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.