scrapbook on the road

{warning: photo heavy post}
This past spring I participated in the class Ali Edward's offered online called Scrapbook on the Road.  It is a smallish album that is put together before a vacation. It allows for documentation and journaling to take place on the road. Even though her class provides a fairly straight forward approach, it can be adapted to one's personal taste and needs, giving the freedom to journal and take notes while the experience of the trip is happening.

I have a few scrapbook on the road albums to put together this year. The first one stayed fairly close to Ali's example and followed her prompts fairly close. It was a great weekend project, and creatively inspiring.

Here and here is a look at my take on the book before journaling and photos were placed in side.

And today I will share what the completed project looks like::

each day is separated by a transparency and quote

with tags already in place, it's easy to add epherema while on the road

envelopes throughout the book housed other finds

postcards added to the book while on the road were also used for journaling

this is the back of the before mentioned postcard

photos were added once i was home that supported that days journaling

again with the postcard. sometimes they can capture a place better than ones camera

There are more days and photos and journaling...but I think you get the idea.
I took with me a mini kit of a glue stick, hole punch, mini attacher, scissors, needles and thread plus pen
. These items and I sat down every evening and journal-ed the days events. It was a bit of an act of discipline to do this part, but when I was home and the memories were past, I was so glad for those quiet moments in the evening to remember what was important.