my scrapbooking should be more like my shape.
Lots of bottom and no top.
No where have I heard THAT before.
I was reading my new issue of Simple Scrapbooks that landed in my mailbox yesterday, when I came across Cathy's article. She focused on the concept of designing in thirds, by dividing your layout into thirds horizontally and focusing the majority of the content into the bottom two thirds. I love this look. LOVE IT! But it created a flurry in my mind.
A flurry of memories.
I was a flute major in college. A flutist, if you will. (NOT a floutist. A Floutist is a French flutist, and although I attempted to learn the French language in college, I am a long, long way from a Floutist.) Anyway, my flute teacher, Miss Read, was a highly accomplished, amazingly talented flutist. She had studied in England under the direction of British flutist extraordanaire, William Bennett. She was passing along all that she had learned from him, to me. A truly incredible experience.
Even though when you think of a flute, you probably think of a high, shrill instrument, the truth is, flute players spend the bulk of their time trying to increase the depth and volumn of the lowest notes possible on their instruments. Not the high notes. During one of my lessons, Miss Read made a comment to me that, "My sound should be more like my shape. . .LOTS of bottom and no top." A phrase that she later credited to William Bennett, because luckily (or not), she and I had similar body issues and he had said it to her. Funny how that phrase just sticks in your head.
Reading CZ's article sent me straight back to Miss Read's office at Austin Peay State University, in the middle of that brand spankin' new music building. I never thought that was a phrase that would apply to scrapbooking, but luckily (or not) I can still relate.
This is me, circa 1991. Apparently I had just gotten a fresh perm. I am ever-so-grateful that the "non-bang" part of my hair is pulled back in this yearbook photo. You can safely assume that, indeed, I was into big hair in the 80's, and yes. . .I might have held onto it a little too long.
{sigh}
