My Bedroom layout

Hi you all and welcome to my blog, I'm here today with LOAD514-Day 2: the theme for this layout is If the Walls Could Talk and you were to talk about your bedroom growing up.

So this is what I did with the layout, when I got the prompt Tuesday early am I decided right off the get go that I was going to use the sketch that I had just received in my email from Sketch-N-Scrap #56:

So the next thing to do was decide what I was going to do :) The first thing I came up with was looking for the teen idols that I liked back then:

OMgosh pinterest is amazing when it comes to looking for early memories. I had a huge crush on Leif Garrett and what girl teenager in the mid 70s didn't stay current with her idols than with current issue of Tiger Beat,  the Bay City Roller for one of my favorite groups at the time and they had one of the best songs that came out was Saturday Night and the hottest show on TV was Happy Days.

So my bedroom was up in that corner of the 2nd floor of the house where the hand is pointing at it. Now this picture I took the day I made the layout cause I had none of my bedroom and a girl on the community board had this great idea so I lifted that cool inspiration! The below photo is of me I'm thinking in 1967 which would have made me almost 5. I chose this picture because I was standing in front of the house and you can see the changes the bushes and the planter are gone now. LOL! I went out back of the house too for a picture and that has totally change I see another layout forming :)

The journaling block came from a past counterfeit kit's Echo Park:Dots&Stripes Elemental stickers sheet. I journaled about what I remember of what my room looked like.

Various journaling blocks scattered around the page on talks of growing up and you heard a good song we would have to get a 45 of it, and how me and my BBF would learn the latest dances watching American Bandstand and then practicing them in my room. Also journaled about the main mistake I made as a teen and that was smoking. Peer pressure and trying to be cool was my downfall and I caved in. But I can say after 45 years I did give up the habit :)
This was a fun layout to put together and the prompted brought back some old memories and I may have to journal more on a smash book page about it. I used mainly my kit from last month with the addition of the cassette paper, the heart washi tape and the converse sneakers border.
I'm including this layout in the sketch challenge at Sketch-N-Scrap
I'm also including it in the Scrap our Stash Challenge, I pretty sure I covered everything:

Create a layout and include the following:

Something Old: Patterned Paper or Embellishment that has been in your stash 6 months or more: this would be the chevron paper/cassette paper/ converse sneakers border

Something New: Patterned Paper or Embellishment that you purchased within the last 6 months: this would be the White doily 12 X 12 paper that I bought over Christmas at my daughters up in NY they have a Tuesday Morning and it's the first time I was in one :)

Something Fussy Cut: The record player was fussy cut for a sheet of paper

AND...

Something Blue: Patterned Paper, Cardstock, Embellishment, Alphas, Ink/Paint, your choice!: the journaling block, Alphas, sticker: a day in the life