Thoughts Along Life's Highway

Project Life Tuesday ~ 9 August

No work lately on my Project Life album, but I’m not too concerned. I’m planning a weekend getaway with some girlfriends soon and I know I will have plenty of time that weekend to get the album caught up. Right now, I’m just trying to keep up with picture taking.  I didn’t take many the beginning of the week, and was a little worried about it until we had a little adventure on Friday which resulted in a ton of pictures. So, it all worked out in the end.

This week school starts, so we’ll have tons of pictures I am sure.

Without further ado – I give you the PL photos for the week:

Hot, hot, and more hot!

 

My beautiful girls at lunch on Wednesday.

Getting through the day with a little prayer and a reminder of who is in control.

Relaxing on Thursday night after showers with some fresh berries and Discovery TV.

    Hazy, but beautiful – our view driving up into the mountains on Friday morning.

Getting ready for our tour – love the hair nets (notice Mama made sure there were no pictures of her with a hair net!)

  

Ice cream after our tour.

Then we headed out for a little antiquing: Like their “car phones?”

Then a picnic along the river -

This was our view: And we dipped our toes in the water – it was 95 degrees in the shade! The water was freezing but it felt really good. My feet were numb quickly, but it was actually very refreshing. We wished we had brought swimsuits. Look at that handsome man!

I've got to remember not to keep my sunglasses on top of my head. I look like I have Mickey ears!And then it was home for the weekend full of fun with friends.

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Project Life Tuesday ~ 26 July

Moving in slow motion today… I was up most of the night last night, in spite of taking Benadryl for allergies, because of a nasty stomach bug that decided to attack. I think there can’t be much worse than being so groggy from Benadryl and yet so sick that you can’t possibly sleep. I tried the sofa upstairs, the sofa downstairs, the bed (but was afraid to wake SuperMan with my tossing & turning) and finally ended up in my rocking chair/recliner with a heating pad on my tummy until SuperMan got up for work.  I didn’t really fall asleep until around 4:30 this morning.

So, out the window goes the plans for most of my productivity today. I’m keeping expectations low and plans simple.  Put dinner in the crock pot – a comforting beef vegetable soup – and have stuck to simple foods and protein shakes for my meals so far today. Let’s let sleeping dogs lie, you know what I mean?

I decided to make a digital scrapbook page with my Project Life pictures this week. I’m determined to finally learn Photoshop and I know I won't do that until I actually use it. It is hard, because I am so proficient in the Creative Memories software and my inclination is to just open that and go when I feel like scrapbooking. But I want to learn and utilize the power of Photoshop, so I know I have to be patient with my slowness at first or else I will never become proficient.

Here’s my page today:

The journaling reads:

1. Pinky Cat hanging out on the sidewalk at Mom’s house.
2. Brunswick stew at my favorite local Savannah restaurant - Carey Hilliards. We make a “pilgrimage” every time we go to Savannah to get our fix for fried shrimp and bbq.
3. Sweet Little Bit’s birthday
4. Big Girl “babysitting” the neighbor’s little chunk of love.
5. Playing scrabble & drinking (root) beer
6. More scrabblers
7. Mom’s yummy breakfast - cheese grits, bacon, maple sausage & eggs.
8. Pucker up, baby.
9. A snack on the road home - cheese dip at Taco Mac.
10. Little Bit the scientist with her new microscope.
11. One last birthday celebration at Rice Restaurant on Friday night.
12. Clean puppy after her weekly bath.

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Project Life Tuesday (a little late)

I’m a little late with Project Life this week – I’m on vacation and got a little behind in my posting-ahead schedule – that, and I wanted to use Tuesday’s post to pay homage to my little one who celebrated her birthday.

This week’s Project Life photos are all from my cell phone – I’ve been enjoying the portability and the fact that I have it with me everywhere I go.

I’m loving my Instagram app – but I use a bunch of other iPhone photo apps as well. I am having fun experimenting and finding different styles with each one. 

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Project Life Tuesday ~progress

Well, I have made some progress – finally! – in my Project Life book.

I set up a scrap space in the living room this weekend and purposely ignored the chores, laundry, etc. for a few hours Friday, Saturday and Sunday so that I could get a little scrapbooking done.

I managed to get from January through April up to date. That, my friends, is a huge accomplishment, given that I had everything in piles – piles of pictures, piles of memorabilia, piles of printouts, post-its, etc. Organization was the first step, and then I just started putting things into pages.

