This page has to be one of my faves. Love the photos. Congrats on adding that swan to your life list!

I want to go!

Okay, I see where you are--thanks for the map! You got some excellent photos! We've ridden through the lava fields on horseback and the ATV idea is new to me!

I'm following your trip backwards and I see I really need to catch up. My first thought is puffins? Never heard of this and it's intriguing.

The symmetry of the animals is amazing! Beautiful!

Excellent wildlife pix and splashy layout! What a wonderful adventure!

I love that sculpture! Great to see it prominently featured. Before the pandemic we regularly visited Iceland, with our home base being a tiny apartment in Reykjavic. I am hoping you got the chance to go tolting through the lava fields on Icelandic horses!

Definitely something to document, and beautifully done. Such a good use of the crinkly embellishment. I had a few small potted shrubs ready to plant this fall because usually our falls are temperate and rainy, but no dice this year. It's bone dry.

I took advantage of the Apothic Collection, on sale for a limited time, to create this layout about the Northern Lights that magically appeared in the skies over our new/old farmhouse and my daughter's restaurant. In keeping with my recent focus on simplicity (actually, mindlessness, if truth be...

Thanks! I'm glad you got that! That's exactly the vibe I was feeling!

Skateboarding accident 13 years ago in Australia resulted in a really messed up ankle. Three surgeries so far and looking at a fourth around Christmas.

This is another layout for my daughter's wedding album, using Artsy Transfers as a base. The thing I love about Artsy Transfers is that I can customize each and every layer, even integrating several Artsy Transfers in a layout if it suits my purposes. Because most of the pictures in this album...

Just scrolled through all your layouts--did I miss your departure point? We had a similar "weathered" transatlantic cruise once (Copenhagen to Oslo to some itty bitty place in Norway, to Glasgow, THEN missed Belfast, missed Greenland, missed Newfoundland, and ended up in Halifax, before...

Fun and easy layout for my daughter's wedding album. I started with the Artsy Layered Template, whose colors and shapes matched my photo perfectly. I blended the photo directly into the template on overlay blend mode, and then blended the edges together with layer masking and an artsy brush—it...

Moving on to the deteriorating foundation support jacks in the crawl space next. Sigh.

Must be something in the air. It truly always is something!

LOL you definitely get it. There were quite a few raised-blood-pressure moments on this one. I wanted to document it because I know time will erase the crying and the laughter will remain!

Thanks! We had clearance and access issues, not to mention the AC/DC Inverter for the solar was directly under the new meter pan on the exterior. On the inside it’s a tiny space, and we had an old gas Pennfield 40-gal. tank heater that was impeding required clearance AND venting out on the wall...

The saga of upgrading the electrical panel, meter pan, and weatherhead in our new/old (1876) farmhouse was fraught with mishaps, including an incompetent electrician whose work failed inspection. Because of the structure of the house, bringing the new electrical work up to code necessitated a...

Thanks! The photos are pretty random and all focus on one thing--the bride and groom (and Elliott of course). So this is going to be a much shorter album than I usually do. Kind of fun to have a short project.