Mmm.... a lot of hard work went into this journal page. We had to buy and eat a Terry's Chocolate Orange in order for me to have the wrapper. Only kidding, it was pure chance that we had bought a Chocolate Orange, and in the 'dark' form as Chas prefers milk. I am the one preferring dark chocolate - what do you prefer?
Anyway, I did think of using a chocolate wrapper when I suddenly remembered this box in the cupboard and so it got dismantled, so glad it had not been thrown away. I went around the figure of the girl in black pen, like some Journallers do to try to make her stand out a bit as she was dressed in red also.
As you can see I gave the page a border of hearts (yes, I was going to use a different figure and have it portrait style - oops!) from one of my Aall & Create stencils and the comment comes, as always, from one of Tim Holtz' Snarky Comments Book. I had to smile when I stuck the figure down as I had cut carefully between her legs to allow the colour to come through from the page underneath - it turned out to be exactly on a white spot on the wrapper - drat!
and so the story goes ...
"It was Valentine's Day and Naomi was feeling a bit glum. She had just eaten her way through a full Terry's Chocolate Orange and was halfway through a bar of Cadbury's Dairy Milk chocolate. Her boyfriend had sent her a basket, not of roses, but of chocolate. He knew how much of a chocoholic she was and he also knew that she was the kind of active girl who did not put an ounce of weight on despite her eating habits. She was glum because Harry couldn't get time off work to take her out that night. He was a lovely guy and was working overtime whenever he could to save up to buy her a lovely present, they wanted to get married when they were old enough, and at the moment they were looking at engagement rings. He was sure that by the time she was eighteen he could afford the one she wanted.
Her mother, on the other hand, was not happy with her eating so much chocolate - and in one day too. So she had voiced her opinions on Naomi's chocolate binge. On entering her bedroom her mother had seen the discarded Terry's wrapper and was ready to have harsh words with her daughter.
"Before you start", said Naomi, "I am not going to eat any more chocolate before dinner. I know how you get angry and think I will turn down my veggies, but I won't. I promise."
"It's not just that" replied her mother, "one of these days you will find that it isn't as easy to lose the pounds as it is now and you will be overweight - and probably have spots. The more you keep on eating chocolate the more you will get addicted to it."
"Oh mum, don't get carried away like that, I can give up eating chocolate whenever I want to. Besides which Harry bought it for me because he knows I love these little treats, and it is Valentine's Day after all."
"You think that now, I can tell you, from past experience, that once you get hooked on something, like chocolate, you find it hard to give it up. I have always had a sweet tooth and I have to be very careful what I eat. Why do you think I mentioned getting fat and having spots?"
"Mum, you are worrying unnecessarily, I could give up chocolate but I'm not a quitter"
"That's easy to say, Naomi, but you just wait, you will see - and by then it will be too late. Anyway, dinner will be ready in ten minutes so you had better get washed and down the stairs by then. No more chocolate!"
I must say I love chocolate, it is a weakness of mine and the easiest way to deal with it is not to have it in the house. Does that sound familiar to any of you?
