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March Studio AE Blog Hop from Technique Tuesday

Project Life Week 3

Hello and welcome to another tenth of the month and another Technique Tuesday blog hop. This month's hop puts to work Studio AE's set called This Story. I thought it worked perfectly for a week of Project Life. The spring forward time change, however, did not work perfectly with my photographing layouts/Project Life in the morning routine. I hope to come back with some updated better pictures later today.  :)  

What I do like is how well the stamps worked for me to make my own journaling cards. I loved that I can create a bold accent and still have plenty of room for journaling. If you know me, you know I love to journal. 

The one spot on ths page is intentionally left blank - still have one piece of extra goodness that I'm waiting for that is significant to that week. 

 

It was a good week.

Make sure and stop by all the other blogs in this month's hop for more inspiration and more chances to win!  

 

Ali

Jaclyn

Laura

Nichol

Sharyn <------- That's me! 

Daniela

Teri

PRIZE!!

We are giving away a $25 gift certificate to TechniqueTuesday.com to one lucky commenter during this month's blog hop. The winner will be chosen at random and will be announced on the 15th on the Technique Tuesday blog. You can win if you don't play! 

eta: I apologize for having to turn word verification back on, but I got slammed with computer generated spam this morning while I was out.  Darnit. 

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Other stuffs:

I know I've been low key lately - my mom is in town, and Mark has some sort of nasty sinus infection. I rushed him to the doctor on Friday when his fever suddenly launched to 104.2.  After two nights of no sleep for all the hacking and coughing, I think we both finally managed to get some sleep last night. 

Relief.

We'll keep him home this morning to catch up on his rest and to make sure he's on the mend. The fever yo-yo'ed for four days straight. 

 

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a productive snow day

Project Life: Week 39. Real Life, Day 61

We had a somewhat productive day over here today. 

• The kids tried the lemons
• I went to the gym - 3rd day in a row (she asked me if I hurt from yesterday, I replied honestly - no, she promised me that I'd hurt tomorrow, but I'm not so sure. I think I've been underestimated)

• Brian went to a one day art class. Two of his siblings were extremely jealous. They'd all like art classes, but by the time I signed a kid up, this was the only class left for this season. Brian got dibs, Mark was a year too young. 

• Dad and Wendy worked on her new bed. It's pink now - but drying for another day before we plop the mattress on it. And yes, the fan will be moved. Personally - I would have hung the bed along the other wall where moving the fan wouldn't have been an issue, but they tend not to ask my opinion. That's not a vent, just a fact. 

• I worked on 16 weeks of Project Life at a time. This is week 39 from 2012. 

• It was a pretty funny week, looking back. Click the photo to see it more readable. 

• aaaah....ballooning. The balloonfest information is starting to pour in. The season is coming! And Brooklynn is going to love me for posting that photo of her. That's okay - she keeps telling me that she's going to text me and she never does, so I owe her. 
• It was a good day. 
• Tomorrow I'll rest and gear up for another full/busy week. 
• But for now, I've got a few more hours to work on Project Life before I head to bed. 

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Calvinball points

Layout - 1
Blogging - 2
Project Life - 1

Total - 4  

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Project Life: 2013: Cover Page

Getting Organized.

Project Life: 2013: Cover Page

There. I've officially begun my 2013 Project Life album. 

I decided to go with the 6 x 12 page for the front page this year. I know that I don't have a lot of pictures/stuff for Week 1, so the back of this page and one full page will easily work. I also didn't have any recent pictures of Greg and I, so I didn't have that to add. One picture from our annual Christmas card shoot, the year, and the initials and ages of all four kids. 

Simple. 

Done. 

Getting Organized.

Confession:  When life got crazy busy last fall, my Project Life album came to a screeching halt. BUT. It wasn't just the fact that life got busy that stopped me in my tracks, but the fact that I had filled my album and had to work really really really hard to come to terms with the fact that Project Life takes two albums per year. Ugh. So now, with life settled down a little bit - I've begun to play catch up. My two albums arrived yesterday (LOVE Amazon Prime) so I pulled 2012 out of my box album and assorted stashing places and began filing them in. Now to fill in the rest and begin 2013. 

