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Project Life 2012 Title Page

Have you heard of Project Life? No? You should! The best thing EVER. Take a look at this VIDEO.

On the fence? Convinced? Let me tell you, its a no pressure way to document your life and/or your family's life. It takes away the pressure of scrap booking ALL THOSE PHOTOS. Even if you are NOT a scrap booker...It gets those photos OFF YOUR HARD DRIVE  on your computer and INTO ALBUMS that YOU and/OR your Family can enjoy, EVERY DAY, ALL YEAR LONG.

I say that is motivation enough...don't you? 

 You can go as simple as you want to as creative as you want.  Go even faster and use the DIGI version. Have kids? No kids? Married? Attached? Single? It doesn't matter. What's important is that you are documenting your life. Period. How cool would it be to go back a year later to see how far you have come? 5 years? 10? 20? To be honest, I wish I had this kind of thing available to my great/grandparents and parents.  VERY COOL :)

I have been doing Project Life since 2010...I am behind on getting the journaling for 2010 (photos are completed). Mid way on 2011. That's me- always behind on projects. Pretty much start and stop kinda girl.

BUT...

I want to change that this year. This is the year to make some changes about myself I don't like.

This is one of them.

So...my plan is to stay on top 2012, while getting caught up on 2010 + 2011. I may just do those albums a bit more simple. (I also plan on going backwards in the years as well).

2012 is going to be more about documenting our life and PLAY. I'm excited to try out the different style that seems to be trendy. I love trends...wish I could be that way with my style of clothing. I try, but I don't think I'm even close or brave ;0) I'll just continue to live vicariously through others who have alot of style ;0)

Without further ado...

Here is my 2012 title page.

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* sorry about the crooked image. My perfectionist side is screaming FIX IT! but I'm just going with it today. Its done, and I need to move on. Will try to better next time ;0)*

I hope to keep posting my pages as I go. I am doing Project Life by month (as opposed to daily and weekly spreads.) I wish I could get it weekly at least but...our kiddo is with us mostly weekends, and the other 2 older ones are here and there. Its just easier for me to do it by month- whenever I can get pics...and well, whenever my subjects are being cooperative for me to get the photos. :(

Are you doing Project Life? Are you thinking about it? Here is the PL Creative team- all who have different styles and methods...which one fits you? At this time, some of the products are out of stock but the word is that it will be back in stock shortly. Keep checking back. Don't want to wait? Email or leave a comment...and I will help you with any questions you may have...to get you started on documenting life. :)

 Products used:

Top left:

I used the 4x6 insert (the yellow/gray stripe) Clementine kit by Becky Higgins (Project Life) and then I just glued the left "click" on the left side, Click. (journal card) Three Paper Peonies (digi printable cards) and put the 3x4 insert (gray/white printed card -also from Clementine) on the right.  Added the camera with a heart badge (Ormolu) on top of the vintage camera image that was already on the digi card from TPP.

Top right:

4x6 folded journal insert from Clementine as the background ( I'm obsessed with gray + grids right now). Used my Silhouette for the 2012 numbers, Hello is Amy Tangerine's AC Thickers (LOOOOOOOVE these- she also has a white version that is even better!!) and lastly added strips of patterened paper (stars + hearts).

2nd 3x4 window:

3x4 journaling card from Clementine, added red heart border punch (EK Success), the red stripped tag is from Smash. I just stapled onto a vintage 5 card I found on Etsy.

3rd + 4th 3x4 slot:

 is a 4x6 photo I cut in half and added a scalloped border punched with the yellow graph paper collection from Paper Trey Ink.

Bottom left 4x6:

a graph sticky paper (from a office supply store), Amy Tangerine washi tape, and the "simply a great life" from Silhouette.

