Around Here

Around here I have been spending lots of time in bed. I am trying to get over this bad cold I have.

Around here I have been thinking about paint colors. As you can see I tried one out already.

Around here I have birthday party prepping. The girls are having a joint birthday party tomorrow.

Around here I have been playing with my Story Kit from Ali Edwards. More on this later when I finish week 8.

Around here We have been weeding the flower beds and getting our garden boxes in the ground. It was 90 degrees last weekend and the kids were hot. So we thought we'd help them out by drenching them in a bucket of ice water.

Around here I have been working on my Week 8 of Project Life.

Around here I have been trying to get some exercise. That is until I got my cold and didn't want to even get out of bed. I logged 13.5 miles last week and only 2 this week.

Around here the kids have been spending most afternoons out and about with the neighbor kids.

Around here I am looking forward to feeling better and getting the girls birthday party done tomorrow.

Around here we have been enjoying some great sunsets.

Around here we celebrated pi day last Friday. It is tradition to have pizza and pie

Around here the kids are being introduced to skateboards. Heaven help me.

Around here we had a visit from a little leprechaun.

Around here we still haven't had our mini St. Patrick's Day photo shoot.  Planning on next week.

Around here I look forward to finishing up some projects : Week 8 in my PL, finish weeding and plant some more flowers and bushes in the front yard, get some things up on the walls in my scrap room, finish up the garden boxes and plant our veggies.

Stay tuned next week. For I should be back to blogging again !!

Have a wonderful weekend everybody.

A few introductions + A Field Trip

                        I have a confession.

I don't really like my picture being taken or trying to write about myself. Don't get me wrong, I love to scrapbook and document my families lives. But seldom, rather hardly ever, do I take a picture of just me, and journal about myself. 

Well, this past week I decided to change that. I was so inspired with the Simple Stories "I AM" collection that I created a page all about ME ! This months Daily Diary Kit from NoelMignon.com is called Shine Bright. If you have seen a glimpse yet your missing out. It has lots of Simple Stories and MME !! Plus the colors, oh the colors. Gorgeous ! It has been so fun to design pages with these kits. 

I created an insert page to go in between my week 9 pages that I shared last week. Now it's nothing too exciting. But I have to say that I am loving how this page turned out. 

I wanted to include a few details about what I was watching on t.v. right now. I think this will be fun to look back on in 5 or even 10 years. 

Aren't these brushes fabulous ?!!! You can find them here. They are by Little Lamm Co. 

For this photo I cut out the " I AM from one of the journaling cards and used that for my journaling prompt. I added some I AM responses digitally to my photo before printing.

A few fun filler cards. All materials from the NoelMignon.com March kit.

I added one more journaling card. A few more tidbits about me currently. Another one of those fun brushes.

I encourage everyone out there to do a page that is all about you !! It might not be your favorite thing to do, but your story is IMPORTANT !! Tell your story.

I also did a page about my Daughter's Fourth Grade School Field Trip.  It was all day sort of thing and for weeks before she kept begging me and my husband to go. One or the other, she desperately wanted someone to go. It worked out that my husband took the day off of work and went with her and her class.

This journaling card came together rather easily. I have used lots of stripes for these two pages and the gold striped paper was perfect. I trimmed it to go in the corner and leave room for my journaling. Actually it is my husbands journaling. I asked him to write about their day since I was not able to make it.

I chose to highlight a quote that my daughter said that day by making that part of the font bold. It is simple to do and I love how it stands out from the rest of the journaling.

A fun filler card. I love globes and so this card was a no brainer for this page.

A simple journaling card. I asked my daughter to tell me about her day and I typed it up on this card.

I used this photo as a sort of title card.

One last journaling card.

That is all that I have to share today. Have a great day everyone !

P.S. Go out and make a page about you !! You won't regret it. 

More Cheese Please !! Documenting Disney Magic.

Hello everyone. Happy Monday to you all.

I am super excited to be able to share some Disney Project Life pages with you today. I did these for a Simple Stories Design Team project using their Say Cheese 2 line.

You guys, if you have Disney pictures to scrapbook then you have to see this Simple Stories stuff. It is so perfect and awesome. Okay moving on now.

I was able to finish 2 pocket pages plus a smaller 6x12 insert for this project. Here is a look at the left side and then the insert.

Here is my title card. Since these photos were random Disney photos I used the Disney Castle Die Cut and some other embellishments. In this new Say Cheese 2 collection, there are some gold foiled pieces that are so cool.  You can't really tell from the photos, believe me it was super hard to photograph. But in real life these pieces are great. The wish circle is gold foiled.

A few photos and journaling cards.

I used a photo overlay on top of this photo aboard Dumbo. I added the gold heart underneath the overlay so that it had a layered look.

