Unique Boutique

Terry McCauliffe

Clocks have long held a unique fascination for me.  The hypnotic tick-tock gently lulled me to sleep as a child and the hourly gong of my grandmother’s clock is a soothing reminder of days gone by.  This month's Unique Boutique is filled with clocks.  Clocks that chime, cuckoo, tick-tock and blink.  Clocks with Roman numerals and clocks with numbers, some clocks that have no measurement of minutes or hours at all.  Clocks, like the time they keep, are a constant in all of our lives.  We live by them, we play by them, we grow by them, we grieve by them.  They seem to report time passing in a blink of an eye as well as time that seems to drag on and on.

The inspiration that was drawn from the Unique Boutique clocks vary as much as the clocks themselves.  Lynda pulled the clock face as an embellishment in her lovely layout, Santa Baby.  Jenn felt inspiration pulling her in several directions resulting in a lovely layout entitled, Yesterday. 

Design notes: I covered the front of the chipboard bird with scraps from another piece of Websters Pages patterned paper, trimming it to cover enough, but let the white shiny coating still show.  I created the branch and little flowers the bird sits upon using the Home Décor cartridge from Provo Craft.

Design notes: I pulled my inspiration from the clock with the large numbers and white background.  It started with me trying to mimic the numbers with my photos.  But that didn't work like I wanted so I drew my inspiration from the colors and 'time' itself.  One look at my kids and I wonder where time went.  It seems like yesterday they were as small as my little one so I went with that.

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