70s was the best childhood! My first memory is also at 18 months. My cousins and I used to all be piled on the back part of the hatchback looking out of the back window. It was great fun without the restrictions of seatbelts. And laying on the back seat with a blanket when we travelled home late. But...yes, it’s amazing we’re still alive.
Ohhh - childhood roadtrips... We would drive from Townsville (top of Australia) to Adelaide (bottom of Aust) most Xmases in the 70s, about 1800 miles or 2900 km. Dad liked to drive pretty-much straight through (30+ hours not incl stops), and woe-betide anyone needing a loo-stop (translation: toilet break) when he wasn't ready to stop!! Fab memories! I would have loved a Lap Book on those trips, driving through 'nothingness' for hundreds of miles at a time! Thanks for the ideas and the freebies. 🚗😮🤣😊
I love to see you hemming and hawing in front of the camera. It’s good to see how and why someone is making a particular choice when making something. It’s very very helpful. Thank you for this series. You are very talented and I’m glad you share your talents with the rest of us.
I’m really hate loving your channel right now Nik, but only because I’m Stuck in transit from Dubai to Bangalore, India. All my stuff is in Cargo and I’m waiting on things to get better from Co Vid there. I’m in a tiny little apartment with no supplies on hand, I thought I’d come here to spend some time and I’m absolutely regretting it, you always inspire me to the point where I’m up and gathering stuff to create with you. I created my first lap book back in February this year from your other lap book series and now I want to make another. Thank you for being so inspiring, I’m so glad I found your channel, but also, aaaaarrrrgggggghhhhhh, the urge to create is killing me, So thanks for that too. 😏 Lotsa Love.
My first holiday memory... We live South East England, and my dad drove us up to Scotland. At the time he had a ford van, dark blue, (and I remember he had super long sideburns!) and we were towing our caravan. I was 2, it was 1972, and I sat on my mum's lap in the front seat while she and my dad smoked cigarettes. (It's now illegal in England to smoke in a car if children are in there!) My 2 elder brothers, 11 & 9, sat in the back of the van on the wheel arches, there were no seats let alone seatbelts! 😁 I remember walking on shingle at the edge of Loch Lomond, and throwing little pebbles into the loch! We were always on road trips throughout my childhood. Fridays after school, my mum would be loading up the caravan with fresh towels and bedding, and tons of tinned or packet foods! I loved the powdered milk! My dad would get in from work, have a quick shower, I'd be bathed and in pyjamas, my mum in her nightdress and dressing gown, and my dad would hook up the caravan and off we'd go til the Sunday! We didn't do huge trips for 2 nights away, maybe an hour max. We used to often stay near Hever Castle, (Anne Boleyn's childhood home) and it's still one of my favourite castles! We'd visit stately homes or Pooh corner, somewhere to explore on the Saturday, and Sunday morning me and my dad would often find wild hedgerows or trees to pick blackberries and apples for my mum to make a pie. In the summer we would go for a few weeks, usually jump on a ferry to France, sometimes driving into other countries. I've been to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Spain etc, and I always made diaries to write down what I did or who I met or where we went. I would tuck in a postcard, or leaves, or a feather, or entrance tickets for some chateau or theme park! I would have loved a lapbook style holiday journal! I never went anywhere without pens, pencils, paper, scissors and sellotape! We've also been all over England and Wales. I loved that caravan! LOVED it! I'm always looking to find the exact same one so i can do it up and have it in my garden as my She-shed! I don't drive so I couldn't tow it around lol. I'd love to find the exact same model! Ahhh childhood, some very happy fun adventures I had for sure! 😘😘😘
I'm about 3 to 4 years older than you and a car girl too. We lived in the country and so I remember being small enough to stand on the seat of the truck while my dad drove. He would tuck me behind his shoulder and as we would drive to town for whatever was needed he played a game with me. As I would see cars topping hills behind us, I would hollar faster daddy faster as he said we were going to "outrun" them. That and being small enough to lay in the back window of their 69 Cadillac and watch the world go by. I also survived the 70s. Rofl. Thanks for the awesome tutorial and reminding me of some amazing memories. ❤
It is always so great to watch and listen to your videos. Your tutorials are always entertaining, informative, and inspiring. Sometimes I believe it is sad that kids are in an electronic age now. They don't know how to have actual fun without a device. We were raised in the country and always found things to do. We entertained ourselves, we were creative, and were usually adventurous back in the day. You helped bring back good memories. Thank you for sharing.
This project is coming along beautifully! My dad LOVED to take us on road trips and we would fight to have the coveted back window spot !! And he loved looking for the bizarre attractions along the way ... largest ball of twine, cow patty capital, dinosaur egg, two headed duck ... you know ... crazy stuff to get you to stop and spend money on an ice cream treat while gazing at something bizarre.
