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.

 

Chronicles of a driveby page - day 2 & 3

Thanks for continuing on my journey.

Driveby is my design concept - as to where my page lays on

my desk and as I pass by I add, delete or rearrange things and then walk away.

And here we are and I found I so wasn't feeling it. 

It was so boring and the brown

just wasn't right - it was just too.........brown

and kind of overwhelming actually

and even though there wasn't much of it - it just didn't work.

 I decided to use the flip side of that basic grey paper 

sitting on my computer - because that side was just to wild

and I felt that maybe the light brown would 

bring out the photo.

Somewhat better ------

DAY 3

I decided that since I used my

roller dots on the base paper, it would spiff up the light brown paper

and if that wasn't enough I brought out my "notebook" punch 

to muss up the mat paper - it was supposed to be punched on the top
but alas it happened to the left side and I decided to roll with it.
Yunk yunk.

I also felt that it needed a little extra but not anything 

overpowering therefore I twirled some black thread about

in the top left and bottom right.

I kinda of liked this direction but,

 we had a dinner date for pizza......and never got back to it.

Chronicles of a driveby page - day 1

It all started with this photo of a fish house

that made me swoon and run to the car and grab my camera

when we dined at Starfish Fish Market in Cortez.

And it turned out kinda blah so.....

I then used a filter created by Thomas Fitzgerald

formerly of the Aperture blog 

called brownify - and don't it just take you back to yesteryear.

I paid those pelicans to pose and flyby.

Of course I found the perfect paper to rock the photo

 and added some bits and pieces here and there as I walked by my desk.

Added some dots with my rolling stamp and......

of course I rearranged said bits and pieces numerous times 

until I just gave it up.

And there it sat overnight because I couldn't make a decision.
And we went out for dinner.