Me and Maddie decided to not ride the roller coaster and to wait for the others. Well, we got bored. And started making funny faces and texting them to Patrick and the others. We had so much fun !!

These are some filler cards I created.

This one has one of the gold photo overlays over top of the journaling card. Another new thing this year is the wood veneers, super fun.

Here is the other side of both the insert and the 12x12 page.

One side of the insert was all about Mickey and the other side was about Minnie.

This little Minnie Bow is a sticker folks, isn't it soooooo cute !! I just had to add it to the Mickey ears.

One of my favorite moments of the trip. This was our first day and we had not made it over to cars land yet. We happened to be in the right spot to catch the parade. Noah was overjoyed to see his favorite character at the time, Mater, driving his way ! It was simply magical.

Our kids love the Redwood Creek Trail area over in California adventure. They beg and beg to go over there all the time when we are at Disneyland. This is a picture of Maddie climbing the rock wall inside of a chipboard frame.

I used another chipboard piece as a frame.

I added some journaling onto this card and used the wood veneer word "magic".

I've still got some more pages to complete of our Disney trip back in 2012. I can't wait to do some more using the Say Cheese line from Simple Stories. So much fun !

Thanks for coming ! Stay tuned tomorrow. I have some more Project Life Inspiration for you !

Family time and a great view

Hey everybody !! Happy Friday.

I want to share some pages I submitted this month for the Project Life Becky Higgins Creative Team.

I used the Heidi Swapp Foil Value Kit again. Yes again, I just can't help it !! I'm in love with the colors, and the hint of gold. Oh I can't forget the pops of pink !

These photos were from last summer. My mom was here for a long visit and we went down to visit my brother and sister in law. One afternoon we took a drive along the coast and then went for a hike down to the beach.

A simple title card.

Photo from our hike. It was such a beautiful view all the way down to the water.

Here is a look at the right side.

When we made it down to the water there was this big log. It was the perfect spot to house all the kids shoes, and for the adults to sit and chat.

I used a photo overlay from the Desktop edition.

More fun photos. I added a few embellishments from the Value kit, a strip of washi tape, and some letter stickers. All can be found in the Becky Higgins shop.

Have a weekend everyone !!

Project Life Week 9

Week 9 was a fun one. It was filled with a rainy day, a lightning storm, cooking lessons, blooming trees, and a birthday !!

I used the "Shine Bright" Daily Diary Kit from NoelMignon.com. It is jam packed with lots of great items and amazing colors.

Monday after school it started raining. The kids found the umbrellas in the garage and went around the circle finding friends that wanted to come play in the rain with them. They had so much fun.

I used a page protector that has 4x4 pockets in the middle and it was a fun change. I plan to add in an insert to separate the two sides. My husband went on my oldest daughters field trip and they took tons of pictures. So I will add that in as a divider. The two pages have a slightly different look to them and although that was not was I was going for, it will work with the insert in the middle.

Here is a photo of the kids "dancing in the rain". The sun was peaking through the clouds but it was really raining, as you can see the white flecks in the photo.

Project Life is so good at allowing me to tell fun, everyday stories. Plus include some fun photos. This was from Wednesday morning. Maddie had stayed home from school and these two came up with the idea to use our bar stools as cars and race ( I mean slowly move around the house). They had to stop at the red lights and then they made me stand at the fridge and I took their lunch order. Like a Drive Thru. It sure was fun.

In the bottom corner I added a photo of Katelyn cooking us dinner one night. The journaling card next to it journals about how I want to teach her how to cook. She cooked us a spagetti meal with me as her guide !

Moving on to the other side of Week 9. This kit has a lot of Simple Stories I AM in it. Which I LOVE ! So I added this gorgeous card (top left) and added a few personal touches to it.

The first 3x4 card is a photo of a lightning bolt from our lightning strike show. It was amazing to watch. All of us had the door open to the back yard and just sat and watched the sky light up and then go CRASH. I added the HERE wood veneer arrow to show you all where to look !! Did it help ?!

The next card was all about Maddie's birthday. She turned eight on Sunday. Yep, she's growing up. I printed some journaling onto vellum and stapled the number 8 to hold everything in place.

The next photo is of Noah catching the bus. It is something that happens every day but it will be fun to see these photos in the future. I added a photo overlay from Simple Stories. And yes, it is gold foiled ! Can i get some more of those please ?!!

Spring is in full force around here. The trees are turning all sorts of beautiful and so I had to capture it. I added an Ali Edwards brush to the photo and finished it off with a heart enamel dot.

I'm sorry it is a short post today. I have things coming up that I need to spend some time on. Have a great rest of the week. I'm hoping to be back soon to share another PL spread.