Saguaro Mini Book

This past weekend I made a quick mini-book about our stay at The Saguaro hotel.

 

I started with a book I purchased years ago. I have a basket full of these. Can you say hoarder?

 

 

 I planned on keeping the color scheme of the book simple, to let the colors in the photos pop.

 

 

But then somehow I painted the pages bright, rainbow colors. Shocking? No. Not really.

 

 

 Then I got all fancy and taped on the photos. Some pages are single photos and others are layers.

 

 

 Next, I added some very simple journaling on top of that fancy artist's tape.

 

 

I ripped out pages from the super cool visitor's guide that I stole was gifted from the hotel. The pages were taped to the inside covers of the book (I covered the chipboard covers first with fabric and mod-podge).

 

 

Ribbon was added to finish off the top edges of the covers. Random pieces were added to the front and back cover for final decorations.

 

 

 

 Then I went back in with an oil pastel stick and added some grey detail to the inside of the white circles, just to grunge it up a bit.

 

 

That's it. A few hours of playtime and now I have a colorful book to remember my night of "sleeping in a rainbow". 

 

 

Hope you have some time to play this upcoming weekend!

Goodbye March

Happy Day everyone!

Every month I end up with some photos I never shared on the blog. Either they didn't mesh well with a post topic, or I had too, too many photos for a post and it didn't add enough to the story to include it.

But it just seems so sad and wrong to never share. What to do?

I know..... a monthly Random Photo post.

     desert botanical garden

     pacific beach, san diego

1&2. anthony's fishette in san diego   3. griffith observatory in LA   4. macaroons in Hollywood  5.  starry restroom sign at griffith observatory   6. planetarium show at griffith observatory 7. floor pattern at griffith observatory   8.  dock at anthony's fishette   9. foucault pendulum at griffith observatory

     saguaro hotel in scottsdale

     downtown disney

Farewell March. It was a fabulous month in our part of the world.

Now I can focus on April. And many more fab memories!

tex·ture (teksCHər)

 

Noun The feel, appearance, or consistency of a surface or a substance: "skin texture"; "the cheese is firm in texture"; "the textures of bark".

Verb Give (a surface, esp. of a fabric or wall covering) a rough or raised texture: "wallcoverings which create a textured finish".

Synonyms fabric - structure - tissue - web

 

I've been trying to pay attention to details that I would have overlooked in the past. Especially texture. See here also.

 

If I want to reach out and touch it, get a feel for how smooth or rough or bumpy or scratchy it is. That's what I call texture.

 

1.  rocks   2.  wood tabletop at main pool   3.  tree bark   4.  tree bark

photos from the saguaro hotel in scottsdale

I Spy...Color

 

photos taken March 2013 @ The Saguaro in Scottsdale

And yes, my heart was very, very happy spending the night inside a rainbow!

Color Me A Rainbow

Last year, as we were leaving Palm Springs on our anniversary getaway, we passed by a hotel that caught my attention, in a big way. Turns out, that place is The Saguaro. The rainbow colors painted on the outside of the hotel made me giddy. So on the bucket list it went.

Two week ago, we were in Palm Springs for a night, and I tried to book a room at The Saguaro. It was not meant to be. The hotel was booked that night.

What does this have to do with anything? Well, yesterday I came up with the idea to take my hubby away for a night, just the 2 of us, for a late birthday present. My mom agreed to spend the night with the kids (yeah Mom!), so now I just needed a hotel room. After spending some time searching on hotels.com, I remembered that there is a Saguaro Hotel in Scottsdale. And they had a room available.

So tonight Mark and I are headed here to sleep in a rainbow. And I have a huge smile on my face!