USA Altered Book-A Few More Pages

For those of you in the US, Happy July 4th. 

For everyone else, happy Monday. Another week is here and the weekend, as always, flew right by.

I haven't shown you my 50 states altered book for awhile, and I have a few new pages to show you today.

Thought it would be the perfect way to celebrate my country on this national holiday.

Maryland was all about crab cakes and visiting Annapolis many years ago with a friend. At the time we were staying with my uncle who lived in Silver Spring (Carol,if you read this, I think this might be in your neck of the woods).
But I've taken several trip to Washington DC and Virginia since that trip back in the 1980's. I think I'm due a trip back to  area, since I haven't been there since my daughter was a kid. During one trip we took there when my daughter was just 5, we had an exciting trip memory. Bill Clinton was president at the time and  I remember we were walking around the White House (where the president lives and works) when suddenly security was everywhere. As we stood there he went jogging by. Not close to us, but we could see him and tell it was him.
How many people visit DC and get to see the President?

Thought I'd add in this page with George Washington since he was the first president after we became a country. An today being the day we celebrate our country, I thought it was fitting.

And you why ask why the Mexican theme for South Carolina? On highway 95, just south of the North Carolina border, is this fun stop, called South of the Border.

(photo credit: https://jimvid.smugmug.com/Amusement-Park/South-of-the-Border-41506/i-B3Hh372)

Way back in college, my friend Jennie and I drove from Maine to Florida for our spring break, and we saw all this billboard ads for this place. So we took a "rest" stop and drove in to check it out. It was one of the road stories we had from our adventure that we still talk about today.

And then there's Florida..

And Louisiana. 

Its always fun to explore and see new things. Lots of places left to finishes pages on and lots of places left to really visit too.

Hope you enjoyed today's little journey .

A Few More Views

 Thought I'd show you a few more views from my USA altered book. In case you are new to this project, its an on-going project where I am making memory pages for each of the states I've visited, leaving blank pages for the ones I haven't made it too.
Yesterday I posted a map page from this book, you can see it underneath the postcard I inserted in.

I'm using whatever memorabilia I have in my stash, including post cards. And I'm creating memorabilia too as I go along.

As you can see. :)

 Here for my Virginia page (Anyone remember this saying from the 1970's?) I also put in the this little  postcard which is a copy from an old postcard folder I have. I guess I should address it to myself and put an old stamp on it to finish it off.

Yesterday I posted the map page underneath.

And last for today is my Georgia page. I added the coke postcard because when I was in Atlanta a few years back at a National Science Teacher's conference, I visited world of Coca- Cola.  It was an interesting place, plus I like diet coke. I was still in college, driving back to Maine from spring break in Florida when I visited Savannah so except for my memories, I had nothing to add for there, but I do remember the gorgeous gardens in each little neighborhood square. It was March so I added in little stamped and colored tulips.
So today we have some much needed rain, and I am actually excited because it gives me a reason not to do any work outside or inside. Instead I am going to go into my studio and maybe watch a little more of Breaking Bad, which is a show I have never seen before the other night and now want to see more of. I had picked up the season 1 dvd for the hubby for his birthday last fall based on tons of people's recommendations, and he'd never opened it. The other night my daughter and I were looking for something different to watch, so we opened it, and now I think I am hooked.
So yesterday I had a busy day. I got my porch all set up with my furniture in the morning.

 I had given the floor a couple of new coats of paint which I'd just finished up a few days earlier.

 I had moved most of my plants out of the house onto the porch too. I never did it before last year, when I had to move to them get a ceiling fixed, and they did so well outside (plus looked so nice), I decided to move them back.

Last summer the hubby built us a fire pit in the back yard. This year he decided to smooth out the lawn around it and put in some sod. That was his project yesterday.

 This what he had done before my daughter and I went out.

And this is what he had done when we got home. He didn't buy quite enough sod, but that's ok. We have some bear areas of our yard that can use some sod too, so next load I requested that sod those areas in too.
But we could have a fire last night.

It was a very summery evening and it was nice to sit outside for awhile.
Plus during the afternoon my daughter and I went to the quilting/knitting sale at a store not too far away. I didn't remember to take a lot of photos, but here are some from last year.

 You can stuff all the scraps of fabric you can fit into these bags for $6.99 I can often fit 3 or more yards into one bag. (They are all pieces, but I can often find 1/2 yard or 1/3 yard pieces which work for what I use it for.) Especially now since this nice lady from Quebec showed us how to stuff bags yesterday. The trick is to snip off the tips of the bottom of the bag so all the excess air gets out. My bags came out perfect. A first for me!

 I am ready to do some more shibori dyeing this summer.

And this is more other sale score. I got this whole set of books for $22,00. It retails on Amazon for $129.00. The outer case is a bit damaged, but the books are fine, and this is something I have wanted for a while now, but not willing to pay that much money for. These books have knitting, quilting, macrame, embroidery and other needle arts from the late Victorian era. It is full of patterns. Some of them I would never use, but I would make some of them. Or modify some. I find the history of knitting and other needle arts really fascinating.
I was kind of disappointed not to find any yarn I wanted, but they were handing out knitting books for free since it was the end of the day, and I got 2. :)
So that was my fun Saturday. Hope everyone enjoyed theirs too.