Storytelling Sunday: Pick Your Precious|Atlas

It is the first sunday in May which is always a lovely, hopeful time of year. As it is the first sunday of the month it is time for Storytelling Sunday hosted by Sian and this month she has a lovely story about her girl guide shirt which you can read here.

I had planned to show you my childhood toy clock this month but after a couple of de-junk days unearthing 'stuff' from the shed and the cupboard under the stairs, I found 'the' atlas which I believed lost.

I was so happy and moved to see it, it is The Reader's Digest version published in 1975 which makes it a few months younger than me and the years are, erm how shall I put it, beginning to show on us both? :)

The main reason I have such fond memories of it is that it was my Dad and my favourite book to look at together.

As the journaling on my layout reads:

"Have I told you about sailing around the world twice?" He would bellow with a smile.

We would get the atlas down with me rolling my eyes and teasing him and secretly happy to spend time with him, even if I had heard it all before...

His favourite trip was Italy to Buenos Aires on the Mendoza Star bringing their beef to the european markets.

Rio de Janeiro was his favourite place in the whole world after Lundy & North Devon.

I just love the type, those lovely curly letters.

Anyway, we would spend hours looking at the maps together.

I also loved it as I spent a lot of time looking at it by myself, I learned the order of the solar system.

(only one page here, I do know there are other planets :))

I learned the capital cities of all of Europes Countries and a good many others around the world. I remember getting Mum and Dad to test me on them and them roaring with laughter when I pronounced Algeria with a hard 'g'. I am still teased about that now, in fact I was just this morning when I told Mum what I was blogging about this month!

I have made a photo-less page, as I have no ink and it was too late to order some prints. I used some gorgeousness from Crate Paper, 'DIY Shop' as I love the map print and that would represent it well. I wanted a sketch or some ideas for a photo-less page and who better than Sian who often makes such layouts.

So Sian, I hope you don't mind me scraplifting this layout. 

which you can read about here.

So here is my version;

Ok time for brunch and a read of the other fabulous stories, then I am back to the actual DIY rather than the pretty paper type I used today. 

Drilling holes and building furniture type DIY. Well it is a bank holiday weekend :)

I hope you all enjoy yourself.