top of the Rock

I have SO many photos from New York to scrap that it may take me years. We went to New York on our honeymoon , in a time before I scrapped, and I haven't got round to scrapping those either.

Last time we went  we went up the Empire State Building at night and the World Trade Centre tower. this time we decided to go up to the top pf the Rockefeller Plaza which has the added benefit of a good view of the Empire State  building.

I used bakers twine and some punched out leftover dots to mark out and label the key sights on the photo, including Times Square, the new World Trade Centre tower and the Statue of Liberty.

Mad science

This LO is for my design team at Scrap it with a Song, however we are not scrapping a song this time around. instead we are using the movie poster from the Nightmare Before Christmas as our inspiration.

I used the big swirl on the poster and the colours to make a LO about my two sons and their friend doing science experiment at the Science Museum Nemo in Amsterdam.

risk

this LO is for the design team at Child's Play. The challenge this week is the board game Risk.

i took the idea of the maps and stamped a map onto four squares of different paper which I layered up onto a map paper with planes. this was perfect for the photo I took on the plane on the way to New York. We were flying business class because it was a special award trip and I had four windows all to myself. Four. Although you can only see three in the photo!

scrapping with non scrappy supplies #7 map again

I know I have already used a map in my non scrappy supplies LOs but I wanted to use this one differently. On our last day in New York we visited MOMA and then took the subway down to the Seaport Area. this is the map of the walk we took that afternoon before we went to the airport.
1. Subway stop
2. Pier 17
3. Pearl Diner for lunch ( Pastrami snadwich on rye for me. Philly cheesesteak for my husband)
4. across to Broadway
5. Past the International Culinary centre where we had lunch the day before
6. across to Washington square- ice cream sandwich
7. up to Union Square
8. Back down Broadway to the next Subway stop

scrapping with non scrappy supplies #6 business card

(sorry if you read this bit yesterday)
I have had a little bit of a scrappy blogging nightmare over recent days. OUr main PC died on me, just shut itself down and refused to start up again. I had internet access on my Ipad, and I had my laptop from work, i had a working camera as well but without the PC i had no way of getting my pictures off the SD card and into blogger. My lap top doesn't have an SD card slot, so I have been unable to continue with my planned schedule of non scrappy supplies.

while we were in New York we visited the branch of the Magnolia Bakery that is in Bloomingdales. I initially thought about scrapping with the bag ( below) but it was just wrong, to thick, too big or too small depending on how i thought about using it. so instead on this LO I used one of the business cards I picked up in the shop.
the LO is about my choice of cup cake- peanut butter and jelly.

NYC breakfast

I have had a little bit of a scrappy blogging nightmare over recent days. OUr main PC died on me, just shut itself down and refused to start up again. I had internet access on my Ipad, and I had my laptop from work, i had a working camera as well but without the PC i had no way of getting my pictures off the SD card and into blogger. My lap top doesn't have an SD card slot, so I have been unable to continue with my planned schedule of non scrappy supplies.

this LO is for the sketch challenge at Sarah's cards.
we have recently got back from a trip to New York and on two days we were able to have  buffet breakfast  in the hotel organised by the company ( we were there because my husband had won an award)
these were my two favourite bits of the breakfast and of course I had both- on both days.
there was a bagel bar so I had to have bagels with cream cheese, salmon, onion and capers.
I also loved the french toast with vanilla bean sauce and fresh fruit. YUM.

Scrapping with unscrappy supplies, #5 tickets

while we were in New York recently we went to the New York Yankees to watch a game. i've used a picture of the game in progress and our evening meals. i've also added in our tickets.
for any of you that know about baseball we were there on "bobblehead night" when the free bobblehaeds of Mariano Rivera were due to be given out on the gate and they didn't turn up. when we left the queue to pick them up contained thousands of people and snaked half way round the stadium and all the way from the top level down to the bottom.