Tinseltown

With the cupcake crawl album finally finished, I took a short break to regroup and figure out what to tackle next. I've been feeling like I need to dive into an old-photo project, and I have a generic travel-themed scrapbook that I bought a while back and never found a use for, so I decided family vacations was the way to go.

I have pictures from several trips, although nowhere near all the trips we took when I was growing up. (I didn't start taking my own pictures on vacations until I was in my early teens, and I've decided, for the sake of keeping things as simple as possible -- for now, at least -- not to delve into my parents' vast collection of trip photos.) The vacations I have to scrap include two summer voyages to Colorado, a Los Angeles trip and two treks to Washington, D.C. Since I wrote on the back of all my Los Angeles prints (and since I love California and am excited to scrap all the beach photos), I'm taking on that one first. Here is my intro layout and the layout from our first L.A. stop, Hollywood:

I'm keeping these layouts pretty simple for the most part because I don't want the scrapping process to take forever for these older pictures. In many cases, the quality of the photos won't warrant special treatment anyway. I like having the chance to use the themed paper for the trip locales, though.