January 31: Traveler's Notebook + Connections

Thank you for a wonderful month of challenges! Can't wait for the surprise!!!

Going to have to think about today's challenge.

 

@lmccandless Oh and thank you for the template!

 

Love the sound of the month long scrapping event coming soon.
Wonderful way to keep me scrapping and focused on any and everything happy and "not heat of summer" related.
This is a new size for me to try, but love the examples. Thanks for the template too, it does make it so much more manageable.

 

What a fantastic way to end MOC7! I never liked pocket pages much, but I love TN! I'll have to give thig one some thought, too. SO exciting to think that the fun isn't over, too!! Thanks to ALL of you for ALL you do!!

 

Well, that's an unexpected challenge, LOL! I'm not going to freak out, but I would never have guessed that as a final challenge. Going to have to ponder the unexpected connection aspect of the journaling. I may have an idea.

QUESTION: I just want to make sure... If I do a layout about two people and how they're connected (unexpected) or a person and a thing, but NOT travel, as long as it's in a TN dimension and the journaling is in the spirit, it's OK?

 

Great challenge, fun, fun, fun.

 

hmmm, this is a challenge. Never done this before and not sure where to start. So I found a connection. This is my first TN but definitely not my last. I loved doing this. Hope I did it right.

 

QUESTION: I actually have a travelers notebook that I started last summer. Is it OK to do a “paper” page instead of a digital one, as long as the subject is on topic AND we use digital products that we print out first?

 

Here's mine.
Thanks again for a wonderful MOC. It's been my best yet!

 

So, @lmccandless, I was paralyzed for, like, 5 minutes wondering, "What in the world am I going to scrap with this prompt?!"

And then it came to me in a flash & I stayed up WAY too late to get it done before I forgot. Thanks for this challenge as it really was a story that needed to be told.

 

@lmccandless thankyou for a fun challenge to finish off MOC.

 

I have 65 words in my journaling

 

I am really pleased to hear about the continuation of scrapping in Feb/March.

 

This is such an ironic "last challenge" for me, because I have just this month, entered the world of Traveler's Notebooks and pocket camera photos! What a great way to end this awesome MOC (my first, but certainly not my last!). Thank you, everyone, for the work, the inspiration, and for really challenging me.

TLP_TN_guide_PSD (thank you!!!)
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Mickey Mouse clipart ski-Pencil moziru.com

My photos
Font: CK Journaling
Journaling:
Greg stevenson was 7-turning-8 when we became BFFs with his parents, Steve and Dorris while Dave and Steve were serving in the Army at Fort Devens, Massachusetts. We were newly born-again Christians, and spent lots of time together. If we didn’t see each other every day, it meant someone was on vacation! Our doors were open to each other all the time. Our first year at Ft. Devens, Dave and I didn’t have children, so it was easy to sort of adopt Tim, Melody, and Greg. Dave taught them to ski on the slope in front of their house. We went camping together, often ate meals together, and just considered each other Family.
Skip forward 42 years. Dave and I are now in our 60s, and Greg is nearing 50. Greg knew we golfed, and called one day to see if we could fill in for some guy friends who had bailed on a trip to Arizona. Before he could take a second breath, Dave accepted the inviation, and 10 minutes later I had us booked on a flight to Phoenix.

It was the first of about 16 trips, so far, that we have taken in the last 7 years. Each trip is better than the last. The irony, ofcourse, is that we spend more time with
Greg than we do with his parents. Steve and Dorris now refer to Greg as

the Lamb's new best friend!

We have been to Alaska a couple of times, staying with Steve and Dorris, but much of the fun we’ve had there has been due to Greg’s generosity. We’ve been blessed to explore Prince William Sound on his boat, fish, go 4-wheelin’ in the wilderness, etc. But we’ve also done some awesome sight-seeing drives with his parents. Steve and Dorris also join us in Arizona once in awhile.

Fifty years of friendship has found us laughing and crying together through many joys and sorrows. Although Dorris pretends to be jealous of our friendship with Greg, I know she is more than delighted that we care for him almost as much as she and Steve do. We all feel blessed to have each other.

 

Of course... I am 4 days behind and now a challenge that will really require some thought.... Hmmm That said, I too am excited to have another month of challenges... My goal was to finish 2017, and I have not managed to do that... plus I want to get back to scrapping the beginning of married life... Got 6 years done on another site a couple of years ago, thanks to a challenge of multiple photos on a page... Kids each got their copy for Christmas, but my 3rd one was not yet born ... so really need to get to the next segment...

 

thank you so much for the last MOC challenge this year, Laura @lmccandless