LAPTOP SLEEVE ON THE GO

Hi Everyone!

My old laptop recently retired after 10 years of excellent service.  I needed to replace the oldie with more updated features. Skype, I’m all geeked up about THAT feature!! It drives my family and friends crazy because I want to Skype.  

Knowing that we would soon be traveling I wanted to get a nice laptop sleeve to protect and carry my new baby (laptop) in. Searching around locally and online nothing in the pre-made laptop sleeves appealed style-wise. SO, I Googled “laptop sleeves” and found the perfect pattern on Crap I've Made blog, you can check it out here.  I love the zippered sleeve, especially for traveling and loved, loved, loved the embellishment details! 

A quick check in the fabric stash and would you believe it, not a piece of fabric that jumped out!?! LOL! With time running out (only 1 day to sew) I dashed to Wally World (Walmart) and fell in love with a black polka dot on white background (love me some polka dots)and a printed black fabric (I know, ho hum...) When I got to the cutting table and was waiting F O R E V E R, I spotted a  lovely piece with orange hibiscus, gray palm trees and a bit of yellow mixed in. PERFECT. I ditched the black fabric. Gleefully I purchased fabric, iron on fleece and a nice long zipper (I went for the heavy duty jacket zipper) and rushed home. Later I found the orange dot fabric in my stash to use on the detachable flower pin.

I’m pretty pleased with the way my laptop sleeve turned out following the easy peasy pattern/tutorial.

 BTW, I made up my own flower pattern and it is detachable. Love the way it looks.

Oh, I lined the inside of the sleeve with the polka dots and each time I unzip the sleeve, it makes me smile!

Happy Sewing!

Suzy

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Hiking and Gourmet Grilled Cheese

Hi Everyone!

Thanks for joining me today for the last few pages of the Travel Journal. We're hiking in Cascade Canyon up to the falls and then running into Jackson Hole for the afternoon.  

If you have missed any of the Yellowstone/Teton series, please check them out under the Travel Journal tab above.  Be sure to check back soon for more travel journal features!

I’ve enjoyed sharing my personal journal pages and photos with you and I hope you have enjoyed the adventure too! 

Happy Travels and Happy Journaling!

Suzy

THE RIGHT FORK IN THE ROAD

Hi Everyone!

Please join me today as we take the right fork in the road at Grant Village and drive along Yellowstone Lake through wooded areas of pine. 

Come and read more about this day by clicking on the TRAVEL JOURNAL tab above. Thanks for coming along of the journey, next week I'll be wrapping up this Travel Journal and I hope you will join me for the final adventure on a hike above Jenny Lake. 

Happy Travels and Happy Journaling!

Suzy

MUD POTS, GEYSERS AND BOARDWALK ADVENTURE

Hi Everyone!

Welcome back for another Travel Journal Thursday adventure!

 I'm so happy you have stopped by!  .  This week we journey further into YNP encountering much wildlife and fun times along the way. 


Just click on TRAVEL JOURNAL tab above to get the entire journal pages along with personal photos. I'd love it if you would leave a comment. 

Enjoy the adventure!

Happy Travels and Journaling!
Suzy

TRAVEL TO YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK

Hi Everyone!

Some exciting news to share this week!  We are proud grandparents of a brand new baby boy. Our daughter Amanda and her husband Fabian welcomed Jackson Richard into the world on March 25, a few weeks earlier than expected.  Jackson weighs 6 lbs 7oz. and he has a head full of dark hair and blue eyes.  We are looking forward to visiting and being able to hold our baby grandson in our arms.

Today’s Travel Journal pages will take you on an adventure into Yellowstone National Park to visit the world famous Old Faithful geyser and the surrounding areas.  Just click on the tab TRAVEL JOURNAL above for the full pages, photos and stories.  Enjoy! 

I truly appreciate and enjoy your comments, so please leave me some comment love today! J

Happy Travels and Journaling.

Suzy

Come along on a Travel Adventure

Hi Everyone!

It's time for another weekly travel journal adventure. If you'd like to see more journal pages and read about the story behind them, check out the tab above marked Travel Journal. I look forward to sharing the pages with you each week along with photographs and personal mementos.

This week we are traveling through Jackson Hole, WY and surrounding areas! I hope you will take a few minutes to check out the journal pages and photos and I'd love it if you would leave me a comment!

Happy Travels and Journaling!
Suzy

NEW TRAVEL JOURNAL PAGES REVEALED!

Hi Everyone!

So this week I'm going to share something with you that I have been promising for awhile: my travel journal pages. The journal pages started as a way to avoid carrying tons of brochures and collected mementos home from vacation. With the cost of flying, baggage weight restrictions and extra cost to check baggage these were definite reasons to pair down extra goodies brought back home. Know what I mean?  This also forced me to cut down on art supplies, narrowing  down to (what I consider) the bare minimum, they fit into a pencil pouch (you can see a list HERE).  I take a journal and glue stuff into it as I go along, tearing images  from the brochures, painting or handwriting the days events onto the pages. I suppose you could relate this to a form of Smash Book if you like, only I was doing this years before that term or product was developed.

I hope you will click on the TRAVEL JOURNAL tab above and check out the first of my journal pages. I'll be sharing some with you weekly on Thursdays (OK, let's give it an official name like TRAVEL THURSDAY). You can check back each week to see what I've posted and I hope you will come often to visit and see where my journal has been. 

Happy Travels and Journaling!
Suzy

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