Cruise Planning

Another adventure begins for us this Friday; we’re off for a cruise, a trip that has been in the works for over a year.


Source: Royal Caribbean International

We read everything available about different cruise lines and itineraries at Cruise Critics, a resource we’ve used to plan numerous cruises. After choosing our itinerary and ship, research started for the ports we’ll visit. Notes stored on my computer became our master plan.


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After research and discussions, we finalized our decisions and deleted extraneous material from the master to create a final version of our trip book. Based on past cruises, smaller versions of our book specific to each port were made this time to save hauling a hefty book everywhere. I had Kinko’s cut a ream of paper in half to make 5.5 by 8.5-inch paper on which I printed at home and bound using my binding machine.


© June Scroggin, All Rights Reserved. Table of Contents, page 1


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Here are the book contents; everything is tracked: cruise, flight, and hotel reservations/confirmations, ship excursions as well as private tours arranged, and so on. Click on the photos to enlarge for reading; page numbers were cropped as that’s not important for you.


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New friends are always made on our travels, so I’ve made a set of cards to hand out that simply states our name, where we live, and our email addresses so we can stay in contact later. My card background is one of my watercolors to which I added text, printed, cut out, and rounded off the edges. I smudged the email addresses on purpose for this post.



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I used a tutorial from Schlosser Designs to sew a little case using starfish fabric to hold the cards.


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Polka dot fabric used for the pockets echoes the little dots in the starfish.