Good Morning Fellow Stampers -
Hello from the beautiful Vail Valley of Colorado! We have had a gloriously gorgeous weekend. The temperatures have been in the upper sixties, sunshine, and beautiful blue Colorado skies. You could not ask for a better scenario. Mother and I have been enjoying the beautiful weather and scenery.
Yesterday we decided to take a little drive into the Beaver Creek resort area, Avon, and around the Vail area. It was just so gorgeous. And although we are past peak on the Aspen trees, there are still a fair amount of trees still standing and some even still turning, and so it is still quite beautiful around here. A change in the weather is in the air, and we expect most of this to be down by mid-week, and even some snow to be on the ground. The first chill of winter is in the air. We are excited that we got lucky with the weather and the views since our little trip got scheduled so late in the season.
This trip away is also a little bit of a scrapbooking trip for Mom and me. It's a perfect time and place to spread out everything for the Heritage Album we are working on.
For the first time we are attacking this project from a slightly different angle. It's been somewhat of a struggle these past couple years, dealing with the old pictures and albums from the grandparents and trying to figure out what we have, and timelines, sequences and groupings. So taking advantage of the space and opportunity, we are going through all the old photos first, taking apart the old albums, sorting what we want and don't want, and laying everything out so we can make a plan. Our poor book was getting too convoluted as we came across pictures in grandma's album that were out-of-sequence in the timeline and should have been input into the album in earlier pages and spreads that were already done. When that happens, it can create chaos.
Mom has been working hard; and we've calling some of the last living relatives as we have questions about family members and events.
Working on Uncle Willie's military photo page has been one of my favorite's so far.
Uncle Willie was drafted into the Army in 1942, and was honorably discharged after World War II was over in 1946.
What a special page this has turned out to be.
We've been eating like queens while we're here; mom has been teasing me that I brought the whole kitchen with me, but I think she's enjoying being spoiled.
Last night we had a pork roast, with new potatoes and carrots, corn on the cob, a fresh salad, sparking carmel apple juice in the stemware, and chocolate marble cheesecake for dessert. I won't even tell you what else we've been eating -- we're going to be fat!!!! LOL
Traveling as a card designer can be difficult; as you know today is normally the Paper Players challenge design post day. I tried to plan for a card design for today, bringing a number of stamp sets I thought I wanted to feature, cardstock colors, inks, etc., along with me. And then PP revealed this week's challenge yesterday morning and I just sat down and laughed. Best laid plans and all . . . this week's challenge is a "Halloween Theme" challenge - and that's exactly everything I did not bring with me! LOL
Sooooooooooo - we'll play PP after I get back home; and I decided instead today to just share our lovely time away with all of you and take a break. I hope you have enjoyed my little blog post today :) We are off to Breckenridge for a little while today and then more scrapbooking.
Hugs to everyone!
Until Next Time,
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