The basis of my topic. 100 as in the figure or words featured very much in all sorts of challenges that members did in the UK that year and they were held from Sept 2009 to August 2010 inclusive. 5 canals - Bridgewater, Rochdale, Ashton & Peak Forest, Shroppie Union and Trent & Mersey plus almost 90 locks and 100 miles.
I was one of the core staff for the whole of the trip with another 2 members but we started off with a full boat and then a couple left in Manchester and one joined further on plus a couple somewhere else and then the majority left on the Sunday night and there were just 3 and then one more joined us at Barbridge and then 2 more along the Trent & Mersey and then it was back to base! 12 berth 70 footer narrowboat known as "New Horizons" and it certainly was new horizons for some of us ... hence my many photos too!
I had hoped to join someone else's CJ but just ran out of time with life in general and sorting all the photographs out but a year later I fancied hosting a CJ . Hence "Anything Goes" was chosen by one of the other journallers and it ended up that the majority of us were featuring our own photographs in CJs. We spent about 6 weeks between us putting our CJs together ..
With the increased cost of postage, alot of thought went into how the journals would be presented and sent via the post and how to keep the costs down. Some have sent journals in plastic wallets tied together with ribbon only which is a shame really as you don't get to see their covers. Some ask you to sign your artwork on the back of your efforts or others ask you to sign a tag or stamp at the back of the CJ.
We eventually set off with 15th October being the starting date and the aim is to have all journals back before end of August 2013, as one of the ladies was making a small present for her parents wedding anniversary. Although we were not going to have an actual christmas posting we did use an early December posting but then most peeps have until 15th January to get the next one out. Needless to say I am always last minute - like with this blog - I update every so many weeks ...
This is the start of my CJ. As the ring was an actual ring I decided to go with a Circle Journal - I had one ready made but added extra pages to it and replaced the ring in it with an even larger ring and then decided to use an extraordinatry amount of ribbon to keep the journal together as I had put the photos in envelopes into days of the week but in some days of the week there were extra photos so the rules were just to choose one incident in the days of the week! Sounds complicated? Yes my first journaller didnt actually know what to do ....
Front cover 
This is the back page where I want everyone to sign in. I've cut out a map of England, Wales and Scotland basically and attached some brads and twine and I've worked out a journey ring of where the CJ will travel to and then back to me. Most of the participants are actually in the South of England with a couple in North West England so it should be almost a ring when it returns to me next Summer.
I managed to work out from when the photos were uploaded what days the photos were taken and examined everyone of them to ensure I wanted them, made a short list and then checked them again when I uploaded the photos to Costco photo print centre before buying the images. I realised I couldnt have too many photos for one chapter ie a day and I tried to work out what part of the day it was when the photograph was taken eg morning, lunch, evening etc. Harder work to do I felt with AMOP than I had anticipated!
In return ... I have completed "Lavender & Lace" from uks Crackerjack Sandra Dawson from Norfolk. This is the November entry.
Its really hard to be the first person
on a CJ for someone as I think everyone likes to look what others have done before them to give an idea of maybe how to "go with the flow" as one might say. These were old aged photos of children and the backing papers are from really old stash that shouts out to me "ye olde", the vase and basket are actual sizzix dies, added silk heather to the vase and felt flowers to the basket that compliments each photograph I feel - and hope if Sandra is viewing this - she approves!
The above is Carpenters' Garden by uks Daisy M - Shirley I think from memory who also lives in Norfolk too and is friends with Crackerjack. I am assuming that they have just exchanged CJs as they both joined as friends with Sadie Girl also from - yes you are right ... Norfolk again!
For this page I interpreted the back ground onto the actual cardstock to showcase the beautiful photographs. The left hand side of the journal features a die cut home with a waggon die cut and the backing cardstock is an embossed tree bark (one of Tim Holtz' folders) used on co-ordination paper where one sandpapers the cardstock to show the inner core of the paper. The right hand side features Tim Holtz folder again showing brickwork which has been very lightly inked. The three leaf shamrock under the photo was to signify good luck. The number of the house is on this photograph so I added the rest of the address Carpenter's Arms in sticky cardboard alpha font. Just seemed appropriate!
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