For March and April, I gave up the notion of a two-page spread per week and just focused on getting groups of pictures together in logical arrangements. I actually like it pretty well, as it more accurately reflects our life – snippets of the everyday with a few things highlighted.

Here are a few of the pages. I’m using some different sized page protectors as well – 6x12 for the days when I have extra pictures, 8x10 for the kids’ school work and some printouts of some of my favorite blog posts I wanted to capture. (my blog is like my online scrapbook, so why re-do the journaling?) I also got an assortment of 12x12 pocket pages on scrapbook.com with some different configurations of pockets that I’m using when I need some vertical picture sleeves.

I have to say, I’m loving this process. I want to get April/May/June done so that I can work week-to-week and stay caught up. I love the simplicity and being able to capture what was important without getting caught up in all the frills and furbelows of “traditional” style scrapbooking.

I am also loving the fact that I’m using up my stash. Other than the Project Life kit and a few packs of page protectors (mentioned above) I’ve not bought anything else. I’m just using what I have – which is copious amounts of paper and embellishments – and I love that I’m making do with what I have and still making something pretty. I’ve decided to put my family calendar pages in for each month – thought it would be a good way to remember what we were up to each month. I’m using an 8x10 insert to hold them.

This is the back of the calendar page – a church bulletin and my self portrait marking one year since my surgery.

8x10 pages with my blog post.

Using one of the other inserts to get some vertical 4x6 pictures in.

loving the 8x10s to keep the kids’ schoolwork in the book.

This is one of the 6x12 pages (on the right) for some extra pictures I had. a blog post – why redo the work? just stick it in a page protector! Well, that’s a pretty photo heavy post! Thanks for sticking through to the end!!

More updates hopefully next week!

Project Life Tuesday ~ 5 July

What a fun weekend we had – in spite of the fact that my poor momma got sick with a flu-type bug – and how nice it was to be with our family again. 

I have lots of pictures this week (seems to be a trend?) Having fun taking photos of every day things and I am starting to notice little things to take snapshots of while we are on our adventures… like the mini-car on a post that I wanted to take a picture of but couldn’t because it was pouring down rain (next time, I will, though)

 

Pretty Pedi with my friend Carol

Pool monkeys.

The spreadsheet that tried to kill me.

Recovering after finishing the killer spreadsheet

Arts and crafts to make a hot summer day pass more quicklyAnd when that fails, there is always the pool!Friday night’s dinner at a Japanese restaurant along the road to Savannah included new flavors of “Japanese sprite” and a walk along Main Street where we met a guard kitty in a store window.The lonely highway to Mom’sThe beautiful dinner-plate hibiscus in my mom’s garden.

Hitching a ride with Pop Pop

Helping Ammi make lunchSaturday morning shopping at the Farmer’s MarketDate night night-capSwingin’ with Momma.            

Dinner on the way home on the 4th.

Project Life Tuesday ~ 28 June

Happy Tuesday!

Lots of pictures again this week – mostly from our fun Sunday with friends.

I got to do a little work last weekend on my Project Life album but I have to say, being 5+ months behind in putting stuff IN the album is quite a mountain to tackle. I have all sorts of stuff – receipts, pictures, kids’ schoolwork, etc. but it is just SO MUCH stuff that I got overwhelmed on Saturday and after spending a couple hours sorting and organizing I just had to quit.

I realized one thing – this is a much easier project to do if you do it on a weekly (or daily) basis than if you try to go back and catch up.

I think what I’m going to do is start with June 1st, get everything from that point forward put in and fixed like I want it.  Then I will do my darndest to keep it up to date on a weekly basis (and share with you here) by printing my pictures & putting them in the album every Saturday (that’s the plan anyway).

Then I will catch up the March – June pages on a weekend retreat I’m going to be at in a few weeks.  It’ll be a good project to do that weekend because I won’t be distracted by kids, cooking, etc.

For those of you doing Project Life, too, what works for you? I’d love to know how you keep up without getting overwhelmed. Last year I did a lot of digital pages and a little bit of PL/P365 and ended up doing a combined album. I wasn’t thrilled with it, but my photos were scrapbooked and everything documented.  So, I just let it go.

