Reminiscing and wishing

Now is about the time that I really wished I was somewhere else ... like in Italy. Looking at the pages depicting our trip last year makes me want to pack up my bags and leave right away.

La nostra vacanza in Italia

I am so excited I might pee my pants! I can't wait to get this book in my hands. Cannot wait.

So I created a book about our trip to Italy last summer with the Classic Album templates set by Nisa of Splendid Fiins as well as my own La Storia papers and elements packs.

Click here to view this photo book.

Plugging away at warp speed

Ok, so warp speed might not actually be correct, but I have been working a lot on my Italy book and it's going very well. So well that I've reached 50 pages and I've still got six days left of the trip to cover. It's going to be one big mutha of a book that's for sure. I love reading my journal, looking at the photos and thinking back to the days of the trip. Nostalgia at its best. I just cannot wait to finish and order it so that I can get to see it in real life.

Pages 48 and 49


If you hadn't guessed it by now, we're all about the food and drink. It was a very good trip. And I mean that literally. :)

Dreaming about the sun

It's been what, six or so months since our holiday trip to Italy? Yeah, time moves fast, for sure. I think I started on the book about the trip about three weeks after we came home. I got real far. Two pages far. I totally suck at keeping things up. This was not the first book I started without being able to finish the damned thing. I also started a book about a weekend trip to Milan a few years back. That book has twelve pages or so. Really pathetic. :)

But anyway, I hit a major wall recently with regards to creating and decided I should give myself a break and just play around a little. After all, I have been working non stop on things for almost a year now (gah, next month marks my first anniversary as a digi designer, but let's get back to that later).

One thing I like to do when I feel in a rut is look at pictures. Quite often my own. Mostly of lovely times, like sunny and relaxed days filled with ice cream and love. It makes me happy. Happy that I got to experience it. Happy that I got to capture it in a  photo. Happy that many of those photos don't suck entirely.

So that was exactly what I was doing the other day, when I felt a real punch in the gut of inspiration to scrap. And not just any old layout. No, I felt I had to scrap our holiday. So off I set, pulled out the photos again, and the kit I created with the book in mind all those months ago; La Storia. Now I just needed to get going again. And it's been going well. I have created 16 pages in three nights by the telly. I am quite pleased. One thing that has helped me tremendously is Nisa Fiin's awesome template album set coming very soon; Classic Album templates. I think I might be able to finish this time, even if it takes me a month.

Here are pages 12 and 13 of my book


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Supplies
La Storia Paper Pack and Elements Pack by In the Making Design
Modernist Elements Pack by In the Making Design
Classic Album Templates by Splendid Fiins
Stitches by Anna Aspnes
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Cinque Terre - part two

Still plugging away with the Italy photos. Only a little more left, I promise! :D But it's a good way of keeping the spirit of summer alive for me.

OK so this is Monterosso












The water was amazingly clear and beautiful




Vernazza, which was my favourite of the four we visited








We had lunch at a restaurant in the harbour and sat outside. It was just divine. The food (pasta with seafood) and the wine (Vermentino) was just what a girl wants on her birthday.






Celebration continued










Manarola






Alright, more (including Via del Amore) later

Cinque Terre - part one

We took soooo many photos that day we spent in Cinque Terre that I need to break the post up. It's just too hard to scale down too much. That place is just so fantastic. Let's concentrate on the villages as seen from the water in this post.

Portovenere (which isn't part of Cinque Terre, but you pass it with the ferry from La Spezia and it's beautiful).






View of the bay


Approaching Riomaggiore






Via Del Amore between Riomaggiore and Manarola clings to the cliffs and is visible from the water.


Beautiful blue water


Manarola




Corniglia, which is the only one of the five villages that doesn't have a harbour. It can only be reached by train. Because of this it was the one village we didn't visit.


Vernazza




Another beautiful shot of the bay


Approaching Monterosso








I'll share more from Cinque Terre next

Slowly but surely the book is coming along

And when I say slowly I do mean slowly. I have finished one double page since I last posted.

I'm sorry for the size, but it won't fit the blog if I make it bigger

It's a huge step for me to commit to a certain style for a book. It takes ages. I am anal and want the whole book to follow a certain theme even though they don't have to be too matchy matchy. But I think this might be something to build on. Go here for credits.

Piazza dei miracoli and that leaning tower

We spent our last day with my sister and her fiancé in Pisa. Not that we did anything more than look at the leaning tower and the duomo and eat (the general theme of our trip was to eat after all). But it was nice all the same.

















Next is Cinque Terre, be on the lookout for that soon!