My Life's Ingredients

After I had signed up for Shimelle's class "Cover to Cover"  back in 2012 (the class is available self paced via Shimelle's website) and given I'm a "Shimelle- aholic" ;), it was clear to me to sign up for her newest class "The Scrapbook Process" .  I was thinking about the "album" process in my scrapbooking... I have an idea how to do it, and I like Shimelle's way of having her albums -(chronological albums (i.e. annual ones with just layouts using photos that were taken that particular year) and then have separate albums for special events (holidays, wedding, honeymoon, cruise etc - Shimelle calls them "upgrade albums")). I've yet to do that though... as I've just been scrapping "ad hoc" and never really planned albums ... bar 1.5 albums for the Edinburgh Wolves.  Now ... if we set aside the issue of TONS of photos unscrapped, no layouts planned at all etc ...  I now came back from our...

WAHEY! A trip to US again after a long break (and we used to go every year since I met DH in 1999, as far as I remember... ?! ). Going in October/November. We'll be staying here (DH and I prefer suited so we can make our own food instead of having to go out every evening/lunch time). And now we just have to look into getting tickets for "Mickey's Not So Scary Halloween" (MNSSH) and "Mickey's Very Merry Christmas Party" (MVMCP) . :D Thinking about costume for the MNSSH (last year it was a more homemade Batgirl ;) )... we'll see what we can do. SOOOO glad we're able to go (and yes, I have booked the time off work already!), we really need the break and away from everything ... and going somewhere else than Germany ... and the Cruise last year was not long enough really.

Now with the Wolves season over (we've dropped out of the race for the 2nd playoff spot with our loss yesterday) DH and I are getting more serious about holiday planning (DH is actually speaking to Royalties as we speak). Our plan was to fly in to New York and stay there for a couple of days (I've never been, but DH has), then hop over to Cleveland to visit friends and go to the (American) Football Hall of Fame in Canton - where we have been in 2005 but lil stupid here had formatted the CF card when she thought she switched the "format" of the photo (in my defense I only had the camera for about 2 weeks prior to our trip and and absolute rookie to digital photography) and then go down to Orlando for the rest of the holiday. When we checked hotel prices for NYC last week we quickly realised that we'd have to drop this part of our trip - 3 days in NYC was about the same price as 2 weeks in Orlando!!! Not sure if people are flocking to NYC for the election? Didn...