If I can’t get this one caught up, I think I may just go with an all-digital project.  I’m finding that I’m just not into the mess and dealing with the paper projects anymore. I get disconcerted by the bits and bob (where I used to be thrilled with all the stuff gathered around me)

Anyway, here are this week’s pictures:

Monday: Scooby Cat’s new favorite place to sleep – right in the main traffic-way in the kitchen!

Tuesday: lunch for the girlies – their request! 

Wednesday: Kitty hiding from the rain.Thursday: no picture

Friday: Big Girl is doing the Big Picture Classes: Kidding Around class this summer. It’s her first page! I’m so proud of her.Saturday: SuperMan making his almost famous beef jerky

And my Amish Breakfast Casserole – that I forgot to put the hash browns in!! (tasted good anyway)

Sunday: Lake fun with friends. 

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Project Life Tuesday: 21 June

Happy Tuesday, y’all. I have a TON of pictures from last week – mostly from Father’s Day – which I will share in a later post because I want to tell the story of the day along with the pictures.

I am hoping to find a few hours this weekend to work on catching up on my Project Life album.  Maybe I can show you some pages next week. Of course, that will depend on me actually carving out the time to work on it!

Okay, enough of that… here are this week’s pictures:

 

My “assistant”Beautiful sunset:

Why yes, I do wear my pearls when I drink my tea in the morning, don’t you? 

Beauty after the rainstorms.

 

The peace and quiet that comes after new game purchases (aaahhh) 

Arts & Crafts – inchworms!

And a few shots from our Sunday adventures.  

 

And I just HAD to have a picture of this!! Can you believe it?  We also saw “ Lois’ Bakery” sign but we couldn’t pull over for a picture… That’s it for now… what about you? Any photos last week?

Post your link in the comments so we can go look!

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Project Life Tuesday: 14 June

In retrospect, I’m a little surprised that I actually have pictures at all. It was such a crazy week.

But, I guess this habit has become more entrenched than I realized.  I do have pictures! and I have FOURTEEN pictures from seven days!

So, let’s share away!

Monday: Mexican for lunch with Ammi before she left to go back home.

Tuesday: Visit to the vet with Sydney before she starts puppy school

Wednesday: Lunch at our favorite restaurant Giorgio’s after Little Bit’s doctor’s appointment. We treated ourselves to cheese sticks and Mr. Tzortzi gave the girls Italian ices for a treat after lunch.

Thursday: bad day -  no pictures

Friday: Cookies make everything better

Saturday: the prescription for the day was rest, relaxation and recuperation

And being attacked in the hammock by a big, furry beastie. 

 Sunday: lunch at Giorgio’s again.

And catching fireflies before bed.

So, how was your week?

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Project Life Tuesday

Oh.my.goodness!!

Isn’t life supposed to SLOW DOWN once school is out?!?

Well, it hasn’t for us yet.

Last week was a busy, busy week. So much so that I’m not entirely sure I took pictures every day. I can’t even remember!

The girls’ recitals were over the weekend, so we had rehearsals on top of a short work week and recuperating from our whirlwind holiday weekend trip.

It’s been fun but I am certainly ready for things to slow down a little bit.  This week doesn’t look much like it will be any slower, but I am hopeful for next week. :-)

I know I owe you my menu plan for the week, too. I’ll put it up in a separate post. Mom was here through yesterday and between recitals, working, doctors appointments and spending time with her, blog posting got pushed way, way down on the priority list.

 

Anyway, without further adieu, here is the PL Tuesday photo show. Enjoy!

I’m not quite sure what to say about this one, other than this is what happens when Mommy is working in another room and the kids are unsupervised and a camera is nearby. I think this is Little Bit in the laundry basket. But why? I’m not entirely sure!

Relaxing at the pool – and pummeling your sister – no better way to spend the summer.

 

Thursday afternoon ballet rehearsals.

 

 

Saturday night Jazz recital. Not a bad family picture, I think. 

Sunday ballet recital.

Relaxing in the hammock with Daddy.

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Project Life check in

I thought I’d let you know how I’ve been doing with my Project Life project… or rather, doing but not doing….

or something like that.

I think I mentioned a while back that I’d purchased Becky Higgins’ Project Life kit.  I have every intention of using it, but life has been so crazy lately, not much is happening with it.

As a matter of fact, it looks like this:

How sad is that?

