Project Week 18

I have been on a roll lately, it feels really good. Trying to play catch up is not always fun, but I have been enjoying myself. Getting a chance to look back on the past few months memories and moments. So here is week 18

Here is the first page : 

Here is Maddie on her bike :

Layout for the State Fair :

Maddie and Grandma learning the ABC'S  :

Journaling cards :

Here is an extra page that I did. We had to say goodbye to grandma because I was taking her back that weekend. I used on of Cathy Z's templates and then embellished with Ali Edwards love package.

Here is the second page :

Noah eating lunch outside :

The hotel that we stayed in for a two day scrapbook crop me and my mom attended in Utah when I drove her back home.

 Here is the Journaling Card instead of a picture explaining about my weekend and what we did at the Scrapbook crop.

Here are the journaling cards :

That's it folks. Another week is done and still LOVING this project. I am going to try to incorporate more different things into my album. For variety. I am kind of getting bored of the repetition. So we shall see how that goes.

Christmas in August

So you've heard of the saying Christmas in July right ! Well how about Christmas in August ?

It sure felt like Christmas today when I got to open up my big package that came directly from the UPS man !! Maybe he is one of Santa's elves ? Anyways, inside was my new camera !! Hurray !! I was so excited, it really felt like Christmas morning. I got a little time to play around with it today. Not as much as I would have liked, but I'm sure I'll make for that soon. I really missed having my camera and am so grateful to be getting this one. Here are a few shots that I took this afternoon.

Maddie at lunch

Me and Maddie playing petshops and watching Tangled after doing yardwork !!

Oh boy Katelyn's home from school !!

Flowers blooming in the front yard

Our street sign and the hot summer sun. It was close to 100 today !!

Mirror shot of the new camera

Canvases that just came. Waiting to be hung.

So fun !! Well I'm off to finish another week in my project life album. Yes, I'm almost done !! I know, I'm just been going crazy this week. Well see if I can keep this up. Probably not.

Project Life Week 17 Part 2

Back again !! Here is the second half of week 17

Here is the second page of extras. Lots of pictures from our exploring the fields around our house.

Here is the other side :

Here are some closer looks at the photos : 

I then printed out a 12x12 picture and stuck it in a page protector. I love the look it gives and plan to do a few more like it in the future. Here it is : I used an Ali Edwards brush and added the place and the date.

On the other side of this picture I added a layout that I did. I wanted to tell the story a little more about how the girls love to point out the oil pumps around town and the funny names that they called them, each girl having a different name for them !!

Here is side 2 of the week : Another field picture with journaling stapled. Katelyn practicing her letters. They are always wanting to play school. Flowers for the front porch. And Patrick being the "daddy horsie", as the kids call him. Also a small picture of Noah out in the field and Maddie writing her letters.

Here are some closer looks :

That is it folks. It sure was fun to do and get in the album. So here I go off to get another week done and get ready for week in the life next week.

Project Life Week 17

Project Life Week 17 : Done and I am so excited to show you because it was so fun to do, lots of extras. To save time I didn't edit any photos this week so I hope they look ok for you guys. Let's get to it !!

Here is the first page :  Dinosaur easter eggs were finished on Monday this week. Katelyn found this cute dinosaur decorating kit at the store and they turned out so cute. Tuesday she started school at her new school in California. Halliburton office where Patrick works. Also a small picture of the girls drenched from the sprinklers, we are not used to running in the sprinklers in April.

 Here is a closer look at the Dinosaur egg picture :

Here is a closer look at the journaling card for that day :

Here is a closer look at the school journaling card :

Here is a look at the first of the extra pages that I did for this week :  To make a long story short, we are surrounding by fields of growing plants, fruits, nuts, you name it around us here in our new town. So I wanted to document that. So one night I took the kids out to explore on of the fields and got some great pictures. Take a look. This first one is some journaling of our night and a little background about the city.  Oh yeah, I used one of Ali edwards long journalers for my journaling and just stitched the page protector to fit it.

Here is the back side of the long journaler : An oil Pump out in the field.

Here is the next set of extras for this week. I had lots of pictures from our adventure that I wanted to include so I just printed them 4x6 and stuck them in the american crafts 6x12 divided page protector. Put some of Ali's brushes on some of the photos.

Well it seems as if either my internet is giving me fits of blogger is. It wont let me add anymore pictures.So I am going to publish this post now and then edit it. So stay tuned for part two if you are reading this.

