Traveler's Notebook - Is completed

I did dither about on the ending because it

was getting quite thick 

BUT

as I got to thinking - we are headed back

and our next stop is in the panhandle of Florida

to turn in our votes and

we'll be there 5 days so that can be the 

start of our 'winter' in Florida part

of our adventure so...

 

This is our ride to eventually get to Florida

and this autumny goodness had to be included

mostly because I actually bought Autumn

things at the 'scrapbook' shop in a fabric shop in

Bar Harbor Maine.

 

On the back are more Autumn scenes mostly because

I set them aside and forgot that I wanted them

set apart. OOOPS.

I didn't have many photos for SC really because we didn't.

So that page for the one thing we actually 

went to sightsee.

And yes I broke the don't have photos on both 

sides rule - so we all know about rules. 

LOL.

Of course it was a lighthouse and that tree

is the last bleached tree that covered the beach.

 

I did decided I wanted more journaling that actually

kinda covers both of those pages and

had this ready made envelope and tag so.....

I pretty much chatted about our SC stay and lack of

sightseeing- mostly weather, but we decided to just relax

and smell the roses.

 

This camp has a lovely 1 mile walk in the woods

with water sources and critters.

I have loved each and every walk I did each day.

I did try to do at least 2 miles and more

but.......

 

And that was going to be the wrap up page for the notebook

but I forgot about the BEE.

This little bee was being quite friendly, landing on me

and curiously lingered for a bit...

UNTIL

 

the bee discovered my kindle.

No kidding.

He scarfed up all those little white particles which

could be crumbs and did a mighty fine job.

It was totally clean when he was done.

Haven't seen him since.

 

 

Traveler's Notebook update - Maine

This little album is getting quite full and I since we are

heading to our winter home I'd like to 

finish it in this album.

It's gonna be tight because I can't seem to be able to do this

without dimension.

Love my bags and tucking in journaling and since

we stayed 2 weeks in Maine - I decided to condense the journaling

on one tag.

I was quite chatty.

Also using up fun PL cards that I had forever and this

adorable one is from Paper Issues.

It was quite nippy in Maine going down to the 30's

and we were more or less getting over it.

        Because of COVID restrictions (or maybe not) we need to make a reservation to ride up to Cadillac Mountain. Which we did. It was cold up there, lots of wind and not a lot of parking which also may be the cause of reservations.

I also kept the check from "The Traveling Lobster" roadside eatery which was totally delicious. We finally got to go - the crowd was always around the block and it was quite nippy to stand outside and wait. We found that timing is everything and having an early dinner helped. We also took it to go. We were quite bummed because we didn't have a good experience with other restaurants - food just wasn't up to the expensive pricing in a few we did try and because of that experience we didn't eat out much.

Of course we found some lighthouses in our ride about the harbors.

Bass Harbor, Egg Rock and Prospect Harbor.

Love how the embellishment fit into that doily. I do adore doilies and decided that it was simple enough to highlight and trying to avoid dimension - I may go back and splatter some mist around or not.

I did find a tiny scrapbook shop in Bar Harbor inside a fabric store and was really delighted. There wasn't a big selection but I did find this cute Little Yellow Bicycle embellishments. Above is our run from Maine to Pennsylvania. We watch the weather closely and about the time we were leaving Maine - high wind warnings were coming and we wanted to get ahead and not have to drive through them. We hit PA and then headed back to our friends in NJ since high winds and storms were coming down the line. We are now heading back to Florida - taking the long way.  Currently, we are in a lovely camp in South Carolina where were gonna hunker down for about a week and then stroll on into Florida to vote.
 

Halloween tags for the grands

 

 I really had a great time doing the tags.

Normally I do cards but I wanted to do something different

so tags it is.

I also send $1 being the big spender that I am

and I'll be attaching them on the back with 

double sided tape.

I love how they turned out. 

And I'm also impressed that I used stash AND I was

able to get those Tim Holtz dies done.

 

That Halloween die with the 4 characters has a lot of itty bitty parts.

   I so do NOT do well with itty bitty parts.

Howver, I did find out that

IF YOU DO ONE CHARACTER AT A TIME AND REFER

TO THE PICTURE ON THE FRONT OF THE PACKAGING

 THERE'S A GOOD CHANCE ONE CAN GET 

A FAXSIMILE THERE OF 

OF THE CHARACTER.

Just sayin....

Anyway it worked for me as I tried to do them all at once.

Total disaster.

 

I did some fussy cutting and the background was made from

Tim Holtz oxides and distress inks.

Sadly I didn't make notes but basically, 

yellow, orange, brown and black.