I [Box] San Francisco

For our anniversary this year, Jeff bought us tickets to take a long weekend trip to San Francisco and Napa Valley. We went on my birthday weekend (June 3, write it down), and I'm now getting around to scrapbooking it. Such great memories, I wanted to put these into a format that would showcase what a fantastic time we had.

When I saw that the Little Blue House was offering a buffet class for a travel book and memento box, I thought this would be a perfect way to capture our SF memories (to see the original project from the LBH or to see what other classes they offer, go to: http://thelittlebluehouseblog.blogspot.com/p/lbh-buffet-classes.html). The project features a cigar box with various ephemera on top of it and a book that uses 8.5 x 5.5 envelopes as the base for the pages (a really cool idea that I'm definitely going to use again).

Of course, with me being the persnickety control freak that I am (shout out to you other control freaks), I couldn't do the book or the box exactly like the original at LBH. I customized it to better suit this specific trip, my style, and my abilities. For example, the original features a lot of stamped images, but I don't care much for stamping, and I tend to do a messy job of it--they are always shaky looking and blurred. I also wanted to lose some of the more generic elements about travel and journeys and replace them with elements that focused on San Francisco. I ended up with so much from SF that I couldn't fit the Napa Valley stuff in this book, so look for a Napa project in the near future.

I made a movie/slide show of pictures of the project (click the link below). This is my first time doing this, so if you have suggestions on how to do it better, feel free to comment kindly.

https://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/lwpccH_t2mMZF3FmnCvoVupKZnK_RN_rsXjp28qjDgw?feat=directlink

Peace & love & baseball & wine,

Jen