SHCG: Your overall composition nicely complements the facing page. I like the photos and the journaling strips. My only suggestion is that I feel this page could use some hardware and/or fiber.
shcg: what cute pics looks like you had a wonderful time. i love the journaling strips. only suggestion i have is mayb add some pink from the sign on this page too.
SHCG: The photos on this page have a lot more action but I still wanted to see some big embellishment like a chianti bottle covered in wax from a candle or a big paper wine glass. As I type this I am thinking is this really helpful criticism or just my style of scrapping? The event looks like it was fun & peppy and this two page spread, while wonderful, could be just a little more fun & peppy.
This is my response to Eat Sleep Scrap/Melissa's “Doing My Part To Keep This Place Open” challenge about an establishment (store, restaurant) that we like to frequent. My friends & I meet for an annual dinner & over the years, we've gravitated towards having it at John's of 12th Street, we love it there! So the left side are pics from '07's dinner & the right side are from this year.
This was lifted from/inspired by Whispering Canyon Cafe by lorifl2 on Twopeas.
The left side is a pocket page that holds a John's menu. It also holds pics from '08's NON-John's dinner… I was scrapping our annual tradition as much as I was scrapping John's here & I didn't want those pics to be left out! I added gold gel pen doodling (kind of hard to see here, shinier IRL), which even I thought was an unusual choice, but this looked so serious before I did that! And our friends & I mostly know each other from a rock music scene so I had to lighten this up w/ some whimsy…
SHCG Peeps – I'm open to suggestions on adding some dimension here, I'm not sure what to do about that. Everything's glued down so I'm limited only to additions…
Journaling: “It started around '03…a group of us that knew each other from our East Village 1990's rock scene would gather for occasional dinners organized by my amazing husband Greg, sometimes other people we knew would come, we'd vary the restaurants… By '09, it seemed like this became an annual event around Greg's birthday in March, & we gravitated to going to John's of 12th Street. John's is a straight-up awesome Italian restaurant – no frills, not touristy, old school, dark & candlelit… So great for groups – not a lot of the requirements that some places give large groups, they're soo accommodating “its-a-no-a-problem-a- we put-a you-a a nice-a longa ahhh taablle in the backa-a…everyone-a togthera...” Most of all - the scrumptious food! Everything's tasty. Recently I had black truffle ravioli in butter sauce – yum. --- We often talk about going to other places for our annual dinner, & sure we're open for that possibility. But not sure how much we're willing to mess w/ a good thing – a springtime dinner at John's is a pretty unbeatable tradition! :)”
All the left side pics & the top right side pic were taken w/ a cell phone, hence the photo quality. The "John's" sign was a photo I found online. Please pardon the imperfect stitching/scanning, which crops out the edges. ALSO pardon the random piece of thread at the bottom - it got into our scanner somehow & I'm too swamped to re-scan/re-stitch this - I'm trying not to let it bug me too much, LOL...
The Rock Star Stack was a gift from Tiffany/whenscraphappenzz – thanks Tiff!
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