Museum of Flight - Modern Day Planes

Still day 1 in Seattle, we visited the Museum of Flight.  The outside area (which we visited first because it was about to rain) had a few planes you could actually go on and check out the inside.  We got on a British plane and JFK's Air Force One.  It a lot of American Airlines planes.  The most amazing plane was the HUGE Boeing 747.  I sure do wish we could have gone on a tour through the Boeing 747.

The first page shows the Air Force One and the British Airlines plane.  I staggered them and separated them so I could use individual letters to spell "Museum of Flight."  I used little airplane "stickers" to "hold down" the pictures.  The aqua of the background gives the appearance of the sky.

Theo really want to become the first non-United States Born President.  Since this would take a change of the United States' Constitution, he had to settle for the world of make believe.  He couldn't wait to get a picture of him coming out of Air Force One, waving like the president does.  We worked hard for this picture because, well, Yankees are rude and kept walking in front of us.  Haha, that would have never happened in the South.

This page, I kept simple to highlight the photo itself; since it is so special to Theo.  I used a more elegant background and journal tag to get the spirit of Theo's presidential term (haha).  The swirl corners were used to boarder the photo.  The page looked plain when I was finished so I added a vertical and horizontal stitching to add to the page.  I pushed them each towards the edge so the intersection would be off center.

The last page I'm sharing here displays the large American Airlines plane and the GIGANTIC Boeing 747.  I was almost literally looking straight up to get this picture.  I've never seen anything so big (That's what she said).  Theo, of course, needed to take a picture standing under the wing of the American Airlines plane.

On this page I used another blue theme for the reflection of the sky.  Again, I staggered and separated the pictures so I could use individual lettering between the two pictures.  I put cloud "stickers" on the corners of the pictures to act as double duty to "hold the pictures in place" and act as a background for the lettering.  Blue "gel" individual letters spell "giants" to highlight the extreme size of these planes.

The Seattle Underground Tour

On our first full day of our Seattle honeymoon we went on the Seattle Underground Tour in the morning.  That afternoon, we went to the Museum of Flight.  The pages I'm sharing today are a few of my favorites from the underground tour.

 The Seattle Underground Tour is just as it sounds.  The tour explains that originally Seattle was on a huge incline and sewage would literally run down the slope.  When a fire destroyed a lot of the city, they build the roads up so that the incline was not so steep.  I must say, this southern girl who is used to flat ground thought the incline was still VERY steep.  They built the streets up around the buildings that were still standing.  So a lot of the stores, lounges, etc, were below street level.

The first page shows a picture of a building pre-fire.  The streets after the fire were built up to the second level of the building.  At one point, we saw the original plumbing for a bathroom and it was about 5 feet up from where we were standing.  This page I kept simple; just putting a frame around the pictures and using a simple journaling strip.

The underground stores used "skylights" to let natural light shine into the store.  These skylights are literally built into the sidewalk.  This page shows the same skylight from the street level and the underground.  The purple glass shows up very pretty from the street level.  However, the skylights have not been maintained in the underground levels that are only used for the tour.  So they weren't so pretty from underground.

This page I used the same ribbon with a brass embellishment to create a layering effect with the pictures and the journaling strip.

At the end of the tour, there is an artifact "museum" and a gift shop.  The pictures and clipping of Seattle before and after the fire were shocking.  To see pictures of a major city burned to char is just crazy.  I couldn't believe a whole city could be destroyed by a fire that started in one building.

This page shows a SMALL collection of the pictures they had displayed of the fire.  I sized it to the width of the page so the picture would be the focus of the page.  I used individual letters to spell "Seattle fire."  To add interest, I put a locket and key hanging from the S and the e of Seattle.  I "erased" a piece of the loops so that the hanging effect would be more realistic.

On our walk back "home" from the tour, we saw a sculpture that caught our eye.  In fact, it may have been right outside of where we were staying....but I don't remember.  Anyway, I thought it would be funny if we had a picture of Theo "pushing" it across the ground.

I placed the picture on a diagonal and bordered it with a scalloped ribbon.  Under the picture I placed a journaling strip and a ribbon flower with a button center.

After we got back and ate lunch, we went to the Museum of Flight.  I will be working on the pages from the Museum of Flight this weekend.  Be watching for those pages coming soon.

Honeymoon Number 2 - Seattle

A housekeeping note....If you are running Internet Explorer 8, that is why the pictures are not showing up in my blog.  They do show up in Internet Explorer 7 and Firefox....

Second, I took a trip to Office Depot today to start printing these pages so that I can start building my books.  The pages look so good and were cheaper than I thought to print.  I'm very excited.

I began working on my Seattle Pages.  I'm sharing two of them today.  The first one shows our first night when we arrived in Seattle on December 29, 2009.  I couldn't help but take a picture of the mountains out of the window of the airplane.  When we arrived at Seattle, we explored the block around the building where we were staying.  We found a coffee shop called "Tully's" that had a nice atmosphere.  Theo ended up going here every morning for coffee and breakfast.

This page was kept simple.  I placed 3 pictures, framed in gold, on the left side. I journaled about Tully's on a tag and finished the page with individual brassy letters.

After we had our coffee, we enjoyed the courtyard outside of Tully's and our building.  It had a beautiful fountain and a beautiful view of the nighttime city lights and buildings.  We did not go too far; we just enjoyed the block.  The three pictures featured here are in front of the fountain.

Used a circle of "pearls" to frame the pictures.  I elongated the frames to make them oval shapped and "erased" the photos to match the shape of the frames.  I used a paisley shape to be a background for my text.  A simple text block was used to type the caption.

Originally, I had a different background but it didn't work with the elements.  Theo picked out this bright yellow one.  Since I had not flattened the image yet, I was able to change the background very easily.

I'll have more Seattle pages to share soon.  Some may even cameo our friend Mullins who was staying in Seattle and was a great tour guide and friend.  We find it humorous that we spent our second honeymoon with our friend...but we had been married for a few months at this point....  Haha.

Enjoy,

Last of the New Orleans Honeymoon

First of all, I have found that, for some reason, on some computers you can not see the pictures I'm posting.  They show up on some computers as long slivers for whatever reason.  If you click on those pictures, you will be able to see them in a new window.  FYI.  In the mean time, I'll try to figure out why some of us can see the pictures and some of you can not.

This page is one of my favorites.  It is of Theo in front of Jackson Square.  I used a "rustic" background.  I framed the picture with a delicate scrolling frame.  I used the flowers with the jeweled centers to pop the corners of the picture.  Last, individual silver lettering announces our location at Jackson Square.

The day we were here, just to the left of the frame of the picture, there were great street performers.  They were playing music and dancing.  It was just fun to watch.

The last page I am going to share from the New Orleans album is our trip to the WWII museum.  This museum was fabulous.  I want to go back now that they have expanded it (or when they're done if they're not done yet).  It was just so amazing to see all these artifacts and experience the reality of a war I've only heard about.

I did not intentionally use a background that looks like it is splattered with blood, but in hindsight it may have been appropriate.  I used a frame set that put 4 frames on the edges of the page.  Once i put the pictures of artifacts and such in the frames, I spelled WWII Museum with individual letters.  The center of the letters were beige so I filled them with a chocolate color to blend with the frames better.  After, the page still looked empty so I added two individual camel colored frames with pictures.

Up next; Seattle Honeymoon.