STORYTELLING SUNDAY

On the first Sunday of every month, encouraged by the lovely SIAN over at  FROM HIGH IN THE SKY, Bloggers from all points of the globe get together and tell stories...happy stories, funny stories, sad stories, long stories, short stories, stories with or without pictures- anything goes, and EVERYONE is made very welcome..

'A little Summer Loving', Sian suggested as a theme.....a tenuous link here, as the picture is from a Wedding- not our wedding but that of my brother and SIL, who celebrate their 21st Anniversary in a couple of weeks.

Did I REALLY look like that 21 years ago?!

I love this picture on many levels..the fact that Craig's lovely Gran is in it, that my nephew Graeme looks so sweet in his kilt, that Stuart, Kirsty and said nephew are obviously much more interested in what's happening off to the side...not to mention that I felt really good in that outfit..I had lost weight and the dress was a UK size 12!!!! 

But what REALLY makes me smile is what you can't see..and an incident which took place the following year!

Like I said, I really LOVED this dress, and wore it over Christmas a few times, before it went away over the Winter. It made a re-appearance round about Easter the next year, when I wore it to Church quite a few times.

One Sunday morning I ended up doing 'Creche Duty' with my friend Janette, who suddenly piped up as I was checking the baby in one of the prams:

 'Alison, were they the shoes you wore to David's Wedding, or do you have another pair?'

'No, it was these ones..why?'

'They're odd shoes you know'

I looked down and saw two perfectly matching shoes...or were they? Surely one didn't have a slightly less pointed toe than the other..off came the shoes (by which time Janette was almost crying with laughter)..and only then did I see that the heels were TOTALLY different- there was even about a quarter of an inch difference in height!! How on earth could I have FAILED to notice the difference?! I was mortified and hysterical with laughter all at once. not only had I worn the blessed things to a Wedding, but at various other times too!

Unfortunately, as this was pre-blogging, pre-scrapbooking days, I didn't take a photograph, but every time I look at this picture I'm reminded...so now I'm off to start a layout to get this story down for posterity!

If you have a story to tell, or if you just wish to sit and enjoy a story or two (or more!), please consider stopping by  HERE  ...you are sure to find a great collection to while away some time with!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx

Miss Smith's Anniversary Blog Hop!

KIRSTY (AKA Miss Smith) is having a celebratory Blog Hop today, in honour of her 200th blogpost! She very kindly made, and sent out to anyone who wanted to take part, a dinky embellishment (which I forgot to photograph separately, and if you've been keeping up with my Blog you will realise I'm in Barcelona- and not actually near the LO I made!), to be used in any LO, card, bookmark etc. of your choice.
When DD and I were back in Scotland a few weeks ago, my nephew (who has lived in New Zealand for the last three or four years) and my niece (who has been in Brisbane for three years) were both there too. This was the first time in years that the three grandchildren had been together at mum and dad's, so it was (obviously) big photo-op time! As they were posing, my nephew remembered a photograph of his brother (who was still in NZ) and decided he should be in the picture too!

I used Shimelle's Starting Point from last week, as the basis of my LO......and Kirsty's embellishment is the layered circle on the left of the word 'LOVE'......here's a close-up

I'm sure you'll agree that Kirsty made a fab job of her embellishments......Happy 200th Kirsty! and thanks for the opportunity to  be part of the celebration!

If you have come to me from  CARRIE, you are in the right place....if you want to start at the beginning of the Blog Hop go to KIRSTY'S BLOG...there you will find the entire list of contributors.

From here, you  should go and visit  ALEXA, and find out what she did with her embellishment!

Thanks for dropping by!

Take care of you

Alison xx