Love what you did with the large index cards I sent you. So glad you could use them. I also adore the tiny envelopes! Thanks you so much! I too survived the 70’s. Drinking out of hoses and riding bikes everywhere before we had helmets. That may explain a lot about me. 😜 ~Michelle
I'm a young'un. My first road trip was to Disney in 1990. I was 5 years old. I don't remember much of it. Our next family road trip was when I was in 9th grade, traveling from NY state to Yellowstone. I have many awesome memories of little roadside attractions we stopped at. Thanks for the laughs, and the freebie. Love how this is coming along!
Road trips! Yes! We used to sing, no radio. We used to lay up in the rear window well. No seat belts. How did we survive? LOL! Love the lapbook and thanks for the freebies, Nik!
ALWAYS road trips that was the American way! I was the youngest and only girl so I got to sleep up in the back window of our 68 Impala (White with turquoise trim and upholstery. I got all the wind from all the open windows! Loved it! Saw America with the family in the car.
You just have to love the internet, man (Nik has a cool way to use this word .. ‘man’) .. I’m in Denmark and I think of Nik every day (who doesn’t?) and all I have to do, is turne on my device .. click on RUclips .. and there she is .. letting all of us enjoy her neverending talent .. thank you Nik, for choosing this way to be in my house (you know .. since you don’t go to a strangers house all alone) .. I love your Lap Book 🥰
I am loving this book! I want to make one that incorporates all your ideas. Something about all the flips and pockets that just makes you feel you could hide a lot of secrets!
In the UK road trips not such ‘a thing’ but in the 60s when I was a toddler I was sat on the back of my dads motorbike, strapped to him with a large leather belt wrapped around the two of us for a trip to Birmingham to see his mother! No bike helmets in those days either - love these videos x
Oh I am lovin this book! Love any & all your videos! Only time we did any traveling was when my dad had 30 day leave from the military. We were on one side to the other side of the US. And had family in the middle, MO. So across the country we’d go. But mine was a little bit...ok quite a bite earlier than the 70’s.......no AC in the car. We went across the desert during the summertime...in a station wagon.....windows rolled down & cool washcloths to keep us from drying! My sister & I in the back (no seat belts of course) seats laid down with a couple of dogs! What fun! And actually it was. My mom made us stuff to eat at the roadside picnic areas (probably never heard of them)....my dad would stop for gas & you best hit the bathroom & get back in before he drove off & left you! The good ole days! Glad your feeling better. I, myself have been sick today. Husband started it and now I have it. Slept all day so I am going to be up all night! So I am watching video after video! Can’t wait to see your dresser finished! Thanks for the freebies!
Your talk was making me remember all our road trips, and the first time I flew....and your little dresser intro! 😂 I gotta say you are a flippin’ genius! I would never have thought of doing that flip up in different directions thing!! I caught myself thinking of how I would fill that book! Wow. Now I have to make one!
I've always been envious of people who can ride in a car and DO something! As someone who has always had really bad motion sickness I could never look at ANYTHING other than something outside the window without getting a really bad headache! My motion sickness always manifests as a headache that is a little bit less than migraine level.
I'm a 1987 baby. We used to drive from the French Alps to the south of England to visit my dad's family. He's the same a your dad, loves to drive, he was actually a lorry driver for most of his life. He also is afraid of flying, although he won't admit it (by the same token, he ISN'T AFRAID OF NEEDLES lolz). My little brother used to sleep all the way through the trip, and so did my mum because the car is her happy sleepy place. I had to learn to read a map real early and help my dad around big towns. I remember doing that to the sound of Dire Straights on a tape.
NOOOO!! Don't plan better............... I love that your creative juices take you hither and dither Nik!! The dresser was a little sad not ugly and will be sooooo happy that you have adopted him. Haha, see it good to be a bit nutty, makes for a happier time. Loving this series and thanks for the tip of making one for kids cos I would't have thought of that!! Xmas pressie for granddaughter, Brill.!! 😃xox
Road trips! My first memories of road trips is going to Colorado in Plymouth station wagon. My parents would put down the back seats into a cozy bed and we would play and read and sleep in the back with nary a seat-belt in sight!
Thank Gd you glued down the flap that was coming loose on the brown envelope; I was starting to panic! Thanks very much for this tutorial; brilliant, as usual!!!
I am enjoying these videos...but I agree about with some of the others about completely covering all your initial beautiful papers. Anyway this is giving me ideas
I’m so loving this lapbook-this vintage style is so ‘up my alley’! Have I missed the reveal on your kitchen-weren’t you going to film the pie you were making and show us the kitchen? We didn’t really take many road trips when I was super little (circa 1959), so my memories are as an adolescent-we nearly always took my maternal grandparents with us and my girl cousin who was 10 months older than me and really like my sister. I would sit in the front seat between my daddy and grandfather (paw paw), and my cousin sat between my mama and grandmother (nanny). My sister was born in 1970, and my daddy bought a Dodge passenger van then to accommodate everyone. 😘
Really am enjoying this series, color me inspired. My family traveled back and forth between southern New England and New Brunswick all of my childhood. My parents and five siblings, happy memories.
