At sea - Ditty -Bags
I've been reading about the life on ships for members of the crews on sailing vessels.
Click below to read about 'ditty bags'..........a bag for small tools (sailmakers and also repair kits - sewing needles etc). It was used as well as sea-chests, so perhaps William Young (Mary-Ann's father) had one?
Sailors often refered to their ditty bag as a 'housewife'!
Sailors also learnt the art of sailmaking by using all the skills required to make a ditty bag.
Here's another link:
On land - Baggies
Dan (Mary-Ann's son) remembers as a child, being given a 'baggie' when going to social events. The baggies contained cake and biscuites to be eaten when tea was served.
The baggie would have been a paper bag.
I'm making paper bags inspired by baggies and ditty bags.
I've already featured paper 'sick bags' in my log book!
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Did you use WORD or PUBLISHER to print out your texts? I have my diary pages in Word so far - and am wondering which you found the best system...since I haven't printed out a book in this way before. And just to clarify did you use the ALS script at size 36 or 30? Ta!
Hi!
I used photoshop for all log book layouts- text and pics. Because my lines were wiggly, I used AlS Script at 30pt for the word 'Remarks'. But for the other headers I used ALS Script at 36pt. You can't really tell the difference when you look at a glance.
For the the other text I used Arial font at 10pt, 11pt and 12 pt depending on how much I wanted to write! So quite a bit of jiggery pokery going on !! I can't remember what I did on the covers..but did as large as possible.
Good luck!
I'm still waiting to get a panoramic view of the area for my last fold out section at the end of the log book, so all bound except for the last part of each volume.
Oh good idea, might try Photoshop. Thats good to know you jiggled the font sizes...I will be too!
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