2024: Lion King Play
From the moment the drums called us to the theatre in Houston, the air was alive with the promise of a great story.
I had journeyed here before—once in the days when I lived in San Diego, and again for a spirited children’s version, which I too honored in a scrapbook. But this… this was The Lion King in all its grandeur.
No photographs could capture the majesty of the performance—such is the law of the land—so I turned my gaze to the treasures we could keep. In the grand lobby, the regal masks stood like sentinels of the Pride Lands, each one whispering of the roles they would play in the story ahead. Two playbills, given to us as tokens of the evening, now rest safely in a pocket crafted with care, sewn to hold the memories tight.
This entire spread was born in Cricut Design Space, every cut shaped by my Cricut Maker. On one side, the familiar wisdom of Hakuna Matata dances across the page, joined by the proud image of Mufasa—both designs purchased from the far-off marketplace of Etsy before I set them free in paper form. The papers beneath are steeped in the spirit of Africa and the colors of the safari, grounding the spread in the land where the story lives.
On the right-hand page, the sewn pocket stands as both form and function. Its edge was first cut as a block in Cricut Design Space, the leftover piece transformed into the pocket itself—proof that even the remnants have their place in the circle. In the video below, I share more of this process, for some stories are told not only in words, but in the making.
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