Tim's 46th birthday

The day started out with Tim's usual stop

at Starbucks for his Caramel Latte, and

one of our regular baristas, Brianna, wrote

on his cup sleeve, and then gave him his

drink free, yay! We then had to run and

do two quick things at two job sites then

Tim had to renew his driver's license,

nothing like leaving it til the last minute.

We then chilled at out local Starbucks in

the afternoon, with new drinks of course,

and enjoyed each others company, read,

and went online while there.

The girls and their boys came over for

dinner of burgers and salads, and then we

played a game of Pictionary, had cake, and

then after Jordyn and Jeff left, the four of

us played a game of Whoonu, :)

All in all, I am pretty sure Tim had

a nice relaxing day surrounded by

those that love him.

Project Life Week 12

Week 12, lots of photos for this week,

so used my trusty Photosheet to make

4x6 collages for those days with lots of

pictures. This is a look at the full week,

and I purchased non Project Life inserts

from my LSS to change up things a bit.

These are 4x4 inserts and allow for a

different look now and again throughout

the album. This week, the entire right hand

side is for one day :)

We were joined by my brother in law and sister

in law at the races on Sunday afternoon, so

I captured more photos then I usually do

when we are there. I also used one of the spots

for a journalling entry just about the day,

and then the top two spots I used the program

cover to fill that space and as a bit of a title.

The right hand side is lots of photos, and I focused on one

color scheme for the week with the teals, and did all my

journalling in a typewriter font. To balance all the color

on this side with the other, I added the number stickers

that come with the core kit on the left hand side to add

just a hint of color to it, and blend it in to this side.

New LO of Tim and I

Yesterday my sister in law snapped this

picture of hubby and I at the races, and

although it was on my iphone, and

just a bit grainy, I still love it. We don't

take a lot of pictures of ourselves, and

usually not taken by someone else, it's

usually the extended arm photo taken

to capture an event or place we are at.

And because I loved this picture, it actually

inspired me to scrapbook a LO today, yay!

I printed out the picture in black and white

something I am into again right now for LO's.

All the products used on this LO are from

7gypsies, except the double sided pattern

paper and that is Bo Bunny's called

Timepiece Unlocked. I used the darker

side for the main LO and just a ripped

strip of the key side of the paper.

I had recently pinned a LO similar to this

on my Pinterest board, and knew I wanted

to do something like it myself. And since

I am a big lover of all things 7gypsies, I had

all the pieces ready and waiting to be used.

I planned my journalling out first on computer

paper, and then carefully layered the cards

onto the printout to get the printing to line

up on both cards, and I was surprised that

the thickness didn't pose to be a problem

for my printer (a big sigh of relief)

The journalling is just from the heart, at

this moment in our lives. Especially, as

the girls get older, we spend more time

as a couple then we do as a family.

Good thing we still like each other, eh?

Project Life Week 11

This weeks full spread of project life. I didn't

have good quality photos this week, and still

wanted to use them, so I used 2x2 print outs

of them on the 3x4 insert cards. I really like

how this week looks. Very clean and crisp.

The right hand side is all photos from both

Tim and I's Instagram app, and although

they aren't the best quality, I wanted

to have some photos that were not

just taken by me as per usual.

Here's the right hand side of the LO, it

was a bit without bland, and didn't seem to

tie into the left hand side, something was

missing, a punch of color to co ordinate

the two sides, there was no teal on this side.

Here is the left hand side, and as you can see,

there is lots of color on this side. I really love

how this looks, I may have to do something

similar with the journaling cards again. I didn't

have a 4x6 photo for the top corner pocket,

so I just used two quotes I had copied off

of Pinterest this past week.

After rethinking the right hand side, I decided

to add a punch of the teal by just using the

number stickers that come with the

Clematine set. This was just what the

side needed to bring it all together.

Thanks for looking, I appreciate any comments

you may wish to leave.

The process of this week's Project Life.

This week I decided to do each day the exact

same way since I was using the insert with

lots of the 3x4 pockets. Not wanting to have

to rework each one, pick a new font for each

as well, like I do in other weeks, I made a

template in which I just reused each day

and changed what was needed.

