2019 Scrapbook Pages

Here are 8 of the 9 plays Dave & I saw in 2019.  There was one we didn’t really enjoy, so I’m not showing that one.  Of the 9 plays, 8 were based on movies (musicals).

Rocky, the Musical.  

We love the movie, but weren’t too sure about it being turned into a musical.  We were pleasantly surprised and thoroughly enjoyed it.

Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.  

This play is a musical about 3 drag queens travelling across the desert in a VW Beetle Van.  I have not seen the movie, but it sounded like a fun play.  We loved it, and now it is on my Amazon wish list.

Grease  

Do I need to say anymore?  I’m sure everyone has seen the movie.  I remember seeing this in the theatre as a teenager.  I have the DVD, which I have seen so many times.  We also have the soundtrack on vinyl record/LP.  I love listening to the music, you can’t help but sing along with the music.

Newsies (Disney)  

We have the DVD, so we knew what the play was about before we got there.


12 Angry Men  

This was one of our favourites so far.  Very powerful performance from all the men.  We have the DVD and can’t wait to see it again soon.


Annie

Another musical we have watched before on TV, but do not own on DVD.


Little Shop of Horror

We enjoyed this musical about the talking, carnivorous plant named Audrey 2.  We have the DVD of this and have watched it a few times.

Art

This was not based on a movie.  It was about 3 friends discussing how much Art costs, and how it makes us feel.  The main actor is Donny Most, you might recognize the name.  He played Ralph Malone from the TV Show Happy Days.

Here are photos borrowed from the internet.  This is what Donny Most looks like now.  We were sitting 12 rows from the stage, so we got to see him up close.  The other photo shows him on the Happy Days TV Show.

A few years ago, we had the opportunity to see George Wendt from Cheers on stage in Death of a Salesman.  This play was at the same location as Art above.  We always sit in the same seat, which is 12 rows from the stage.  Here is a current photo of the actor, along with a scene from Death of a Salesman.   We loved this play and he is an amazing actor to watch live.

Scrapbooking - pages from 2017 Theatre book

Today, I finished applying the tickets, photos, etc onto coloured paper for the last 3 plays we saw in 2017.

I then started creating my scrapbook pages, which I will add to my new book after I buy it.  The first two pages have newspaper photos.

I still need to print some photos for the next double page spread, which I found online from Drayton Entertainment’s website.

Now I’m off to go cross stitch.  I hope to make some progress on Plaid Trousers tonight.

Plaid Trousers - update #3

I only stitched a few words on Plaid Trousers.  

Today I continued to work on my theatre scrapbook.  I stuck programs, tickets, and photos from 5 more theatre plays onto coloured paper.  I only have 23 more plays to go.  Then I will stick them all into the scrapbook.  Tomorrow I hope to finish the last 3 plays from 2017.

Scrapbooking - Kinky Boots

This week I started working on some scrapbook pages for the Live Theatre Dave & I have seen.  I just finished my 1st Theatre book which has plays from 1995 - 2016.  We started out going to plays for kids when our sons were 1 & 3 years old.  Eventually they didn’t want to go with us, so we now go by ourselves.  Occasionally, we take my mother-in-law with us when she visits from New Brunswick. The last few years we buy 7-9 plays through Drayton Entertainment, and the occasional one from Stratford Festival.

Yesterday, I added a double page spread for Kinky Boots which we saw in Toronto back in 2015.  

Today, I worked on 5 different plays from 2017.  I stuck the programs, tickets and any photos of the play onto coloured paper.   This part is time consuming because I use my quilting ruler to measure a 1/4’ around each item.  This will make it go faster when I start adding each play to my 2nd book. 

Next month, we will start going to live theatre again.  We have bought 9 plays already and plan to see 2 others this year.   

I have 33 more plays to go before I will be caught up.

2017 we saw 13 plays, 2018 we saw 11 and 2019 we saw 9 (33 plays in total).  

Last year, I added all the plays from 2013 - 2016 (which was 23 plays).

Scrapbook pages #1

I finished 2 more scrapbook pages Sound of Music (Drayton Entertainment)

and Mary Poppins (Drayton Entertainment).

I will take a break from Scrapbooking and do some cross stitching.

Scrapbook pages

I had a great time visiting my friend Lisa ... we spent more time talking and catching up than we did at scrapbooking.  I bought more supplies (paper for my book, and coloured paper to mount my photos, tickets and programs on in my scrapbook).  I started a few pages (Barney and Camelot) but didn't get them finished, here they are almost complete.

Barney page I'm missing the letter "Y" in the title, and I haven't stuck down the Barney tags on both sides (originally came off the Barney stuffed toys my son had when he was a toddler.

Camelot I have a few pieces attached to the pages but I am still deciding on the placement of a few more things.

Scrapbooking

Well I'm off to do some scrapping.  I won't be home until late tonight (early morning), so I will show photos of my pages tomorrow.

Scrapbooking Prep Work

Tonight I'm sorting photos and getting my scrapbook supplies together for tomorrow night.

Friday night I am going to a friend's house to do some Scrapbooking.  She sells Creative Memories scrapbooks & supplies so I buy my books and pages from her.  I have 3 scrapbooks that I am working on.  One is my Cross Stitch Diary.  It is a chronological keepsake showing every cross stitch project I have ever stitched with a photo and the following information.  Here is a sample of one project.

Here are 2 pages in my cross stitch diary scrapbook.

Another scrapbook I'm working on is also chronological of all the theatre plays we as a family (started when my sons were very young) and now just Dave & I attend.  I'm so far behind in working on this one.  I have all my theatre tickets and programmes from each play to add to my scrapbook, but have run out of pages, so I'm buying more tomorrow night.  I need to catch up because we have already bought tickets for 9 more plays this year.

Here are a few of the programmes of plays we have seen at Stratford Festival, Drayton Entertainment and Toronto Mirvish Productions.  Musicals are my favourite.

Here are 2 sample pages in my theatre scrapbook.  We saw Anne of Green Gables in Prince Edward Island in 2004.

We saw Lord of the Rings in 2006.

My third scrapbook was used as my Interior Decorating portfolio when I was working in the Interior Decorating industry.  I studied Interior Design before I had my children.  Now I add photos of my home.