Stone Age

Today's blog entry marks the final stop on the Monday bus tour at the 2021 NPTC Convention in DC. The early part of the day included a visit to the National Arboretum and Lincoln Cottage. Since none of that is officially related to the National Park Service, I did not include those pages in the blog (but feel free to visit me sometime to see them!)

We stopped at the Old Stone House in Georgetown. You may recall that I mentioned this house in my Week 3 'Lasting Memories' challenge post, which can be found here. This site is handled by the Rock Creek Park portion of the National Park Service. Built in 1766, this house is the oldest structure on its original foundation within the Washington, DC area. It's a relatively small structure, but you can see that inside is the original fireplace, complete with a scarred wood mantle. Interestingly, the house was not preserved simply because of its age. For over 200 years, a misconception that George Washington used this as his headquarters when traveling helped spur the community to maintain the structure. After the government bought it, historic excavations and research on maps of the area concluded that this was never a tavern, and George Washington never stayed here. However, since it had become a historically preserved site, it was now saved for its own history.  

This layout was made during a Paper Loft class at the Lancaster CKC scrapbooking convention. The overall yellow tones of the stones and my shirt helped pull everything together. Paper Loft intentionally creates pleasing palettes to help create a layout with interest (read--multiple patterns) that do not conflict or cause too much discordance on the page. I wasn't sure how much journaling space I would need, so rather than try to cram it all into a small journal box, I wrote out my journaling on CM's Write Strips. Then I can adhere them to the page and trim the lines as I lay out the strips. The house embellishment on the bottom right comes from the Eastern National scrapbook kit.