Oh my goodness. That lapbook is just awesome. I wouldn't do a thing to the inside covers. They are beautiful. Thank you so much for taking the time to share how you are making it.
Know this is an older video but I watch over and over as I continue to work on my long time lapbook. I am a child of the 60's. They used to throw all of us in the back of the station wagon and let us roll around. Seatbelts? Who heard of them? Debra
Hi There! I am a newbie...for several months I have been watching many, many videos on all the facets of "building" a junk journal...have heard many of the ladies refer to 'Nik the booksmith", finally came across you!! I have been collecting supplies all this time tools, paper, stamps, inks, glues and any and everything!! have yet to put "anything" together...As I have inherited family photos that reach back to the mid 1800's, ladies in bustles & Gibson girl hair do's....So want to create a junk journal/ photo album with info about these people in my lineage....am soooo very excited about getting this up and going...if you or anyone can point me to this type of idea websites, I'd be grateful! I will definitely keep watching you, as I have subscribed.....I love the quality that you put into your "books"....Also, wanted to THANK YOU" for the delightful little envelopes you offered to all of us....am learning about how to get these, what a "TREAT".....Have been watching your lapbook all the way, am on 9 thus far....ENJOYING!!!! Thank You Muchly!!!!!
My father was career Marine Corps .. we traveled a lot mostly at night so we would sleep through the trip! Suitcases in the back floorboards snd quilts made my brothers bed snd I slept on the seat.
I love your work, so inspirational, my first road trip I can remember was around the south of France with my parents and siblings in a jaguar that my parents owned at the time, I would have been about 5 at the time in the 70's.
This is so COOL and thanks for the tiny cute envelope freebie. You gave me a great idea about getting a dresser for my STUFF. I have got my 2 books to make a lap book so I'm going to watch your videos about this one to make my own. Mine has a rather wide spine in the middle but I'm still going to do one Love you video so much.
I also stood up on the front car seat !! The difference is that the car was a 1954 Pontiac, and I was about 2 years old, and it was 1958 !! My seat belt was my parents' arms swinging in front of me to protect me from flying into the windshield .... good times, good times. And I have lived to tell the tale ... LOL
So, I was doing some painting for my junk journal pages and at the same time was scrolling through the RUclips and let some videos to entertain me whilst I was palying with paints. Got some puddles of water on paper from spray and decided to dry them with very noisey hair-dryer. When I shut down the apparat, what else was there but Nik saying, at the video: "...man they're loud!" Talk about interaktiv, huh?! 🤣
Did you hear about the photo frame punch board from We R Memory Keepers? I think you would really like it. They say it has a size limit, but I think they forgot some of us own craft cutters and rulers. The cool thing is that the part you cut away is usable as well, so no waste involved. Nice rounded interior corners as well.
The little envelopes are so cute. I cannot wait to see what magic you have done to the dresser. We didn't wear helmets when we road our bikes around...I remember. My childhood was filled with travel. We moved from state to state for my Dad's job and went to England to visit my Grandmother.
I'm so glad I found your channel. I found a 1999 calandar with norman Rockwell post cover pictures some from 1920 and up. I couldn't decide how to use them. I had planned to use them in mixed media. But now I want to do some kind of lap book. Thanks
A lap book for my 3 grand-kids is a great idea - and you said it: Dinosaurs, Princes and Horses - perfect! I guess I had better get busy! Love all your ideas!
Looking Great so far Nik !! Happy to hear you are feeling a bit better, but wear gloves when you are working in the garden or on trees please ❤️. Have a wonderful day and I like your old beat up dresser cause I know you will make it useful & beautiful .
I can't remember much about my really younger age I think age 13 was my first memory of a long road trip,and flying I was about 40 ,I lived a really dull life till I retired then I started crafting now that's exciting!
I was super excited for your video to post! Still dreaming about the book!😂 AND...how absolutely adorable are those freebie envelopes! I LOVE miniature
I have just discovered you and love you already. Helping me no end during the lockdown in the UK. Oh and by the way you are the same age as my daughters so that makes me old and you very young ! xx
I was the baby of five, and on our long road trips from Alabama to Indiana, my seat was the flip-down arm rest between my parent! When I would get sleepy, I would crawl up into the back window and take a nap-but it was always crowded back there because Russell and Peter my imaginary friends had to stretch out too!
First road trip memory - 1961 or 62, going with mom to get Dad from the doc in Canada. As we crossed the bridge from Michigan I tossed my bottle out the window. Dad was angry I made mom upset. I tossed a lot of them they say. He took my new bottle cut it in half gave it back said it was my last. LOL! Dresser will be lovely when you finish I'll bet. Love Love LOVE Lap Book!!! Stay crafty girl. XO ❤
Oh me too, and waving to the cars behind us. And looking out the windows to the sides to see the terrain change from where we lived, to country rural, to orchards then uphill to pine trees and granite boulders and clear mountain streams and lakes. Loved that. Never paid a bit of attention to road signs or where we were. I always felt perfectly safe with my parents. I know this is a year late but I just recently found this channel and I'm loving this project and so many of the other videos, like the miniature books.