Bottom right 4x6:

Clementine('everyday life print) as the background, 3x4 insert is from Clementine as well. Added the " About us" badge (Ormolu).  The red felt heart I purchased on Etsy a very long time ago that is now finally getting used. See, hoarding CAN be a good thing ;0) * you can make your own heart by cutting out felt and sewing it or just punch a heart with carstock, etc. and use a pop up glue dot to make it more 3D.

SB cleaning Update

Hi everyone-

As promised- a video update on my scrapbook room clean up. I apologize in advance for my voice on the video- my allergies have gotten worse and not seeing any relief in sight, and I'm sure I have some mumbling going on LOL I really hate doing videos but its faster and its done. So, enjoy the mini tour. Questions? Ask away! :)

 

 

Mentioned in the video:

ScrapNCube (furniture)

Marcy Penner (printable PL tags)

Elle's Studio (tags)

Studio Calico (monthly kits)

The Operation Fresh Start: Clean Up Your Studio Challenge

Hello!

How was your Christmas? Ours was decent, but Scott and I were were ready for it to be over before it even started. Let the tree burning begin!! Kidding. Sort of. Are you ready for the New Year? 2012!? Time flies, right?

Well, my last post I said I would update with our going ons, etc...

I lied.

Instead, I'm going to post a video of me showing my messy scrapbook/office room. Oh yeah. Even going to embarrass myself even further with my weird voice and heavy breathing on the video. The breathing stems from eating too many McDonald's chicken nuggets over time, and my allergies are acting up BIG time.

If that doesn't offend you, then carry on and watch the video below.

 

 Why am I posting this? A fellow scrapbooker, Tami, posted a challenge on Twitter asking us if we wanted to join her with Operation Fresh Start- clean up your space! Count me in!  Why not? Its only been the 1000043rd time I set out to organize the pit, er...scrapbook room. Let's get it done this time, ok?

As I said on the video, I will come back and share the new cleaned up and organized space. I had to do something. Having too much stuff and not putting in its place is totally screwing with my head and i'm not getting any creating done.

In the mean time, take a look at my old room in my old house before I shacked up with the boyfriend 2 1/2 years ago. My new one is about half the size of the old one. I miss that room. 

THE STUDIO  

See you soon! Off to dive into the pit....

 

Well, hello there.

Last post was in July? Whoa, really? I guess that means life has just been busy, right?

Yes. LIFE IS GOOD!

I'm downstairs on my laptop, helping/watching the kiddo do his homework...and waiting for pizza to be delivered...that I ordered from said laptop. My, how technology has evolved, right?

And...since I am on my laptop, I don't have all the photos I will need to update you on this post...I will be back with another post :) I promise I won't make you wait so long this time. Be back soon!

MIA...but Happy Summer Ya'll!

Hi there...July!!! Time flies, doesn't it? I realized that I haven't posted since APRIL!!?? Sorry about that! Wow, I have alot of catching up to do LOL

I am in the process of getting caught up on business bookwork after the tax season nearly did me in...so I will be back soon with updates. For now, I'll leave you with some photos that sums up what has been going on around here....

Baseball (apil-June)

 

Little dude turned 12, and has an attitude, er, personality to match it ;0)

 
 

My sister graduated high school...

 

Project life photos being edited, printed and put into the 2011 album. Other photos being picked out for a big house wall frame project, and catching up on work...

 

Summer is in full swing...

 

 


Hope you are enjoying your summer so far!! Catch ya later! ;0)  

 

 

Doctor Doctor!

Circa 1979.

 
*This layout was made using the Studio Calico blog sketch + inspiration from Maggie Holmes' layout. *

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Me in the hosptial after I had swallowed some canfophenic medicine. Silly girl!

The journaling reads:

"When I was 3 years old, I had swallowed some canfophenic medicine. Mom called poison control and she was told to take me to the Prineville ER. They gave me some charcoal stuff that made me throw up. I was fine after that but they kept me over night for observation."

