Design Your Life: Week 9

Week 9 in my Design Your Life scrapbooking class was focused on elements of design, specifically line and shape.

Layout 1: The End of the Line


I needed to revise this template a little to fit the story I wanted to tell. And that story? That's the one I was reminded of at Cheeseburger Night last week and realized that was one of our family's travel stories and it wasn't recorded in my scrapbooks. Now it is! I didn't have photos from the specific incident from the story, so I downloaded a picture of the guitar from the internet and posted the pictures I did have from the trip and called it good. I got the most recounted story from the trip told, and got the photos scrapped too. I call that good.






Journaling Reads:
In March 2003, for spring break during my freshman year of college, Jenny and I went to Cancun for a few days. Everywhere we told our hotel staff we wanted to go, they’d point one direction or the other and say “five minutes by bus”. The first night we got on the bus and headed to the Hard Rock Cafe. We knew it wasn’t far, and we knew it had a huge electric guitar out front, so we couldn’t miss it. Except we rode, and we rode, and we rode...no electric guitar. By this time it’s getting dark, the bus is getting empty except for us and the driver, and we’re getting out of the touristy area of Cancun. Finally, the bus driver pulls up next to a curb on a dark street in downtown Cancun, opens the door, and says “off the bus!”. What?! “You have to get off the bus now!” It was the end of the line. We’d ridden the bus to the end of the line. We managed to interpret from his broken English that if we crossed the street and waited, there would be another bus coming that would take us back to the resorts. So we huddled under the lone streetlight until that bus came, jumped on it, and rode it straight back to our hotel, where we happily ate supper at the hotel restaurant. We did make it to the Hard Rock the next night, about a five-minute bus ride right down from our hotel.

Layout 2: Tiff's Wedding


Since this template included a lot of pictures and a spot for journaling, I used it to create a few different two-page spreads from one of my last events from 2009 to scrap: Tiff's Wedding.






Layout 2b: The Ceremony - Otherwise Known as - My Dad with a Camera







Journaling Reads:
So I gave my dad a quick mini lesson on my camera, sent him to his seat (or so I thought), and went back to the room to wait for our cue.

That bathroom picture is the first picture he took. Just trying to document all the details I guess. Thankfully, that is the only
bathroom-related picture of the day.

The next picture he took was of my cute husband doing his job as an usher. Not bad, Dad, not bad. Nice composition.

Then you can see Norm escorting Jenny to her seat (ALONE) and the odd looks my dad was getting from the guests in the pews. Then you can see Kim, Matt's sister, who walked out just before I did. At this point, I had just walked out where I could see into the sanctuary. This is when Norm says, "did you see your dad? He's taking pictures". I said, "oh, good". Waiting for Kim to get halfway down the aisle when the church-lady will cue me to go. Norm says, "no, he's STANDING UP AT THE FRONT OF THE CHURCH taking pictures". WHAT?! Craaaaappp. Norm and I both motion to him through the glass to sit down. He's not getting it. It's almost my turn. We both start doing the "throat slash" motion. "Stop! Sit Down!". We're hoping he can read lips. Finally he gets it.

The picture to the right is the next picture he took. Craaaapppp again. I took my camera back for the reception (well, most of it).

Layout 2c: The Party






Journaling Reads:
Every wedding has its drama and Tiff and Matt’s was no exception. We found out during the rehearsal that Jeremy was taken to the hospital with severe stomach pains. He had his appendix removed around midnight the night before the wedding. Rodney and Cheryl spent several hours that night calling anyone they could think of, and eventually lined up another singer. However, Jeremy was released from the hospital around noon on Saturday, his band called the new singer and told him he wouldn’t be needed, and the show went on. They’re a great band and we’d heard a little of their stuff at Jeremy and Mary’s wedding, but it was so cool to see them do their thing knowing what had happened just the night before. Awesome.

Layout 3 Real World Color: Tiff's Shower


The colors chosen for this week's Real World Color assignment were pretty blue-greens, orange, black, and white. I'm so close to being done scrapbooking 2009 but I hadn't scrapped Tiff's personal shower, so I just picked my one favorite picture, converted it to black and white (those bottles in the bottom of the picture were red), typed a short bit of journaling, and called it good.


Journaling Reads:
Jean and Jessica hosted a fun personal shower for Tiff at their house. It was a fun afternoon of family, friends, food, and of course a lot of laughter. November 14, 2009