Project Life 2012

So, I am doing Project Life this year.  It seems like it has just exploded this year and everyone is doing it!   I had quite a bit of product left from last year, as did a friend of mine, and instead of buying an entire new kit, I decided to use mainly what I already had.  I did buy a pack cardstock (Turquoise collection from Becky Higgins) and some digital clips from Jessica Sprague.  Other that that, I am using what I have --- I will need more pages soon -- sooooooooooooooooo irritated that they sold out so quickly from Amazon, but may just go with a different layout --- maybe Big Pack 2 that has both vertical and horizontal 4x6 and 2x3 slots.   I chose an album by American Crafts --- love the color.  Below are some of my recent pages and also one of my favorites.  I am up to date as of now -- hopefully I will stay that way!

Picture of the Day

What does that say about my life that my POD is of the price of gas??? Slightly pathetic?? The soaring price of gas really has me frazzled and almost turns my stomach when I see a 10cent per gallon hike in a day. Yesterday, I luckily dodged the price hike bullet, at least for the next week or so. Thank goodness for those Kroger gas points -- got 45cent per gallon discount which put the price below $3 -- yahoo! Hubby even beat the hike as I heard of the jump to $3.49 and was able to alert him to stop on the way home from work and fill up at a station that had not yet made the jump. I think it is the unpredictable nature of the price that drives me crazy -- from morning to afternoon it can drastically change.

Project Life Catch-Up

I am pleased to say, as of the 2nd week in February I am keeping up with my Project Life album. I am so enjoying doing something with my current photos and love how the album is evolving.

Week 1: I posted this before, but added an interview page I did with each girl.

Weeks 2, 3 and 4: Pretty much the same as far as "stuff" goes.

Week 5: Added a baseball card holder as an insert because I just had too much stuff --- was an 8.5x11 sheet, but I cut it down to just 4 rectangles -- interesting -- may have to play with this idea again.

Week 6: Last couple of weeks tried to include evidence from our lives other than just photos -- here included pieces of a paper from school.

Icy Day

The big midwest winter storm showed up this morning in the form of ice. Kids are off school today -- another one we will have to make up -- ugh!

Picture of the Day

Sometimes, all it takes is a cookie cutter to make everything extra special.

Favorite Photo

LOVE this photo from this week. After a particular challenging day with E, was pleased that she found some quiet time -- chose to practice writing letters. Was just so cute and every once in a while I would catch her singing the alphabet song. Definitely a moment to document and treasure.

Project Life -- Week #1

Finally got this photographed -- actually did it early in the week but photos were horrible and had to redo. First week went pretty well -- found for me that it is not good to work ahead -- journaling or laying out cards -- better to keep notes (I have a notepad with my kit materials or in the memo area on my photo program) and do the page at one setting. Also, played with some different aspects of the kit -- will play some more this week and determine what I like best. What I do know I like best is enjoying my photos right away versus months from now when I have time to scrap! Still sticking to may main rule, that this is meant to make scrapbooking easier, so I am not looking to get ultra creative each week -- just use the kit. Also, I did get photos everyday this week, but week 2, nothing interesting happened yesterday and I am not going to stress about it -- that's life, and that is what the project is all about, right? Anyway, off to a good start!

Picture of the Day

The only school district around that is open...

Project Life

I am so excited about doing this this year. I got my kit on Black Friday, so is last year's design, but since I have not completed the project before does not matter to me and I got a heck of a deal on the kit. I am going to try to do the photo-a-day, but am not going to stress if some weeks we may have several photos from one day and that is it -- life happens and I think the project will show this. Got the first page complete. Enjoying using my new camera taking lots of photos!