I've shared some of the
photos from my week-long vacation in Hawaii this summer, and also gave a peek into the little
kit of art supplies I took along with me for my journaling. Today, I'll give you a look at some of the pages in my travel journal.
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This card commemorates our ELEVEN HOUR layover in the Denver airport...ouch!
My chubby airplane kind of bugs me, but oh well... |
I have a new favorite way to keep a travel journal while I'm on a big vacation. When I
went to Alaska a couple summers ago, I took a stack of index cards, some of which I had "gussied up" ahead of time with tape and stickers. I used all the different pamphlets I collected on our cruise and the port stops to create collages on the index cards, and wrote details of our daily activities on the back of postcards I purchased at our various destinations. When I got home, I collected them into a stack, hole punched them, and connected them with a binder ring. Voila! It was such a simple way to collect all the ephemera and stories from our trip. I made one of those Shutterfly photo books over a year later, and was able to flip through the cards for all kinds of fun details to include in my captions.
I planned to do the same type of journal for Hawaii, but at the last minute I decided to create a little book out of cereal-box cardboard. I covered the cardboard in my most "Hawaiian-spirited" duct tape, used a Japanese screw punch to make holes in the spine for the binder rings, and filled it with index cards and index-card-sized papers in what I saw as beach-y, ocean-y colors.
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We finally made it to Waikiki, and eventually to Kailua! E komo mai means "welcome". |
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Oh, poor Katy...If a man-o-war was going to sting anyone, it was going to be her! |
This time, we stayed in one place for the whole week, and it was a bit more of a relaxing beach vacation, and less of a sight-seeing sort of vacation, so there weren't as many postcards involved. But you can see how I used the cards to capture the stories and details of our trip.
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Our morning hike to Manoa Falls |
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A two-hour horseback ride at Kualoa Ranch |
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My husband's trip to Pearl Harbor and my shopping excursion in Kailua |
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The Chief's Luau at Sea Life Park...a spectacular view and a great fire dance |
At the back, I made some collages of words and images from some free publications I picked up in shops in Kailua.
Now I have a bright, fun, detailed source of summer Hawaiian memories! If you would like to read through my Top 10 Hawaiian Memories, with photos from the trip,
check out this earlier post.
7 comments:
Wow what a great memory keeper for you!
That's an amazing way to document a holiday...well done!
What a FUN little book!! So clever and it captures the Hawaiian spirit and colors!!! Thanks for sharing!
I love index card journals, especially when on trips. So convenient and a lot of fun. Yours looks fab! A wonderful way to keep the memory alive.
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