No no, the adventure, the memories are made in the journey, not the destination. No one climbs Everest for the few moments spent at the top. We do it for the adventure along the way up. If a helicopter could place us on top we wouldn't care to go.
She does it again folks! Awesome & beautiful bookish art outta paper. 😁👍🏻💜📚 I’m totally curious to see what else you do & if there will be coffee dyed paper or lace on this project.
Yay!!!! I've been eager to see the next video you have created for this project! I got caught up on my lap book over the weekend, so I've been organizing craft supplies while I was waiting to return to this!
Thank you for the sweet freebie! I love that your cat is on your sewing chair, so of coarse you can’t sew! I’m pretty sure it is a law! 😻 I was married in the seventies. Man, I’m old! I can’t believe you can remember that far back! I barely remember yesterday. Probably too much LDS. (Star Trek reference). Let’s see how many Star Trek nerds are out there. Thanks again.
This is turning out so cool! Love all the different elements you're putting in it. Thank you for the free envelopes download. Those will look awesome in my books and in my bookcase I made📚📓😊👍
This was fun. We went on lots of road trips. My friend and I would ride in the back of the station wagon, with the window down and our feet hanging out. Good times
scary dresser can be made gorgeous. The first road trip I remember (here in the UK) is my dads Comma van, he had rejigged it in the back so the seats pulled out to beds. No seat belts, too many kids and loads of happy memories travelling to Scotland and Wales. Loved that van. BTW the book is becoming something I want to have a go at doing.
That envelope looks like it is made from glassine. Tim Holtz use to have that paper available to purchase. I love listening to you and all of your wonderful ideas. Thanks so much for the freebie.
I can hear it! I thought it was the one that's 2 miles from my home! LOL I love this project! I was watching you use your Fabric Tac with such ease! I have to squeeze mine so hard that it hurts my hands. I took your suggestion and poured in some acetone, probably too much. What a difference! It will also save money! That stuff is pricey but good to use!
I'm glad you feel better! I was in Nik withdraw. :) I know that dresser will look sharp after your special touches. Your ideas are awesome!! I'm loving this lap-book!!
70s was the best childhood! My first memory is also at 18 months. My cousins and I used to all be piled on the back part of the hatchback looking out of the back window. It was great fun without the restrictions of seatbelts. And laying on the back seat with a blanket when we travelled home late. But...yes, it’s amazing we’re still alive.
Ohhh - childhood roadtrips... We would drive from Townsville (top of Australia) to Adelaide (bottom of Aust) most Xmases in the 70s, about 1800 miles or 2900 km. Dad liked to drive pretty-much straight through (30+ hours not incl stops), and woe-betide anyone needing a loo-stop (translation: toilet break) when he wasn't ready to stop!! Fab memories! I would have loved a Lap Book on those trips, driving through 'nothingness' for hundreds of miles at a time! Thanks for the ideas and the freebies. 🚗😮🤣😊
I love to see you hemming and hawing in front of the camera. It’s good to see how and why someone is making a particular choice when making something. It’s very very helpful. Thank you for this series. You are very talented and I’m glad you share your talents with the rest of us.
I’m really hate loving your channel right now Nik, but only because I’m Stuck in transit from Dubai to Bangalore, India. All my stuff is in Cargo and I’m waiting on things to get better from Co Vid there. I’m in a tiny little apartment with no supplies on hand, I thought I’d come here to spend some time and I’m absolutely regretting it, you always inspire me to the point where I’m up and gathering stuff to create with you. I created my first lap book back in February this year from your other lap book series and now I want to make another. Thank you for being so inspiring, I’m so glad I found your channel, but also, aaaaarrrrgggggghhhhhh, the urge to create is killing me, So thanks for that too. 😏
Lotsa Love.
