week in the life 2012 | thursday

 

No I didn’t do this last night…I slacked! Brain dead after a crazy day at work, baseball, errands, and just being a mom. So I watched “The Sopranos” with the hubs & then went to bed early. And yes, I know “The Sopranos” hasn’t been on for a few years. We just recently started watching it & we’re into season 3 now (I think).

And now here is my Thursday in photos:

I added a few word stickers to my photos (including one that says “main street” to the street shot…my drive down Main St. in Roseville every day to & from work!).

week in the life 2012 | wednesday

 

Three days in & I’m still going!

My goals for this year?

1) Be in at least one picture per day.

2) Work on it every night.

3) Be complete by the end of this week.

Looking good so far!

Today I’m just going to share my photos, not in the page protectors. I hate the big glare I have to get by using a flash (or the stupid shadows I get when I go without). I plan on sharing the entire spread/album/whatever-you-call-it when it’s all complete. And since I’m printing at home, that should be next Monday! I don’t think I’ve ever been so on top of things (it must be because I should be writing reports right now, and this is a great way to procrastinate!).

So here are my photos from today:

Wow! I didn’t plan for my photos to line up like they were in a protector! How cool is that?! I will probably be adding a few sticker labels/words. And I plan on printing my date tab on some more patterned paper. But otherwise, there is my daily layout :)

week in the life 2012 | tuesday

Now two days in…I wasn’t sure if I’d end up with enough photos today, and then pleasantly surprised to see I had too many! I’m not taking the same crazy amount I have in the past for Week in the Life—and that’s okay—but I almost feel like I could’ve done the whole album.

Almost.

So without further ado, day 2:

(Taken with my phone at 10pm. So my apologies for the crappy photo.)

Again I printed my “title” for the day using this kit from Ali Edwards on a sheet of patterned paper. I tried to get creative in PSE last night & then gave up. It’s just so easy to print black on patterned paper. (And it was time for me to get back to IEP report writing!)

I added a few sentiments in PSE, and a few label stickers (October Afternoon & Jillibean Soup). Today I also included two Instagram photos (I seriously love that app!). I opened them up in PSE, dropped them onto a sheet of grid patterned paper (cropped to 2.5” x 3.5”), added a drop shadow (thanks Design Editor for that idea!), and voila! Finally I added a bit of journaling and then I was done!

On a side note…yesterday I received a comment about how I’d actually printed my photos already…this is a rarity for me! I have a “photo” printer but I rarely print at home. However, I liked that I could complete each daily layout that day while working on December Daily a few months ago. So I decided to use up some 4”x6'” photo paper I’ve had sitting around. I find with projects like this (and DD), if I don’t do it every day, I don’t do it at all. Like my Week in the Life from last summer that is still just hundreds of photos in a file on my computer and a box of memorabilia.

week in the life 2012 | monday

Because I need another project like I need a hole in the head…

But I digress

I participated in Week in the Life for the first time 2 years ago. Check out what I did here.

Last summer I participated again. I still have to put that album together.

So when Ali Edwards shared that it was “that time” again, well, I thought I would sit out this time. Until this morning when I saw how Elise was doing her Week in the Life. And I thought, “I can totally take 9 pictures a day & add them to a baseball card holder!” And then I did it.

And so far, I’m so glad I did.

(Please excuse the poor lighting & the flash. I took this with my phone at 11pm)

july | project 12

 

supplies: patterned paper: October Afternoon, Crate Paper, Pink Paislee, Bo Bunny; letter stickers: Lush by My Mind’s Eye; border & word stickers: Echo Park; star pin: unknown; all items from my June Green Tangerine’s kit club.

I really had fun as this layout came together. I started out with one idea, and then after looking at a few of Davinie Fiero’s layouts, I decided on something completely different. I love how she has used two different sheets of patterned paper behind kraft cardstock so she could get more patterned paper onto her layout without making it too busy. So hopefully that’s the effect I got as well Enjoy!

everyday abbie

When I first used this layout idea from Cathy Zielske back last fall, I knew I wanted to use it on a regular basis. What a perfect way to document all those “things” your kids do at different stages! Right now I’m thinking I’ll do this every six months so I can catch them at their birthdays & half birthdays. If nothing else, it’s an easy one page “filler”!

I finally used some Basic Grey I’d had sitting around for a couple of years…I think it’s the Bittersweet collection.  I was so thankful to have the letter stickers too!

For my journaling I just listed lots of things that Abbie does right now, and separated each thought with a “|” (key is just above my “enter” key). That way I didn’t have to use complete sentences, and if I had an extra long thought it would work too.

The flowers were in my January kit from Green Tangerines. I didn’t have a pink brad in the right color, so I punched a 3/16” circle with my Crop-o-dile, adhered it to the center of the flower, & then added Glossy Effects to give it a little oompf.

two

I changed up the title again to fit my two year old:

Now I have three "everyday you" layouts, and really, none look the same? Same idea, but different.

I was able to use thickers from my stash (yay!). The patterned paper is from Jillibean Soup's Pasta Fagioli collection (more from my winning stash) and the nice border sticker is leftover from my August 2009 GT kit.

For this little embellisment, I punched out a circle of paper (more Pasta Fagioli), adhered it to a chipboard button (Cosmo Cricket), and inked the edges. It still needed something so I plunked a button on top & threaded some twine through it.



everyday

 When I decided to do the "everyday you" layouts, I knew I'd do one about each of my three children. Originally they were all going to be titled "everyday you", until I thought about how (at least this time) they'd all be together in my album, and I didn't really want three identical layouts in a row. In the future I may not do them all at the same time, but obviously they're my layouts so I can title them how I want to, right? :)

For Olivia's layout I wanted to do something a bit more girly, since she is my very girly girl. I chose papers from Cosmo Cricket's Delovely line that I had sitting around. So bright & pretty!

This blue flower (and the pink & yellow ones) are from the accompanying chipboard stickers.

These letters are chipboard that I inked to make the perfect shade of turquoise. I had the ink leftover from my April month in review from Green Tangerines...perfect :)

everyday you

A few weeks ago I was inspired by Cathy Zielske's blog. Well, let me rephrase that because I'm inspired by her blog daily. I was inspired to create this layout

because of this.

She offers a great digital kit, and the weekend that she posted about it, it was on sale. But I scrap 12x12 & really didn't feel like doing an 8 1/2 x 11 page. So I made up my own. Please forgive the crookedness, but I could not get it to lay flat enough nor lean over enough to get a great picture. Life goes on :)

Anyhow, the point of the layout is to document something that is very "everyday." Like something your kids do every single day.

The patterned paper I used is from Jillibean Soup's Atomic Soup Collection. I won one of each of their new sheets on facebook recently, so I was pretty excited to finally get to use some of it.

The atom sticker & periodic table border are from the cardstock stickers that accompany that line. I didn't win those, so I picked them up at Green Tangerines (now that it's open again...yay!).

Here I used one of the journaling sprouts tucked under my photo strip as a tab. I saw this on one of the layouts on their blog a while back & thought it was such a fun idea.