A Night to Remember

Today, we continue with the NPTC 2021 convention. On Sunday morning, I arranged a tour of Ford's Theater. Although I had been here once before, the only ticket I could obtain then was for a staged play in the theater (the theater still puts on productions throughout the year). For my 2021 visit, I arranged a tour that included a visit to the museum and a look at the Lincoln Box. 

I chose to organize the photos not so much by when I saw them on the tour, but based on the timeline of the evening. This layout sets the stage by showing the theater, a pair of tickets from that evening's performance (although it is unclear whether they belonged to the Lincolns), and items that would have been part of the evening, such as opera glasses and fans. 

The layout is based on the CM Project Recipe for the Fresh Fusion collection. The use of such dark papers for a recipe layout that was bright and cheery is a little incongruous, but I chose it for the photo array, not the paper colors. The papers are from the Paper Loft collection. Their heritage pack includes some brown and gray tones with wonderful old-time patterns. One pattern features ivory with vines, providing some contrast in the two-layered borders (made with the CM Border Maker System).  

Other than that Mrs. Lincoln, how was the play?

After the Navy Memorial I walked over to Ford's Theatre. I had not been to this site before and I had difficulty finding tickets online to tour the site. You really need to plan in advance for this one. I was able to secure a ticket to see a 1-act play called "Destiny" which told the story of the night Lincoln was shot in a 2-man, prop-filled hour. It's quite good so if you get a chance to see it, buy the tickets! Unfortunately there were no tickets to tour the theater after the play so all I saw was the view from my seat.

This layout is from a kit I purchased from someone on Etsy. It was supposed to be a July 4th layout, as you can see from the Left page and Right page.  The vintage tones of the paper really matched the 19th century theme so I turned it into this historic layout. I used 2 postcards to ensure I told the complete story. The sticker on the journal mat is from the Eastern National scrapbook package.

After the play, I was able to walk across the street to the Peterman House which is where Lincoln was taken after the shooting. The home has been recreated to resemble that fateful night.

This layout uses wallpaper from the Paper Loft heritage line (which to me looks very close to the wallpaper seen in the house). I added a couple of decorative mats from the CM Archivers paper pack and used one of the same pack's journal mats to highlight the photo of the bed (bottom right). The vine on the left is a laser cut border and to ensure it could be seen, I layered it on some lighter toned paper.