besottment by paper relics

Souvenir Journal - June 2011

As promised, here is my most recent souvenir journal, all bulked up with ephemera and memories. My favourite pages are shown below, but if you wish to see the entire journal - you can view it in my flickr journaling photo set.

In my current online journaling e-course, Three Times the Charm, next week I am addressing the topic of Souvenir Journals (with a fun download I am so excited about!!) and it was great to have a journal just made to reference while I am working on it.

Now for a peek inside... as you may remember, here is what it looked like before (mine is the pink one):

And here is the cover now:

A couple spreads about brunch, shopping and hanging out with Grace and Danielle:

Danielle and I both bought these new Moleskine Pens , they came with little tiny pamphlets and I used mine to make a fold out from my journal page. You can see part of it here (where it says Danielle & Hope):

Danielle and I headed to Connecticut to a flea market I had not been to since I lived there over 9 years ago. We were so close that I had to ask her to stop so I could see the boarding school I went to - it looked the same and had some amazing memories still there for me (Photo by Danielle).

We stumbled upon this ice cream place - where we both ordered smalls and came away with the most massive ice cream cones ever.

Here is a spread about the ferry - and I printed out the facebook tag that Danielle did for us, saying we were in the middle of the Long Island Sound.

We spent time at two different beaches - one which I found so many sea glass treasures. And we also ate a lot of sweets!

For a fun touch, I cut the bakery name from the box they gave us (filled with Italian cookies, of course) and used a piece of the twine they used and wrapped it around before adding it to by journal.

Here is the back of my journal with the photo of me and the Abercombie model. I loved how they gave us little envelopes to put them in.

And that is it - as I mentioned above, you can see the entire journal in my flickr journaling photo set. My next trip is not slated until August - but should be a good one to journal, I am heading to Seattle to meet up with some friends and take a couple journaling classes from Teesha Moore.

Tuala + Millie

Have I mentioned we got a puppy? We have been wanting one for sometime... we have a sweet 9 year old beagle named Tuala (Too-La) and we wanted to get a puppy to help keep her active and playful.

Meet Millie... she is a Mini Dappled Dachshund, just 4 months old now, a little over 5 pounds, and quite the handful! Her favourite activities include nibbling on dandelions and lazily rolling down grassy hills.

I, of course, must also include a photo of Tuala...

Tuala is teaching Millie all sorts of things... including a taste for nibbling on old paper! I now have to keep my eye on two hounds while in my studio! But Tuala is also teaching Millie to be a sweet pup, so it is a fair trade off if you ask me!

I was working with Becky when we got Millie and commisoned her to make them these matching dog tags - they look very cute (both the tags and on the pups!) Which reminds me, tomorrow is the last day of the giveaway to win one of her necklaces!

Off to take the pups for a walk... will be posting my recent travel journal tomorrow and a free 4th of July vintage image Friday, so see you soon!

Three Times The Charm

My Three Times The Charm online journaling e-course is in full swing!

Here is a peek at my finished spread for our first prompt:

If you haven't signed up already - come join us! Sign up HERE.

And there is still a few days left in the current giveaway going on for a chance to win one of The Gritty Birds' beautiful necklaces - click here to enter!

Photographs + Friendship + Souvenir Journals

I am not usually one who likes photos of myself... but recently I was with my good friend Danielle in New York City, and she took some photos of me that I was shocked to discover I did not abhor (well, the jury is still on that fourth one!) ... she is an amazing photographer, so I should not be so surprised.

Here is a mosaic she posted on her blog about our visit - it sums it up so perfectly I had to share the same with you... well, I did substitute out one photo for one with me and an Abercrombie and Fitch model in NYC (they were taking Polaroid's for you to keep and before I knew it he was waving me over and putting his arm around me for a photo!)

Below is a reflection photo (of course!) I took at Danielle's house.

And a special thanks to Grace for a wonderful brunch at the plaza! xox

I also wanted to share with you the journals I made for the trip. Here are the ones I made for Danielle and myself, all ready to be filled...

I used the same technique I shared in the Summer 2011 issue of Souvenir, just using mini folders from Paper Source and hand stitching pages in.

I had packaged them similar to this (though Grace got a different journal gift)

Stay tuned later in the week when I will show you my finished journal all bulked up with ephemera and memories.

Free Download: The Graphics Fairy Journaling Collage Bit

I am sure all of you know Karen from The Graphics Fairy... She has a huge collection of free vintage images and we decided to share images on one another's blogs today.

She has soooo many images - I thought it would be fun to use her images and make an image perfect for journaling...

Click the above image to view full size, then right click on image and select 'Save as...'

The images I used are as follows, clockwise from left (click image name to be taken to the Graphics Fairy link):

 Pretty Pink Scrap Girl

Pretty French Perfume Label

1881 Amazing French Ephemera

Gorgeous French Cafe Ephemera

(and the Graphics Fairy logo in scrap girls hands)

Be sure to pop over to her blog to grab a fun image I am sharing with her... a vintage phrenology head

 

With all this excitement - don't forget about the current giveaway going on for a chance to win one of The Gritty Birds' beautiful necklaces - click here to enter!