Project Life 2012

I finally finished my Project Life Album for 2012. It's taken me this long because, well, life is crazy! Most of my scrappin' stuff has been in storage until the basement is finished, but my bestie lets me keep my PL stuff in her craft room and lately we have been escaping while our kiddos play and we scrapbook. I started sorting my printed photos for 2013, hopefully I will finish much earlier this time. Anyways, enjoy!




Details: I used the Cobalt kit and page layout A. I have always loved this layout, it keeps it consistent and simple. I tweaked it a bit this year to accommodate more photos and instagram, I have over 500 pictures in this album and I only used about 1/2 - 3/4 of the core kit. I really love how it turned out, though! There are a few spaces where I know others have the photos I need, but in the meantime I just put pieces of cropped paper in their places. Thanks, Becky Higgins, for developing such an awesome system!


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Project Life and Real Life Updates

Well, I know I haven't posted in awhile, but it's because I have been SUPER SICK. Why, you ask? Because we are having Baby #4! I have also been working on a couple projects, but still not done with any of them. Little Miss C's birthday present is coming along nicely, about 80% done and then need to block. It will look lovely on her....

I realized I haven't posted any pictures yet of my Project Life album from this year. My album from last year was featured on Miss Becky Higgins' website, and I felt extremely honored! This year I have been working at more of a slow pace, but it's been really good. I decided to focus more on getting my pictures in the album instead of worrying about a "Picture a Day." We have had so many events that have multiple pictures, and I want to have great layouts of my FAVORITE pictures, instead of only one to represent the whole day! Here are some snapshots of what I have done so far:

See what I mean? I get to have a whole page dedicated to my niece's first birthday! I love it!

Notice I'm not using the white block in the title square for dates this year. I decided to make it a header for each page, sometimes the month, sometimes just words. I found a great stack of stickers that match the Cobalt kit pretty well by Simple Stories "Snap!" collection.

I think the picture of big man E on the left is one of my ALL TIME FAVES of him.

Here is our trip to the museum. Again, PL is perfect for getting my faves scrapbooked!

This is when I started using Instagram ALL THE TIME. Unfortunately, the prints didn't turn out quite as well as I had hoped, so I am working on slowly not using it as much. In the meantime, I had to come up with some creative ways to display those photos!

I have more done, just not pictures of it yet. This week we all have the week off, so maybe I will get some scrapping done! Have a blessed Thanksgiving :)

Other Recent Favorite Shots

I haven't compiled all of the photos for the rest of January yet, still working on that since I have two different devices to pull photos from. And I am just lazy.

 Big Man E and his teacher on Cowboy Day at school

 Guess who's a rollin' queen? Baby J!

 Taken on my cell phone during a vet visit. Big Man E and Little Miss C drew the "Hundred Acre Wood" on the white board. Can you guess who everyone is?

Sweet baby 

 My best friends' baby boy. This family had a tough time this week, but it is getting better now.

 12 inches of snow = LEGO DAY. Kids played legos ALL DAY LONG.

 I met with a new holistic doctor who specializes in Nutritional Response Testing. So far the diet and supplements she has put me on have made a tremendous difference, 2 1/2 weeks in! I might write more about this later...

 Playing in the snow! Note to self: DO NOT leave your ISO cranked up to 1600 when taking outdoor photos! Grrrrrr :)

 Love this one of hubby and Baby J

I took this one to be my profile picture for my new Pampered Chef business. Again, I might have to write a post about that later...

Photo of the Day - Week 2 Roundup

Here are my Project Life photos for Week 2:

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Tebow-mania has hit Colorado hard this year. Everywhere we go people are wearing jerseys with number 15, and Facebook is flooded with Tebow videos and pictures. Personally, I really could care less about football, and therefore Tebow, even though he is a Christian that has no problem sharing his faith. But, we did enjoy watching the game he won for the Broncos against the Steelers today...

Not a great photo, a screenshot from a video

My Grandma has a TON of dolls. She made most of them, and she probably only has about 1/5 of what she used to have. She found out Cadie loves dolls, so my Grandma took Cadie on a tour of her doll display today. Cadie kept commenting on the things they had or their pretty clothes, and she was very good about touching very gently. It was amazing to see some of the dolls my Grandma had when she was little, and she told me all about the process to make them and the differences between all of them. I had no idea my Grandma was such an amazing artist, and she won all kinds of awards for her dolls. What a special treat! 

 Happy 5 months, Baby J! (Will write more about this in another post)

Baby J finally learned to roll over! All of a sudden she is sitting up better (with support) and rolling over like crazy. It started that I could keep her busy for a few minutes by putting her on her tummy, but now she just rolls right on to her back and giggles. I love it!

 Little Miss C started dance with buddy N today! They loved dance last summer and we are very happy they have the same teacher again. All of the girls in the class have taken a class with this teacher before, so they jumped right in and started working on new moves. Cadie loves to show us her plies and chauces all over the house. 

Photo of the Day - Week 1 Roundup

Here are my Project Life shots for Week 1:

Shot by my best friend

Mister E and his buddy sure love to play Skylanders! They both got the game starter set and some extra characters for Christmas, and they love to have playdates with them and share their guys. 

Happy Birthday, Sarah! My niece turns one on January 11, but my sister decided to have her party a bit earlier. We had it at my church and Jenilee did a great job with a purple/pink tutu theme. She made the tutus and the cake herself!  

 **Note, there are more pictures than are going to fit in the Project Life kit here. That's because I am going to print the vertical pictures in the 3x4 format so they can fill up some extra space and be oriented correctly. I only print and do journaling once a month in my book, so after I finish out January you will see how it all comes together.**

The thing I love about Project Life is that I really don't care if the pictures are perfect. The bathtub picture is definitely not "ideal" since Baby J's eyes are closed and there is a lot of white space, but seriously, who cares?? Low stress and easy is the way to go :)