Travelogue Vol 1

Another one in the books while on the road - it's just getting

way too fat.

It has also come to my attention that maybe I should name

my albums.  I do name the albums in photos so I can can track

by state and this one is named

 The Aspen Trees in Bloom Tour

because hubby wants to see them. 

I'll be adding that to the album cover.

I got bored with using the same page protectors - so I 

purchased some different ones.

At first this 12 2x2 page baffled me until

I found those cute calendar 2x2s - coming

from a baby 6x6 pad I purchased.

How cool is that.

I also purchased some 6x8 page protectors but I

really didn't use them much.

I need to change that.

I also love making my own project life cards.

Keeping ephemera - such as the maps they give

you at the campgrounds so you can find your spot.

Also has lots of cool information too.

New baby grandson ❤️

And in that envelope is a recipe for pickled

beets in my dad's handwriting.

Favorite youngest son was married in Vegas.

Like mama like son.

🤣

We had a bit of mishap on the road when our tow bar broke.

It could've been so much worse- we were blessed

because we were only a couple hundred miles from

the Blue Ox headquarters where we were invited

to come hook up spend the night and left

with a brand new tow bar - free of charge.

Sturgess was fun - and we went off biker season because

that would've been a hot mess.

OH and that South Dakota PL is actually their state flag.

My hubby purchased a new purse for me.

I love it!

And sometimes the photos need to go in sideways.

I am learning to do portrait instead of landscape all the time.

Learning curve.

OR

I print them 4x6 and most of them look okay trimmed to 3x4.

And then favorite youngest son managed to 

get flung over a the handlebars of a scooter and

ended up in the hospital with a traumatic front lobe

brain injury.

He is doing very well now. 

Still needs rehab - but he's alive.

Love cruising the towns and coast and take lots of picures

every now then a cool lighthouse or deer

jumps in the camera lens.

I also found the 12 2x2 page protector

can hold a bunch of pictures 

that keep the bulk down to a mild roar.

Mostly.

Favorite youngest son, while recovering came with

his wife to camp with us in Oregon (that was scheduled

to happen the day after he had his accident.

We had a lovely celebratory time.

We did walk a couple miles each day around the marina

and it was such a wonderful time. 

Chatting.

Because Coos Bay was special I decided

to end that part of the album because

we motored on up to Waldport and they

went home for more recovery.

Love how this album turned out and I am

in the process of creating a new one.

I love this size - it's easy to roll with when we're

on the road. 

Hopefully HL will keep making these chipboard albums.

I just need to find different inserts to keep

it from getting boring and stale.

 

Project Life - Meteor Crater

This was such a cool site.

Privately owned by the Barringer family because

the patriarch back in the day thought he'd

find the actual meteor to mine.

Fooled him.

The meteor disintegrated.

I really love this PL page. 

It's easy to print the right size photo, I love

using Tim Holtz word strips and I got Tom in the pix.

Woohoo!

Project Life - Joshua Tree

I have had that screen forEVER, given to me

by my pal Holli for a project that it didn't make to.

It's perfect here.

 Used my funStudio Calico Stamps to create this fun journaling space.

 Added some Tim Holtz word strips.

I need to remember to start taking some "portrait" photos 

to fit into those pockets LOL.

Highlights from our trip into the park.

So many pretty sights and the infamous 4 wheelin' road.

It was a long drive.

Project Life page for Goldwell Open Air Museum

If you read my last post, it never alluded to the weird

size the project life pages are. 

This is the back side of Death Valley.

 The Last Supper and vignette of the crucifiction

just pulled me in.

The artist's rendition is soooo hauntingly beautiful.

This museum was on the way from Rhyolite on the

way to Death Valley........

Put all three on your bucket list.

Project lifestyle - Titan Missile Museum

It was really cool to see. 

How the cold war was kept at bay.

I used some Studio Calico envelope for the journaling

and to add the sticker I found at the gift shop.

 Funny story. 

I actually was supposed to have a blue tag

that came out sideways and you could

read it easily.

Well.

I mixed up the journaling because I happened

to be doing the 2 pages at the same time.

 Almost quite the multitasker so

when I discovered what I did, I switched tags.

 Fortunately the blue tag goes well with the new one.

Anyway, this missile site is the last one of it's nature

still standing.

Never firing, but still standing.

There were a bunch around Arizona and surrounding states

they have all be removed except for this one.

Really cool history.

Peace through deterence.

PL- Patrick Henry's homestead.

I wanted to try these smaller pocket pages and 

I had a hard time getting the size of the photos right.

I don't measure well so instead of

tossing out the pix I mounted them on kraft because

I thought it went well with the surroundings.

 I did get carried away with the flowers.

And in looking at it now maybe I should've used white

instead of kraft but it was looking

mighty fine as I was going along so there it is.

I also found some Tim Holtz do-dads that worked

well with the photos.

 And how often do you get to work a radish in.

I think its a radish. LOL.

Using that stash up.

Since the pages of Andrew Jackson and Patrick

Henry are together in the album I decided

to combine their pamphlets together.

Recollections Kraft & Flowers, Tim Holtz

PL- Sort of a double page spread

They are back-to-back.

And that works. 

Gettysburg - it was soooo hard to pick photos

and get in the stuff I want.

Good thing about PL - you can drop and add later.

 Love these patches and I've been picking

them up wherever I can.

I kept the original packaging because I

seriously couldn't do any better with the backing

needed for the size of the pocket.

Kept it rustic with kraft paper and I've also

started picking up post cards because they sometimes

say it better than I could.

I'm not sure if I need any more photos because the

story should be about the battlefield memorial and not

my photos.

Kraft, Pink Fresh, Tim Holtz.

Started on the Alaska Photos

Picked up these post cards somewhere

in Alaska. 

Love them and may incorporate them later.

Used up the last of my PL page protectors in this format

for these photos.

Went hunting them down last night and found 

similar but not these.

What is up with the switch???

Because I want to do one on Denali with all

the animals in this format.

Oh well.

Change is good right???

Kept everything sweet and simple

and need to fix the deers eyeball when I get home.

I miss my 12x12 pages already.

Sigh.

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.

Sidetracked mission continued

If you read my previous blog (and I know you did)

whilst on missions in the wayback box

happening upon 

randomness of goodness has a way of preempting 

a mission.

A mission which I'm happy to say was completed.

Anyway substituting some basic grey

as I didn't have PL cards in the correct size

and using some up more BG stickers.

Anyway, random pix of my favorite youngest son

and I just noticed I don't have a "title card."

Gasp.

Getting those pix out of the box

It's funny when you're on a mission looking for

a needle in haystack basically in a huge box of photos

its soooooo easy to get sidetracked.

Well....as I was on my mission I found a bunch of photo

of mom - just posing.

Nothing special except that she's in the photo.

So I decided that it would make a cool pocket

page because of their randomness.

However, each of them had a story.

How cool is that.

They are original photos (I took digi copies)

some of which I was afraid to put stuff on them so

there are some bare spots.
Using up those Basic Grey sticker sheets.