic, however I have negotiated a 16 week reduction in hours which I started a couple of weeks ago and has left me feeling amazing already. I was also on holiday for 10 days....

2 – days spent at Chessington World Of Adventures having a brilliant time with the kiddie-winks. I made a minibook of it from the remnants of Echo Park’s Everyday Eclectic that I used to scrap with this month. I loved this collection.
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1 – day spent in London to watch the men’s triathlon in Hyde Park. Afterwards we hiked into Trafalgar Square via Knightsbridge and Piccadilly, then a tube to The Tower and the Bridge to see the Olympic Rings. I was absolutely thrilled to go and soak up the atmosphere, an extraordinary day.
I used the great play-along project from Shimelle at UKS & Now For Something Completely Different to get these 4 photos of the day scrapped.
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And this is one from Hyde Park, for a weekly challenge on UKS.
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340 – £’s spent so far on uniform for the three of them…….I wouldn’t mind so much if I thought it would still look good by Christmas Open-mouthed smile

1000 - miles driven in the car, approximately!

I have decided to scrap a page to record it as well;






So, that's it, I joined in, now I will pop round and see your numbers!

9 comments:

  1. 1000 miles? Blimey!

    We are yet to finish the uniform shopping - seems never ending!

    Love your scrapbook pages and your Chessington book :)

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  2. More fab scrapping, Jen. I love the numkbers idea - so clever.
    Sue xx

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  3. Absolutely love this page with the rays of paper. I think I understand the numbers bit now lol!

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  4. Love the colours on that last page. Brilliant mini too, did you use a Bind-it-all? I'm thinking about one for my wish list but wondered about the cost of the bindings etc.

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  5. Genius idea....and layout about August numbers...this would be perfect for me!!! X x x

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  6. Your minibook completely puts me to shame - I bought some of the same range, to make a mini, and it's still sat there, un-started nevermind unfinished! I think I have minibook-block!

    Good to hear your reduced hours are having the desired effect and that you had a good time soaking up the Olympic atmosphere.

    Thanks for joining in - makes no difference to me whether people join in once, every month or every now and again - it's always lovely to have company whenever! You're on the board now: http://pinterest.com/notesonpaper/my-month-in-numbers/

    Happy September!

    Julie :-)

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  7. Wonderful minibook of your adventures! Lovely papers & embellies. Cool layouts too.

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  8. I love looking at all your scrapbooking. Fancy driving the 1000 miles.

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  9. Gorgeous pages and well done on scrapping the numbers as well as blogging them. Something I've only managed once! Looks like you had a great time in London :)

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Aren't you lovely, you have made me smile =)