{we are} storytellers: {staycation blogshop week 3}

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Page by {storyteller} Julie Ann Shahin (see this page in her hybrid album below)

It seems our humble little blog is generating quite the excitement as we've been contacted by various news organizations wanting to interview us and our staycation participants. If you are a news organization and would like to speak to our spokesperson regarding our staycation blogshop, please fill out our Concierge form here. If you are a participant and would like to share your special staycation story, please share it on our forum here.

DailyCamera writer Laura Snider posted some tips to help you BUDGET YOUR STAYCATION - this week's theme. She wrote that "a recent report by the Minnesota Farm Bureau Federation that found the average picnic costs $3.50 a person. They included all kinds of eats from hot dogs and hamburgers to potato salad and corn chips. Of course, if you decide to get brats from the Boulder Sausage Co. or buy sprouted wheat organic buns, it'll cost a little more."

She also points out "gas prices are calculated using the average mpg rating for American cars, which the Environmental Protection Agency reports is 20. Gas prices are assumed to be $4 per gallon."

Using her figures, I researched a place for us to take a staycation within 200 miles of our home. I chose the outdoor museum Erie Canal Village in Rome, NY.

The place: Erie Canal Village is an outdoor living history museum. It is a reconstructed 19th century settlement on the site where, on July 4, 1817, the first shovelful of earth was turned for the construction of the original Erie Canal. Relax as our horse drawn Packet Boat plies a section of the enlarged canal giving visitors a taste of early 19th century water travel.

The plan: Sleep in before hitting the road to Rome, NY. Go on the boat cruise, then have a picnic lunch. Check out the Blacksmith demonstrations, then tour the village. Tour the museum buildings before dinner.

The cost:

Gas from Rochester to Rome, NY: $34.40

Admission for two to the Erie Canal Museum, includes boat cruise: $30.00

Picnic for two: $7.00

Total: $74.40

Here is how I translated this into a layout for my mini-album, using photos from the Erie Canal Village's website:

{supplies}

**digital**all at we are storytellers
Template: Photopalooza Templates by Two Sisters Designs at wst (retired)
Truly Modly Deeply by Emily Merritt
Tall & Skinny Alpha by Emily Merritt
Retro Quirk by Emily Merritt
Messy Machine Stitches-Straight by Emily Merritt
Once Upon a Dream by Emily Merritt
Olive Avenue by Emily Merritt
Things That Make You Go ZOOM! by Two Sisters Designs
Chasing Rainbows-The Kid in Me Collection by Emily Merritt
Scrap Stash-- Buttons by Two Sisters Designs

**physical**
Creative Imaginations Bare Elements Brook Peek O Book Album
7Gypsies tag, stickers and rubons
Spiral clip

Here are more staycation pages by our {storytellers] creative team:

Page by {storyteller} flipflop - "we started off the summer by grabbing a tye dye kit at Wally World. We had
plenty of bags and for some reason rubber bands too. we dyed everything white in the house from underwear to socks. All the sinks were full and the kids had a blast"

Everything from {we are} storytellers
Kraft Paper
Things That Make You Go Zoom
Storytellers Essential Paper (Tiff Brady)
Once Upon A Dream
Im Free
Chipboard Alpha (recolored)
Joy to the Fishes
Mark That Date

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Page by {storyteller} Mandy

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Page by {storyteller} kriscrosby: "I've taken this from a slightly different approach... because we just moved to a new state, we're making it a point to take the kids to as many local areas as possible. My kids are still really young, so it doesn't require much planning. To them, "staycation" is anything out of the normal daily routine, even if it means grabbing McDonalds and eating at a local park!"

Most is from Tutti Frutti
Paper block template vol. 1
scrapstash tiny stitches
puddle jumper (retired)
boy wonder (retired)

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Page by {storyteller} stephk: "They were SO excited about planning and cooking dinner. They looked through cookbooks to plan the meal. They shopped for the ingredients. Then they cooked the meal themselves. We have been meaning to do this for a long time and I’m so glad that we finally did. They did such a great job! This is something that we will start doing more often. Definitely the start of more happy memories!"

available at {we are} storytellers:

inbe{TWEEN} by Emily Powers and Nikki Beaudreau
Classic Cardstock Neutral; I Am Free ; Acrylic Stickers 1; Blossom (retired-MM Blog freebie) by Emily Powers
Keep it Simple Sweetie-- May, Scrap Stash-- Glitter Paper by Two Sisters Designs
Kraftastic by Emily Powers and Emily Merritt
Tutti Fruttiby Emily Powers and Paislee Press
Stars and Stripes by Emily Merritt

Also: Bakers Dozen by Kate Hadfield and Jacque Larsen

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Page by {storyteller} Peppermint:

Credits:
Experiment No. 3 by Emily Powers
I Am Free by Emily Powers
Tutti Frutti by Emily Powers and Paislee Press
Alphabet Soup - Acrylic by Emily Powers
Alphabet Soup - Foam Stamp by Emily Powers
{STORYTELLER ESSENTIALS} Lots of Lines by Emily Powers
Classic Cardstock: Neutral by Emily Powers
Olive Avenue by Emily Merritt

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Page by {artist in residence} Emily Powers: "who needs to vacation at the beach or swim at the pool when you have your own backyard water park! you, aiden and asher love to squirt each other with the canon and zoom down the slide into the water below. staycation 2008."

credits: joy to the fishes kit by angela powers and amy hutchinson. brush strokes by michelle coleman. scrap stash: chipboard by two sisters designs. itty bitty epoxy alpha 2 by emily powers. NEW KIT Kabloom by two sisters designs. classic cardstock: funky by emily powers. puddle jumper kit (retired) by emily powers. summer side up by tiff brady

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