Project Life, 9/16 - 10/2 (plus a couple make-ups)

Brandon's first soccer game :)

Abbie & her purple doggy...MOPS park day at Olympus Park.

Olivia & Samantha putting on one of many shows, set to Miley Cyrus music (or California Gurls...I see so many of these shows I no longer pay attention...bad mommy!). Here they're doing somersaults.

two little fairies

Brandon drinking his Vitamin Water during a soccer game.

Olivia & Misty at Auntie Nicole's house.

Yay! The playroom is organized, thanks to Ikea & David :)

(And sadly, we still have books, playdoh, arts & crafts, and much more all over the house. Sigh. At least most of it has a new home.) 
 

I'm not quite sure what the kids were doing. They all had their feet touching & microphones down their shirts at one point. Okay...

Two clients cancelled this morning, so I got to drop Olivia off at school & then go to Whole Foods with Abbie. And no, your eyes are fooling you; her shoes are on the wrong feet.

Mmmm...Eggplant Bolognese for dinner tonight :)

Margarita Friday! Our new neighborhood tradition: Costco pizza & margaritas while the kids entertain each other & we catch-up. I'm so happy we have been blessed with such great neighbors!

On our way in to the Greek Festival in Elk Grove, we realized that all five of these could be ours (which we were asked countless times thoughout the evening). And, as scary as that sounds, really all five kids are so much easier than just our three.

David picked up some new mums today to get our yard all pretty for fall.

We love going to Chipotle, and the kids love that they can sit at the bar there.

Shaving cream fun in the shower!

Fashion show time! Olivia & Samantha helped Abbie get all dressed up in her princess dress with wings, purse, crown, band-aid bracelet, and high heels. Priceless.

No school today, so David, Lori, & I took the kids to the $3 movies at Sunrise Mall. (Abbie was napping at my mom's...thank you!)

Got my tea, my phone, my sandwich, and my chart notes that desperately need updating. It must be lunchtime on Friday.

My mom & Abbie playing Barbies.

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.



flashback friday...Bid Day 1997

I was an Alpha Phi in college (and, technically I still am, but it sounds silly to say it!). Those were definitely some of the best times of my life.

I think I did this layout sometime in 2003. Right before Becky Higgins' sketches became popular. But I had a book of her, My Creative Companion, I think. I was just starting to plan pages based on a sketch, rather than the photos I had. And I was finally narrowing down the number of photos I used from an event.

let's go rivercats

Brandon's baseball team went to a Rivercats game in May. I was inspired by a layout I saw on the Jillibean Soup blog, though I can't find the exact layout now, of course! 100% of this layout was from my stash...such a great feeling to not buy one thing for a layout, you know? I came close...

I love these flocked thickers from American Crafts. So sporty! I used some old Making Memories rub-on letters for "rivercats".

I journaled in one of the Jillibean Sprouts I had sitting around. I got a bunch in a kit a while back, & love how they look though I hardly ever use them. The baseball is part of the American Crafts Junior Varsity line (as is the patterened paper). I bought a few things from that line when it came out, then stocked up later on. I love the colors & know I'll use it on a few sports layouts.

This was my trouble spot. The layout I scraplifted had two large brown "cool beans" buttons in brown, and one in green. I was using different colors on my layout, so no biggie, I decided to use red. Except I only had one red cool bean. Okay. And I knew I wanted to use one of the "buttons" from the JV line. Now what? Use another button? Nope, want some for an upcoming soccer layout. Buy more buttons? Nope, not finding what I want. Use an old red button from Making Memories that I've had for a LONG time? Yup! And it totally matches...yippee!

flashback friday...vintage 2003

I love when I can look back at a layout from seven years ago & still love it! I took these awesome grape photos at my sister-in-law's house in San Martin. They're just table grapes, but dang they photographed nicely!

The grape accents are Jolee's...remember when those were so "in"? And the title was made from the metal letter charms that Making Memories used to make. You could "hang" them on a page with a brad, or snip the loop off (which is what I did here). I also aged them by sanding them a little bit, inking them with brown ink, and then heat embossing them with clear embossing powder. By holding them over a burner on the stove. While David was at work :)