travel journal
i had some fun today sticking pictures and things into my travel journal - the bags are all still unpacked but who cares?!!
i took my little journal (made from a pack of old index cards i got for 50c) and small cigar box of supplies with me on the trip and wrote a little something every day - it was also fun to grab business cards and brochures wherever we went and stick those in too.
here is my kit all ready to go before we left (its a little more well loved looking now, but then...so am i!)
pictures i just printed onto paper from my computer...
and a bunch of receipts and tags from all my shopping escapades!
i wrote my article this month for todays mama on 'scrapbooking on the road' (which i LOVE to do), with more pictures and my method of madness when it came to creating my travel album - it should be up tomorrow or the next day :)
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welcome home my friend! I have loved reading about your travels. Tena
Posted by: tena | May 15, 2007 at 01:29 AM
This is so cool, you got a very creative mind !! sweet greetings from Holland from Dani
Posted by: Dani | May 15, 2007 at 02:45 AM
LOVE this album of yours Emily!!
You are fantastic and amazing!
I think I have to make a summer-vacation-album like this, this summer. ;)
Love to see your happy photos and all the ephemera. ;)
Have a great day.
Love
Posted by: gudrun | May 15, 2007 at 02:59 AM
By the way: finally I have scanned all my cards for the "a deck of me"-journal for the last 4 weeks. They are all on my blog. ;)
Posted by: gudrun | May 15, 2007 at 03:00 AM
This looks beautiful, I can't achieve this look no matter how hard i try, I always look as if I have 'over' embelished!!!I'll keep trying!
Posted by: liz davidson | May 15, 2007 at 03:43 AM
Love, love, love this! Fantastic idea! I have a set of those cards at home that I got from the office (they were going to be tossed!) and now you've given me a great idea!
Posted by: Michelle Gauthier | May 15, 2007 at 05:55 AM
This looks fabo Em, now I'm just wishing I could go on a holiday just to be able to make a little journal.
nicole
Posted by: Nicole Pomeroy | May 15, 2007 at 06:09 AM
Hey Emily,
I'm glad you had heaps of fun on you trip back to Australia. I love the travel Journal idea, especially because it's small. I would love to know where to get that black "observation" ribbon you have used????
Love the page with all the receipts and tags etc. My sister inlaw is a manager of Dotti here in Sydney and gets clothes at retail cost. Let me know if you want anything else and I'll send it over to you.
Jo Andrew, Sydney Australia.
P.S. Hows your baby going??? I would love to hear an update, you must be getting so close now. I'm 22 weeks now and it feels like it will be forever away until I meet my bubba.
Posted by: Jo Andrew | May 15, 2007 at 07:25 AM
love this emily.
such an amazing idea!!
xoxo
Posted by: kerry : k8tykat | May 15, 2007 at 10:35 AM
Just beautiful! :)
Posted by: jennifer davis | May 15, 2007 at 10:42 AM
What a cool travel album - so inspiring! Thanks for sharing this - I just LOVE it!
Posted by: Ashley Schultz | May 15, 2007 at 12:02 PM
Great way to document your trip
Posted by: Alexa | May 15, 2007 at 12:07 PM
THIS IS AWESOME EM!!!!
Posted by: Sarah Bowen | May 15, 2007 at 12:36 PM
welcome home honey! when you are all rested up, we should get together! this travel journal looks amazing- of course!
Posted by: Amy Tangerine | May 15, 2007 at 05:30 PM
This looks great Em, love the idea of using the file cards, I have so many of them. I have a few different 'trip' albums to do, it always seems so daunting a task to start. Thanks for the link to 'today's mama', I was only just thinking about it the other day but had lost the link.
Posted by: lisavc | May 15, 2007 at 05:58 PM
WOW!! I just love this!! What an awesome idea to capture your travel memories!!
Love it!
Xx Jess
Posted by: Jess! | May 15, 2007 at 06:01 PM
Hi Emily, just wanted to say I LOVE THIS!
You are so, so creative, love your style!
Posted by: Kat Browne | May 15, 2007 at 06:21 PM
This IS fabulous! I LOVE it too, and might try it out! Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: Shaquanna | May 15, 2007 at 07:23 PM
This TRAVEL ALBUM is so incredible. Really... SO wonderful!
Posted by: Gillian | May 15, 2007 at 11:33 PM
Love this!!!
Posted by: Gypsy Purple-Chamara | May 16, 2007 at 07:04 AM
Hi Emily:
Thank you for the adventure you took us on to Australia. Just going to the Cook Islands was a long fight, from Calgary and I wasn't pregnant. I'm glad you didn't unpack and decided to work on your travel journal. I LOVE IT, you smart little thing.
I love the altered look. I can't wait to read your article on, "Today's Mama." Your going to tell us about travel journals, I hope you let us know what were to take - that would be a tough one for me. What do I take!!!! My whole room? I'm doing that next time for sure, taking a little chipbd. album or love your index file album along with me and whatever ideas you give for take alongs - as that way each day it's done alittle bit and then easy to finish off when we get home.
Thank you again. I love visiting your site and the card adventure that my friend Lynn (memoriesbylynn)asked me to do with her. We love it.
Kath
Posted by: Kathy Hargreaves | May 16, 2007 at 07:17 AM
What a fun idea - love how this looks. Thanks for sharing!
Posted by: KP | May 16, 2007 at 07:51 AM
Emily your little album is so fabulous! I love all the pictures and ephemera. It's so eclectic. A memory passport!
Posted by: Heather H. | May 16, 2007 at 12:55 PM
stunning Em you never fail to inspire me thanks so much for leaving comments on my blog
Posted by: valerie | May 16, 2007 at 02:16 PM
Hey there Em,
Love your travel journal idea. Fabo.
looks like you did some serious shopping girly!
Im still working on getting my journal together from 2 years ago. LOL
I hate the unpacking too. Means you have to wash, and that sucks!
Posted by: Dee | May 16, 2007 at 02:59 PM