Sandy Hook Lighthouse

I wanted to share my latest layout from our trip to New York for Thanksgiving. This layout is of some pictures Matt took of the Sandy Hook lighthouse on the Jersey coast. We could see the lighthouse from Annie's balcony so we wanted to get closer to investigate. It was closed so we didn't get to do a tour, but we enjoyed the beautiful tour around the hook with Annie.

I used Gina's Early Autumn papers for this layout and I made a set of embellishments that you can pick up for free (see post below).




















Credits for Sandy Hook:
Papers from Gina Arzaga's EARLY AUTUMN kit
Coordinating Elements by Me
Font: Accent Dot Writer
Photos by Matt

Thanksgiving 2007

I wanted to share a new layout that I did using one of Gina's fabulous kits!!

These are some pictures that I took during Thanksgiving. Annie did such a wonderful job of decorating, we didn't want to mess it all up (however the smell of the food soon made us change our minds). We did manage to snap a few pictures before the feast began.





Credits for Thanksgiving 2007:
Zoom Template by Tracy Drane
Early Autumn paper pack by Gina Arzaga


DoodleyArt: Watercolored Elements - Autumn I by Gina Arzaga


Fonts: Earwig Factory & Giddyup Std
Photos by Matt & Angela

Sandy Hook - New Jersey

Just a quick note to catch up. As you might of guessed, I am busy scrapping away and have been desperately trying to get caught up after taking a week off to spend in New York. I have a couple of really cute pages that I'll finish up in the morning and share with you tomorrow.

We've had good wind the past couple of days and Matt has sailed quite a bit. He went with friends yesterday to La Boca (where we wake board) and it was OK. No wind today so we've just hung out, cleaned the apartment and cooked a lot.

Speaking of New York I just realized that we've never shared any pics from there so I thought I'd take this opportunity to do so. Pay special attention to the clothing - Yes, it was cold as He... and of course living daily in bathing suits meant we had NO clothes to take with us!!! We bought some new flannel lined jeans (THANK HEAVEN for LL Bean) and had them shipped to Annie's in NY. We were never so thankful to have warm clothes as we were there. When I was taking a few pictures of the skyline I could only stay on the balcony for about 2 photos before the cold wind would drive me inside!!

Here are some photos from our first full day. Annie played tour guide (after our trip to Target for clothes and shoes for me since sandals weren't going to make it there). I do have to say that I've never been so happy to see a Target in my life!!! Its amazing what a little shopping can do.

As she drove us around the small towns on the Jersey shore, we started back to her home and she drove us out to Sandy Hook. Its a great little peninsula that we saw from their balcony. As we were driving onto the hook, we saw kites up so of course we had to go investigate. Keep in mind as you view these pictures that it is about 40 degrees out with the wind blowing at about 30 knots - COLD and WINDY as (well you know where). Can you believe there were kite-surfers out???? NOT ME!!! Give me warm Caribbean water and 85 degrees any day!!!

Here are the kiters and Annie and I huddled together against the wind. If you look in the background, the big tall building is where they live.

New York... New York...

I wanted to do a quick post to let you know that we made it safely to New York. We had a great flight on Thursday and have enjoyed staying with Annie & Mike in their beautiful condo overlooking the ocean. We can see the Empire State building and the Statue of Liberty through their telescope.

Yesterday, we went for a scenic drive all around New Jersey and it was so beautiful with all the fall colors. We had not realized how much we missed the changing of the colors. I wanted to share this beautiful picture that Matt took of the Sandy Hook lighthouse.