I am now starting to work on my childhood album. I am not sure how exactly I am going to go about this. I am thinking of using the Project Life system to store my photos, journal the bits about the photo. When there is a favorite photo or more of a story I want to tell, then I think I will do layouts like these and just put them in the same album. This is a huge project so I'm excited to start and try to get it done in a timely manner. Its been a long time coming so I can't wait to see how it all turns out.

Happy Easter! :)

Materials:

Mist: Studio Calico Mr. huey's (bluegrass) + (sunshine)

Paper: cardstock- background:Kraft 12x12, Stampin Up. Frame -Bazzil-white (misted w/ Sunshine)

 Pattered paper: October After (Early bird: cherry pie A+B sides),OA: (Report card: story hour A+B sides), Sassafras: (woodland whimsey-golden love.  my mind's eye "so loved". 

Martha Stewart Loops border punch set (frame)

Alpha: AC thickers "forest"- vanilla

Labels, vintage buttons: Jenni Bowlin

Stamp- Studio Calico- kit club exclusive (not available)

pen: American Crafts, black

Kauai Mini Book

Yay! Its finally finished! Go me! I am so excited about getting it done. The trip was awhile ago, and I have been working on it for about a month now. Its really fat! I used a mixture of different things, and a ton of photos...and definitely memorabilia heavy. The cover is actually a place mat that I bought there, and cut to size. I've been holding onto that thing since the trip!! See honey, some things I hoard will get used somehow! ;0)

 

 
 

TO VIEW THE WHOLE ALBUM: HERE

Here is the list of  the products I used:

washi tape (Pretty tape, Cute tape, Making Memories) 

Fab rips (Studio Calico)

plastic place mat (purchase at a gift store in Kauai and I cut to size)

pattered paper + some embellies ( Studio Calico, Making memories, Hambly, American Crafts)

fabric material/paper/envelopes( bought from etsy and Paper Source)

stamps (Studio Calico, Ali Edwards, cats life press )

Embossing powder ( Zing AC) , versamark ink andstazOn ink)

paper/felt flowers (Making Memories )

paper lace cardstock (the hawaiian flowers lace paper on the back of album- KI memories)

embellishments/stickers (etsy, AC, October Afternoon, Prima, other)

embroidery thread + needle ***Thank you Melissa for helping me with this. I was out of town and didn't have access to the class video and my cousin Melissa ROCKS it in the stitching department!! (Btw,TAKE a class to learn how I did the word stitching HERE. Amy is so talented + inspires me so much that I want to do more stitching on my layouts!)

postcards (bought in Kauai)

alphas (Studio Calico, AC Thickers, Sassafras, Jenni Bowlin)

Border punches (ek success)

kraft card stock (Stampin up)

If you have any questions about what I did, how I did something, or product(s)...please ask away in the comments section :)

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 On the journaling for the last pages (img # 71)

The last day. Our flight didn’t leave until 9 pm. The sun had finally come out after a couple of days of rain. So what better way to kill time than to hang out on the beach? Had a lot of fun but certainly a bittersweet trip for me. This may just be the last time I come to Kauai. Too many memories from a past trip...makes it too painful for me. We'll see. Good thing there are other islands...

Thank you to my awesome and wonderful Dad for this trip. I can’t wait to come to the islands with you again!

Thank you to my twin cousin for coming with me. Lots of laughs + silliness, tears shed by me, and the comfort you were to me on this trip. Had so much fun with you!

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 Journaling for the very last page (img #74) :

