Project Life Week 2

I'm loving the 5th & Frolic kit I'm using this year.   The colors are perfect.  Lots of pinks, which is what we love most in our house.

I spent Sunday afternoon with Madison.  Just the two of us and we had such a good time.  She was so excited to drink hot chocolate from Starbucks.  She wanted everyone to think it was coffee.

I love that she saw the brick at one of our stops and wanted to take a picture of our feet on it.  She's starting to think just like me.

Project Life: Week 1

It's no surprise that I LOVE Project Life.  I've been scrapbooking in this format since 2010 and I have no plans to change anytime soon.

I did fall behind last year when I decided to start doing craft fairs.  Everything was put on the back burner so I could make enough product to fill my booth.

I knew this year I needed to start slowly.  I bought the 5th & Frolic kit from Michaels and I'm working on keeping it simple until I get back into the scrapbooking routine again.

Here is a my layout for week 1.

I added a few stickers, some digital quotes and called it done.

The thing that holds me back the most, is trying to fancy-it-up too much.  I need to remember to just get the pictures printed, write down the things I want to remember, and get everything into the slots.

Project Life

I'm doing another Project Life album this year and I'm still loving the whole process.  This is my 5th year doing a yearly project life album.  As usual, I'm a little behind, but this system makes it so easy to get caught up.  I've stopped doing traditional layouts and there is so much relief not having to figure out a layout.  Just getting the pictures in the page protectors, writing down the things I want to remember and I'm done.

Here are a couple pages from this spring.

I have terrible handwriting, so this year I am printing all my cards from the computer.  I am using this tutorial and it is so easy.

Project Life Week 10

This week we went to a lottery drawing for a charter school we are trying to get into and when they finished I realized my number was never called.  Turns out they forgot to add two bags of numbers to the lottery pool so they had to call everyone that got in and tell them they had to do it over again!  Ha!  I've never seen so many angry people at an elementary school.  We went back two days later and still didn't get in.

I did get another week done in my project life album.  I didn't have much time with everything going on this week, so this layout is super simple.

Project LIfe Weeks 8 and 9

We've had several busy weeks lately and I just can't seem to keep up with everything.  As soon as I came back from Hawaii it got crazy at work and at home. 

We've been trying to get Madison into any school except the one in our district, but no luck.  The private school we applied to was full, the first charter school had a lottery and we didn't get in.  We ended up number 143 on the waiting list.  I have one more lottery tonight and I'm waiting on two letters for an inter-district transfer.  I hate this part of parenting.

In between all of our craziness I finished a few project life pages.

This first week was huge for me.  It's totally silly, but for me, it was huge.  I've been dying my hair since I was a sophmore in high school with my friend Mandy in her bathroom.  Ever since I can remember, I've wanted blonde hair.  Not just blonde, but super blonde.  Christina Aguilera blonde, Girls Next Door blonde. 

I finally made the decision after 18 years, to try my natural hair color.  I just got tired of paying so much money every couple months.  I'm still getting used to it.

The next week was my rainy Hawaii trip.  We had one sunny day and then three full days of rain, thunder and lightning and flash flood warnings.

I still had a great time, but it's really hard to take pictures when you travel by yourself.  I ended up with a lot of scenery pictures and pictures of my feet - in the sand, at the airport, etc.

I included an insert for the two pictures Mike took of the girls while I was gone.  It's not much, but at least he tried.

The Luckiest Girl and PL Week 5

I’m pretty sure I’m the luckiest girl in the world right now with the most amazing sister ever.  In a few short days my sister is sending me to:

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Kauai!  She called me at work this week and wanted to know if I wanted to go to Hawaii with her.  It took all of ten minutes to say yes, take time off of work and reschedule all of my appointments.  I’m so excited I can’t stand it right now.   It’s hard to concentrate on anything else but I did finish another Project Life page.

