Philadelphia and Erie Railroad for a Lasting Memories challenge

Good Morning :) Happy Sunday to you :) We've had some great weather this week for it being the beginning of Fall, high 80s and their saying we may break a record tomorrow.
Today is the last challenge for this month over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenges. The theme this month has been All About Patterns and this week's challenge is Chevrons. Use some chevron papers on your layout:

 I created this layout for LOAD216 Day 27: It was a Geography (the study of the physical features of the earth and its atmosphere, and of human activity as it affects and is affected by these, including the distribution of populations and resources, land use, and industries.) prompt which you could look at so many things with this prompt. The layout of the land so to speak. So I did a little peace of our world with this layout. The abandon railroad bank on the edge of our property. Our own little Rails to Trails in our backyard :) Wish I would have thought of that when I typing up the journaling :) We enjoy walks up through there quite often. A little history of the railroad added to the journaling too.
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing your creation to this prompt over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenges.

Simply Beautiful

Good Morning once again :) If you are looking for the Sketch N Scrap layout you can find it here.
This is the 2nd posting today, a very busy day for my Design Team projects seemed to fall on the same day this week!
Lori is the hostess this month over at Lasting Memories and  this month is "Stash buster" challenge! This week's challenge is Ribbons, Washi Tapes and/or Paper Stripes. I Used both ribbon and paper stripes on my layout:

Ribbons for the bows and paper strips for the pennants and the journaling on the layout. The layout is from LOAD216: Day 29: Was a color prompt - German Flag: Which is Black/Red/Gold. I used the 3 colors throughout the layout with the addition of gold glitter hearts on the layout
 This was at the Barton House at the Bloomsburg Fair in 2012. The fashions were just gorgeous of that era (1800s). What the women had to wear to carry those big dresses around wow unbelievable :) We've come a long way since then :)
Thank you for stopping by again and I will see you sometime again today....

We Are Railfans

Lasting Memories last challenge for this month's theme All About Me and this week's challenge is I Love To.... Now there is things I love to do, go to new places and see new things. I enjoy doing them with my husband and we have been checking out alot about the railroads in our area including the museums:

This was interesting to find out that we were Railfans, a nickname for us :)

The left side of the layout pictures of various places we have been.

The right side of the layout has that cool postcard and pictures taken at the house.

Closeups of the layout:

The pictures here are my husband's collection and also a few of the trains that go past the house. It's cool to be so close to the tracks :) When I first met my husband and moved in it took some getting used to sleeping with the trains going by bu after a couple of months it just becomes a normal thing like background noise :)

My journaling :) I had fun creating this layout and something we do love.............
I look forward to seeing what you all create and link up over at Lasting Memories

Bases Loaded for a Lasting Memories Challenge

Good Morning :) It's a new challenge over at Lasting Memories Scrapbook Challenge blog :) The theme is All About You and this week's theme is "Let me take a Selfie" I'm still in training when it comes to selfies but a few months after taking this picture come to find out that I can see the selfie as it's being taken by a switch on the camera so it's been getting better. But first we have to scrap the old ones :)

I had a blast making this double page layout :) I created this during LOAD216 Day 26 Landmark prompt: this is one of our newest landmarks in Williamsport, PA
Bases Loaded is the newest Landmark in our city. It was put together for the 75th Anniversary of Little League Baseball. Out town feels very honored to have this here a way to show Carl Stotz that we appreciate what he started, shame he wasn't alive to see it unfolding, and the rift that he had with LL later didn't come to an end, But, by the way of his daughter it is starting to change and Little League is embracing Carl Stotz by adding this and another statue of him up at the Volunteer field. I made sure to get over today and a picture with Carl Stotz. :) Through our family we have a very special bond with Little League, my Dad playing for Jumbo Pretzel on of the original teams. But that is another story for another day :)

Yes me trying to take a selfie :) I am getting better at it :) LOL This is bench they have that you can sit and get your picture taken with Carl Stotz (a statue of him) so that was fun :)

 The left side of the layout :) Lots of photos and lots of journaling about how the landmark came about.

 The right side of the layout :)

 I pulled this information for my journaling from an article on the internet about the landmark.

 There was so much information that I put some on each page of the layout.