Items Used

On This Day
In a Nutshell
Key Lime Albums
Chili Powder
Lemon Drops
Weather Vane

Metal Label Holder

Overall, yesterday was a productive day. 

There's no doubt in my mind that my dad's death has me in organizing overdrive. I've purged the filing cabinets, I'm (working on) minimizing, yesterday I got the taxes done (a new record) and last evening we updated our own insurance policies. We hadn't looked at our policies since we first took them out in 1995 - time flies. We definitely had updating to do. Turns out there's a box to check for ballooning. 

Who knew. Totally worth it though. 

This morning I have two plans in my head. One for if I work, one for if I don't. We'll see which one gets done. 
Tonight - Science Fair. 

Even just the words science fair bring me right back to elementary school, and trying to build a radio in our basement. I don't remember that working real well. 

be good.
stay warm. 

 

Project Life: Week 41

Just to prove that I'm still playing. :)  For this week I decided to go with just one page protector - reason coming soon. 

Other stuff...

• My mom came to town yesterday. Dragged her to Costco with me directly. She's staying at one of my brother's homes this time. 
• But we're going bumming again this morning
• I actually could have worked today. Who knew? After many glitches and much waiting - I found out yesterday that I was fully in the system. (a sub aide at the schools) Last night I received an email that I was approved for Parapro and within 10 minutes of that email - just after 9pm, I got a call. Wasn't expecting that! 
• On my agenda - find some pants to wear to work. The two pairs of jeans and one pair of sweat pants that make up my weekly wardrobe, aren't going to cut it. 
• I hate shopping. 
• Time to fly....

 

Project Life: Week 35/Week 36

You know life is crazy when I've had these done for a couple weeks but couldn't seem to find the time to photograph them. 

Found a moment this morning. 

Week 35: water war company, ballooning, a shot from a wedding, guinea pig love....

...and a list that my new ballooning friend made about me. We've met twice and she knows me so well. 

right side - I ran out of journaling spots so I did the write on the photo with a sharpie thing. It worked

Week 36

Left side - Brian started fall soccer, a yard/craft sale, Frankenmuth and the first day of school. 

Right side: ballooning, Frankenmuth, more soccer, and my dad's weekly shopping list. 

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I woke up sluggish today - but I've not had many days at home this week, so I quickly got it in gear. Fifth load about to go on the line, 8,000 steps walked, dinner planned, and coffee down the hatch.

 

 

Project Life: Week 34

Still catching up - Week 34 (August 20 - 26)

Left side - a phone message written by Wendy. Saginaw will call back. (I'm still waiting). Wendy's bucket list - you'll have to ask her for permission to see the whole thing, but I'll tell you that includes the words pennies, vinegar and sari  Some quotes from the week, Wendy's summer party and the note about working on a sub basis on the school playground. 

I crewed four times this week, so I thought it was a fun week to include some of the H protectors. I used one side per flight. 

I clipped the day part of some old memo pads to include the day on each page. 

On the right page - more from Wendy's summer party, the new butterfly, our new guinea pigs...

...and a picture from our field trip out to the new church build. I need to get out there again - within a week of this photo there were walls and beams. Rumor has it there will be a roof this week. 

Lots can happen week after week....

Happy Friday! 

Project Life: Week 33

Alright - so I've fallen a little bit behind on my Project Life album.  Steph is trying to take advantage of my sick day (I went to be at 8 last night feeling like crap) and try to catch up, but I just can't let that happen - so - Week 33. That's way back in the middle of August. Flipping through the photos it feels like so long ago already....

On the left side we have some pictures from the Melon Festival, a conversation between Wendy and Mark, my new curtain, and a card from the Lice Nanny. We had our hairdresser and the doctor both say Wendy's lice was gone, and it came back AGAIN. Her head was already raw from previous treatments. I gave up. I brought her to the Lice Nanny and it was worth every penny. I'd go there first if (please no) she ever got it again. There was the added bonus of her checking me as well because I never felt comforted that my husband or kids were really looking as they quickly flitted through. (I didn't have it) We learned a LOT about lice that week. 

