Project Life

Yes...I've hopped on the Project Life bandwagon. I haven't been scrapping much over the last year...I just didn't have it in me. Oh, I did some layouts for our Alaskan Cruise, but still haven't finished that album. What attracted me to Project Life is the simplicity of it. I love all the everyday stuff and the idea of words + pictures just makes me happy right now. Of course, I thought I wanted to do it all paper. I went on that way for about 3 weeks, but just couldn't finish even 1 week. But the call of the digital world was just too strong. LOL! So, I decided to embrace my digital roots and be like NIKE and Just Do It! I started with Week 3 (I'll probably go back and redo my earlier weeks) and completed it it in about 2 hours. Go me!







supplies: Background Michele Martins Just Linens No. 7, Page Protectors 3 by Valorie Wibbens, Template my own design, based on Becky Higgins' Design A, Turquoise Journal Cards and Title Cards, Filler Cards No. 1 by Gina Miller, Birthday Doodles by CD Muckosky, Banner Labels by Katie Pertiet, Thu & Fri boxes by Ali Edwards, Fonts: Other Typewriter and Pea Melissa.

Next I'm working on Week 4 (I started the last week in December, so I'm a week "ahead") and should have that ready in the next day or so.

More later...

Slow and steady

I have to keep reminding myself of that. I swam again tonight. It's only the third time I've been in the pool for Masters. I really love being in the pool. It's the hardest thing I've ever done (except maybe giving birth, but at least I had good drugs to help me through that. LOL!). But I love it! Tonight I cramped up really badly -- from the knee down to my foot. The good thing, though, was the encouragement from the other adults swimming. One of the men even told me about how one night when he first started his whole leg cramped (it wasn't a pretty sight!). So, my word is present in my life today. Persistent. My next day back in the water is Monday night! And I'll be there!


Photo Actions by Totally Rad (Boring Selinium and Bitchin' B&W)
This is also my picture for today for the Picture Winter class. Yesterday's picture was a bit of sunshine:


Photo Actions by My4HensPhotography. I combined like 3 or 4 of them.
For this picture I sat on the floor in our game room and practiced focusing on the sap bucket with the sunflowers. Through a little bit of creative cropping, it looks brighter than it really was.

You may have also noticed that I added another badge to my blog. I decided to retake Ali Edwards' Yesterday and Today class at Big Pictures Classes. When I originally took the class in the Fall of 2009, I was really not feeling the love for scrapbooking, so I never truly embraced the class. Already I have completed the three excercises for the first week (I don't think I ever did it the first time) and have lots to think about! I'm going to take pictures of the worksheets this weekend and post here.

But the excercise got me thinking about all the layouts I haven't printed. One of my tasks for this weekend is go through all my albums and mark which layouts I've printed, so I can make a list of the layouts I want to print (and which ones should never been spoken of again!). I'll probably upload them in batches and send off to scrapbookpictures.com. I've used them before and have been really pleased with the quality and the colors. So my question to you digital scrappers is: Have you printed all of your layouts? If not, why not?

Well, I'm off to moan and groan and take care of my aching muscles.

Another photo...and yes, Virginia, a Layout

I really love the Picture Winter class a Big Picture Classes. It's only been 3 days, but I have been able to meet the challenge each day. And I'm looking forward to my next prompts. When I got the prompt for today, I thought about stacking some of my winter fabric collection and taking a picture, until I got home from work and there was this book waiting on the kitchen table:



Danny picked it up at D&J Sports today while shopping for a pair of fins. I can't wait to read it! And I just love it that he is trying to encourage both of us!

I also finished a layout today. I know, huh? All this online class taking is really inspiring me! Adam's 10th birthday was a couple weeks ago and I wanted to do a layout for him like I did for Geary on his 10th birthday. So, here is my baby...all grown up and 10 years old!


The layout is a page sketch from Cathy Zielske's Make a Page Monday. The brown and camo papers, the camo alpha and the camo rubber band are all by Dani Mogstad (Tough Guy kit). I used several Totally Rad photo actions. The key is by Gina Miller. I don't remember where I got the ticket (sorry...).

A Little Bit of Scrapbooking

  I haven't been scrapping as much as I used to. I'm not sure what it is...a combination of wasting time on Facebook (c'mon, you know you all do the same thing *WINK*) and a burning desire to upgrade my work wardrobe.Anyway, I did find some time to scrap this week, so in honor of Froggy Friday over at The Lily Pad here is my latest effort:


My Mother-in-Law Agnes captured the boys jumping into tubes at the lake near Georgetown, Texas. And the title? Well, I was listening to Chickenfoot's song "Oh Yeah!" and it just fit. Most everything is from the new collab Whirlwind by Gina Miller and Amy Wolff and it's 20% off through Sunday.


I will leave you with a few other layouts from the last few weeks (all credits can be found at My LilyPad Gallery )