Project Life Week 21

So this week once again focuses on me....lol..at least

the first side of the spread does as it was my

birthday on the Monday and we had stuff going

on, mostly all for me... :) 

I had these great photos from our dinner out with Jason

and Michelle, but they were all yellow tinged from 

being inside a low light restaurant and being taken

with our Iphones. So to make them all look the

same I just converted them into black and white.

I also love how my journaling cards worked out, I used

the blank, graph cards that come in the Clementine

Core Kit, and stamped them with the box stamp

I've had for years, and just printed my journaling

out on my computer, then added the arrow to each

afterwards to direct the eye to the photo.

On Saturday night, we went to the Roger Water's 

concert and it was so amazing, that I wanted to use

a couple of the collage pages I made for my IG feed 

and decided to use them like pocket to hold some

of the the goodies from the night.

Project Life Week 20

This was a busy week and I had lots of little stories to tell.

I used 2x2 pictures ontop of my journaling cards to allow

me to share more this week. I also have been playing

a bit of with new ways of dating my journaling cards,

and this is another one I will use again.

This page of 6x6 squares allowed me to tell the story of

my mother's day and include a lot of the pictures we got

that day. The day was full of stuff, from early morning

coffee with Jordyn, brunch with Amy then all of us

down at Crescent Beach for a picnic of Subway.

I also included pictures of when Jordyn took me for

a pedicure on Tuesday and I took a business card

just to use in my project life.

Half price frappe week was also going on, so you know we

left work early to take advantage of it on more then one

occasion :) I really like how these cards look all together

on the spread, make it flow so nicely together.

Project Life Week 18

Mom's last week with us was packed with things to do.

I helped her make a mini album of her trip, showed her

some scrapbooking tricks and techniques and watch

as she put most of the album together.

This is a mish mash of photos, journalling and just

happy fun memories of our time with my mom.

Lots of game of Yahtzee and Phase 10 were played,

and of course silly happy fun.

I also did up my month in review for April, and included it

in the 6x12 insert page.

On the back of the insert, I included some of my favorite

Instagram photos, all in 2 x 2 size so that they could also

be included in my Project Life.

Saturday was a hard emotional day for me,

and I tried to keep it in check, but by the time

the evening rolled around I just wanted to curl

up in a ball and cry. Mom was leaving the next 

day and I wasn't ready to say goodbye yet. 

We went to Jason and Michelle's for a game of

Rummoli and a great dinner. After dinner, Jason 

asked Amy is she'd like to go on a ride on his 

motorcycle and of course she said yes, then

convinced me to do the same, and I'm so glad

I did, it was so much fun, so freeing, to just feel

the wind in my face, the road whipping by, and 

I was instantly put in a good mood, allowing me

to enjoy a great family evening.

Project Life Week 19

This week was bittersweet as mom left on Sunday

night to go back home. I was a mixture of sad, happy

and ready to let her go. We had a wonderful visit,

had lots of fun, shed many tears, had some family

turmoil and a major event happen all in her short 

three week visit. 

This first page highlights the day mom left, first

with a family photo shoot outside of our house,

luckily, Daniel was over so he was our photographer

and was just snapping picture after picture, so I 

included some of the not so great ones in this collage.

It also has a few photos from inside the train station, even

though there were signs posted saying not photography,

like I'm one to listen to such silliness, NOT!

And I didn't even cry when I said goodbye, nor

did she, although I did cry in the truck on the

way home.

The other photo collages were of some raccoons that

visited the jobsite early one morning so of course we

had to stop and watch their antics and take some

pictures, but from the safety of inside the house.

Tim and I also got out one sunny day and took the skytrain

into Vancouver to enjoy a walk all along the seawall,

which we started at Science World, walked all the way

to Granville Island then took the little ferry over to the

other side to continue our walk along the other side.

Project Life Week 17

This was such a full busy week. We went over to 

Victoria with mom to visit Linda, and we did all 

kinds of things, even though the rain wouldn't let

up and made it difficult to keep busy outdoors.

I also finally figured out how to size and frame text

boxes and after a few hours of playing I managed

to get it sized perfectly to fit the plain core kit 

journaling cards. I also enjoyed stamping all those

little red birds onto each card.

I also had so many photos from our trip and so did

mom and I wanted to include lots of them, so I used

two slide insert page protectors and filled them with 

2x2 photos. This process took hours to cut, corner

round and organize into the sheets, but I do like

how it let me include so many photos for the week.

Below is the left hand side that if just the date insert, 

and then the one photo I loved from Victoria of mom

and myself down in the Inner Harbor. Then the rest is

a daily play by play of the week.

Below is a look at the week but with the slide sheets 

flipped over to reveal the right hand side.

Below is a closer look at the right hand side, once

again I used a collage for each 4x6 photo so I 

could include multiple pictures. Then just continued

with the daily journal entries.

Project Life Week 16

This week was all about my mom!!!! I had waited 7 long

years to see her again, and when she called me from across

the crowed train station I was a mess, crying and couldn't

even get the words out I wanted to say. I am so thankful

that Jordyn knows me well enough to have captured me

hugging mom in a picture, it will be one I treasure always.

This look at the full week below shows that mom was in

most of the pictures and that I wanted to not miss a 

thing with lots of journalling.

The left hand side is nicely balanced with photos

on the outsides and the journalling all down the 

middle on my favorite color of the Clementine

Core Kit. Lots and lots of memories this week.

A variety of things going on below on the right hand 

side of the week, my two favorite photos are the

dog wearing our safety goggles and my mom and

the giant teddy bear at Costco.

Project Life Week 15

Week 15, had us excitedly awaiting my mom's 

arrival on the following Monday, but she left

the Thursday of this week. She was even good

at getting photos of her leaving the station in

Ontario so I could include it in my project life

for this week. The LO for this week is just

basically a mishmash of photos taken almost 

completely on my Iphone. I miss having a good

point and shoot camera, but am really liking 

the convenience of having a phone that has

a decent camera in it. Plus, how else would

I post my life onto Instagram...lol

Below is the full spread of the week, I had a few

momentos from the week so included them in

here as well.

The left hand side below is 4 separate LO's of different

"events" like Easter, then of mom's departure, and 

our weekly horse racing dates. Then the multitude of

Starbucks photos I took for IG. :)

The right hand side below is another that I just couldn't

get a nice clear shot of for some reason, so I apologize 

for the blurry photo.More collages of multiple photos,

and I even kept the box cover for the Angry Birds 

bandages that Jordyn bought us as a "gift" The bright

yellow daffodils were in a vacant field near Amy's

work, so of course I trespassed inside the gates

and picked a dozen to brighten up the house. 

Project Life Week 14

 This is week 14 for Project Life. I have been bad and have

fallen so behind on my blog posts for it, so I am hoping to

have them all uploaded in the next few days. For those

of you who visit my blog regularly I thank you for the

fact that you keep coming back lately, especially since

there hasn't been anything new :(

Below is a rather dull photo unfortunately of the full 

spread of the week. We had a a full week of things 

happening, and I used lots of collage prints in this

week. Like I said, poor quality, sorry, but the individual

pages are much clearer.

On the left hand side below, I used a lot of the 

core kit journaling cards with as much info as I

could get on them. And so many photos to include 

so even my 3x4 photos are collages. Lots of pictures.

The right had side below is a 6x6 insert that sometimes

I like to use if I have a busy day or even to mini scrap

about. This whole page is actually dedicated to a 

day trip Tim and I took into Vancouver when we 

had a break in the bad weather and it was sunny

all day  long. We explored streets we never had 

before, found an alley of graffiti art and enjoyed a

 pleasant day together, warm weather and exploring.