Tahquamenon Falls, Part 2

Here is another layout from the Fall Break Trip featuring photos from Tahquamenon Falls.

I had some paper that looked like fall leaves were imprinted on it and used that as the base page.

I used a wire leaf embellishment with a quote from Emerson

And then a nice, colorful photo of the leaves!

Tahquamenon Falls

Again, here's another layout from the fall break trip:

Again, there's nothing fancy with the layout, but I like it's simplicity.  There really isn't any need for journalling, as the title identifies the location, and we already know everyone in the group shot.

I do love how the leaf embellishments mimic both the change of leaf color in the photo, and also looks like leaves falling.

And then just a nice group shot with lots of fall color behind us (and the water rushing over the Tahquamenon Falls!).  :)

The Case for a Second Dog, Again

So, here is Nox with his little brother, Octavius.  :)  Octavius definitely didn't like Nox at first (even though they were the same size when we first brought Nox home), but they've definitely become friends.

And seriously, Octavius is the most dog-like cat you could meet.  He's needy and wants to be pet, and wants to be near you ALL THE TIME.  Like right now!  I am writing this blog post and Nox is on his dog bed next to the couch and Octavius is curled up on my feet.  I'm surrounded!  :)

The Case for a Second Dog, Part 2

Murphy visited for two and a half weeks, and Nox loved having the company!  One evening I was sitting on the floor next to Nox, and Murphy came to cuddle with us, and then the two of them cuddled together:

By the way, Murphy is twice the size of Nox (literally).

Boone actually also came and visited for half a week, but it was hard to get any pictures of them that wasn't blurry because they were way more rowdy and playful!

All of Us in Sleeping Bear Dunes

Here is another layout from my fall break trip scrapbook.

It's a pretty simple layout with two group shots of us as we hiked a bit along the lake.

The base paper is grey-ish / blue-ish, and the photos stand out.  Which is why I like the use of the little journaling card with the word "colorful" in multi-colored letters.

(And yes, that is both a young me and a young Mark!)

Fall Break Trip

I broke out one of my first scrapbooks for today's post.  Back during my undergrad days, a group of us took a whirlwind road trip around Michigan camping during our fall break.

The leaves were beautifully turned, so I used a lot of orange, yellow, and red paper in this album to reflect the leaves turning.  My style when I first started scrapbooking left a lot of white in the layout from the base page.

Amazingly, I actually journalled in this scrapbook, and used titles.  I also have a lot of cute camping stuff that I got to use in this scrapbook.

This was a great trip with friends, and I can't wait to share more pages from this scrapbook with you!

The Case for a Second Dog

My parents' golden retriever, Murphy, has been visiting while my parents are off enjoying the nice, sun-shiney weather in Florida.  He is a BIG dog, but pretty gentle.  He and Nox have had short play dates before, and get along well, but have never had an extended time together like this (about 2 weeks).  When we had first gotten Nox last fall I figured eventually we would get a second dog.  (We had wanted to get a second dog when we had Niles, but we felt we had waited too long, and that Niles was an older dog who didn't need the added stress of a new dog in the house--he had four cats to deal with as it was!)  But Nox is young and partially trained, and loves having the company, so I think this seals the deal on this decision.  Here are some cute photos of these two nerds playing together:

They're playing tug together!!  :)

Christy Heart Mark

This is a two page spread from my wedding ceremony scrapbook.  This page features our wedding invitation (which took many hours, and several people, to make!).

The red pieces on the invitation were actually pieces of material that was left over from the table runners that my friend (and one of my bridesmaids) Heather helped make.  (That was a lot of little squares, strips, and hearts to cut!)

To tie in the red of the invitation, I used red strips behind this photo of us at the altar, making a bookend look.

On the opposite page I used another flowery looking paper for the base page, only this one is in color, and I used white accents.

I used this ribbon that reminded me of a wedding dress as an accent.  I pop-dotted the photo of us kissing to add more texture to the page, and to separate the photo a little from the ribbon.

Then I used a little more ribbon below, and used red, sparkly designed Recollection tape on the ribbon, tying into the red from wedding invitation and accent paper on the opposite page.

And a little embellishment of two birds with a little red heart (yes, more red!).

Bringing it all together, the two-page spread looks like: