Come Sail Away Pink Saturday

Happy Pink Saturday to everyone. Today I’m sharing the pages I’ve made for Kay Ellen’s Travel by Sea Circle Journal. This is the second round for the ten blog friends who are creating pages in each other’s journals. It was Beverly who started the ball rolling for this project. The pages that have been done are amazing…I will certainly be getting the best of this deal…Nine talented ladies contributing  unique sets of pages in each journal. Kay Ellen is using a vintage ledger for her book and it is already bulging with treasures.

First Kay Ellen invited us to leave our autographs…

I included a cute Mary E. quote that fits the theme. I also added a map of the California coastline to celebrate Kay Ellen’s home state.  Then I found  an antique reproduction map of the Caribbean Sea…

And tags with quotes about travel and voyages…

Each of the pages holds tags in special pockets…The left side has a travel poster for a Trans-Atlantic French ocean liner and a bit of travel ephemera .

The tags fit into this embellished pocket…

The words from Come Sail Away by Styx are written around the borders…Feel free to sing along…The right side has a lovely picture of a woman looking out at the horizon…and a quotation about crossing the sea.

There is also a pocket with a sporty young sailing lass at the shore. She also seems to be dreaming of her own Travels by Sea .

And there it is…ready to mail.

Next I will be working on a journal from Dana and The Stone Rabbit. 

Hope your Saturday is Pink and your week is wonderful. Hubby and I splurged on two Mega Millions lottery tickets.  If our numbers come up in tonight’s ridiculously large lottery, I may be creating jewel encrusted pages covered with gold leaf and pearls…If not, I’ll continue using bits and pieces from my scrapbooking stash. Right now I’m off to visit Beverly at How Sweet the Sound to see who is posting for Pink Saturday.

The Luck of the Irish to You

Happy St. Patrick’s Day everyone! If I had a pint of Irish whiskey, I’d put a shot in my coffee and toast to us all with a lovely Irish Blessing. Instead, I’ll show pictures of my St. Paddy’s Day celebration  tree.

It’s hung with Victorian cones (even though the Brits and the Irish didn’t always see eye to eye…remember the words to “The Wearing of the Green”)…but the rest is pure Irish in sentiment…Lovely Irish lasses dance around the base…

A nutcracker stands guard over the green and gold…

We celebrate the day not because there’s a drop of  Irish  anywhere in our bloodlines, but because it is Michael’s mother’s birthday. She passed away in 1993, but the tradition of having a celebration to mark the holiday is part of our family. One of her little gnomes joins us every year…

The picture is a bit fuzzy since gnomes are so elusive and hard to capture…the same is true of her felt leprechaun. He has a pinback and was made by one of her friends so that she would have green to wear on her special day.

He has a little pipe cleaner body and holds a shamrock balloon…the fact that he’s handmade by one of her friends makes it easy to see why he’s my favorite… Several years ago I made pins for a St. Patrick’s Day program in my Beta Sigma Phi chapter. I tried to incorporate as many Irish traditions as possible into the round disk…the Claddagh, the Celtic cross, the leprechaun, the shamrock, and a musical note.

Lots of the members still pull their pins out each year…maybe someday far in the future a daughter or grand daughter will still be wearing one of them because one of her Oma’s friends made it…or not…We are lucky to spend the day with our friends in blogland…drop by Beverly’s How Sweet the Sound to see who is posting for Pink Saturday on this special Green Pink Saturday.

Circle journals left and right…lots of Pink

A Circle of Friends circle journal being hosted by Beverly is starting the third of ten exchanges…After Nancy created her  book titled Wise Words, she sent it to me. I completed two pages and sent it on to Sheila. I took advantage of being the first one in the circle to add to  Nancy’s journal. Since we have been friends since high school, I used an old high school yearbook quote…

 

Then I added a snip of vintage lace that I had dyed with a natural vegetable dye…well, actually it’s a fruit dye…

it’s made from avocado peels!!! That’s right, avocado peels…when boiled for a while, a deep pink dye is produced…each time I’ve done it, the color varied a bit. This batch is more peach than pink, but the process is fun. I’ve dyed burlap that turned out much “pinker”. I read about how to do it while making Pink Saturday rounds, but since I didn’t “pin it”, I can’t remember where the method was posted . If you can remember, refresh my memory, please. I’d like to credit the creator. Nancy’s two page spread is loaded with Pink, but I’m not showing pictures til the Big Reveal  in October.  Here is a tiny scrap of vintage wallpaper that fits the tones she has selected…

While we’re in the circle journal mode, look at a smaller version based on the color blue.

I’m working with another group on a music theme book. There are five of us making books based on songs with “Blue” in the title. Mine is Lavender Blue, Barbara’s book uses Elvis’s Blue Suede Shoes for its inspiration. Patty picked Blue Hawaii;  Judy went with Blue Bayou and Nancy’s book is Blue Moon. We met in January at my house to work on our covers then Nancy hosted for Valentine’s week to finish our first set of pages. I used lots of pink in my pages.

This spread has some vintage pink trim with some bead work added.

I colored a picture of a French villa and added a bit of a map of France because Lavender reminds me of France. It’s funny that the city of “Nancy” is shown on the map!

I tried my hand at a watercolor of a lavender plant. Let’s just consider this like a “before” in my watercolor career…

We do have fun doing our Craft-therapy…another fun thing is visiting Beverly every Saturday to put our attitudes “ in the Pink”. Thanks for stopping by. Leave a comment and I’ll try to return the visit. It may be a while, we are heading south for our spring vacation and I’ll be away from the Internet. Have a Pink Week.