Wendy's Layout in Gail's Days Gone By.

I have finally finished working in Gails beautiful journal.

The title of her journal is 'DAYS GONE BY". With this double spread I have tried to blend the outdoors with the indoors with the background colours

I chose to recall my childhood where I would be out on my bike riding around all day with friends and I would always put some food in a brown paper bag and place it in my bike basket, for when I was hungry or to share with friends.

On the right side, I was recalling our watching television which was a black and white set. We were allowed to watch about an hour in the evenings and my two sisters and myself loved watching Skippy, The bush Kangaroo. While we watched the telly, mum would be putting our hair in rags, to curl our hair...and we would sleep with them in. It was so uncomfortable but made beautiful ringlets in our hair. Thank you.

Natalie's page in Gail's "Days Gone By' Journal

I chose Holly Hobbie and swapcards as the main ideas to my page. My mum was right into Hobbytex and everything she did was Holly Hobbie based. I had hankies mum had decorated. She even went as far as dressing my baby sister in a Holly Hobbie dress...but she did look cute. Swapcards were pretty big in the 1970's...and I had the hugest collection (mum gave me all hers too). I've still got them. I was also a massive collector of stamps. These stamps were given by one of our Australian Art Swap members.

I played with acrylic paints and water colour in the background. I do hope you like my take on Days Gone By xx

Pam's entry in Gail's Journal. Days Gone By.

Ah what a question to ponder as I'm probably older than most in the group, my days gone by may be really ancient history :)  So I settled around maybe the 50s/60s.

My laundry scenes are reminiscent of the days when Mum's stayed home and managed their households like a chief executive of a thriving business.

I hope this is what Gail was looking for and I hope she enjoys my little effort.

These are the dreams of an everyday housewife:

Will be sending this journal on to Natalie very soon.