Scrapbooking

[liralen]

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Originally uploaded by Liralen Li.

I'm in the midst of the scrapbook, still. I had, originally, wanted to finish it before Isabel and George had arrived. Now John's going to Seattle next weekend, but I know I'm not going to get done.

I did manage to get through the bulk of John's family reunion, in Vermont, which had the most pictures. But I'm only just touching on the Atlantic, which was the East-most point of our journey. This is Jet in York, Maine, at the seashore. We had to stop there the morning after we visited with archangelbeth, because we were SOOoooo close. And it was good to touch the ocean...

But I'm now buried in pictures and my trip journal and trying to get them all to meet. My stupid perfectionist nature makes it harder and harder to step forward, as I'm learning more and more about matteing, lettering my banners, and getting the layout to look more interesting. I'll have to scan and post some of the pages I'm prouder of here, sometime.

Comments

[archangelbeth]

Good luck with the progressing -- and that is a nice picture.

The first time I saw that beach (or one of its close cousins), there was a gray fog in. Thick, very thick -- visibility out to about where the first wave is showing in your picture. Gray, gray, gray beach that we walked along.

Lovely, like walking on the edge of the world.

We also went through a local cemetery, and one of the trees had turned that soft, soft yellow -- and it was glowing in the fog, with its leaves around it on the ground some as well.

I've forgotten all kinds of things like even when that trip was, but I remember those bits. Beautiful.


Good luck not letting the perfectionism slow you down too much!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Mmmm... what a wonderful memory! Thanks for giving that to me, to link with that scenery. Yum.

Thanks for the luck, too! I'm gradually moving forward. Another three pages... and then I have a whole roll of John's pictures to do with Lancaster and the steam trains we rode there to wade through... :-)

It's fun. John's been kind enough to draw our routes on all my map bits, so that I'll have the map bits for the latter parts of the book.

Whew. 2000 miles to go...

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Oh yeah! I wanted to say, that my page about Dover and seeing you and Iochan has the comments cut in triangles, and they look like wings... :-) It seemed appropriate.

[niherlas.livejournal.com]

I'm doing single-dad with Nathan from Wed-Mon while palinade is off to Madison for World Fantasy. Dunno what John's in Seattle for, but he's welcome to stop by and say howdy!

[liralen.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! John's likely busy all weekend, there's a 25th anniversary celebration that's going to have things happening for most of his stay. He even was mildly doubtful that he'd be able to get my bottle of Toshi's teriyaki sauce... sniff. So he's not likely to make it, but I appreciate the offer! :-)

It's kind of cool to have the single-parent experience every once in a while. Mostly it seems to serve in making me grateful for not being a single-parent any more often than that.