L is for Lake, Lunch, Light Show

I mentioned dinner, but lunch is also a good time for a date. When I was doing research for the A to Z of San Francisco last year, my husband did me the favor of driving to a few of the locations so that I could hop out and take pictures without worrying about trying to find parking. As a reward, I treated him to lunch at a little place he found that makes great burgers, among other things. It is aptly named Bill’s Place and has seen some pretty famous customers through the years. We haven’t been back so I have a feeling a lunch date is in order soon.

There used to be a light show called Laserium at the Morrison Planetarium in San Francisco. Sadly, the show closed in 2000. I may or may not have been under the influence when I saw it in my youth. Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the Moon was the show I saw most often. When we saw ELO a couple of years ago, their light show definitely reminded me of the laserium. Here are a couple of quick clips.

Honestly, I’m not sure if there are any light shows in other places but fortunately, since I have a Mac, I can replicate the essence of them with my iTunes (Music) visualizer. I do this often when I am working in the studio.

I have no idea how I missed this Lake when I was wandering through the City last year. Stow Lake is in the middle of Golden Gate Park and it looks like so much fun! When the weather gets warmer we are definitely heading there. I think we could manage the paddle boats. There is even a ghost story surrounding it. How cool is that?

Have you ever been to a laserium show? Seen ELO in concert? Been to a lake with a ghost? Lemme know!

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A to Z Challenge - 2020 - ELO

ELO is my contribution for the letter "E" this year.  It is another one of those bands that I kind of forget about until I hear the music and then realize I love the songs!

For this set of pages I decided to go with a watercolor collection because I knew the pictures were going to be very colorful on their own and I didn't want the background pattern to take away from that.  This is a pack of paper I got from Michaels. 

I also went through the rest of my papers and found one or two that would coordinate.

It is the "Electric Light Orchestra" and when I found this purple and yellow paper it reminded me of the flashing lights.  

I used some glitter letters for the title and then went around the border with some Stickles glitter.  

The opening act was Dhani Harrison and we were hoping that he would sing some of his father's songs but he did not.  The performance he did with Jeff Lynne, Tom Petty and Prince of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is just fantastic and that would have been our pick.  He does look like his dad, although I had a hard time getting a good picture without the microphone in front of his face!  He did come out during Jeff Lynne's set and sing a song from the Traveling Wilbury's, "Handle With Care."   

I decided to use this punch to trim the edges of the pictures.  I think it carries the theme of the light show with the color of the papers showing through.

I used a lot of Dazzles stickers and some paper accents to finish up the pages.

Check out those flying drumsticks! 

Although sometimes it is a sad one, I do agree that life is a song to be sung.

The light show was absolutely amazing and the colors were gorgeous.  

I put some beaded bling across the top of this page.  It's hard to tell but it is purple and green.  See how the lights kind of look like bubbles to match the punched corners?

I thought this flowered gem went great on this page.  

The tickets were on our phones so I took a screenshot of it.  Since it has the time, 8:40 PM, that was another way to document the night.  I even did a printout of the seating chart.  I put a little blue line where our seats were in Section 1.

Definitely went into my bling stash a lot.  That's another benefit, I guess, of not being able to go shopping during this time.  I am using a lot of supplies that I have had around for a long time.

I like this stencil of the musical notes and I am trying to put something different in each layout so I used it here.  

Came out pretty good, don't you think?

Bonus is that the page itself has some smudgy images so if I had made a mistake with the stencil you probably wouldn't be able to tell!  (I didn't!)

Even though I don't always like my own handwriting, I wrote the setlist out.  I'm okay with it. 

Managed to get them taking their bow and used some washi tape under it.  

Here are the spreads as they look in the album.

A bit of the light show from "Shine a Little Love."  I have seen them give a warning to people who might be affected by flashing lights such as epileptics so if that might be you, don't watch please.  I wouldn't want to be responsible for anyone passing out.

Here is "Telephone Line."

All music rights to Jeff Lynne and ELO of course.


It was a great show!  And so we begin our second week of the A to Z.  Are you having fun?  Have you seen ELO?  Do flashing lights bother you?  See you tomorrow with "F."