My first holiday memory... We live South East England, and my dad drove us up to Scotland. At the time he had a ford van, dark blue, (and I remember he had super long sideburns!) and we were towing our caravan. I was 2, it was 1972, and I sat on my mum's lap in the front seat while she and my dad smoked cigarettes. (It's now illegal in England to smoke in a car if children are in there!) My 2 elder brothers, 11 & 9, sat in the back of the van on the wheel arches, there were no seats let alone seatbelts! 😁 I remember walking on shingle at the edge of Loch Lomond, and throwing little pebbles into the loch! We were always on road trips throughout my childhood. Fridays after school, my mum would be loading up the caravan with fresh towels and bedding, and tons of tinned or packet foods! I loved the powdered milk! My dad would get in from work, have a quick shower, I'd be bathed and in pyjamas, my mum in her nightdress and dressing gown, and my dad would hook up the caravan and off we'd go til the Sunday! We didn't do huge trips for 2 nights away, maybe an hour max. We used to often stay near Hever Castle, (Anne Boleyn's childhood home) and it's still one of my favourite castles! We'd visit stately homes or Pooh corner, somewhere to explore on the Saturday, and Sunday morning me and my dad would often find wild hedgerows or trees to pick blackberries and apples for my mum to make a pie. In the summer we would go for a few weeks, usually jump on a ferry to France, sometimes driving into other countries. I've been to France, Germany, Luxembourg, Holland, Belgium, Spain etc, and I always made diaries to write down what I did or who I met or where we went. I would tuck in a postcard, or leaves, or a feather, or entrance tickets for some chateau or theme park! I would have loved a lapbook style holiday journal! I never went anywhere without pens, pencils, paper, scissors and sellotape! We've also been all over England and Wales. I loved that caravan! LOVED it! I'm always looking to find the exact same one so i can do it up and have it in my garden as my She-shed! I don't drive so I couldn't tow it around lol. I'd love to find the exact same model! Ahhh childhood, some very happy fun adventures I had for sure! 😘😘😘
I'm about 3 to 4 years older than you and a car girl too. We lived in the country and so I remember being small enough to stand on the seat of the truck while my dad drove. He would tuck me behind his shoulder and as we would drive to town for whatever was needed he played a game with me. As I would see cars topping hills behind us, I would hollar faster daddy faster as he said we were going to "outrun" them. That and being small enough to lay in the back window of their 69 Cadillac and watch the world go by. I also survived the 70s. Rofl. Thanks for the awesome tutorial and reminding me of some amazing memories. ❤
It is always so great to watch and listen to your videos. Your tutorials are always entertaining, informative, and inspiring. Sometimes I believe it is sad that kids are in an electronic age now. They don't know how to have actual fun without a device. We were raised in the country and always found things to do. We entertained ourselves, we were creative, and were usually adventurous back in the day. You helped bring back good memories. Thank you for sharing.
This project is coming along beautifully! My dad LOVED to take us on road trips and we would fight to have the coveted back window spot !! And he loved looking for the bizarre attractions along the way ... largest ball of twine, cow patty capital, dinosaur egg, two headed duck ... you know ... crazy stuff to get you to stop and spend money on an ice cream treat while gazing at something bizarre.
Love what you did with the large index cards I sent you. So glad you could use them. I also adore the tiny envelopes! Thanks you so much! I too survived the 70’s. Drinking out of hoses and riding bikes everywhere before we had helmets. That may explain a lot about me. 😜 ~Michelle
I'm a young'un. My first road trip was to Disney in 1990. I was 5 years old. I don't remember much of it. Our next family road trip was when I was in 9th grade, traveling from NY state to Yellowstone. I have many awesome memories of little roadside attractions we stopped at.
Thanks for the laughs, and the freebie. Love how this is coming along!
Road trips! Yes! We used to sing, no radio. We used to lay up in the rear window well. No seat belts. How did we survive? LOL! Love the lapbook and thanks for the freebies, Nik!
ALWAYS road trips that was the American way! I was the youngest and only girl so I got to sleep up in the back window of our 68 Impala (White with turquoise trim and upholstery. I got all the wind from all the open windows! Loved it! Saw America with the family in the car.
You just have to love the internet, man (Nik has a cool way to use this word .. ‘man’) .. I’m in Denmark and I think of Nik every day (who doesn’t?) and all I have to do, is turne on my device .. click on RUclips .. and there she is .. letting all of us enjoy her neverending talent .. thank you Nik, for choosing this way to be in my house (you know .. since you don’t go to a strangers house all alone) .. I love your Lap Book 🥰
Hello Miss Rosa! Thank you for allowing me in🤗❣️
I love watching you chase squirrels while you craft. It’s how I craft and it always gives me more ideas lol. Also, thanks for the mini envelopes!!!
I am loving this book! I want to make one that incorporates all your ideas. Something about all the flips and pockets that just makes you feel you could hide a lot of secrets!
In the UK road trips not such ‘a thing’ but in the 60s when I was a toddler I was sat on the back of my dads motorbike, strapped to him with a large leather belt wrapped around the two of us for a trip to Birmingham to see his mother! No bike helmets in those days either - love these videos x
wow...now that's a scary vision for me as a momma! Thank you, Jacqui 🤗❣️
Dinky envelopes ... Squeeeeee
Oh I am lovin this book! Love any & all your videos! Only time we did any traveling was when my dad had 30 day leave from the military. We were on one side to the other side of the US. And had family in the middle, MO. So across the country we’d go. But mine was a little bit...ok quite a bite earlier than the 70’s.......no AC in the car. We went across the desert during the summertime...in a station wagon.....windows rolled down & cool washcloths to keep us from drying! My sister & I in the back (no seat belts of course) seats laid down with a couple of dogs! What fun! And actually it was. My mom made us stuff to eat at the roadside picnic areas (probably never heard of them)....my dad would stop for gas & you best hit the bathroom & get back in before he drove off & left you! The good ole days! Glad your feeling better. I, myself have been sick today. Husband started it and now I have it. Slept all day so I am going to be up all night! So I am watching video after video! Can’t wait to see your dresser finished! Thanks for the freebies!
