The Pelicans are always a fun watch

It was a lovely day to dine out at the Star Fish Restaurant.

The food is amazing.

My fav is the fried scallops.

 

The fishhouse and working boats are a thing of beauty. 

White pelicans.

Who doesn't love a poser.

And he was quite patient with me getting in his face.

Working boats and nets. 

Sigh.

It's a ride to get there tucked in close to Bradenton

and the traffic - but it's worth the ride.

 

Theodore for the birthday card

Love Theodore even if putting him together can be quite the struggle.

Since I made different colors for most of the pieces

one ends up with almost enough for two.

And that's what happened here.

From now on when I'll building one of these adorable

characters, I shall make enough for two.

Comes in handy.

I finally got around to using an embossing folder.

I have them, seldom use them because

while others totally rock them - I seem to struggle.

However, be bold, be daring - I wanted some texture in background and

this was one way to do it.

Love how it turned out - just highlighting

some of the embossed to bring the background out even more.

"Celebrate" fit his backside perfectly and

on the inside - typical "happy birthday" stentiment.

 

Travelers Notebook - Concertina fold

Technically, it's Adele's (Inky Quills) fault because I

have watched her whip these folds up a few times.

Effortlessly.

Therefore, I thought why not give it awhirl.

How hard can it be.

Well....

It's tricky especially if one's fingers aren't real nimble.

Also, I used wet glue and couldn't figure

out which side the clue should go.

I'll watch the vid again.

I double backed this page because the front looked

weird to me. 

Not quite as um uniform shall we say.

Anyway, using the colors from the tissue paper

more or less, I die cut the and punched

the flowers. Buttons galore on the buttons

and sequins. .

And the canning jar just was soooo neat.

I stamped it in grey on mixed media paper and

thought I would stamp flowers on it.

And for some reason I fail to remember, it didn't work.

You can see the stems down there soooo

I added some butterflies and a saying.

I am really happy with that.

It surprised me.

So what to do with the back side of the concertina fold and

not be too much of a copy cat because I love

that flower page.

Anyway some TH to the rescue (which caused me to sort

a bunch of stuff out - because I thought tossing

everything together in one big bin

was a good idea) and found some really fun

ephemera to work in.

But first, I created that background page from Dristress Inks,

assorted stamps in the background. 

That was a lot of fun to do...

And the sentiment is sooooo true.

I love doing filler pages and it's been especially fun since

I quite worrying about storage and space.

 

Travelers notebook Christmas pages

Of course I had to put in the photos of the Star of Bethlehem.

The top one is mine, but I wanted something

a bit more self-explanatory so

internet to the rescue.

Wasn't that an amazing phenomenom!

We didn't get many Christmas cards (and that's okay)

but the ones we did get fit perfectly in the book.

It's also cool to get photos with the cards so

I added it to the inside of the card

with just a tad of embellies.

And the grands always have an amazingly lovely card.

Always a wonderful addition to my book.

I was also debating on adding something to the back

but I left it blank. I can always spiff it up.

And grandson Owen who is a total origami officienado

made those and aren't they amazing.

Naturally they needed to be highlighted

along with mom's note.

I got a gift in this sweet bag and saved it.

And then I fussy cut the deer and tree out of course.

And added to the page on the left.

As I didn't have a lot of photos I had to add

a filler page naturally. I already have one side that's blank.

That tree and deer on the other side is cool and works

well with the photos since they're a tad on blurry side.

Not my fault this time.

Just sayin....

On the right side is the backside for the journaling to the "deer" page

and I tried to recreate the "snow" using

a really really juicey ink pad rolled out

in more of a Snowstorm.

I always try to save the restaurant utensil bags

because they're so cool and work well in my books.

It's a great place for journaling. 

Especially when I'm particularly windy.

And there's the backside.

Using some leftover mixed media papers I did

with some dylusions paints.

Of course I couldn't leave the backside blank and bland

however, IT'S GOING THE WRONG WAY

and driving me NUTS.

I don't have another one or I would because

there's no way to unglue them babies - undu isn't

especially helpful with tacky glue...sooooo

it's gonna make me crazy. 

Maybe I'll relocate the Culvers page and I won't

be sooooo crazy.