Well here was the project I was going to teach this weekend. Now those of you who maybe viewing this site, don't tell anyone what they are going to make! I was going to be at Camp Hoover outside of Newton this weekend, but because of all the snow, they closed camp! It's only Friday and we have 2 feet of snow and it's not suppose to stop until tomorrow. It snows off and on this afternoon so I'm hoping there won't be much more accumulation. Years ago my mother had run an older girl program in February, usually a little earlier in the month to teach girls how to handle different emergency situations, along with building a shelter, finding food & water, and compase reading. So back to my little album. This is a paperbag album. I use 3 bags to make this project. I also used paper from K&Company. Loved the way this turned out. My sideline and friend Debbie Giannos also made one using the same papers, but hers turned out very different. She isn't a Girl Scout! Shame on her! So she wanted to be able to work it in with pictures she would have. I didn't get any pictures of her album, so when I do, I'll post hers as well. I also used a retired stamp set from SU that looks a lot like girl scouts. I hope this set lasts forever! I know many who would anything to get it!
This is the first inside page of my book. It's taken from 2003. My daughter Jess was in 4th grade I think. This was the first time the troop was going camping in tents! I couldn't believe it. We were staying at Valhalla, Camp Hoover's "primitive site". Not really, there is running water and flush toilets. The building you see is a leanto. It's open on 3 sides, but very large. It's big enough to put a good size pop up tent in there! Well I tried to teach them how to make a fire. I had 2 dad's there (I did get one mom to join us)and one was a volunteer fireman, so it wasn't easy. Do you have any idea how much firemen like to make fires?!
We also did the ropes course, they had a blast! The Saturday was a beautiful day and things dried nicely after the heavy rains we had the day before. There are more pages but didn't want to get them all up. You'll have to come to the rescheduled event to see for yourself and make one of your own! Cyndy
