Our Portland Trip Smashed

I picked up the Large Smash Journal and thought it would be perfect for our trip to Portland. I had fun adding photos and souvenirs as we explored the city. The large Smash journals have tons of little pockets and envelopes you can add goodies to. I brought my little Canon Selphy printer and it was so much fun to be able to take the memory card from my camera and scrap my photos the same day!

Here's my journal. For the cover I mod podged one of the Portland maps to the cover and added a few embellishments. I'm happy with how it turned out and think it makes a great souvenir from our trip. Thanks for stopping by.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Back from Portland

What a fabulous trip we had to Portland! I'm still amazed at how much we were able to pack in! Portland is such a green city. The public transportation is wonderful! We stayed at Kennedy School House which was a ton of fun and very different. The rooms were really large, clean and comfortable. The hotel had 3 theme bars and a couple restaurants, all of which were very good.

We toured 23rd Avenue and the Pearl District, the rose gardens, Council Crest, Powel's Book Store and took the tram to enjoy the view of the city. We dined at some funky little bistros and enjoyed a lovely dinner at the well known Jake's Famous Crawfish House. We even got lucky at Voodoo donuts and didn't have to wait in line which apparently is almost unheard of! We'll definitely be going back. I'd love to spend a few days just at Kennedy School House alone. Maybe a scrapbooking weekend girls?!

Kennedy School - such a fun place!

 

Fresh Vanilla ice cream with sea salt with caramel ribbon at Salt and Straw.

 

Books, books, and more books!

 

Voodoo Donuts and NO line up?!

At the top of the tram ride.

 

The Rose Test Gardens - Gorgeous!

 

Shopping on 23rd Avenue

 

C Restaurant and Potato Gnocchi with pancetta, porcini and topped with parmesan reggiano

Fort Langley and Scrapbook Shopping

My dear friend Jo and I had the best day yesterday! We went on a shopping trip to Langley and visited two scrapbooking stores, Michaels and Chapters. I bought a bunch of new goodies to play with and got loads of inspiration. By the time we finished shopping we missed all the stores in Fort Langley but still enjoyed wandering around taking photos. Here's a few shots from our day. Hope you are all enjoying this lovely sunshine we're having. Thanks for stopping by!

Take Me Out to the Ball Game

I'm definitely a fan now! What a fun day we had today watching the Canadians. Our good neighbour Bill won 30 tickets for himself and 30 of his close friends and so he invited us along with a bunch of our neighbours. We are so lucky to have such great friends and neighbours! Here are just a few photos from our day today. Can't wait to go back!

Me and some of the gang.

Neighbour Bill throws out the first pitch!

Bill and his beautiful daughter Emma.

Cold BEER!

And he's SAFE!

Each of the kids found a baseball and then after the game got the

players to sign them. How fun is that?!

Go Canadians!

Playin in my Art Journal

Being off for summer holidays is lovely! I spent the last two days on my balcony painting in my art journal. Hope you're all finding some time to create. Thanks for stopping by!