While You Were Sleeping

While we were in Chicago with Aaron and Megan, we tried to find as many filming locations as we could from the movie While You Were Sleeping. It is one of my family's all-time favorite movies. We always have to watch it around Christmas (usually Christmas Eve). It's become such a tradition for us, that it actually feels weird to watch the movie when it's not Christmas time. I think together my sister and I could quote/act out the entire movie.

Since we had a day to spend in Chicago, I wanted to see as many While You Were Sleeping-sights as possible. Unfortunately I didn't get any shots of the train stations, since you had to pay for a ticket to get into that area (and I'm too cheap for that). We were able to see a few places though--my favorite was the river walk along the Chicago River (if you've seen the movie, it's where Bill Pullman and Sandra Bullock are walking back to Lucy's apartment after delivering the loveseat to Peter's apartment).

I always seem to have a hard time filling the last odd page in a scrapbook album. This one, however, was a perfect end to my 2010-2011 album. I used up some beautiful double-sided paper from October Afternoon (I just discovered their website and all their stuff is so fun!), and I added a little hand-stitching along the bottom, just for fun.

Thank you to Dave, Aaron, and Megan for being really good sports in dealing with my movie nerdiness. 

Chicago

I took a quick break from the wedding scrapbook to do some of my own pictures. (I was getting behind and the picture stack kept growing!)

I decided to work on my pictures from when we took a day trip to Chicago back in December with our besties, Aaron and Megan. I thought it'd be fun to do a silhouette of the city skyline. There probably was an easier way of doing this, but what I did was googled photos of the Chicago skyline, made a rough stencil of how I wanted it to look, cut that out, stenciled it onto black paper, and then cut THAT out. It definitely took some time, but I loved the way it turned out. 

Those are supposed to be glittery stars on the blue background, in case you are wondering. I'm still trying to figure out the best way to photograph my layouts.