Three Things

Just a quick post about three things.

#1. Check out this post from Paisley Press about how to print on journaling cards. I get questions all the time about how to print on journaling cards and this is a great tutorial that anyone can do. If anyone is interested on knowing how to print on the journaling cards that come with Becky's kit maybe I could get a post together about it. Let me know. I would be glad to help. Check out the Paisley Press post Here.

#2. I ordered a new camera instead of getting my old one fixed. It wasn't worth spending the money to fix it. It is a step up in camera for me so that is so exciting. I originally had the entry level Sony a300. I ordered the Canon T3I. It was all I could afford at the moment under the sudden circumstances, but I am not complaining. I am so excited for it to come. Hurry up UPS man. It arrives on Tuesday. So not this coming week but the following week I will do my week in the life. I am now getting ready for that and can't wait.

#3. I am working on the next week of my Project Life album. There are some extra pages for this week and I am also working on a layout for the week also. So if all things go good today I should have it all done and ready to show you tomorrow.

Have a wonderful last weekend before school starts everyone. Do something fun !! We are working on projects around the house !! Including getting my scrap space in somewhat of order. Yeah. 

Project Life week 16

Yet another wonderful week has been finished and documented. I am not sure if I will ever get caught up at the rate that I'm going but things are bound to slow down, right ? School is coming and fall is around the corner. So there is hope.

Well here is a look at the first side of week 16 :
Includes the arrival of the washer and dryer. Saying goodbye to daddy on his first day of work. Noah's treat bucket. And Katelyn putting up her room decor.

Here is a closer look at the small picture of Noah, yes he is crying because his cherished daddy had to leave him and go to work:

Here is a close up of the picture of the kids sending off daddy, on his first day of work. I used the empty space on the photo for my journaling. It made room for the picture of Noah that I wanted to include in this week.

Here is a look at Noah's snack bucket picture. I wanted to make sure that I documented this part of his and my life, because it is so cute and funny !!

On to side #2. This includes a picture of my iphone giving me directions around my new city. It's been a lifesaver, really. Grandma and the girls making cookies. Gas prices. Our drive up the canyon. A picture of Noah and grandma on our hike - which i think you've seen pictures already. I did a layout about our hike, which you'll see later in the post.

Here is a closer look at the iphone shot. I really wanted to remember using my phone just about everytime we went anywhere. I even used it to give me directions on how to get home from where I was at !! Now I hardly use it, but back when everything was new, it was my map.

Here is a closer look at the picture of the cookies being made. If you were to know my mother, her nickname is cookie mom Heidi because she is always baking cookies and they are to die for good !! The girls love to help her with them, and of course eat the dough !

Here is a close up of the gas picture : I wanted to document how much gas was at the time. When we first arrived in town the price of gas was awful. The first time I filled up the tank all the way I about had a heart attack looking at the total. And yes that was the exact amount, I didn't do it manually !! It just magically ended up at $90.00 even.

Here is a closer look at the journaling card about the girls making cookies with grandma : I found some free clipart, placed it on the journaling card in photoshop, wrote my journaling, and printed. So easy and fast.

Here is a look at the picture of Noah and grandma on our hike. I was so sweet to see him reach for her hand and want her to help him walk down the path.

I had two extra page to add this week. So here is the first one. This was when we took my mom over to see the house in person. We were only able to walk around, but we wanted to show her the yard and to peek in the windows. I had her take a picture of all of us in front of the house.I added some of Ali Edwards brushes to the photo and then added some journaling strips at the bottom. The size is 6x9 so I made my own page protector by stitching up the two sides.

Here is the other side. This was on our hike in the mountains. I had my mom take the picture of us and I added another one of Ali Edwards brushes to the photo before printing.

That concludes week 16. That was the week of Easter. I am going to do a two page layout from Easter. Also I did a digital layout about our hike(see below) that we took that same week. Also me and Patrick left the kids with my mom and drove down to Santa Monica one night. We walked along the beach, had dinner, got to talk and enjoy each others company. I plan on doing a layout about that so stay tuned.

Here is the digital layout that I did. One note about the layout, I don't do very many digital ones.  I think I have done less than ten of them. But it is fun to do something different, sometimes they are faster than the traditional layouts and I like that. I found this site called pixelscrapper.com that has free digital scrapbooking supplies. It is amazing and I got all my supplies from them so thank you !! Check the site out. Here is the layout. Have a great rest of your weekend.