I started this dps with the intention of doing Diana’s Road Trip variety challenge, but I never wound up getting any map items on the pages. I did get a “key” on one of the pages, so it fits this week’s “The Key To” challenge (SBVC93). It also fulfills this week’s digi challenge—Nature’s Fall Palette (use fall colors) (DGC044).
This was from a 3-day road trip we took while our friend Jeff from Sydney, Australia was visiting in Oct. 2005. We started from our home in Glendale, AZ, went to Jerome and stayed overnight in Prescott, AZ. The next day started on Route 66 west from Williams, staying overnight at Kingman through to Oatman, AZ and down to Lake Havasu the next day, then finally headed for home. It was a wonderful trip and we had a blast!! I hope to document our entire trip through a combination of paper and digi pages.
Journaling Tag: “Our first stop for the day was Jerome. Bob and I love Jerome and consider it a “must see” when choosing places to visit whenever we have friends and relatives in town. On this day, we began our visit at Jerome State Historic Park, down the hill from the center of town. We had a gorgeous day and as you can see, the panoramic view was awesome!”
Side: “The Douglas Mansion, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, has been an eye-catching landmark in Jerome since 1916, when James S. Douglas built it on the hill just above his Little Daisy Mine. When it was built, the Douglas Mansion was the grandest house in town; indeed one of the premier homes in all of Arizona. Douglas wanted an impressive residence to entertain his industrial friends and mining officials. Douglas, true to his Scottish roots, kept close watch on his purse when it came to personal expenses (even wearing tattered and mended clothes to save a few pennies). But he thought nothing of spending $150,000 on a technological palace, equipped with turn-of-the- century innovations, such as steam heat, electricity and an Arco Wand central vacuum system that still works today. When the Little Daisy Mine closed in 1938, the Douglas Mansion was no longer used as a residence. In the 1960s, after trying unsuccessfully to sell the mansion for $40,000 (a quarter of its building cost), the Douglas family donated the property to the State of Arizona. It opened as the Jerome State Historic Park in 1965.”
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Word Art: Inkin’ Creations; Alpha-My Secret Garden (CBR); Tag-Grunge journaling-Glitz Designs; Ribbon-Springtime Afternoon-Amy Sumrall; Staple, string stitches-Gunhilde Storeide; Hinge, Key-Metals-Christina Renee; Bookplate-Collage Bits-Christina Renee; Paper (in bookplate), wrought iron-My Secret Garden (CBR); Green paper, wire trim, button, cowboy gem, “J” tag, leaves -Shabby Miss Jenn; Jeweled loop-Hit the Trail-T. Murphy; Arrow-Draft Arrow-Gina Cabrera; Leaves-Festival Fall of Color-Doreen Stolz
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