Of course, the pile isn’t all mine. That flowered album is Big Girl’s and from that binder up to the top is all the kids’ school work that they decided needed to be in my album and therefore could be stacked there instead of going through it and tossing what they didn’t want.  (Guess that means Mommy gets to sort it and toss it)

I have been really good about taking my pictures, though.  Just not very good at doing much with them after that – well, I guess I’m doing something – I’m putting them here.

I am still toying with the concept of doing some digitally, too.

I am enamored of “the monthly roundup” concept that Katie Pertiet does – and Cathy Zielske has these great templates that work well, too.

(She’s also doing Project Life – and I love how she is doing it)

The Shabby Princess is also doing something similar – I think she calls it Project Scrap.  Her idea is 2 pictures/week and then she offers a free template each month for you to plop your pictures in. And the templates are CUTE!

I had been thinking about doing Katie’s Roundup each month to compliment the Project Life pages – and had originally planned to get Cathy Z’s templates. But after finding the Shabby Princess’ templates, I may just go with those. They’re free, after all.

So, that brings me back to the progress, or lack of progress, with the project. I have done well with picture taking and with keeping tidbits of memorabilia from life. I still want to do better with capturing some news items and saving some more things from life – church bulletins, etc.

I am hoping to go to a weekend crop the first part of July and that is when I’m planning to catch up on my project.  That will be all I work on, so that should be plenty of time (and stuff) to work with!

In the meantime, I think I may give these digital options a try and see if I can do some monthly recaps – at least I’ll feel more like I’m accomplishing something… although, I have to admit, between this blog and my photo-a-day blog, I don’t really feel like I’m being terribly slack. I’m just capturing my memories in a different way.

What about you? What do you think?

Project Life Tuesday

This week, with it’s holiday on Monday, has my posting schedule a little off.

So, Project Life Tuesday is on Wednesday this week.

Recipes will be coming soon and who knows how I’ll end up the week.

We had an interesting and busy week last week – the last couple days of school, travel to my Mom’s, and some fun adventures while we were down there.

Let’s get this started,shall we?

Monday: “hookey day” and hanging out on the hammock. Little Bit’s fashion for the day.

  

Tuesday: my office – conference calls from the hammock.  Wednesday: Taco Salad nightThursday: Bread baking to take to Ammi & Pop Pop

Friday: No picture – we were traveling

Saturday: Farmer’s Market

Sunday: Swimming in the hot tub at Ammi’s house

Monday: Little Bit lost another tooth!

And the girls love to make things with leftover “parts” from SuperMan’s side jobs.

What about you? did you take any pictures last week?

You can view more of my photo-a-day project over on It's a Beautiful Life.

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Project Life Tuesday

 

 

Thought I would share with you the Project Life pictures I’ve taken in the last week:

Sunday: My “other job”

Monday: My feet may be frozen, but they’re cute.

Tuesday: The Animal Jam game addict.

Wednesday: Ouch.

Thursday: My favorite snack is back in season!!

   Friday: My newest “toy”

Saturday: Playing Wii

How about you? Did you capture any everyday pictures last week?
I’m logging these daily on my other ‘photo only’ blog if you want to take a peek.

It's a Beautiful Life

I think I’ve mentioned a couple of times that I’m doing Project Life again this year.

I just love this format and have actually moved away from doing any other type of scrapbooking. It’s just so easy and so quick and simple. 
I love being able to snap one picture a day and capture what’s going on without having to worry if I have enough to fill a 2 page spread, or enough journaling to warrant a scrapbook page. I love saving receipts, schoolwork, and other tidbits from life to include in there. (documenting the price of gas, anyone?)

And with my nifty new toy, ahem, phone, I have this really cool application I’m using: Project365. I can snap my picture with the camera on the phone, add it to the app and have a little snippet of journaling to go with the photo.  I’ve even added to that by pushing the photos up to the web so I can share with others. (I bought the Pro version, by the way)

And, when I have time, I can go back, print the photos, put them in the Project Life album add the journaling and I’m done!

So cool.

I want to share my photos with you guys, too.  But I didn’t want to overwhelm my blog here with the photo-a-day posts. So, I set up a photo-only blog over here.

So, anyway, if you want to subscribe to that photo-a-day blog you can.  Or, you can just check occasionally.  I think it would be fun to see other people’s ideas for their photo-a-day projects.  Some days I have tons of ideas, others, I’m struggling with coming up with an idea for ONE photo!!