So after printing out a rough draft on computer

paper, I then lined it up with the journaling cards

I wanted to use, from the Clematine Set, I then

used masking tape to attach the card onto

the computer paper and re feed it through my

computer to print it on the card. This worked well

and I repeated it for each day of the week.

I used all the same insert cards, and it made for

a nice clean linear look for this weeks layout.

After I printed each one out, I attached the

accompaning photo to each card with either

a few strips of masking tape, or with mini staples.

Here's a look at all of them before putting them

into my album. The one for Saturday is blocked

on purpose as it has a friends baby as the photo

and I didn't want to share that without her permission.

The finished graduation LO's for Jordyn

I have recently finished off a pile of half done LO's

that have just needed a few finishing touches to make

them done in my eyes. 4 of those were LO's I had

started from Jordyn's graduation, last June.

The below 2 photos are of the same LO, which ended

up being a 4 pager, these to pictures below are the front

and the back of the 4 pages, with the next below photo

being the middle section. These are most of the photo's

I took of Jordyn and then her grad dinner/dance date,

Chris, a friend of hers from school. Although they weren't

a couple, they both looked so good together all dressed up.

I was thankful that although Jordyn hadn't been

looking forward to the event, that she did have

fun, and snapped a few photos, and even more

thankful that she shared them with me. The invite

was a big looking playing card, to go along with

the Vegas theme to the dance.

The day of her commencement, we took many

photos, both before she had on her cap and gown,

and then afterwards...and I am so happy Tim wasn't

his usual one picture self, and had fun with the photo

shoot, much like the girls and I did, along with Linda.

The last photo is that off photos taken both by me,

and Jordyn as well. Glad we have a mix of formal

and informal photos from her last moments of high school

More vacation LO's

I managed to finish up a few more LO's

about our past visit to Long Beach and

Las Vegas, from last July none the less.

This LO below is just a fun one I did

showcasing my first food truck dinner

experience. I so loved the variety, and

I even kept the stick my ice cream came

on to include on my LO.

The LO below is a 2 page on I did of our

visit up to the new bridge spanning the river

between Nevada and Arizona, up at the

Hoover Dam. Our friend Mike and I ventured

up to check it out, while his wife Andy and my

hubby Tim stayed below, being chickens about

heights and all. We did manage to coax them

up for a looksy, but not too close to the edge.

This was from our first day in Long Beach, the start

of the days there are always foggy, due to the harbour

mist, so we ventured out to a local place that our friends

really like, called Portuguese Cove, and enjoyed

a exploring adventure and some minimal rock climbing.

Project Life Week 10

Week 10 of project life, thinking that while this is

a weekly chore, and yes, it does kinda feel like a

chore, but a happy one at least, I am enjoying the

process and learning what I like and don't like.

I am also more aware when I don't have many

photos from the week, and then look back to

tell a story or talk about someone's week, and

realize I have no photo to go with it. I strongly

dislike that, and this week was a good example

of that. Amy was busy, and spent a lot of time

to herself this week, so when I look back, I had

no picture of her to include, so I did what I

could, and took a photo of her tweet's from

a few days of last week and printed that out.

This is the the whole week side by side,

and I used two of the 4x6 pockets at the

top to hold bits and pieces from our week.

The riot wanted poster, a cover from the

racing program, a few non winning betting

slips on the one side, and on the other,

two days torn off my daily calendar to

record Amy's friends birthdays, an

unwinning lotto max ticket and the

receipt from shopping for Evalie's gift.

Here's the left side, and I only had two days

last week in which I documented with multiple

photos, Sunday and Tuesday so I just used my

go to program Photosheet to get the collage, then

my Kodak printer to add journaling to both.

The photo of Jordyn, and the quote, which I

copied from Pinterest, were in conflict with

each other, she was wearing hot pink, and

the saying was dark blue, so I printed the photo

in black and white so it matched. This also allowed

my journalling to be printed in white to stand

out a lot better against the photo.

