Haleakala Horseback Ride

We started out our first full day in Kihei with a morning horseback ride upcountry on Haleakala Ranch.  After researching the various rides available, I sat down with my DH and narrowed it down, finally deciding to ride again with Pony Express.  Back in 2003 (?), the two of us took a ride with them down into the crater.  That was a long ride - four hours in the saddle, 7.5 miles total.  This time we opted for their two hour ride.  After an early wake up call, we left the condo at 6:45 am to make the trip from Kihei up to Kula.  We made it there in just about an hour, so we backtracked to a cafe a couple of miles below the Pony Express office so Randall could get a coffee.  It started misting on our way up the volcano, but had pretty much stopped by the time our 8:00 am check-in rolled around.  We had a fabulous guide - Melissa.  She was funny, knowledgeable, and made the ride a pure pleasure.  The scenery was great as we rode the eucalyptus trees out onto the pasture land of Haleakala Ranch.  I've scrapbook seven pages as I took 267 pictures during our ride!  Don't worry - I'm just going to share three of the pages with you.

Thanks for stopping by and tomorrow I have another three page layout of the Banyan Tree over in Lahaina.

Sunsets from the Lanai

Today's Maui vacation layout features a gallery of the many sunsets that we observed from the lanai (ok, and one from the beach) at the condo we rented over in West Maui, the Kahana area.  Nothing spectacular like a sunset my DH and I saw back in the early 2000's on a trip we took here before we started bringing the girls with us (it was one of those that everyone was talking about the next night when we were out to dinner at sunset), but some nice ones - because, hey, you saw them while on Maui!

Redone Cover

Remember when I shared with you in my July 24 post the cover I'm planning to use for my Maui 12x12 scrapbook album that I'm creating while we're still here on vacation?  Well, I believe I mentioned in the post that the photo I used was one I'd found in a Google search and I was hoping to redo it with an actual shot I had taken while on vacation in Maui.  Well, the cover has been edited and it now includes an image I took on Kahana beach, right out in front of the condo we were renting, and those are my daughter Arianne's footsteps!  I like my image much better, especially with the personal tie-in now.

Thanks for popping by, and I hope to have another two-page spread to share with you tomorrow!

Ka'anapali Beach

Aloha from beautiful Ka'anapali Beach, one of the top beaches in the United States.  Our youngest wanted to make a return trip to this beach on our trip to Maui as it has a nice sandy bottom and the water clarity is always pretty good.  Not much to look at while you are swimming, but it's a beautiful stretch of beach.

Sure am glad we decided a few years back to get a descent underwater digital camera - it sure came in handy today with almost every shot in this layout coming from that camera, a Fuji FinePix WP (the hotels on the beach, lower left of the second spread, and the shot of our oldest in the middle of that spread came from my trusty Argus).

Glow Putt Mini Golf

Our youngest got her wish - to play around of Glow Putt mini golf after dark.  We've played a round (or two) on each of our four trips to Maui since 2006.  The owner even recognized us when we walked in!  I needed some bright colors to go along with the glow-in-the-dark mini golf pictures, so I used the Ice Cream Parlor suite.  I think it accents the photos pretty nicely.  Now if I could just get my DH to stop blinking!  He had his eyes partially closed in every picture I took, so I ended up using one of them anyway.  A fun way to cap off a nice evening out with my family.

Sunset at Ka'anapali Beach

Hello and welcome to today's scrapbook pages!  I'm sharing with you today some great sunset shots we got while at Whaler's Village in Ka'anapali, Maui.  One of the better sunsets so far on this year's trip.  I was feeling a bit tired when I created these, so I opted to use two MDS templates for my scrapbook pages.  Although they are simple pages, I wanted the photograph elements to jump off the page, so that meant larger pictures.  Again, it's another layout that my DH would really like because it's mostly pictures with some detailed copy to chronicle the event.

  

Daffodil Delight is one of my favorite colors from the newer color palate at SU! and it coordinates nicely with the retired Crushed Curry polka dot ribbon, don't you think?  Mahalo for visiting today - I hope to have more to show you tomorrow!

Maui Ocean Center

Aloha!  Today I'm sharing the pages I made of our recent trip to the Maui Ocean Center.  I started out using an MDS template to create the right page, and then adapted another template to create the left page.  I really like how the layout evolved as I was working with it.  I chose to keep the background with Whisper White textured card stock to match the background of the rectangular logo I picked up off the internet (which I then made as an oval).

Hope you like today's scrapbook pages...  I have more for tomorrow!

More Scrapbook Pages to Share...

Well hello again!  Today I'm sharing the second two-page spread I created using My Digital Studio during our vacation here on Maui.  One things my girls love to do to kill a little time is to play ping pong in the basement of the resort.  They've been down there to play a couple of times now, but the pages are from their first visit to the table for this year.

I found the ping pong paddle artwork while searching Google Images and paired it with the Contempo Alphabet.  I really like the way it turned out.  The honeycomb green DSP is from the Green Tea download.  I love how our oldest's shirt matched so well with the color of the paddle art, so I continued the theme by adding Dusty Durango to the pages.  My DH loves to see me add lots of copy to my pages and use large pictures with smaller titles and not so much 'white' space, so this is one he really likes.

I hope to get creative and have more spreads to share with you soon.  Each double page spread takes me about two evenings to create due to scrapbooking on my netbook and not my desktop back home, but it sure has helped by hooking up the netbook to the plasma tv here in the condo we're renting.  Let me tell ya, I love being married to a 'geek'!  He takes good care of me.

Pages 2 and 3 of Hawaii Scrapbook Album

raAloha!  For the past three years, I have brought stamping supplies with me when heading out on our family vacation to Hawaii.  This year we decided to travel light and not check any bags (take that, airline company!), so that meant not being able to bring along the typical stamping stash I usually bring with me.  This year I decided I'd do it digitally instead, so I'm scrapbooking from my netbook.  It's definitely a love/hate relationship because I'm really pushing the limits of my netbook by digitally scrapbooking on it, but as long as I can remain patient and wait the tons of time for it to render the page every time I want to make a change, it's all good!

Today I have for you the first two vacation pages I created using My Digital Studio.

I learned how to use the new alpha punch to fill my letters with designer series paper (I also learned how to add background images to my MDS directory so if I want to, I can punch from a picture instead of from DSP, but I'll share that later).

I hope you like my pages!

 

 

Vacation Scrapbooking

We're here on Maui enjoying the sounds of the surf from the condo we are renting.  My techie DH set me up last night by hooking my netbook up to the plasma screen - wow, is it cool to see your 12 x 12 pages larger than life!  Scrapbooking on a netbook is a S-L-O-W process, but I'm managing to get some pages done.  I'll share a few over the next few days, and will hopefully keep them coming for a bit.

Today's page is the album cover I'm considering.  The photo isn't mine, but I hope to shoot something like it so I can use my own photography instead of something I found on the internet.

I love the font - I saw it on someone else's Hawaii scrapbook pages.  It's a free font called Hawaii Lover.  Just Google it and you can find it on the web.  I'll be using this font throughout my album.  Tomorrow I'll share the first two pages, with two more the day after.  So far that's all I've got finished, but I'll share them as I get them finished.