Wish Happy Smile - CSI Design team challenge 137

Hi there and welcome to my blog
Today I’m sharing a layout of my DGD
who at two and three quarters, is a busy little pocket rocket.

I love these gelati colours, just right for the gorgeous warm weather 

we have enjoyed over the past few days.

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to see what the rest of the team have created.

I hope you will be inspired and join in the challenge.

Just use all the colours,

At least two of the evidence clues

and at least one of the Testimony clues.

Whilst that might sound demanding, it does help us to use colours

and products you might not be naturally drawn to.

It also really does encourage you to get your stories told.

I used this Prima sketch as the basis for my page.

I used 13@rts paper "Fly away" for the background

The Kaisercraft black rub ons have been in my stash for years

The washi tape is from Craft Queen

The cute little cloud words are from Scrapmatts

Some Prima sparkly crystals were a kind gift from

Eila Sandberg  on her Birthday blog challenge - thank you Eila

Do yourself a favour and check out her blog, she is a super talented artist.

The flourish frame is by Manor House.

EVIDENCE
Polka dots and triangles - on the washi tape
Washi tape
Metal
Flourishes - the frame and the rub ons

TESTIMONY
I chose to journal about my attitude to parenting.  The journalling is on the back of the page and it reads:-

When I see your radiant smile and your wholehearted enjoyment of life, I think how lucky you are to have been born at this time and into the family you chose.  Compared with the ultra strict parenting I had, you are allowed to make choices about what you eat, what you wear and how you play. There are firm consequences when you “buck the system”, but they are always delivered with loving consistency in order to keep you safe.

I see the confidence and resilience that those choices and consequences provide and I wish I had known some of these skills when I was parenting your Daddy. However, when we know better, we do better and now I have a second chance with you and your cousins. I’ve learned that children thrive with clear boundaries, but feel the need to rebel if checked to firmly. I’ve learned that one can never love a child too deeply; that much can be achieved with a joke rather than confrontation. I’ve learned to let you “have a go” and make a mess, because the mess doesn’t matter in the slightest. What matters, is that you know you are capable and lovable.   Rock on little girl.  Love Granny 12 May 2014