LOAD: Days 5 & 6

I’ve been doing a pretty good job of staying on top of my self-imposed LOAD project this month, but not such a good job of getting them posted. We’ve been busy in the yard and garden which badly needed our attention. This weekend I’ll probaby have to take a break from LOAD as I’m involved in a focus group that meets Friday night and all day Saturday. In addition, Matt is coming home for a long weekend. I’m always happy to have him here, even though most of his time will be spent with Betsy and Skylar.

So here are two more layouts. Days 7 & 8 are a travel journal I completed about our recent trip to Oregon. I have the photos taken, but not edited for the blog. Soon . . .

I wanted to get a layout done about our weekend in Washinton, D.C. I started with a photo template by Kitty Designs. Since there were a lot of photos, I kept the rest of the layout pretty simple–just some journaling and a tag from Ormolu and two flags from Basic Grey. The chipboard alpha is one of my favorites from the Amy Tangerine line by American Craft.

The journaling reads:

The impetus for the weekend get-away was an exhibition of Annie Leibovitz’s photographs entitled, “Pilgrimage,” which was showing at the Smithsonian American Museum. No photographs were allowed at the exhibit. The photographs filled just two or three rooms, but were so interesting especially since they were such a departure from her usual portraits. I’d like to own the exhibit book someday.

 The weekend turned out perfectly: gorgeous weather and not too many crowds. I had plenty of time to capture photos of the Washington monuments. The last time we were there, I took a whole roll of photos without realizing I had no film in my camera! I’ve been waiting for another opportunity for over 20 years. The icing on the cake was meeting up with Susan and Eric whom we hadn’t seen in nine years.

 from top to bottom, left to right: Jefferson Memorial, Martin Luther King Memorial, Pentagon Memorial, Lincoln Memorial, Capitol Building from the Old Post Office tower, the Supreme Court, the fountain at the  World War II Memorial, one of the fountains at the FDR Memorial, the Korean War Memorial, the C&O Canal in Georgetown

The next layout has been in a file “to scrap” for over a year, and was a lot of fun to make.

The patterned paper is Echo Park’s “Dots and Things,” and the cardstock thickers are from American Craft. I’d forgotten I had them in my stash, but was delighted to find a black and white polka-dotted alpha. I also had an old Making Memories brad with black and white polka-dots. I made the cow embellishments with the die from On the Farm by Papertrey Ink.

The most important part of this journaling points out how Tracy goes to great lengths for me to get a photograph. This is not out of character at all, and often it is he who asks if he’d like me to pull over so I can take a picture. Before he pointed them out in Massachusetts, I’d never heard of Oreo cows.