a little bit of me.

{Project LIFE: Week 14 & 15}

Doubling up in an effort to post more :)

Week 14 first... (the chevron kraft that i used in my title block here is an instant classic for me!)

...Week 14 was a busy one for us - Easter + Passover + a visit from Gramma & PaPa + a daytrip to Savannah.  (Sadly we also lost Eric's own Grandma this week - I'm still working on retrieving pics of her from my crashed PC to add a collage insert to this week...)

...We had egg dyeing, and practice egg hunts, and spring break.  :)

(I kind of love the 'hold it out and shoot' style pic at the top right above - taken right after Easter brunch...)

The right side of the week's spread has more from the week of spring break activities, a little bit of Passover, and also a few shots from our daytrip to Savannah.

The week's first insert is simply the Happy Easter card that my sister's cutie dog sent us.  :)  BECAUSE.I.LOVE.IT!

And then I have a trimmed down Design A protector as the second insert of the week.  It houses Easter basket details and pics on the front & Egghunt shots on the back.

I used a snippet from the kraft somewhere paper (the "georgia") to highlight my savannah pics, and also a stamp from the brand new Adventure Project Life set.

And then we had Week 15 >>> which i think may have been my first Project Life week minus an insert...!  hooray for that :)

...Week 15 involved a trip to South Fla for the funeral, and once back lots of the ordinary stuff we love like t-ball and soccer(!) - it also was the week that Evan and I got to create a little "canvas masterpiece" one-on-one with his art teacher.  The story on the "make art" card is all about that.

Lots of camera phone pics this week, and i love that.

...I also loved using the Design D Protector for the first time as a whole page base.

That "Good Stuff" stamp will be getting alot of use in my album, no doubt.  ;)

And that was Week 14 & 15.

:)

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{Project LIFE: Week 13}

I spent some quality time on Mother's Day catching up on crafty projects - Project Life included.  :)

I have Week 13 to share today...

Week 13 was the week before Evan's spring break, with lots of easter prep and activities... :)

Eric was out of town for biz - so I included his boarding pass stub & also a screen shot of him chatting with Evan on facetime on my iPhone...

We took Noah to see his very first movie - The Lorax - I found the image online and used it as a 4x6 for the week's spread, stitching a ticket stub to the edge.

Insert #1 is just a cut down Design D - trimmed to just the 4x6 portrait oriented - with a pic of Ev in his Easter parade hat on the front, and a little collage from his school festivities on the back...

Insert #2 is trimmed down Design A - I added text to these pics (from a beach night over the weekend) in lieu of extra journaling or a journaling card.  I'm finding as I go that sometimes it's just easier for me to add what I'm thinking about the pic as I process it and prepare it for printing (I print everything at Costco) >> and really, I can use all the timesavers that I can manage.  ;)

I had a blank 4x6 slot on the backside of the insert and took advantage by adding in a little scrappy card with lots of "favorites" right now.

And that was Week 13!

:)

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{Project LIFE: Week 12}

More Project Life to add to the blog history tonight...  Here we go - this was Week 12:

The "hello" diecut that I've been using (alot - i know!) on both scrap projects and my project life spreads, is available at the silhouette online store (it's included in a set of four circle type designs).

My little "photog-er" story from my NSD scrapbook challenge page comes from this week...

This week was lots of little bits and pieces - baseball for Evan, March Madness, beach afternoons, and Spring flower planting.  I know I've said it before, but I truly LOVE that these everyday type moments have a home in my PL album.

The insert this week is a cut down Style D (available in this mega-pack) - I love that while I was photographing scrap projects in my front living room (great light there!) I inadvertantly caught the Kids AND the Poodle (midair!) all waiting at the door excited that Daddy had just pulled in.

The back of the insert has scenes from meeting the easter bunny (version 1 - as we'd end up treking out to meet bunny 2.0 again the next week), early egg hunting, and a beach afternoon.

And that was Week 12!  :)

Now just to catch up on printing last week & this week's pics...!

