Sunday 5 May 2013

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.



19 comments:

  1. My atlas is one of my most treasured items, I can really relate to your story today!

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  2. This is a lovely post. We had that atlas when I was a child and I loved looking at all the places I would go when I was grown up! We now have a Phillips one and it has become part of our children's lives. One of my daughter's pals once told her that we were a proper family because we had an atlas and a dictionary and a bible! Thanks for reminding me of that memory. Julie.

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  3. This is a lovely post. We had that atlas when I was a child and I loved looking at all the places I would go when I was grown up! We now have a Phillips one and it has become part of our children's lives. One of my daughter's pals once told her that we were a proper family because we had an atlas and a dictionary and a bible! Thanks for reminding me of that memory. Julie.

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  4. I loved looking at our atlas and in fact - we have the same one! It is so great that your's involves memories of your Dad and you.

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  5. Love your storytelling Jen <3

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  6. What a cracking story this is..it feels very right for this time of year, with thoughts of summer adventuring stirring. I love how you have told the story and how everyone has felt encouraged to make an atlas comment of their own. Here's mine - I was hopeless at Geography in school and you have reminded me of how my dad used to try to test me with flashcards of places I was supposed to know.

    You have made a beautiful page too. I love it

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  7. Your story brought back such wonderful memories of our old Collier's Atlas. All five of us children would lay on the floor and plot places we would visit when we were adults. Thank you for sparking this memory.

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  8. Another map lover here - it was my Mum in our family who shared my passion, or me hers. How special to have these memories of togetherness with your Dad ... And your page is delightful!

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  9. That's a lovely layout Jennifer, I have 2 copies of that Altas. One I bought in the 70's and another that belonged to my Dad. They are lovely to browse through...

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  10. We are map lovers - have a variety of atlases here and a huge world map on the wall :) Such a lovely page - I like the washi tape word collection and the Dad & you people too.

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  11. Great story and such lovely memories of your Dad:)

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  12. What lovely memories those pages hold - and it takes a scrapbooker to be glee about the curly type. Lovely page too. (I too have always wanted to scraplift Sian.)

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  13. Great story, what lovely memories. The Lo is lovely xx

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  14. aww i love the memories you have of this book and wow a beautiful layout to go with the story too...such loveliness x

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  15. What a lovely page documenting your Precious x

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  16. ohhhh! Love that post! And such a nice layout to accompany it! WhoohooO! Love hanging at Sian's. FUN TIMES!

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  17. What great memories...I love atlases!..fab scrap lift too!
    Alison xx

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  18. Lovely story to share, and great lo too.

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  19. Poo, Google ate my comment. I love atlasses too. It used to amaze me as a child that we lived on such a tiny dot of the map and that the world is so huge. How wonderful to have such lovely memoris associated with one too.

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