Your talk was making me remember all our road trips, and the first time I flew....and your little dresser intro! 😂
I gotta say you are a flippin’ genius! I would never have thought of doing that flip up in different directions thing!!
I caught myself thinking of how I would fill that book! Wow. Now I have to make one!
I've always been envious of people who can ride in a car and DO something! As someone who has always had really bad motion sickness I could never look at ANYTHING other than something outside the window without getting a really bad headache! My motion sickness always manifests as a headache that is a little bit less than migraine level.
I've loved watching this series, so great. I love the humming and arring. It's great to watch the creative process as it happens. Makes it more real x
The little envelopes are so so cute!!
I'm a 1987 baby. We used to drive from the French Alps to the south of England to visit my dad's family. He's the same a your dad, loves to drive, he was actually a lorry driver for most of his life. He also is afraid of flying, although he won't admit it (by the same token, he ISN'T AFRAID OF NEEDLES lolz).
My little brother used to sleep all the way through the trip, and so did my mum because the car is her happy sleepy place. I had to learn to read a map real early and help my dad around big towns. I remember doing that to the sound of Dire Straights on a tape.
that sounds AMAZING! Your road trips sound a lot better than my road trips!
The lapbook evolution continues - so interesting. Thanks for the little freebie envelopes. Very cute.
Thaaaaaank you your lapbook videos!! They are So fun to watch and I’ve learned so much from them.
NOOOO!! Don't plan better............... I love that your creative juices take you hither and dither Nik!! The dresser was a little sad not ugly and will be sooooo happy that you have adopted him. Haha, see it good to be a bit nutty, makes for a happier time. Loving this series and thanks for the tip of making one for kids cos I would't have thought of that!! Xmas pressie for granddaughter, Brill.!! 😃xox
I agree with you, Cheryll, it is good to be a bit nutty. Not everyone gets that!
Love to see how your lap book turned out so far. Like it very much!
Still here with you....cute little envelopes........😻
Road trips! My first memories of road trips is going to Colorado in Plymouth station wagon. My parents would put down the back seats into a cozy bed and we would play and read and sleep in the back with nary a seat-belt in sight!
Those envelopes are absolutely perfectly fantastic!!!
Thank Gd you glued down the flap that was coming loose on the brown envelope; I was starting to panic!
Thanks very much for this tutorial; brilliant, as usual!!!
I am enjoying these videos...but I agree about with some of the others about completely covering all your initial beautiful papers. Anyway this is giving me ideas
I'm loving this lap book and all the fun things you are adding to it!
I’m so loving this lapbook-this vintage style is so ‘up my alley’! Have I missed the reveal on your kitchen-weren’t you going to film the pie you were making and show us the kitchen? We didn’t really take many road trips when I was super little (circa 1959), so my memories are as an adolescent-we nearly always took my maternal grandparents with us and my girl cousin who was 10 months older than me and really like my sister. I would sit in the front seat between my daddy and grandfather (paw paw), and my cousin sat between my mama and grandmother (nanny). My sister was born in 1970, and my daddy bought a Dodge passenger van then to accommodate everyone. 😘
2 of my very favorite cars too!! Adorable tiny envelopes!
Really am enjoying this series, color me inspired. My family traveled back and forth between southern New England and New Brunswick all of my childhood. My parents and five siblings, happy memories.
I enjoy the chat with you during these segments. Can't wait for the next installment. xoxo
Loving this series so much so I’m going to have a crack at making my own. Thanks Nik for sharing your creativity x
Oh my goodness. That lapbook is just awesome. I wouldn't do a thing to the inside covers. They are beautiful. Thank you so much for taking the time to share how you are making it.
你真的是个全才，什么都是你的擅长，我觉得你的制作做得很好，讲解也很清楚，画面的视频，作品，工具三位一体的展示非常清楚，如果天气不好，我也会这样拍试试，但是天气好的时候，我还是喜欢去户外写生，在玩的时候也拍了有新鲜感的视频，自己开心，拍的视频也会让观众开心。
I'm still thinking about those "squirrels running amok" back in the '70s!!
Know this is an older video but I watch over and over as I continue to work on my long time lapbook. I am a child of the 60's. They used to throw all of us in the back of the station wagon and let us roll around. Seatbelts? Who heard of them?
Debra
Lovely Nik as usual. Thank you for sharing your talent with us.