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{Project LIFE: Week 11}

catch up!!!!  This was week 11 (way-back-when like a month ago!):

Week 11 was St Patty's Day week, and full of lots of "info" from Evan on leprechaun's and "what will happen if you don't wear green on St Patty's Day" (I think he learned this at school?!), and the start of T-Ball games, OH and march madness too thrown in for good measure.  :)

I think my very favorite photo this week was Evan in his little leprechaun "mask".  He wore it home from preschool on wednesday of that week, and it totally MADE MY DAY.  ;) 

This is such a great example of a photo and little everyday memory that I probably would have snapped a pic of Pre-Project-Life, and it would have inevitably gotten lost in the piles of files of abandoned photo files on my computer.  AND I LOVE that it's going to be remembered NOW, right here in week 11.  ;)  Thank you Project Life.

The insert this week is a cut down Style D (available in this mega-pack).

...with just a few "extra" type photos from the week included.

Love to mix in the STYLE E 6x6 protector to my spreads, and this week it was a great way to include a bit of journaling on some of Noah's current "words".  So glad I jotted this list down that week, because he's added so many more in the past month.  I keep a little journal for PL out and about and usually jot about two pages of notes for each week, as the week is going on, so that I can refer back when I'm creating the spread.

After the leprechaun mask, I think my "favorite" from the week was Evan asking me to "recycle" his sippy cup when he was finished >> (another learned at school topic).  :)

And that was week 11!

:)

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{Project LIFE: Week 10}

Week 10.  Here we go!

(have i mentioned lately how much i LOVE this project?!)  ;)

I used the mini chevron paper from new Classic Calico two 6x6 pad on my title card.  This pad has become my favorite go-to for Project Life - the 6x6 size makes it perfect from trimming down to 4x6 cards, or 3x4's - and the neutral patterns just fit my album so easily.

This week was a mix of "every-day" and then our trip to visit my sister and her boyfriend...

The left side of the spread is most of the everday beginning of the week stuff...

And then the right side is a bunch of favorite from our Orange Grove family photo session with my sister.  Love having them arranged like this at a glance.  Especially since I still haven't figured out what I want to do with them in our house...

This week's insert is a a 5x7 protector with a favorite family shot on the front...

...and then a collage of cute shots my sister snapped while we were there on the back.

And that was Week 10!

:)

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{Project LIFE: Week 9}

Here we go - a little more PL catch up today...

WEEK #9 is totally what THREW ME on my now backlogged album.

We went to Disney World this week, and there were SO many shots that I wanted to include (because I knew that if I didn't, then #1 - the chances of them being processed would be greatly lowered, and #2 - they wouldn't ever end up all together in one album!).

I just counted and there are FORTY-SIX photos included in week 9.

The LEFT side of my spread is the first part of the week (including Leap Day and a comparison to Leap Day 2008), up until we left for Disney.

The Happy Meal is a staple in our lives here.  And when I opened it up to discover the new mini-fry + apples, it was a monumental moment.  ;)  Hence the story...

The RIGHT side of my spread is lots from Disney World.  And the first time I got to put these CUTE filmstrip fabrips to a good use!

After looking for disney cuts in the silhouette store and not finding anything, I welded some circles together in the silhouette software to create my Mickey head.

Included in the week's spread are THREE inserts.  The first is a STYLE E 6x6 that has Noah's 21 month update on the front...

...and an instagram collage of Disney phone snaps on the back.

After that I have a cut down Style D - with the top left photo spot stitched close (the only place I see them currently available is in this big multi pack - that I actually just ordered because I'm desperate for more of Style F!) with mainly Hollywood Studios pics (day 1)...

...and then a cut down Design F Page with more hollywood studios pics on the frontside,

...and disney on the backside.

And that was Week 9.

Who now feels like they went to disney with us after seeing my mountain on photos thrown into this week?!

;)

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{Project LIFE: Week 8}

Catch up, Catch up (on the blog posting of Project Life) >> here we go...!

This was week 8.  :)

Highlights from the week had to be our "Light Saber Bathtime" (as we ended up calling it) >> a pinterest inspired find which was really just a bath in our big tub, in the dark, with two packs of Target $1 spot glow bracelets floating in the tub!

...and Toby's 10th Birthday (Toby is our poodle!) - this ended up getting it's own insert:

Eric and I also attended a preschool fundraiser for Evan's school - from which I included the invitation and also a few photobooth photo strips that we posed for (after a few drinks, ha!).  I just cut down and stitched up the side of a 12x12 protector for the invite.

