Laughter is the best medicine

Hi all,

Well, I for one, definitely agree with the saying that laughter is the best medicine.
I have been absent from this little old blog quite a bit recently, because life is at that crucial stage for me where it throws a lot at you and asks you to cope. School has become very busy. I have been working like crazy to make sense of the madly insane and difficult entry exam I have to do for my Oxford application (which, when you are reading this, I will have just completed this morning!!) When life is this hectic, time to yourself and time spent with others is so valuable, and you really realise that laughter is the best medicine, it changes your entire mood for the better, for at least a short time :)

Anyway, you may ask why I am talking about laughter being the best medicine?

Well, this week, that is the challenge theme over at TPV.

Here is my project for this challenge

This weeks challenge at TPV is sponsored by The Paper Bakery.

They are going to give the lucky random winner $20 which can either be used off any of their single kits or off the first month's subscription price. If you haven't seen their gorgeous kits then do head over to their website to check them out. To win that great prize, create a paper project using this weeks theme and then link it up to the TPV blog here. I'm looking forward to seeing all of your entries this week.

For me, I knew exactly what photos I would scrapbook for this challenge, and I knew I'd need a double spread to fit them on. I took these photos a few months ago for one of CJ's brilliant photography workshops, and I hadn't yet had chance to scrapbook them. Do you remember me making a fuss about finding the moustache hambly screen print at Ally Pally? Well that's because I knew exactly where I wanted to use it and had been waiting to find it before scrapping these photos.

It took me a long time to make this LO, but I am pleased with the finished product, I think I managed to reflect the fun of the photoshoot in the LO which is what I wanted to do. Here are some close ups of the details

I was inspired for this LO after seeing Miss Smith's challenges for last month. One of her challenges was to scraplift a LO she loved, and this got me thinking. When I knew I wanted to create a double LO for these photos, I knew exactly what page I would scraplift.

This is the work of Leeann Pearce, an amazing Australian Scrapper who has a truly inspirational style. I had seen this LO of hers on her blog and in a magazine, and LOVED it. I'm sure you can see the inspiration of her double LO on mine, without me saying where it has influenced me :)
(Leeann, I hope you don't mind me scraplifting one of your LO's, please let me know if you do)

Thanks for looking, I shall be back another day to update you with everything, once this entry exam is done and I can spare a little time.

I thought I would just leave you with a close up of some of the photos in this LO, hopefully they'll make you chuckle and feel better. They were so fun to take, we had such a great laugh.

 ...and a final photo, unfortunately I didn't fit this one into the LO

Bye for now, and I look forward to seeing your TPV entries.

Hannah