Girlhood was difficult.....

 The layouts above show the paper chain Pippi's across the pages. Below, you will see them folded with "my story" written behind them.

So, I finally completed my layout in "Girlhood"....it was the most difficult journal to work in. It is a wonderful little journal but the theme was difficult for me as I didn't have the most wonderful childhood. In fact, I often try to forget it! Because of this....I struggled to come up with a theme for my layout. I ran through a whole list of things to journal about and just couldn't make it happen! At first, I was going to go "girly" but I so wasn't into girl stuffs when I was a kid....I was most often found outside, as far away from my house that I could get....I loved to hang out at the trains, down by the river, in old oak trees....anywhere but home. I wasn't big into dolls, in fact I thought them creepy and still do, I loved hanging out at the river gathering tadpoles in my hands, chasing down frogs, hanging with the Praying Mantis' and Roly Polys! So, after a huge struggle, I came up with the one icon I loved as a kid....Pippi Longstocking! I loved that she was in a dreamworld, all her own....I was too! I didn't intend on this layout being "dark" but it seems to be the look of my art and my childhood story isn't one that brings sunshine into my life.....