TN - Hidden Journaling

Was able to meet up with Favorite Eldest Son

and had a wonderful visit.

Dined at the Red Arrow Restaurant and

hung out at our new home.

Because of the size of the photo I 

just tucked some journaling in that envelope

that works so well on the pages.

 Got some Tim Holtz words going on as well as

his bottle caps.

I love those bottle caps.

 Tom, Gail and I also stood in line - an hour

minimum wait to devour the most famous and best

lobster rolls ever.

A lot of Food Network peeps endorsed Red's.

If you ever get there it is worth the wait.

So I'm getting a bit doily crazy but they are so pretty

and do pull everything together.

And those crabs (I don't have a lobster anything) had

to be the highlight and it's an itty bitty

little punch my pal Holli gifted me.

Perfect.

Pink Fresh, Studio Calico, Hip Kit, Tim Holtz

TN - Double spread

Ha!

I'm so getting the hang of this.

I printed the photo as a 3x5 but it was still too big

for the pages so I whacked in half

and split it across the page because I wanted

all 4 peeps to show up.

 I took the 2-sided paper whacked it to 8x3.75

and used both sides -which is soooo pretty

and work together well.

Added a bit of Tim Holtz and my own

journaling - shazam.

Love how it turned out.

PinkFresh, Hip Kit, Studio Calico.

Still working on the photography part.

TN - Meeting up with the Grandkids

We've been meeting up with them one-by-one 

and of course having a great time

and taking pix.

Hung out with Amelia and the boys after football

was called off - we went and had ice cream.

It was delicious and fun.

 I'm also passing off albums that I've done of

all of them and they all took great delight in looking at them.

Although they don't seem to be delighted here LOL.

 Love her face and that ice cream cone.

I'm getting the hang of things now! woohoo!

Pink Fresh, Hip Kit, Studio Calico

more or less.

TN pages - getting more fun

Love these 2 pages and finding

I can do a bit more than I thought LOL.

The tag is homemade and I love that paper

with a doily...

Used Pink Fresh fun embellies.

and how cute is that moose that Maine claims to

have roaming around.

We saw the signs but no moose LOL.

And that fun photo of my friend Gail just relaxing

and feeling good.

Studio Calico, Pink Fresh, punches.
Any suggestions on the photographing of it?
I need to find a cool place and I left my frog at home.

TN pages one no photo

GASP!

And there's no journaling.

Yet.

and did I stress over that until I didn't.

I love the page and I can always go back 

and journaling when I have something to say.

I'm still having trouble with photographing 

and cropping. I'll figure it out eventually.

Still getting used to the size and

and white.

On the first page - I used a stencil with black ink.

Embellished it a tad and used that

amazing glassine envelopes from Studio Calico.

Studio Calico, Tim Holtz, and punches.

Two Rockland Lighthouses

First up is the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse

that is WAAAYY out there.

Not like I was daunted by that distance but.....

the jetty was rocky, uneven, and well it just a lot

of work to get out there that I wasn't

in the mood to do.

I know right.

I usually don't have issues with a lot of work

but my fancy footwork doesn't lend

to a lot of unevenness of rocks and crevices.

Anyway, the lighthouse was built in 1890's and its nearly a mile out.

 It loooked soooo cool and I was also hoping

to get another angle down the road,

but alas, twas not to be.

And don't the sailboats look like they're having a great time?

 My pal Gail enjoying the moment.

 Then on to Owl's head Lighthouse and as we turned the

corner in the park there was this adorable post office.

 And just was we got there the fog rolled in.

The lighthouse was built in 1825 and rebuilt in 1852.

It's 100 feet above mean sea level.

 Even though I hate heights I made it up the

steps just in time for blue skies.

 Looking out over the peninsula was fog, there was a ship

passing by and by the time I focused it disappeared into the fog.

 This granite rock giving a nutshell of the history

of the lighthouse.

Very hard to read by cool all the same.