Hi There! I am a newbie...for several months I have been watching many, many videos on all the facets of "building" a junk journal...have heard many of the ladies refer to 'Nik the booksmith", finally came across you!! I have been collecting supplies all this time tools, paper, stamps, inks, glues and any and everything!! have yet to put "anything" together...As I have inherited family photos that reach back to the mid 1800's, ladies in bustles & Gibson girl hair do's....So want to create a junk journal/ photo album with info about these people in my lineage....am soooo very excited about getting this up and going...if you or anyone can point me to this type of idea websites, I'd be grateful! I will definitely keep watching you, as I have subscribed.....I love the quality that you put into your "books"....Also, wanted to THANK YOU" for the delightful little envelopes you offered to all of us....am learning about how to get these, what a "TREAT".....Have been watching your lapbook all the way, am on 9 thus far....ENJOYING!!!! Thank You Muchly!!!!!
My father was career Marine Corps .. we traveled a lot mostly at night so we would sleep through the trip! Suitcases in the back floorboards snd quilts made my brothers bed snd I slept on the seat.
I love your work, so inspirational, my first road trip I can remember was around the south of France with my parents and siblings in a jaguar that my parents owned at the time, I would have been about 5 at the time in the 70's.
I just want a Jaquar hood ornament. I saw one in the late 70's with the long nose and it was stunning.
This will be a fantastic lapbook!
And it is big so there will be room for many things in it.
So very nice to see you work on this. Thanks ... :)
This is so COOL and thanks for the tiny cute envelope freebie. You gave me a great idea about getting a dresser for my STUFF. I have got my 2 books to make a lap book so I'm going to watch your videos about this one to make my own. Mine has a rather wide spine in the middle but I'm still going to do one Love you video so much.
I also stood up on the front car seat !! The difference is that the car was a 1954 Pontiac, and I was about 2 years old, and it was 1958 !! My seat belt was my parents' arms swinging in front of me to protect me from flying into the windshield .... good times, good times. And I have lived to tell the tale ... LOL
Great series Nik. Your creativity never ceases to amaze me.
So, I was doing some painting for my junk journal pages and at the same time was scrolling through the RUclips and let some videos to entertain me whilst I was palying with paints. Got some puddles of water on paper from spray and decided to dry them with very noisey hair-dryer. When I shut down the apparat, what else was there but Nik saying, at the video: "...man they're loud!"
Talk about interaktiv, huh?! 🤣
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THank you Nik for the Freebie!!!! Actually Thank You for All the freebie's!!!! I love how your Lap Book is coming along!!! Another Nik Fab's!!!!
How lucky... I came here desperately hoping for the next part. Thanks Nik x
Glad you're better. I love the lapbook and the fabulous washi. Thank you for the adorable tiny envelopes!
Did you hear about the photo frame punch board from We R Memory Keepers? I think you would really like it. They say it has a size limit, but I think they forgot some of us own craft cutters and rulers. The cool thing is that the part you cut away is usable as well, so no waste involved. Nice rounded interior corners as well.
Thanks for the freebie Nik! Can't wait to see the finished dresser.
The little envelopes are so cute. I cannot wait to see what magic you have done to the dresser. We didn't wear helmets when we road our bikes around...I remember. My childhood was filled with travel. We moved from state to state for my Dad's job and went to England to visit my Grandmother.
sounds amazing!!
I'm loving this series!! I've also been making the little books, so thank you for the darling freebie!!
Thanks Nik ! Don't know how you do it all... its wonderful. And still more to look forward to, its a real treat.
You are amazing Nik. And thank you for the freebie!!!
I'm so glad I found your channel. I found a 1999 calandar with norman Rockwell post cover pictures some from 1920 and up. I couldn't decide how to use them. I had planned to use them in mixed media. But now I want to do some kind of lap book. Thanks
I'm loving your lap book, and your videos. Thank you for the mini envelope freebie!
Love this lapbook! You are just awesome!
A lap book for my 3 grand-kids is a great idea - and you said it: Dinosaurs, Princes and Horses - perfect! I guess I had better get busy! Love all your ideas!
Looking Great so far Nik !! Happy to hear you are feeling a bit better, but wear gloves when you are working in the garden or on trees please ❤️. Have a wonderful day and I like your old beat up dresser cause I know you will make it useful & beautiful .
Thank you for another freebie! This lap book is so cool!! Yes, it would be great for a road trip!!
I can't remember much about my really younger age I think age 13 was my first memory of a long road trip,and flying I was about 40 ,I lived a really dull life till I retired then I started crafting now that's exciting!
I was super excited for your video to post! Still dreaming about the book!😂 AND...how absolutely adorable are those freebie envelopes! I LOVE miniature
Glad you’re feeling better
So many wonderful ideas! Amazing! Thank you!
I have just discovered you and love you already. Helping me no end during the lockdown in the UK. Oh and by the way you are the same age as my daughters so that makes me old and you very young ! xx
I was the baby of five, and on our long road trips from Alabama to Indiana, my seat was the flip-down arm rest between my parent! When I would get sleepy, I would crawl up into the back window and take a nap-but it was always crowded back there because Russell and Peter my imaginary friends had to stretch out too!
well, of course they would! Russell and Peter, LOVE it!
