Some old Authentique

for the win on Jersey shore photos.

Of course what's the shore without googly eyes

on a QK die cut crab. The leaves the crab is

resting on is a Martha Stewart punch. I love punches.

 I used papers from my 6x6 pad I had forever, and

laid them out on 12x12 white cardstock in a quad format.
Quite old school.
Old school can be good.

 Finally used that flair button and didn't that work well

with the colors.

Loving doing sequence photos lately and because I have a bunch

they turned out to be fun and adorable.

Used some dylusions mists - and wa-la.

I like it.

Scenes from around the boardwalk

At Seaside Heights and no matter how old you

are its always exciting.

Especially the food, the lights, the rides!

It took a long time to bring the boardwalk back

after Sandy - and it was great to see this icon restored.

We had a great evening - ending with a "creamsicle" custard.

YUM!

Labor Day at Ocean Beach with the Family - is baaack!!!

After THREE LONG YEARS the

beach houses at the shore have been built back up

and the Murphy annual Labor Day at the shore resumed 

once again.

I did a terrible job of getting a lot of pictures.

This time was more in the moment than behind the viewfinder.

 And the ones I did take required do-overs that you're seeing.

 Skimming stones.

 Was serious business.

Family and friends getting together for fun times and the food

was amazing as always.

IN fact there was enough to have seconds, thirds

and possible fourths the next day.

YUM!

OB-3

Ocean Beach 3 - New Jersey. 

Down at the shore.
And this time I'm in the photo.

Woo hoo.

Or not.

I never like myself in pix however, ducking behind a cute grandkid is always a winning pose. I was really pleased despite my non-love of being in a picture to be in a picture with the grands as well as Tom. I'm also glad to document this story because hanging out down at the shore has become important for us to do. Because of work, distance and life's busy-ness its hard to connect on a daily basis, so traveling up on a semi-regular basis allows us to a "routine" with family members.

So here we are in front of Kathy and Allen's little beach house that has to be gutted, raised and re-done thanks to superstorm Sandy which devastated the area. For the past several years, we have headed to OB-3 to celebrate Labor Day with the Murphy's. You can't ever go wrong celebrating anything with the Murphy's or hanging at the shore. It was a fun time to get together and see everyone.

Which means this year is going to be different. No hanging at the shore because 2 out of the 3 family-owned beach houses are still being fixed as well as other rental beach houses that didn't fair well through the storm and that means we need a Plan B.

Working on it.

Most of the stuffs used on the page is Studio Calico from last month and this month. Its sort of the same design as the Take That! page. I can live with that. I also like that I didn't use beachy themed paper but it still has a feeling of that casual-ness.

SO the Double Dawg Dare is to make a page with photos that have a theme without using themed papes and embellies.

Glad I could clear all that up.