day planner

I've been meaning to do something with this for awhile now, and Friday Finds suddenly seemed to be the perfect impetus.

Here is the photo my brother Greg sent me from his iPhone one Sunday evening a couple months ago, after phoning me excitedly from his garage to tell me of the unexpected treasure he had just 'unearthed.'

Laid out there in the bed of Greg's old pickup truck was a piece of Dad's history: his old briefcase and his day planners from 1970 thru 1975. You see, in preparing the family home for sale Mom had put Greg in charge of dealing with all Dad's law office stuff - shredding or saving old documents as appropriate. This brief case was found up on the rafters in our garage.

Greg knew I would be just as excited as he was at his discovery. He was right. Mom had put me in charge of dealing with family photos and memorabilia.

Here's what I did with it the other day:

I paired the day planners with a favorite photo of Dad, taken about the same time period, which Mom continues to carry in her wallet, describing it thus:

"It looks like he just got the better of somebody

and he's waiting for them to figure it out."

I added an old pen of Dad's...he always had a collection of nice ballpoint pens, and for most of his 50 year career he wrote everything long-hand. Dad had the most elegant handwriting I've ever seen!

Thank you for this, Greg!

xoxo

'Squid'

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Linking up with Friday Finds, and Beyond Beyond - where we've been playing with Curves and Levels to get the effect of the popular Instagram 'Rise' preset. I thought it would be perfect for that 70's feel. And you know what? I think this is representative of my style (if ever I could be nailed down to just one!)...something else Kim has been talking about lately.

I did try both of Kim's recipes, and ended up with the Levels method for these particular images, as they had not much color to play with. Then I added a touch of kk_magictexture2bl (Overlay blend mode - 14%)