 Home will have to wait:
We were in the air yesterday when we were rerouted to San Francisco  - about an hour from Portland-we would have to stay the night in SF. Got to the airport and while we were waiting for our luggage, I told my cousin to go upstairs to the airline ticket counter and get our hotel + meal vouchers. Good thing because when she came back down and said that there was a LINE -of about 200 people and she was the 5th one waiting. HA! Lucky us! So we have been up since 3 am. I have been running on 6 hrs of sleep for the past 38 hrs or so. I've stopped counting!  Anyways we get on the 6 am flight, leave about 30 min late and then about 20 min before landing in PDX, the captain said we had to turn around and go back to SF because of the weather in PDX. It kept changing from snow to freezing rain and the runway people couldn't keep up with the treatments of keeping the runway clear and de-iced. So we went back to SF and hung out on the airport floor for a few hours. Changed our flight time 3 times and right now we have just boarded. Hopefully it'll be the saying-3rd times a charm! Lol now I just have to worry about driving 3+ hours on the mountain with the crazy drivers and snow and ice. Might wait til tomorrow. Also, my car that has been sitting at long term parking -outside in the snow and freezing rain. Hopefully we can get the doors open lol oh and hope my feet don't freeze considering I have on flip flops still. ;) blog you later with a update! Gotta go - about to take off! Ps this is the scene that we have been looking at for the past few hours.
Sent via BlackBerry as written on my blog.

Well there you have it! Hope you like!! :)

Dream House Inspiration

Hi everyone-

Long time, no blogging, I know. Sorry about that. I hope to have a few posts coming soon. I know I will definitely have a post of my recent project...a mini book of my trip to Kauai a couple +years ago. I started it when I went to CKC in Portland 3 weeks ago, and I am almost done...so look for that soon :)

I wanted to share with you, a blog that belongs to one of my favorite scrap booking  idols...April Foster...She is the owner of Studio Calico. SC is a kit club I have been a member of since  Jan 2008. I love this club, and the people who run it, and the community that has grown there. Here is more info about SC. Anyhoo, she and her husband have renovated a farm house and this has seriously made me want to live on lots and lots of acreage, and have a house like hers...without the "farm" part of course. LOL Can you imagine?? Um, no..I don't do cows and chickens. I do however, love her style...and I wanted to share what my dream house would look like.

So....click HERE to see a post that she has listed links to show several rooms in her house and I believe before, during the renovation process. Seriously, love love love this house. So inspired and definitely will be going into my house inspiration book (ok well i still need to start one, but it will be done soon...just waiting for SMASH books to be released so i can!!)

Can you believe its the middle of April already!? Where does the time go? Hope you are enjoying Spring so far! Back again soon! :)

Hello March.

Good to see you. That means that spring is coming! I don't know where the time has gone. To be honest, I don't think anything really got accomplished since I was here last...except for getting photos organized and printed up for Project Life 2010 + 2011. I have all of the photos into 2010...I just need to journal. I've gotten behind printing for 2011 mid Feb, but I have been taking photos and collecting stuff. I am wanting to go backwards in the years a bit and get those into their own PL project. I think I will do my childhood photos in this format as well. Its so so so nice to finally have photos and stories off the hard drive and into an album.  I bought a Flip camera, so there may be videos coming..if I can get the courage to actually use it...I hate my voice LOL

I have bought a ton of newly released products lately, and i've been itching to get some layouts done. On top of that, I will need to get organized again so I can find a home for everything and to be able to find things easily as well.  Lots of projects and planning in my head (home decor  + creative projects)....so need to get myself on a schedule and try to stick with it as much as possible.  What have you been up to??

Updates soon... Hope you all are doing well....have you been coming by the blog lately? I fear that I have lost my readers being awol lately lol...drop a comment so I know you're still here, will ya? :)

Amazing and Insipring.

You know I have a love for photos and stories. I had to share this amazing amazing amazing story of a woman who kept to herself and no one knew she was a photographer...an amazing photographer. WOW. You'll just have to see for yourself...

STORY

and the BLOG that was set up for her to showcase her work.

and a feature length DOCUMENTARY.

If you would like to help back the project, go HERE.

I am in awe. I am inspired. I am wondering what her subject's stories were? Who were these people? What kind of lives did they live? I wonder what Vivian Maier's life was like? Who was she, really? What an amazing gift she has left the world, and doesn't even know it.  How awesome that the men who found her photo negatives would do the hard work to share her to the world. I don't even know what else to say.... Enjoy.