Travelers Notebook - Shaker card

Love this sentiment and figured it belonged in my notebook.

It's so cool because photos are not needed all the time.

 And on the flip side, I found this card.

Almost ready made to add sequins.

 Which I did.

First time Ever.

I think I'll figure out how to do it again.

No clue who the mfg is. 

Last Shaker Farm

is the Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village near

New Gloucester Maine.

Sadly, only 2 shakers are left - one man, one woman.

 At one time this was a booming commune where

men and women lived as equals, but were celibate.

 They did foster children and the girls would live

in this house with the women who became their mothers.

 The elders and eldress house.

No photos were allowed inside and that was disappointing

because they had such beautiful furniture.

Front of the house where the foster girls lived.

 The elders and eldresses lived in this house.

There were 4 total - 2 of each sex.

  The meeting house where they would dance and sing

after the Old and New Testaments and the Gospels were read.

 The old school house.

Young girls would do samplers of cross stitch

doing the alphabet and numbers and when

it was deemed acceptable work they were then

allowed to stitch their names on their sewing projects.

 We called this a snowball tree in Pennsylvania

 Another home.

 Cattle.

 And sheep - were he found the grass was greener

on the other side of the fence.

 Hanging in the barn.

I believe he's sticking his tongue out at me.

The guided tour was absolutely fascinating.

This did become a National Historic Landmark so hopefully

it'll continue.

It was all about the heart cutout

The moment I saw this Recollections chipboard onesie hanging 

in Michaels that had the heart cutout

it became about making a shaker box with it.

In full disclosure it took a couple of times to get

the heart on the right side of the right side of the papers.

Right?

LOL.

What's a project without some issue.

I managed to have several.

 Anyhoo,
I am also not the best fussy cutter

nor a cleaner upper with a craft knife either

so getting the edges right was a real challenge.

 Then I dithered about with the pages flipping up.

Do I do the page where its read from 

that direction or do I want people to keep flipping it about.

I decided to roll with the flow however, now that upside

down shaker box was making me nuts.

Always something but I rolled through it.

 Then without thinking it all the way through

I decided a pocket page with tags would be the key.

Surprisingly, they haven't fell out.

Yet.

 So it was odd with all this space as I always

have done my baby albums 6x6 size.

 This is really nicer because bigger photos

can be used. The mats are 3.5 x 5 or 3x5.

 How freakin' adorable is that frog and again

with the tags. This time I put them on the right side. LOL.

 And the back, the end. 

The duck.

So this is the Echo Park Bundle of Joy kit and

I love this kit.

I have used it before but what was cool is that

not all kits are the same- similar though and I was

able to use old/new together.

Hopefully the giftee does not follow my blog.