A little bit about what I feel about the landmark. This will go in to my Williamsport Album. With the warmer weather taking place I would like to get out and walk about Williamsport and get pictures of some of the local history and get it in the album, being raised here there is alot I remember and alot that has changed already, but looking forward to adding my memories to it :)
Thank you for stopping by today and I look forward to seeing what you all create for this new challenge of the week :)

On The Pennsylvania Road

Good afternoon :) If your are looking for the Sketches in Thyme Project Life Style post you can find it here

Lasting Memories has it's new weekly challenge today. The theme of the month is All About the Photos and the challenge for this week is Only One Photo! This is usually a struggle for me as I like to use lots of photos on my layout to tell the visual story, but the 1 photo layout is very popular at this moment, you can see alot of this on the sketch challenge sites too. Since it's LOAD month, I thought I would use a layout I made from a previous LOAD:

This layout is about my retired business, I come across this picture when I was looking for something else (isn't that usually the case), thiis was a picture that I received from one of my customers. I'm looking forward to finding many goodies as I sort out my old truck to prepare for a planned layout. Thinking I have lots of memorabilia of when I was on the road and at shows, that are gonna tell some fun stories. But this story is based on LOAD216 Day4: Theme is Language and the girl that did the daily layout did one one her native country and how there are so many visitors that there are different tones of accents. So that is what I decided to base my layout on the different accents just in Pennsylvania! I did some research and boy was it interesting to learn so much about the state I live in.

This is just some of the information about our state accents that I gathered (there is so much information out there!) Pennsylvania is home to six dialects! Based solely upon pronunciation and grammar, researchers generally split the United States into a number of linguistic regions. Those regions come together in Pennsylvania — which makes the state kind of a crossroads of the English language. Fascinating :)

 I found this fun clip art of the state and print and cut it out to use for my title (which I have to give credit to our local channel 16 they have a segment called that) I highlighted where I live withe the foam heart

My own personal journaling about the accents :) After traveling to so many different tractor shows in the state, it was uncanny the different accents that I got to hear just being in a different area of the state. So this was one fun layout to do and another layout for my All About Me album that may produce another just on my business album.

Go Nebraska!

 What is this! Anyone that knows me knows I'm not a Nebraska fan, but this particular time I was. Let me set the scene. LOAD Day 24: Culture and the prompt was Sports, oh my which way to go yes which way to go. Lets go back in time a bit and do a layout from the past. I had these pictures printed so long ago and haven't done anything with them, well this day I did, I got the pictures on a scrapbook layout. (I've got lots of photos for Calvinball next month, when I found these I found a whole box full)

These are our son Albert's kids :) See Mom (Andrea) went to Nebraska by way of online for college and she got her bachelors degree there. Well when the Nebraska's Little League team came here to play for the Little League World series, she made sure to root them on, which in turn I rooted on, too :) This was the day they went up to see the 1st game that Nebraska played. She posted these pictures on facebook, I grabbed them with the intention of doing a layout. Oh my the kids were so little just a few years ago .
I used the sketch over at The Memory Nest for my layout No. 54

I did like the way the arrows were pointing at things and I used that to point out alot of the journalaing blocks

  Top photo, left to right: Avery, Elias, Isabelle and AJ (Albert Jr.)

 Alot of the Ephemera came from Echo Park's Jack & Jill collection. This picture is the kids standing in front of the Carl Stotz memorial statue at Volunteer Stadium. (Layout about this memorial will be coming in a future layout) Enamel hearts and dots, word strips and ribbon for the tag came from my current kit as did the Jack & Jill collection.

 On the monument

Journaling and a fun title block. Some pieces here come from the October Afternoon Midway collection.

Authentic

Were getting down to the end of LOAD216 just one more day left, today :) But this one is from yesterday's load, Day 28: Food. I have been wanting to do this layout a few times this month but I had to find the picture I took with the hubby's camera that day. So finally took the time last night and located the picture :) the other ones I got off the internet, but the one inside the restaurant is the one I took. While I was looking I come across a few more pictures that I need to scrap too, oh boy!

When we went to Altoona, PA to see the RR Museum and Horseshoe Curve, we decided to grab supper before getting on the road to head home. We stop when we saw the sign for this place, we both enjoy Mexican food. OMgosh! were we pleasantly surprised about this place, it is an Authentic Mexican restaurant :) Yes and their chips and salsa homemade you can tell swoon!

I got my background colors from outside of their building. Also the stars representing the rating of this establishment and the hearts cause we loved it so much! I saved their business card for use on the layout, I thought the recipe card appropriate here for a mat. The 2 word strips come from 2 signs they have hung up on their walls. Our Casa is Your Casa you see when you walk in and The best place to be is together sign is on the wall among all the stuff they have on the walls (like crackle barrel has)
I used the sketch over at Sketches in Thyme it was this past week's sketch

I really enjoyed using this sketch :)

The business card, word strips and my journaling

 The photo block. The have these very festive backs on their chairs I had to take a picture of them, the man in the picture was our waiter, very nice person and the place was cool to see and very friendly to be in. The picture of those chips and they serve it with 3 different sauces we just loved the red salsa would love that recipe to make it here at the house.

