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A thought came to mind this week as I was using my Bellaboo kit which Lesley bought me for my birthday. Last year I borrowed some old photo's of my Nan's from my Dad's cousin to make a 70th birthday album for Dad. In it there were some of those awful school photo's of my sister and me, I swear I'd never seen these particular ones before, perhaps mum gave then all away as they were so scary! But as I had made one layout with the kit (minus photo, there's that naughty habit of mine again), I remembered these photo's that I had copied, and thought, I'm sure that dress I was wearing will look great with these papers. It can be hard to scrap 70's photo's with all the busy colours, but I think they went perfectly and it's inspired me to scrap some more photo's of my family in the 70's, I'm sure a lot of you will have similar ones!

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