Too much fun! Although, it hurts my heart when you glue something to cover up a really cool graphic.
The envelope is so cute The freebie is so nice
First road trip memory - 1961 or 62, going with mom to get Dad from the doc in Canada. As we crossed the bridge from Michigan I tossed my bottle out the window. Dad was angry I made mom upset. I tossed a lot of them they say. He took my new bottle cut it in half gave it back said it was my last. LOL! Dresser will be lovely when you finish I'll bet. Love Love LOVE Lap Book!!! Stay crafty girl. XO ❤
*gasp!* tough love, for sure!! LOL
Seatbelts??? I remember on long road trips laying in the back under the rear window, lol
Oh me too, and waving to the cars behind us. And looking out the windows to the sides to see the terrain change from where we lived, to country rural, to orchards then uphill to pine trees and granite boulders and clear mountain streams and lakes. Loved that. Never paid a bit of attention to road signs or where we were. I always felt perfectly safe with my parents.
I know this is a year late but I just recently found this channel and I'm loving this project and so many of the other videos, like the miniature books.
My second lap book is a children’s edition with pull out puzzles and stories 🥰👸🏼🦄
No no, the adventure, the memories are made in the journey, not the destination. No one climbs Everest for the few moments spent at the top. We do it for the adventure along the way up. If a helicopter could place us on top we wouldn't care to go.
She does it again folks! Awesome & beautiful bookish art outta paper. 😁👍🏻💜📚 I’m totally curious to see what else you do & if there will be coffee dyed paper or lace on this project.
Yay!!!! I've been eager to see the next video you have created for this project! I got caught up on my lap book over the weekend, so I've been organizing craft supplies while I was waiting to return to this!
Thank you for the sweet freebie! I love that your cat is on your sewing chair, so of coarse you can’t sew! I’m pretty sure it is a law! 😻 I was married in the seventies. Man, I’m old! I can’t believe you can remember that far back! I barely remember yesterday. Probably too much LDS. (Star Trek reference). Let’s see how many Star Trek nerds are out there. Thanks again.
HAHHAHAHA! The Voyage Home, yep!
Nik the Booksmith oh you are my favorite! You got my comment. It’s just my way.
Just loving this process. Blessings
This is turning out so cool! Love all the different elements you're putting in it. Thank you for the free envelopes download. Those will look awesome in my books and in my bookcase I made📚📓😊👍
This was fun. We went on lots of road trips. My friend and I would ride in the back of the station wagon, with the window down and our feet hanging out. Good times
I got very excited you didn't paste anything over my country, Australia. I'm a 70s teenager. I loved the fashion of those years.
scary dresser can be made gorgeous. The first road trip I remember (here in the UK) is my dads Comma van, he had rejigged it in the back so the seats pulled out to beds. No seat belts, too many kids and loads of happy memories travelling to Scotland and Wales. Loved that van.
BTW the book is becoming something I want to have a go at doing.
Wales 😍
Me too on the kitty. Thought I was the only one nerdy about my cat. Sit on a stool at the table when she claims my chair.🤓
Amazing! you just have me some great ideas, thank you. Amy😺💕👍
waw that book looks so amazing! I am so behind.You've got already pt 9,saw 1. and 2. Well I have all day now :D
❣️ oh hello, dear lady! You are the inspiration, thank you for all you do!! ❣️
This series is great. I am really enjoying it. Thanks for sharing. Glad you are feeling better.
That envelope looks like it is made from glassine. Tim Holtz use to have that paper available to purchase. I love listening to you and all of your wonderful ideas. Thanks so much for the freebie.
It's coming along quite nicely,tfs
Can Not Wait to see how your dresser turned out!! I love all the foldouts/tip-ins you created today....it's looking SO GOOD!!! xo
thanks, girlie! ❤️
I'm lovin' this project! You just make my day!
My goodness girl, you just rock on this lap book, just love it.✌️✌️
Enjoyed this so very much and you made me scream when the dresser came on...lol...it's always a pleasure when I see an email from you.!!
Ha! thank you, Joey =)
I can hear it! I thought it was the one that's 2 miles from my home! LOL I love this project! I was watching you use your Fabric Tac with such ease! I have to squeeze mine so hard that it hurts my hands. I took your suggestion and poured in some acetone, probably too much. What a difference! It will also save money! That stuff is pricey but good to use!
If you have a Joann Fabric near you, try the 3-in-1 Advanced Craft Glue, same company, (and I swear the same glue!) but a few bucks cheaper... =)
Another wonderful video! And thank you so much for the mini envelopes.....fun!!!
I'm glad you feel better! I was in Nik withdraw. :) I know that dresser will look sharp after your special touches. Your ideas are awesome!! I'm loving this lap-book!!
You always have great ideas for your pages. Love them. And I love the little envelopes.