Scrapping England 99

Do you Scrapbook?

I discovered Scrap-booking in 2002.

I was in heaven. I had all these pictures

from my trip to England and France in 99

and I thought...what a great way to 

remember my trip!

I bought some card stock and a few 

patterned papers, glue stick,

stickers and some good

scrap-booking pens.

I didn't have a clue what to do really

so I just started playing around

until things looked ok and then

started gluing.

I started running out of paper so I

started cutting frames 

and little pieces of paper to cover

corners.

I even cut photo's!!

I had so much fun I often worked into the night

sometimes...I didn't want to quit!

When I was done...this is what I had.

These old pages are from a

trip we made from near London

where my Sister and her family lived

to Cornwall. 

We did this whole trip in 4 days!

The first day we stopped in the Cotswolds

to visit my sister's good friend Marilyn.

Oh my...I loved the Cotswolds 

and Marilyn and John's home

was a typical Cotswolds stone cottage.

From there we went to a little village

not far from them to get some photo's 

and then on to Bath where we just

drove around and stopped for a few 

photo's shoots. 

Brian was wonderful.

We arrived at Brian's brother's

cottage late that evening.

The next day we were off to

Tintagel Castle.

Legend has it that it was one

of King Arthur's castles ;)

Port Isaac

We also went to St Ives...

I didn't include those pages

but it was a BEAUTIFUL 

little village.

My favorite stop in Cornwall

was Padstow

as we hit it when the sun was

shining and they were having a 

celebration called

Fish And Ships Day...

how English is that!

A trip to Cornwall just doesn't 

get any better than this!

If you enlarge the photo's you

can read what we did

and what we saw.

On the way home we stopped

in Devon.

Unfortunately that last day it was raining

so I added these postcards of

what we missed.

I was still thrilled...narrow streets, 

quaint shops, ocean views

thatched roof cottage everywhere!

Even the rain didn't dampen 

my spirits...I was in 7th heaven!

And it was here in Sidmouth

where I had my very first 

Devonshire Cream Tea

which included tea and of course

currant scones with clotted cream 

and strawberry preserves.

Oh my...words can't even describe

how delicious this was.

Maybe my expression says it all.

Last but certainly not least

was seeing 

Stonehenge

as we came over a hill

on the way back to Hornchurch.

It took my breath away.

So this was my last trip

to England and first attempt at

scrapbooking.

I hope you enjoyed a little

glimpse of England....

...would you be interested in 

a little trip to Paris?

Maura :)