You can find the link to the blog up in the top right corner of this blog.

Of course, there are some great websites with some ideas: Capture Your 365 is one. I like that she sends daily emails to remind you, although I’ve not used any of her ideas yet.

Becky Higgins’ Facebook page has some great photo-a-day ideas, too. I sat down last night and went through all of hers and jotted them down in a notebook (my lovely little moleskine) that I can carry around to give me inspiration when I need it.

What about you?

Are you doing a photo-a-day project?

What do you do with your pictures? 

Share! Share! I’d love to hear some of your ideas…

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Project Life, a wedding, and more

Did you watch?

Did you rise early to see the Prince get married? I did, although I was getting up early anyway, so it wasn’t a special thing that I got up so stinkin’ early.  But I have to say, it was beautiful.  She was simply gorgeous – elegant, regal and so feminine. And the princes looked so relaxed, Harry even joking around.

The girls (my girls) were cute – I woke them to see the wedding (it was time for them to get up anyway) and Little Bit wasn’t sure she wanted to wake up for the wedding or not. “Can I go back to sleep afterward?” uh, no. “Then no, I don’t want to watch.”

But I think they loved it anyway.

On another note -

My Project Life kit arrived! Hooray!

I spent a little time yesterday starting to get things together. I have been snapping pictures for a few weeks with this project in mind, although I don’t have that much from January/February, March onwards is covered pretty well.

After looking at lots of other Project Life pages online, I have decided this year to keep more memorabilia and some of the kids’ schoolwork – this album will be THE place I record 2011 – everything is going to go in there – digital pages, snapshots, everything.

I have everything scattered out on the kitchen table now, but I think I’ll be moving it to my basement scrap space tonight. I can’t stand the mess there and I’m paranoid about getting food or something on the pages.

Finalizing my plans and preparation for my business trip next week. I used to travel all the time for work, but I am so out of practice these days.  I have been obsessing about the trip for weeks and have my bags partially packed already.  Today I’ll be sneaking in a mani/pedi so that all is groomed and tailored for next week. I’m so accustomed to wearing jeans/yoga pants and casual clothes that it feels a little strange to be planning to dress up, even just a little bit. But it will be fun to be a “grown up” for a few days – not just Mommy in yoga pants who happens to work, too. :-)

Posts are scheduled throughout the week, but if I miss a day or two, don’t think I’ve forgotten you. I plan to take photos and have plenty to share when I return!

Project Life Update

I spent some time last weekend updating my Project Life album. I hadn’t worked on it since my surgery at the end of February even though I have been taking pictures here and there and saving bits and pieces to put in the album.

I have to say, I am still loving this format and the kit. I also loved how I realized that there were quite a few pictures that, once I put them in here, I didn’t feel the need to create an additional layout in the family scrapbook. I had told the story here and captured the memory… why do duplicate work? I love that!  My family book is becoming more of a place to capture more in-depth stories and moments and special events.  Project Life is capturing the everyday.

I am even considering inserting some “regular” scrapbook pages in here and making it THE album for the family for the year. Haven’t decided if/how I will do that, though. Just thinking about it.

Here are some of the pages I did. Still have a little journaling to do, but I was not in a writing mood at the time I did this. I will go back and update those this weekend.

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Freaking out… just a little

I’m having some surgery on Thursday… nothing serious… just making myself healthier.  But, I’m freaking out just a little at the whole idea. It’s a lot to organize – knowing you are going to be out of the house for a few days and out of circulation for a few more after that.  I don’t know what is freaking me more – the surgery itself, or the logistics of all the things going on around here that have to keep going even if I’m not here to do them.

So, with all that said, I may (or may not) be somewhat sporadic in my blog posts over the next week or so.  Bear with me. I am coming back, I promise.

Ok, enough with all that -

 

Here are some Project Life pictures for the past week:

Want to see more Project Life pictures? Check out the Mom Creative for more Project Life Tuesday posts.

I promised circus pictures, but I have over a hundred to sort through before I do that. Maybe tomorrow.

Oh, and if you have read this far I have two more things:

1. Thank you. Thank you for reading my blog entries, for commenting, and for caring enough to come back and see what I have to say each day.

