Year at a Glance – May 2010

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At the end of each month…

I jot down what has been the main highlight for that month, so at the end of the year (and for the fun of future reminiscing) I’ll have the year simply summarized on a single sheet on one of our Map Journals ~

The highlight for May was the expansion of our Map Magnet range! Back in January we launched the first of our Map Magnets, which covered 22 regions across the country ~ We’ve added a further 8 areas so now we have 30 Map Magnets covering most of Australia!

And for something new for me…. here is a little video clip ~

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tp-kclvroY

:D

Click on the ‘2010‘ tag to see a synopses of my year at a glance

Map Magnets

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At the beginning of this year we introduced a line of Map Magnets to our range of Map Journals, Mail-It Maps and Scrapbook packs ~

Regions covered by our Map Magnets

We started off with 22 to test the water that covered the major cities such as Sydney

Sydney Map Magnet (on backing card)

Melbourne:

Melbourne Map Magnet

Perth and the south west of Western Australia:

Perth Map Magnet (on backing card)

and Brisbane covering from Fraser Island down to Byron Bay:

Brisbane Map Magnet (on backing card)

We have just added another 8,  so we now have a total of 30 regions across Australia covered :)

The latest cover some of the more remote regions such as Bourke and Cameron Corner:

Bourke Map Magnet (on backing card)

Coober Pedy up to Alice Springs:

Coober Pedy Map Magnet

and the Gulf of Carpentaria

The Gulf of Carpentaria Map Magnet

…with lurking crocodile ;)

To see more, they’re on our website:

http://journeyjottings.com/products/australia/map-magnets-eastern-australia/

Happy travels :D

21st November 1878 – 56th day

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“A grand sea on today; one moment we are in a valley & the next on a mountain. It is also considerably colder now. Our friend was quite near us this morning & we found by looking through the glass that she had got a lot of horses on board. Yesterday afternoon Ada had a fit of some sort or another (I suppose through the change in the weather) & is now in her bunk not feeling over bright. Daisy is helping Sails while the guv’nor is lying down for a rest, Clara & Brown are doing a little in the spooning line & I am enjoying myself by watching Joey write his diary from my bunk. Of course not much can be done but play cards etc of which luckily we have a small stock as we brought our box of games with us. After a smoke we turned in at 10.

Celestial map Frederik de Wit

We saw the southern cross to-night for the first time but it is nothing grand.”

Extract from A.Whelen’s travel journal aboard the Hesperides sailing from England to Australia in 1878