Maximilian

 

This is the first layout I've made using the Club Scrap Fizz kit - and I just love it. It has a beautiful pink contemporary feel to it - and did I mention pink??? I love pink! And I love the circles that are just so perfect to use as frames, embellishments, backgrounds and whatever else you can think of. Love this kit. The stamps were wonderful too - used them a lot allready.
And I love enlarging pictures of Max - the big picture of him on the left page is actually a lot bigger than he is in real life!

Materials:

• Cardstock: Club Scrap Fizz
• Font: Bradley Hand ITC
• Chipboard Letters: Gypsyqueen scrapbooking

Journaling:

• English version: December 7th 2006 we met Max (Maximilian). Both Peder and I had the day off and we were out buying various stuff so we could celebrate Peder's birthday that evening. Peder wanted to show me a part of town that I didn't know that he liked - and it had a pet store! We had to take a look inside and said hello to an elder dog, who walked around in there - and a big parrot! They had a big glass cage with gerbils inside and a sign telling about them and I kind of liked them and told Peder to read about them while I walked around in the store.
  They had a small room where the live animals where kept - bunnies and chinchillas among others. But it was a small guy who caught my attention. A tiny white one who crawled to the top of his cage and started to swing along in his front paws. I called Peder in there and he too fell for the little guy. I'm not sure how it happened but we left the store with the little guy who turned out to be an siberian dwarf hamster, an amazing pink cage, food, hay and whatever else such a little guy needs. I knew immediately that he should be named Maximilian so we could call him Max - and luckily made Peder give up his idea of calling him Ivan!
  I've later asked Peder why he went along with it - he's not the spontaneous type and especially not with these kinds of things and he's against buying animals without knowing anything of them - but he has no idea. A moment of weakness, big begging eyes fro me - and the Charm of Max combined maybe... But that day Peder got a year older - and Kayleigh got an un-planned 'little brother'...
• Danish version:
  Den 7. december 2006 mødte vi Max (Maximilian). Vi havde begge fri hele dagen og var ude og købe forskelligt ind, så vi rigtigt kunne fejre Peders fødselsdag om aftenen. Peder ville vise mig en del af centrum og gågaden, jeg ikke kendte, som han syntes var hyggelig – og der lå en dyrehandel. Vi gik ind i den og hilste på en ældre hund, der tullede rundt – og en stor papegøje. De havde et stort glasbur med gerbils i med et skilt på, der fortalte om dem, og jeg faldt halvt for dem og satte Peder til at læse det, mens jeg tullede rundt i butikken.
  De havde et særligt lille rum, hvor de havde de levende dyr – kaniner og chinchillaer blandt andet. Men det var en lille gut, der fik min opmærksomhed. En lille hvid en, der kravlede op i toppen af sit bur og begyndte at gå armgang! Jeg fik fat i Peder – og han faldt også for hans kække armgang. Og jeg ved ikke, hvordan det skete, men vi forlod butikken med den lille hvid gut, der viste sig at være en sibirisk dværghamster, et fantastisk lyserødt bur, mad, saltsten, spåner, hø og hvad man ellers havde behov for. Jeg vidste straks, at han skulle hedde Maximilian, så vi kunne kalde ham Max – og fik heldigvis afværget Peders idé om, at han skulle hedde Ivan!
  Jeg har siden spurgt Peder, hvorfor han gik med til det – han er ikke den spontane type og slet ikke med den slags, og er imod at man køber dyr uden at vide noget om dem – men han aner det ikke. Et øjebliks svaghed, store tiggende øjne fra mig – og Max’s charme i kombination måske… Så den dag fyldte Peder år – og Kayleigh fik en ikke planlagt ’lillebror’…