Our return to San Juan

Each evening on a cruise when you head back to your cabin at the end of a long day, you are welcomed by a different towel animal each night.  Here are just some of ours.  What fun!

I don't like the last day of the cruise...having to get off the ship.  I just want it to never end, but alas, we must leave and make our way back home.  This year we discovered a fun new thing with Royal Caribbean-for a nominal fee, they will take your checked luggage right to the airport for you so you don't even have to deal with it.  That worked out great for us, as we had some time in San Juan before our plane left.  We were able to do a bunch of exploring without having to worry about our luggage. It was awesome and so totally worth the money!

We toured Old San Juan for a while, shopped a bit, had a drink or two, and then headed to the airport for our return flight home.

Then remember that 2 page layout I created in the beginning?  I used the first page in the front of my album and now I am using the other half for the last page.

Thanks for joining me on this little vacation.  I know I had a good time, and I hope you enjoyed it, too.  I love being able to scrapbook my vacations so I can re-live them each and every time I open the album up.  It is so easy to do now with Studio J, too.  If you need any help, just let me know...

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Let's set sail for St. Maarten and St. Thomas

Today's first port of call is St. Maarten.  We have toured the island before, so we decided we just wanted a beach day.

The next day it was off to my favorite port of call, St. Thomas!  We headed right to Magen's Bay Beach, my favorite beach, too!  It is so beautiful there (and Dale loves the waitresses there...think it's got anything to do with the fact that they all are wearing bikinis??)

We finally decided to head back into town to do a little shopping-I usually end up getting something for myself when in St. Thomas.  I love the shopping there, too.  On this trip, I ended up buying the camera lens I had been dreaming of getting for a long time-at over 1/2 off!  What's not to love about that.  On our way back into town, we stopped of for this beautiful view overlooking the beach we just came from.  Take a look at the storm off the shore.

We have one more day of our cruise left, so I'll see you tomorrow...

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Today's port - Curacao

Today's port is Curacao.  Enjoy the vacation...

Our head waiter was Ardith and she was a real hoot!  Now, as a reminder, if you try to put a photo on your page that is not of a good enough quality (pixels and all that technical stuff I don't understand) Studio J will let you know that.  I big exclamation point pops up and tells you that it might not be a good choice.  The picture on the upper left of the right page of Dale and I with Ardith is a prime example of that.  Studio J did tell me that it wasn't very good quality, but I wanted to print it anyway just to see what happens.  Well...it turns out all pixelated (is that a word??), so I guess if  Studio J tells you it might not work, they are right.  I did the experiment so you didn't have to.

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Let's cruise to Aruba...

Today we are stopping in Aruba on our cruise.

Just click on the pictures to enlarge them and be able to read the journaling or get a better look at the photos.  I just loved all the iguanas.

Remember, to start making your own Studio J layouts, just click on the Studio J link on the left side of my blog.  It will take you to my website.  Then you just need to enter a user name and a password and you can get started.  It is that easy.  When you leave the site, you work will be saved for you for 90 days, so you have plenty of time to work on your project before you purchase it.

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Have you tried Studio J yet? Well come join me on this cruise...

I generally make a scrapbook for every vacation I take.  With that said, I am also behind!  Can you believe that?  No, that does not mean I should quit going anyplace until I catch up!  It just means that Studio J came to the rescue.  I scrapbooked this whole vacation in a matter of 3 days (and that was not 3 complete days, either, it was just a little here and there).  I got it done and ordered it on a Wednesday night.  It was at my doorstep the following Thursday.  That was quick!

This is what the box looks like when it arrives.  I will open it slowly so you can see just how well your pages are protected.  No worries here with any of them getting bent up.

I also ordered in quantities of 5 so that I was able to get all the Memory Page Protectors for FREE!  I love that deal.  I also love the fact that I got FREE shipping, too-any order of 10 or more layouts at a time!

Then you receive this great index print of all the layouts you ordered.  What a great idea-know how easy this makes it to re-order any of these layouts now, say for Grandparents albums or something??

Whenever you order, you always get a 2 page layout.  Anyone knows that when you create an entire album, you need a single page in the beginning and a single page at the end of your album.  No worries!  I just created this double page layout and used one page for the front and one for the back of my album.  Simple!

I generally scrapbook my albums in chronological order, and this trip was no different.  I go in order of the Ports we are in.  This one, we started out in San Juan, Puerto Rico. 

We will stop here for today, but join me the rest of the week as we continue our vacation Studio J style.

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A trip to the Greenhouse

So, I told you about the shopping spree I won at the Greenhouse...Wow!  It was fun yesterday to pick out all those flowers.  I could spend all day at the greenhouse just looking at all those beautiful flowers.  Better yet, I was able to bring a bunch of them home with me.

Before I left, I made a list of what I needed.  I went through my gardens to see what perennials didn't come back this year (surprisingly, only a couple).  Then I checked off my flower pots that I wanted to fill.  I had a big cart FULL of beautiful flowers.  I got to the checkout and they started ringing up my bill.  Now remember, I had a $200 gift certificate.  Take a wild guess at how much it came to...

All this and I only had to pay 24 cents!!  I was amazed!

After my club girls left today, I even got them all planted!  What a great day!

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Cherish the Moment with Passages

Here is one more card I created using the May Stamp of the Month Cherish the Moment.  I used the new Passages paper pack.

This one is put together using a pattern right out of the Wishes How-to book.  I just love these books as they tell me exactly how to put a card (or layout) together so simply.  It is like following a recipe in a recipe book, or if you sew, it is like following a pattern.  Faster. Simpler. Easier.  Love it!

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