.......or perhaps the life & times & LENGTH of my school skirt!
Here's my entry for Week 4 of the Celebrate Life challenges at MSA, hosted this week by Ninth & Bloom - to create a time line of school. It took me most of the week to come up with an idea and I finally settled on this. I've never used art dolls before so I spent ages just putting the dolls together - such fun, will definitely be playing with these again.
Journaling reads:
The length of my school skirt was inversely proportion to my age. At Peterborough Infant and Junior schools I dont suppose I even cared what length my skirt was. When I switched to Holy Trinity in Year 5 (or the 3rd year of junior school as we rather awkwardly called it then), I remember being very embarrassed with my new uniform which probably had more to do with my not wanting to change schools than anything else. As it happened, I loved my short time there; school discos were one of the highlights, which involved us girls wearing immensely long and wide circular skirts.
Then when my uniform for Godolphin & Latymer was purchased, I remember standing proudly in front of the mirror, my expensive wool skirt just grazing my shins. Over the next 5 yrs it got shorter and tighter, by design I grew not an inch! Woe betide any girl spied sporting a skirt more than of the way down her thigh. Come my final day in uniform in the Upper 5th, I had to stop my friends writing on my skirt as Em had to use it the following year. She got a further 2 yrs wear out of it before it finally fell apart. That has to have been the best value EVER for a piece of school uniform.
With the prospect of my daughter heading off to secondary, Ive found myself judging each school by the length, or not, of the skirts!
Credits:
All Elements except below: MSA (My Scrapbook Art), myscrapbookart.com, Celebrate Life Collaboration Kit
Dolls: Tangie Baxter & Sherriejd Collaboration, scrapbookgraphics.com, Ultimate Art Dolls Kit
Staple: Val C.Designs, Spring Harmony
Tape & Tags: Taylormade Designs, oscraps.com, Clearly Stuck & Unscripted No 1
Doodle & Starbust: PixelWorks (Michelle Godin), the-lilypad.com, Rain on my Parade Elements
Font: DJB Another Mandy by Darcy Baldwin, Traveling Typewriter, FFF & Chalkboard
