Tonight I caught up on FIVE weeks of Project Life. I had my photos printed at Target through Shutterfly and picked them up a couple hours later. Once I organized them and dated them I just started cutting, pasting, writing and sticking stuff down. It's not perfect, it's life.
These photos are from last week's layout. I'm hoping I can keep up better, but I'm traveling a lot this month, so we shall see.
I finally made it home last night around 10pm and I heard reports of possible snow accumultion. I was excited about that, but honestly it ususally doesn't materialize quite the way it is predicted. I was pretty tired after a long day of flying so I went to bed with it rain/snowing (nothing accumulating yet). I woke up in the middle of the night to let out Reese and I was excited to see the pretty white landscape. I just love how the snow looks at night. I didn't have the energy to snap some shots last night, but this morning I went out with Reese and took these photos.
I've been pretty busy at work lately, but not doing much flying. This is going to change in March and I am happy about that!
My recent views:
Just a peek into my week as documented in instagram. I have experienced snow and near 80 degree temps in less than a week. Craziness!
I came down with something on Friday and it hit me pretty hard on Sunday. My head was all full feeling... sinuses hurt... I was drowning in a sea of kleenex.
So what is a girl to do when she's feeling under the weather? Yep... snuggle on the couch with a box full of kleenex, the TiVo remote and Reese... of course!
She's ridiculously cute. seriously.
It turns out that in addition to the sinus issues, I also have an ear infection. blah!
Hopefully I'll have some fun stuff to post soon. Ohhhh like a month's worth of Project Life pages!
I spent last week working in Key West, FL. The weather was gorgeous and even though we worked a lot we still had a lot of fun.
Sometimes flying in circles for hours rewards us with an awesome view.
sunset off Florida coast at 6,000 feet
{iPhone photo by jenn}
8-14 JAN 2012
This week was pretty much a blur. I worked right through the weekend into this week. Needless to say, come Friday I was exhausted.
Since I'm using a 2009 Project 365 kit, my pages are different than everyone using the 2012 versions. I have to say, I do like how the new kits have so many options that you can buy separately if you want. I purchased the Clementine core kit, since I wasn't really feeling the style of the 2009 cards. They may, however, crop up from time to time... we shall see.
Anywho, here is week 1 for me. I started on Sunday since that was January 1st.
After moving back to KY in the summer of 2008, I started attempting digital scrapbooking. I had not done any scrapbooking of any kind in YEARS, I'm talking like 7 or 8. I was never even really a "scrapbooker" per-say, but I loved fun papers and photos and liked the idea of it; I just never really got around to actually doing it. Anywho... I discovered digital scrapbooking and blogs like Ali Edwards and Becky Higgins were at the top of my list (as were other blogs I found with awesome photobooks: I devoured like every page of Elise & Jamacia's blogs when I first saw their photobooks). I still wasn't finding the time to make much, but I was definately inspired by all these lovely ladies.
Fast forward to December 2008 and I read this post on Beck Higgin's blog. A new way to scrapbook? Easy? Fun? I was intriguied. In fact I followed the announcement of her Project 365 kit and I even set my alarm so that I could ensure I was able to purchase one. I was excited to get the box and start filling it up with journaling and photos. I made it to about mid-Feburary before I stopped. Until the first week of January 2012 that sad barely filled up album was stored away in an ottoman at the foot of my bed.
Again, I've been filled with inspiration by my same faves from the past as well as some new to me extremely talented ladies (Kelly Purkey, Amy Tan, Michelle Clement, and Allison Waken). I love paper, and I love what these people do with their scrapbook pages. I especially like seeing the pages of the ladies with no kiddos. I have nothing against scrapbooking photos of children, but I think that somehow there is a stero-type you have nothing to document if you don't have kids.
Ok.. so enough babbling by me. Long story short: I pulled out that old 2009 Project 265 binder and pages and started anew in 2012. I gave it a little facelift, bought some new cards and I'm giving it a go. Yes... I'm worried about my committment issues and being able to stick with this, but I don't care... I'm going for it anyway.
I painted over the cover of the binder and I'm going to add something fun to the front later:
Here is my title page:
"Project Life is a back-to-basics approach to memory-keeping. This simple format requires no skill - only your pictures and a pen. No one's life is perfect but everyone has a story and every family has a collection of memories. Putting pictures + stories together in Project Life makes us more aware of our blessings and encourages us to cultivate a good life."
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