2. I wanted to know: what do you like most about my entries? What type do you like the best? The scrapbook layouts, pages,templates? Stories about my family adventures? Random observations about parenting? None of the above?  Let me know! I’d really like to hear from you.

Project Life Tuesday (er, Wednesday)

I hope that you enjoyed Kate’s guest post yesterday – and visiting a few new blogs as well! I had great fun hosting Kate and posting on Helen’s blog. We are hoping to do that on a monthly basis, so you’ll be hearing more from those ladies in the future. Let me know what you thought of the swap in the comments. I’d love to hear your impressions!

Here’s my Project Life post – a day late but better late than never:

And the pages are in-progress as well:

I am already working on this week’s pages – I went ahead and printed the pictures I had so far and stuck them in the pages.

You may notice that this week I used a white border on my pictures. I think I like it better than the rounded corners of the week before. I think it sets the pictures off a little.

What do you think?

Project Life Tuesday

I started my Project Life album this weekend. I got through the entire month of January in less than an hour, including journaling all except last week.  I am just thrilled with that little statistic.

To me, that is one of the beautiful things about this kit. Everything is laid out for you, coordinated and organized. All I have to do is put my pictures in and do my journaling.  How simple is that?!?  Heck, I might actually make it all year if it is going to be this easy to do!

Here are some pictures of the pages I completed.

Cover Page
I decided to include a picture of the family on this page
and I stamped the year on one of the cards.

(you can click on the pictures for a larger view)For this week (the first week of Jan) I included a picture from New Year’s Day just because it was silly and I liked it. The rest of the pictures are from the snow that we had at the end of the week. All of the pictures are from a two day period of time, but I decided that it was a momentous enough occasion that I wanted to dedicate the whole two pages to it. 

I have also decided to do my pages Friday-Thursday because New Year’s Day was on a Friday.

I have also decided to include more memorabilia this year than I did last year. Why I didn’t think about it then, I don’t know. Sometimes a piece of ephemera is more appropriate to capture a day’s memories than a picture.  Anyhow, I used movie theater tickets for one weekend. We went to two movies in a weekend – almost unheard of for us – but with the cold temps and snow we had to do something to get out of the house for a few hours!

 

I have also decided that I am going to include bits and pieces from the girls’ schoolwork, awards, etc in this album. Because it is a 3-ring it is so easy to just pop in an 8.5x11 page protector and include the extras. I love that. I have always struggled with what to do with the things they bring home that I love and want to keep but that I didn’t really want to take up an entire page in a 12x12 album.  This is a perfect solution.

As a matter of fact, I am seriously thinking I will move to the 3-ring format for more and more of my albums. I started out as a Creative Memories album exclusive kind of girl. Then, in the past few years, I have branched out and tried some post-bound albums. Both offer some great features, and both have some drawbacks.  The 3-rings I have shied away from because the albums seem so heavy and bulky. But I am loving the ease of adding pages, moving things around, and my girls commented that it was easier to turn the pages when they are looking through the book. So, I may be trying a new album type this year.

The second page of this spread had exciting pictures like my dog, the scrap space and a sick girl, so I didn’t bother taking another picture.

I don’t know if you noticed, but I also decided I am not doing anything special with the “heading” card. I am just hand-writing the dates and circling the months. I decided that I was not going to stress myself out with this book by trying to make it “artsy” or extra-crafty. I am going to release myself from that expectation and just focus on capturing the pictures and stories. (and it feels good!)

Are you doing Project Life or a similar project?  How are you approaching it?  Leave me a comment and let me know (this means you!)

My Project Life

I’m starting my Project Life this weekend. I am looking forward to sitting down and putting the book together and getting my first few weeks of pictures in the pages.  I am determined that this year I will stay more caught up than last year.  So, I am hoping that I can sit down at least once a week (or once every two weeks) and get the pictures printed and the journaling done.

I thought I would share some of the pictures I’ve taken the last two weeks – they aren’t terribly exciting because we’ve had strep running amok in our house for the past few weeks.  But that is part of what this project is about, right? Capturing everyday life in all it’s nuances. From the exciting to the mundane.

So, here are some of the shots:

Oh, and here is a great link to an article I read about making your Project Life/365 successful. Great ideas.

Weekly Challenge #2 is ready

If you are following along with our Scrap Weekly Challenge Blog, thought I'd let you know the new one is up and ready for viewing.

Here's a hint:

Hop on over and take a look!