This week Madison was grounded for the first time ever and I (at 34 years old) finally had my wisdom teeth pulled.  I was so nervous I was shaking and I almost told them to stop and reschedule.   But I did it and it wasn’t bad at all.

Project Life Week 4

I’m so behind.  But not as behind as I am on my December Daily.  Yes, it’s February and I’m still trying to finish it.  I didn’t have much time to put this together last week so it’s super simple.  That’s one of the great things about this project.  For those weeks I just cannot get to it, I just stick in the pictures, write down what I want to say and I’m done.

Project Life - Week 3

This was a slow week for us and we didn't do anything other than our usual routine.  I didn't even take my camera out of my office this week.  I used my phone so all the pictures are a little blurry.  I embellished a lot more than usual to try and detract from the blurry photos;  I'm still trying to figure out if I like it so "scrappy." 

Madison had a couple of funny moments this week.

1.  She decided that she "loves chicken salad so much she could eat miles of it."

2.  She wanted to know why one of our blankets was falling apart.  I told her daddy had bought that blanket a long time ago and sometimes things start falling apart.  She said, "No, you don't buy blankets, you make them!"  Almost every other blanket in our house is homemade.  She had no idea that blankets could be purchased!

Project Life - Week 2

This was a fun week for us.  Sidney turned 2, we rode our bikes to Old Sacramento, had lunch with Oma, ate ice cream outside in the cold and rolled down hills.

Project Life–Week One

I started Project Life again this year.  It will be my third album and I am still in love with it!  I rarely do any traditional scrapbooking anymore, because this kit is so awesome! Project Life forces me to write things down as they happen and I immediately slip it into a slot for the week.  If I wasn’t in the habit of doing so, I would have missed this funny conversation:

Madison and Sidney both in their beds about 6:00 in the morning.
Sidney: Massa!  What are you doing?
Madison: Sidney, get Barney and go back to sleep!
Sidney: But I went poo poo!  I have stinky butt!

I still laugh every time I think about it.

Labor Day Weekend

How is your weekend going?  Ours is pretty quiet.  The extra day off just means more time for running errands, cleaning and having a BBQ on Monday instead of Sunday.  Even though we’re not doing a lot, I am getting a lot done and sometimes that’s all I want.

After I ordered my project life album for 2011, I loved it so much I ordered a second album for all my 2010 photos.  I finally finished it last night.  A few of my favorite pages:

Since starting project life I hadn’t done a single traditional scrapbook page until last week.  I forgot how much fun it was to just play around with all the paper and embellishments I have laying around.

I am also working on my first furniture project.  I found a dining table on Craigslist a few weeks after we moved into  our house and it’s been sitting in the garage.  It’s really not a hard project, but just the fear of screwing it up makes me put it off.  Finally I couldn’t stand it any longer.  I had to keep telling myself that the worst that could happen is I mess it up and have to find another one.  Here is a before and after of the chairs:

The chairs are done now and I only have the table to do.  I’m hoping by next weekend everything will be finished.

Project Life Weeks 8 and 9

I know it's been awhile since I've posted anything, but I have a good reason.  We've been house hunting!  We did make an offer and it was accepted, so now we're in the middle of home inspections and appraisals.  I am in love with this house even though it's stuck in the 80's.  But that just means I'll have lots of before and after pictures to show you.  In the meantime, here are my Project Life pages for weeks 8 and 9.

Week 8:

Week 9:

Project Life Week 7

Still not a lot going on around here.  One cold turned into three colds and we just hung out for most of the week.  I was able to finish Project Life week 7: 

Make one scrapbook layout:

And do my Rite Aid shopping on Sunday.  Yep, didn't cost me anything.  $-.04 and I got back $6.00 for next week. 



One of these days I'll actually have something good to share with you.  I've got a hutch in the garage just waiting for a good sanding and a fresh coat of paint.  Until then, I hope you don't get sick of my Project LIfe pages and my Rite Aid shopping.

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