 An old sea captain haunts the lighthouse.

I didn't see him but that doesn't mean he isn't there.

There was also a dog named Spot, whose job it

was to ring the fog warning bell.

After he passed, he was buried near the bell.

There is also a story of a man, first mate and a fiance

ran aground in the rocks. The lightkeeper

found the captain half frozen, and a couple days

later the captain happened to mention the two other people.

They were eventually found encased in ice and thought to be dead.

Well they slowly thawed them out and the first mate

and fiance had 4 children. The man Roger Elliot did not

make a full recovery.

Doing the Scenic Tour through Gloucester

Coming along route 127 that goes right through

the heart of Gloucester is this tribute

to all their fisherman lost at sea.

 A little further down the line there's this sign.

Any Wicked Tuna fans out there?

Well docked out back is Marciano's boat - Hard Merchandise.

Or should I say his former boat. Actually his son will

be captain of the Hard Merchandise.

He has a new boat but finding the new name on line isn't happening.

It looked a lot bigger on tv.

 There were cool working boats all around the marina.

 And of course the Endeavor.

We have an Endeavor- a land yacht. 

LOL.

 Then there was the fog rolling in and out.

There are 5 lighthouses out there that could not

be seen because of the fog. 😐

 Rocky beach plus fog.

 They had the coolest buildings, a lot of them 

really really really old.

 That clock tower can be seen from everywhere and we 

had to find it.

 And this beauty with the copper clad windows.

And finally the sun came out as we were leaving.

And then it poured on the way home.

A couple of Traveler's Notebook pages

But to begin with I rearranged a few things like

putting my computer and printer on the ledge freed up

a lot of room on the table - which it looks like

this is going to be my spot and

utilizing all the space underneath it as well.

 I will have another cabinet in the slide near the kitchen

but that won't happen until we actually move in.

 In the meantime...

I rearranged my tool box, and organized it way better

than it was, and took all the embellishments

out of the zippered pouches I had them in

to see everything better because plowing through

all the pouches was frustrating.

I did 2 pages and I really need to figure out how to

photograph these pages.

Learning curve....

 I did bring the sissix die cut machine but only brought

the long cutting pad - thinking that's all I need.

Well.....

It doesn't cut the "cookie cutter" type dies. 😐

So I traced them out and cut them myself.

However, note to self: when we go live bring all the pieces LOL.

I think this is going to work out.

I'm still feeling my way.

A combination of Studio Calico, Hipkit and Pink Fresh.

Amazing how they all work well together.

Nubble Lighthouse with dramatic skies

I love lighthouses they make me swoon.

As we (me and my pal Gail) were walking toward it

I was really excited because it looked so cool.

 As we got closer it became apparent that we weren't

gonna get up close and personal with it because it sits on an island.

If you look over to the left of the photo on that first telephone

pole looks like a zip line is employed to get across beause

it doesn't look to accessible even by boat - maybe on the other side....

 Lots of really cool rugged rocks and would the sea

cooperate by splashing up the rocks.

Nooo.....which would've been cool with the dramatic skies.

This lighthouse was built in 1879 and is still in use today

along with a foghorn that sends a warning out to passing ships.

It's on an island off of Cape Neddick point and stands

88 feet tall and is on the National Register of Historical Places as

the Cape Neddick Light Station. 

Finally was able to sit down and scrap

 Here is my set up right now and it's sort of temporary

because we haven't fully moved in.

This is our shakedown cruise and lots of things are moving

around and changing.

Also, because we'll still be living in our house

 while we downsize, and I'll still be scrapping at the house,

I haven't moved in any permanent storage so

I'll be scrapping on the fly.

 Also testing out new sizes with traveler's notebooks

and 8.5x11 size with project life pockets.

Now I have to figure out how to photograph them LOL!

 I don't know why my PL stuff looks "heavy" when

other's look so light and airy.

Sigh.

A mix of Studio Calico and Pink Fresh

and maybe some Hip Kit.