Creole Wisdom

Up North

Arlene and I are back from Up North, as they call it here in Minnesota.  We were actually about four hours outside of the city (due North) and on Lake Thunder.  We had a fabulous time. Wait, what is that I hear?  You'd like to see pictures.  Of course:

Our cabin at Andersen's Resort, right on the lake!

The ladies of the hour, Miss Ar and I.

Lovely water lilies. The Lake was crystal clear, gorgeous pale green water.  We spent most of the time fishing catching sunfish and one giant walleye. Of course: sleeping, reading books, napping in the sun, eating delicious food, and just chatting was part of the agenda. We of course had to make time for:

I love the look of the cabin, looking in at night.

Today we are busy, setting up Arlene's blog (yeah), taking headshots for her theatrical career, and munching on bagels for breakfast. Happy Tuesday.

San Fran Album

I love mini albums.  Since I am a big ol' regular scrapbook a year kind of girl I rarely get to do them.  I thought since I went on a few fun trips this summer making a couple would not hurt.  It's almost my mom's birthday and I'm sure she'll love the birthday album I created for her a while back.  About a month ago I started working on a San Fran album from my father's day trip in June.

In all honesty it was not too difficult to create.  I love the scrapworks albums because you have space for photos and then pages (brilliant).  I purchased a pack of Amy Butler paper, letter stickers, and cardstock.  When I travel I like to save a lot of little odds and ends (tickets, business cards, etc...) Rarely I end up using them, but this album was an exception to that as well.

As you can see from the inner pages (above) I tried to keep it all simple.  I utilized a lots of business cards with San Fran addresses on them, as well as cafe post cards.  All in all it feels really nice to be "done" with this project. 

For me, this kind of stuff is such an escape from the regular, crazy world.  I get to be creative and have fun!  What could be better? And yes, if you wondered I was a total technology nerd and took these with my Canon 20D.