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Monday, February 9, 2009

Ireland... in photos

No one every told me homeschooling will suck away all my personal ME time. Dog-gonit! Dagnabbit! Dad-gummit!

But... we're still having fun. :)

And I finally got the Ireland book scanned in and ready to share! :) Feast your eyes on this monster creation! :)

Cover page
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Back of cover page
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Page 3 - the 5 W's page
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Page 4 - Dedication Page
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Page 5 - Irish Prayer
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Page 6 - Torc Waterfall
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Page 7 - Torc Waterfall 2
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Page 8 - Molls Gap - this page has a transparency journaling overlay so she can still see the picture but write in notes with a fine tip sharpie. :)
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Page 9 - Ring of Kerry - this tabbed mini book opens to reveal photos and journaling pages
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Page 10a - mini book tied with twine featuring a pocket as the last page to hold two oversized journaling tags
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Page 10b - this is just a shot of what it looks like when some of the pages are flipped over. there are a few inked tags separating the pages with some little mini Irish themed stickers... the nice little turquoise post it tags will be replaced with white journaling cards that have been stamped with lines. (I forgot to do that...oops)
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Page 10c
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Page 10d
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Page 11 - Muckross House
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Page 12 - Muckross House 2
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Page 13 - Muckross House Grounds
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Page 14 - More Muckross
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Page 15 - Wood carvings on Muckross grounds
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Page 16 - Bantry House... this features three photos joined by a jumpring on the upper left hand corner..I'm only showing the top one here
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Page 17 - this page has three inked journaling tags hidden beneath the top focal photo held onto the side with a square clip
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Page 18 - Blarney Castle
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Page 19 - Blarney Castle - made a pocket to hold the map, ticket, etc.
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Page 20 - I put "remember" here because I sure hope SHE remembers what this is because I didn't mark it! ha ha!
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Page 22 - Mizenhead - more removable journaling tags
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Page 23 - more Mizenhead - two removable journaling tags
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Page 24 - More Mizenhead - this is a mini flip book. The first picture opens up like a book taking the spine with it. The second flips up (on a brad...the third does as well and the last one stays put). It's photo / journaling / photo / journaling
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Page 25 - Beara Penn -- I've actually foofed this page up some with ribbon and texture since scanning it in...
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Page 26 -
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Page 29 - movable tag to see the entire photo
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Page 30 - along Dingle way
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Page 31a - Doonbeg Fort (closed)
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Page 31b - Doonbeg Fort (open -- with the view from the fort looking down)
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Page 32 - Cliffs of Moher - the three tags are more photos that come out for viewing
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Page 33a - O'Brien's Tower with overlay
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Page 33b - O'Brien's Tower without
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Anyway...that's the jist of it... there are journaling pages and such in the book but who wants to see those? LOL... blank pages with none of her awesome photos on them. No thanks!

Hopefully this will give someone some inspiration about doing a travel book for someone (or themselves.)

Anywho- between scrapping and homeschooling... that's been my life lately. :) will catch up when I can.


5 comments:

Jana said...

Your Ireland book is beautiful!!!

Unknown said...

That book is awesome. I love the photos...oh, to go to ireland one day!!!

keep your head up girl!

Amy W. said...

your album is gorgeous, April! :) hope you get adjusted at home soon.

have a happy day,

Amy
http://amywilges.typepad.com/

chksngr said...

BEAUTIFUL!!! I love the pictures...they are just stunning!

Syndi said...

What a gorgeous album!!! Wow! Looks like it was the trip of a lifetime.