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,