What a Block House

My last entry for Fort Larned is this blockhouse. Initially, it was meant to be a defensive position (which begs the question of why there is no fort wall if you thought you needed a defensive position). That's why there are slit holes in the top of the building. However, since they realized that wasn't necessary, they changed it to the prison building. You can still see the shackles attached to the floor below. The door on the floor originally went to a well, and tunnels were used to go to the other buildings. That was closed off, and it became solitary confinement. Yep, spend a night in the hole!

This layout is based on a sketch I saved. I initially found it on the gallery at Scrapbook.com. To create this page, I used a piece of brick background paper (which resembles the building). I then took a piece of brown texture paper (I think it's supposed to be leather) and cut a large circle. I cut the circle to place part of it in the upper left and the other in the lower right. I then trimmed off any overhanging paper to create some photo bases. I found some scraps in grunge style along with a border sticker of the rope and stars (a nice Wild West sheriff feel?) to create the banners. The journal box is a sticker that originally had a phrase at the bottom saying "for being too cute". Clearly, I did not need that! I trimmed the bottom and purposefully roughed the bottom edge to match the top. I put that on some lined paper for a little journal box.