 Close up of the bottom corner block

 Close up of the title block

I tried a photo on an angle so you can see the glitter effect of the letters and I scattered dots that was on the Alpha sheet around the layout too. I used my current counterfeit kit: Color Splash for my layout and the pennants come from last month's kit.

#1 Turkey Special

LOAD Day 21: Food. So anything about food. This time I went to a new spot of challenges for inspiration :) for my layout. Some how I decided on this Turkey Dinner that Dave and I got Oct. 10, 2015, after a Tractor show we went to for my layout. Then I went over to Whimsical Musings looking for prompt to work from, they have an entire list of fun prompts to get you started here
From that list I found prompt #48 Inspired by Ice Cream and that is what inspired the color scheme of my layout was that bowl of Sherbet on my plate.

Fry's Turkey Ranch is a restaurant that is off route 15, the tractor show we went to on the way home we decided to eat locally, but the one restaurant in the town was so busy and we were so hungry we didn't wait around very long. So traveling back home we came across this billboard of this restaurant, and we both chatted a bit about checking it out. So there you have it in a nutshell :) The reasoning behind us being there :) Surprised that we never had been there before, they have really good food. So this meal is what they are famous for and we had to get it! Wow a plate full indeed and we had a salad with it that came first.
I used the sketch over at Scrapbook Challenges for my layout, sketch #469

With the extra journaling about the history of the restaurant I shifted my photos over a bit more, the elements of the sketch is still there :)

 Journaling about the restaurant and how it came to be

 That delicious meal :) Got to be the first time we went out to eat and Dave was too full to get dessert and were the slice of pies piled up. The bear greeted us when we walked in :) a quick shot of the front of the menu and a big photo of the dinner. Yum! All Instagram photos :)

My journaling. I used my current counterfeit kit for the alpha for the title, the word strip on the large word strip block and the gold hearts scattered about the layout. The background paper came from last month's kit.
If you like to go with a prompt for a layout you'll have to take a look over at Whimsical Musings blog and they have a facebook group too. I will be using there prompts in March for Calvinball to help spur some stories to tell and to help create so fun layouts

Home

LOAD Day 20 is a Geography prompt. I went with the inspiration of the designer layout today for an idea for my layout. So her theme was city life vs where she lives and I could relate to that. That we live on the outskirts of it just a mile away and you wouldn't know it with 1 1/4 acres of ground that my husband gardens away from the hustle and bustle of the city.

 Home is the best place to be :) Everyday moments make the best memories, What I love most about my home is who I share it with. I think that sums up very well why Home is the best place to be. We do enjoy the quiet that we get living away from the city, which is most of the time other than soccer season and when Little League takes place then the whole borough can usually hear that :)
I used the sketch over a Scrap Our Stash:

From the list: 1) Doily 2) Ephemera (lots of this) 3) Fawn color , I picked up most of that in the journaling block and also throughout the layout. I really enjoyed this sketch. 

 Close up the block of photos of the yard and part of the garden

 My journaling block. Most of the papers came from last month's counterfeit kit Brighter Year Ahead and a older kit that had all the fall theme pieces in it. I also used the other half of the doily I had just used on a previous layout about the local Library, so glad to use up that scrap :)

The bottom corner element has a picture of the city of South Williamsport, we are a small borough but across the river is the city of Williamsport and that is the city life I really was thinking of :) I do love the city I grew up in, but now I love my home life and surroundings much better :)

All Together Fun Day

This was an "All Together Fun Day". it's a happy kind of day! LOAD Day 17 is Culture and the prompt was Museums. Through the list I created this day came to mind and I ran with it. We are lucky to have this gem here in our area so we can go and visit it whenever we like.

The Sones Farm & Home Museum is just that it depicts the farms and homes of yesterday, here mainly of Lycoming county, great to see so much local history here in one place and it's jammed full of good finds and great memories.
I used the sketch over at Sketches In Thyme for my layout, it's the week 3 sketch

I love that it had all those photo spots and with it I created a few more photos spots but it is the essence of my layout.

 The left side of the layout has many pictures of the outside of the Museum and the framed article about Oliver Sones and  that the county's first mill may have be discovered. He was there to greet lots of people that day. We were there on a mission to see if he would bring his Minneapolis Antique Tractor to Penns Cave. Out that conversation we got free admission to the museum :)

 Up close on my Title block and Journaling block

 The right side of the page just holds a few of the photos I took that day of the Museum that spark some interest and fun :) One of the early dishwashers really caught my eye WOW we did come a long way from that.

A close up of a good time by the expression on my husband's face. I found this fun sign sticker in my vacation stash and used that for the date block
It was a joy to be there and if you ever come to Williamsport, PA its a spot you want to put on your visiting list. I used my current counterfeit kit for this 2 page layout.