I was pretty upset by the treatment at the Christmas party at Gateway NRA. So, I decided to go to a different park to make myself feel better. Paterson Great Falls was about an hour away--not terribly close, but since I had quite a bit of daylight left, I made the trip. I started at the visitor center to get an overview. The town's claim to fame is that it was the first PLANNED industrial city. Who planned it? His name is Alexander Hamilton! The falls and the Passaic River provided great power to turn wheels, creating everything from cloth to locomotives. You can still walk across the falls, as seen in my photos below. It was freezing, and the spray coming from the water chilled me to the bone. I returned to the visitor center to warm up before exploring the rest of the city.
This layout is based on this pin (and doubled). I found a sheet of brick paper, which I split to cover the bottom of the pages, and decided on the blue stripe for the vertical elements. I decided to include several photos of the falls--peekaboo pockets to the rescue! I have 2 of them layered and chose to use a waterfall technique in honor of the falls. That means that each photo is layered a bit ABOVE the underlying image. The last embellishment set was made of stickers from the musical Hamilton. Someone at work sent them to me anonymously, and it became the perfect fit for this page.