The right hand side, and this is my favorite of all

the page inserts in the Project Life variety pack,

has lots of little photos, mostly from Instagram,

and I could be a bit more creative on this side.

I also did something a bit different when recording

which week it was on the "True Stories" insert. I also

used many different types of fonts this week, mainly

because I've been finding my favorites over the last

few weeks, and wanted to have a more random

feel to the page. The middle inside two pockets

I actually cut one of the 4x6 journal cards into 2,

rounded the corners and used them for two seperate

entries, but still got the punch of color I was wanting.

For those of you who have been following along with

my project life, I thank you for checking it out, and for

those of you knew to my Project Life blog updates, welcome.

Project LIfe Week 9

I finished Week 9 on Sunday, but hadn't did my

summary page for the month of February until

this afternoon. I hadn't opened the two envelopes

that had contained the clippings from my dad's

obituaries from back east, and today felt right,

like I was ready to do so, and put the month

of February behind us. I used the 6x12 insert

to not only house the summary but also to hold

the sympathy cards we had received, and the

copies of both of dad's obituaries.

Here is a look at the full week

and below is a look at just the left hand side,

this week I also kept little bits and pieces and

included them in the top left hand pocket.

Here's a close up of the right hand side, but with the insert

not flipped over, just to show a close up of what's in

the pocket and read my journaling.

Below is the close up of the right hand side with the

insert flipped over, on this side, I included the booklet

from the racetrack as well as some loosing betting slips.

And here is the close up of the right hand side all

by itself. I didn't take a whole lot of photos this week,

but I had a few that I wanted to include, so I just did

a quick little collage in the bottom right pocket.

Project Life Week 5

I originally had week 5 posted a few weeks ago, and then

realized a few days later that I had included a photo with

personal information on it, so I deleted the post, and am just

reposting it again today. As you can see in the below photos,

there is one photo missing for online sake only.

This 5th week was extremely hard for me to put together,

because on the last day of my week, I go Sunday thru

Saturdays in my documentation, my dad passed away

suddenly, turning my world upside down for a while.

I just couldn't face putting this week together,

struggled with trying to focus on the rest of what

had happened in theweek, when the only thing I could think

about was my dad.With a few weeks passed now, I was finally

able to finish up this week and the two that have passed since.

You will notice that this week has a 6x12 insert in it, and a

thin divider to identify the new month. The insert I haveused to do a

month in review, and add any other detailsI may have missed but

wanted to include in the month.

Above is the left hand side of the page.

and the right hand side with the divider.

here's a look at the week with the divider turned over.

I loved that I got the card and letter from Erika that week

and was able to include it in the pocket.

and here is the right hand side without the insert.

Project Life Week 8

I had much more fun doing week 8 of Project Life.

Reason for this is that I finally figured out what I

wanted out of the project, and a photo album with

journaling wasn't it. And although for many people

that works well, but for me, with my creative juices

finally flowing again, it just wasn't enough. Now there

is a small part of me that wants to redo the previous

weeks, I will refrain from doing so, and just watch as

Project Life grows along with me over the year.

The photo above is a view of both sides of this

weeks spread, and if you compare this to previous

weeks, you will see how it has changed, more little

bits and pieces to make it look more like mini LO's

instead of just photo's inserted to fill up the week.

On this left hand side, I focused on the story of the week, which

was only using photos I had taken with Instagram, which I have

just gotten for my Iphone, and was crazily snapping and posting

photos all week last week. That being said, I didn't print any out

full sized, and all of them are 2x2 in size. I also mixed up type's

of fonts and added some stickers and staples both inside and

outside of the page protectors.

This is the right hand side, and for this side, I used multiple photos

on a 4x6 print to document our night out for Linda's birthday. I also

used a strip of 3 photos from a breakfast date with Gramma before

Jordyn headed to work on Saturday. I also found the "You are here"

on the internet, and printed it out on one of the inserts that come with

the project life core kit. Lucky for me, the colors were pretty close so I

didn't change up a thing for it. All in all, this is more close to my actual

style of scrapbooking, so I thing if I continue to approach each week

in this manner, I will much more enjoy the process throughout the year.