So that was that week. 

We also bumped into my kid's pediatrician downtown at the Melon Festival. It was his son that asked if I'd take a picture (he's running for state rep. or something) Kind of fun to have a picture of the kid's doc in the book. We see him more than some relatives, after all. 

On the right side - a bit of backyard fun, Wendy's new glasses...

And I put the Melonfest pamphlet right in the album as is - just punched some holes in it. I like watching how it changes from year to year. STILL miss the parade. 

Allan went to Cedar Point for his birthday. That pamplet I just cut short and stuck it in a photo slot. 

I just happened to bump into the number chipboard that week, so it worked here. Seventeen. Time flies. 

Now to finish week 34......

Project Life: Week 32

While I didn't win any awards for productivity yesterday, one thing I did do was run up to Walgreens to pick up a photo order covering the last three weeks. 

Then I got busy with it.  Above - week 32, the left side. My sister flew, we visited Mrs. K, Greg crewed, we voted and my new shirts from Cafe Press came in. It was a good week. 

The right side - the last of the old couch, nearly made it 20 years. My sister, the kids playing playdough, checking Wendy's hair - again (she's thrilled), and a few pictures from Colonial Kensington. I picked up a few more photos from that day but they'll go on their own layout

I got a good start on weeks 33 and 34 but still have a few gaps to fill. 

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Other stuffs:

• I feel like I already got more done today than I did all day yesterday. Yesterday was an unusual Monday for me. 
• Planned water balloon fight today
• Looks like a good night for ballooning
• Would also like to get to the open house at the new Cleary University Recreation and Wellness Ctr. I'm most curious about the elevated track - 13 laps equal a mile. Might be great for winter walking. 
• The guinea pigs are still doing well. 
• On my way to the grocery store.....
• after I snuggle the five year old ..... 
• It's all good

Happy Tuesday!

be good

Project Life: Week 30/Week 31

Good Morning! Happy Tuesday! 

The weeks, they go quickly in the summertime I'm finding. Here we go back to week 30 - a week when we were kidless here at home with our kids gone to Minnesota, and the week that my sister arrived with her two boys. 

It was also the week I traveled to Minnesota to pick up the kids. In the upper left corner I cut a piece of Greta and Jonathan's wedding invitation. In the space below - I left a post-it note boldy declaring that I'm hoping for one of those photo thank you's that are the trend these day (best trend ever) to put in that spot. If not, I'll wrangle a photo from Uncle George somehow. 

In the other slots - some hay bales that Wendy couldn't resist photographing on our way to St. Cloud, more ballooning, and the boys in the pool. 

On the right side, a few shots of our houseguests, a scene from our road trip out to Minnesota and that poor girl who had lice. I decided to include the box in one slot because when we were kids all the moms used Kwell. Kwell is no longer available over the counter and it seems from everything I've experienced and have been reading, that the lice are becoming immune to a lot of the current treatments - just like any other bug. So years from now we'll be trying to remember what we used on our kids and I'll flip through this album and get all sorts of "Ah-HA! - I Remember!!" 

Week 31

The kids back at home - a trip to the museum, air soft hockey wars, a bulk size box of crackers and a lazy Sunday evening around the fire cooking miniature marshmallows. 

Right side: More ballooning - this time the pictures are from the sky, two little goobers sharing a chair at the gardens, Wendy writing song lyrics - one of her favorite things to do, and Wendy performing her job walking duties. After five years of her brother walking these dogs - the leashes have been officially passed to Wendy. 

Now to finish week 32. 

Happy Tuesday! 

As for today - I'm hoping for the rain to clear so I can get some clothes on the line. 
Allan is working.
Greg is enjoying his week off.
Allan has dentist
Wendy has middle school immunization updates.
We're picking up the couch (the 19 year old couch went on the curb yesterday)  
And that should do it.

be good!