Overall, I'd have to say that the week was AWESOME.  ;)

Now just to (finish the) catch up to where we are right now...!

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{Project LIFE: Week 7}

MORE PL!  :)  I'm officially "caught up" to week seven...

...with lots of the following weeks filled in, and just missing a story here or an accent there - that seems to be the way I work with PL - fill as I go, decide what I need to add, fill a bit more.

Week 7 is one of my favorites so far.

Valentine's Day pretty much dominated the entire Left side of the spread...

With not one, but THREE inserts this week, with more V-day stuff.

The first contains a card that Evan made me at school (that i LOVE - it was 'Peter Max' inspired!).  I used a regular 12x12 protector then just trimmed it to size and machine stitched up the left side.  EASY-PEASY.

...and after that i used a cut-down something or the other protector (i can't remember what!) to hold the photo card that we attached to Evan's class valentines.  (There's a sheet of his Star Wars valentines included on the backside of his hand-made card!).

The third (& last!) insert is a cut down Style A protector - pics from evan's class party on the front and also the story about how we created cute little "mailboxes" together before Valentines, then hung them up on the bedroom doors in our home...

...and snippets on the reverse side from a much-needed "datenight" that eric and I went on that week - along with the tweet that I sent after searching out the "robot" minifigure from Lego's series 6 new packs.  :)  I kept the package and stitched it onto the patterned paper backing along with the instagram pics.

and then we come back to the left side of the spread...  I'm so glad I finally snuck in a weather screenshot - as this might have been the coldest it (sadly) got all winter.  And I also had the chance to document our "muffin tin lunches" - I know that I'll love pics of these, 20 yrs from now!  ;)  And that's brand new SC Classic Calico 2 on the title card.

And that was week 7.  phew.

:)

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{Project LIFE: Week 6}

And the catch-up continues...  all the way back to the beginning of February - Week 6!

Here it is...

no inserts this week... crazy (for me!).  :)

I just discovered the "you are my happy" stamp on this set, and used it on my title card below - LOVE that phrase!

...this week was all about keeping up with the kids while eric was gone - starting t-ball - Mr potato head glasses(!) - assembling valentines - a trip into downtown jax - and seeing star wars in 3D (for eric & ev - i had eric snap a phone pic of the star wars poster at the theatre to include as a 3x4 card in PL)!!!

I'm thrilled that I managed to fit it all into just the single spread.  Must have meant that I didn't snap that much that week.  ;)

I translated the blog post story about the glasses (from early Feb) to the journaling card below with the mr potato head glasses pics...

...and that was week 6.

:)

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{Project LIFE: Week 5}

Catch-up time on blogging Project Life...  here we go!!!

Week 5.  ((way back to the start of February...))

Eric spent most of the week in Arizona for work - so I had him text me some photos - and that's how the cactus pic ended up in the middle of this week's spread.  I'm loving that he's loving what the album is becoming, too.  ;)

I'm also LOVING the Design F Pocket page (used on the left side of my spread).  I take a ton of vertically oriented portrait style shots, and have found that this is what I usually want to grab, and what works really well for me.

...Lots of other random tidbits from our week.  And I have to say that it's kind of crazy that its definitely become a mix of iPhone pics and then regular digi SLR shots.  I LOVE THAT.  :)

The instagram collage is just a few faves - there are so many more pics, and instas that don't end up in my week here - and I think that might just be the part of Project Life that I'm struggling with the most right now.  I want to include IT ALL - and that is just not possible.  I'm slowly realizing that and attempting to let go to the "everything from the week that I love must be shown here" mentality.

...I used a a 5x7 protector insert to include a shot from Evan's half birthday pics taken this week (with his half-year updates!) on one side, and then a shot of Noah (taken the week after this, but included here bc this was the week he hit 20 months).

Evan had a couple of cute artwork pieces that he brought home this week and that I wanted to include in the spread - so I just photographed each, and then resized to fit a 3x4 base.  I added color and a text title to the fireman pic and story below, and then a story about groundhog day (as he described it to me as "grandpa's day") next to that piece.

...and finally - a cute email subject line from eric, simply added to a colored background on a 3x4 base.

And that was week five.

:)

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