Project Life Week 9

Welcome to week 9.

Yes, I know. That was soooo long ago. It is done, and we are moving on.

I wanted to share it with you today.

I am still experimenting with the light in our new house. Still haven't found a good "photo" spot yet.

First Page: Maddi'es 6th birthday. Our yard was put in at the new house. Grandma and Grandpa were here for a visit.

Used a Cathy Zielske Journaling Card. Added the tag before printing and then added butterfly and letters at the bottom.

Added a photo of the girls waiting for Grandma and Grandpa to come to a blank grid journaling card.

I cut one of the filler cards that came with the seafoam kit, added a strip of another journaling card to the top.  The happy birthday is from Cathy Zielske.

Maddie and her 6 fingers. Heart from Studio Calico.

The weekly home picture. They put in the grass, trees, ect. that week.

The kids love to ask grandpa to help them play games on his computer. They were here for a visit.

Brush from Ali Edwards.

I added an insert this week. We had Patrick's parents in town and so on that Saturday we took the kids to the park, and they have a stream running through the park.

Used Becky Higgins Design E page protector.

The journaling card is from the Studio Calico PL kit.

Again, sorry for the bad photos.

This is the other side of the insert. In our church we get baptized when we turn 8. Katelyn turned eight the month before.

I included some photos from the event, a little letter from me. Also had her write a little something.

Also I included her invitation that I did. ** Disclaimer ** I took some inspiration from the wonderful Emily from her great blog. You can find it here.

The last page.  Across the street from where they are building our new house is a Almond tree orchard. They were in bloom and were so pretty. We stopped by and got a few pics.

A few of the photos.

This one I actually sized the arrow and then printed it out on cardstock. Finished with some glue onto the photo.

That is it for Week 9.

As always, if you have any questions, comments. Please don't hesitate. Have a wonderful weekend everybody.  I've got lots of projects to try and tackle. And my mom is here for a visit !! Yeah !!

Hi there !!

Why hello there . . . 

I have to start off by saying that I am soooo sorry for being gone for so long. I certainly didn't mean for it to happen but other things have been on my mind, well mainly the new house.

I have been busy trying to settle in, paint the place, plan a backyard, all while just trying to survive real life. 

But I thought that it was time to check in with you all. I haven't actually worked on my PL album till this past week.  And I am done with week 9. I will share soon.

A blog post is always a little awkward without pictures. So I want to share some photos from Noah's first T-ball experience. He went through a program through the city where they first learn the basics and then last week they had a game. And let me just say that watching three year olds play t-ball is very cute and funny to watch.  I loved it. Noah did great !!  


Here we go

Catching the ball.

 Throwing the ball

Ground balls

Listening to the instructions on how to hit the ball.

Instructions from Patrick. All the kids had to have a parent to help out.

Swinging the bat in the game.  That was his favorite part.

 Coversations while playing outfield during the game.

Time for me to go. I hope to get some time to share week 9 with you soon. Take care and have a wonderful weekend. I've shipped the boys off to a camp out. So it's girls night in for today and tomorrow morning. The girls are begging to "get started with girls night in".  Until next time.

Saturday Blog Hop

                                                      Hello Everyone.

I just wanted to pop in and mention that I have been featured on Michelle's Saturday Blog Hop.

If you are here for the first time, Welcome. I appreciate you coming and for any and all comments left. I love to read them all. 

I was very excited to be asked. I invite you all to go check out her site and all of the other very talented ladies featured today.

Here is the link :


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** We are continuing to pack up here. Almost done with everything other than the last minute things. The house is done, minus a few touch ups of paint. We have our walkthrough on Tuesday and then hopefully we will get the keys and move in over the weekend. Have a fabulous weekend everyone.***

Project Life Week 8

Hello everyone.

I was able to squeeze in some time to get my PL week 8 done.  I have to apologize if some, or most of you, are sick of seeing pictures of our new house. This week was almost all dedicated to it ! I just can't help but get excited about it all ! I didn't take many photos this week but knew that I had a ton of photos from the house. And it turned out great. I hope you like it.

Here is the first page.

I had the Becky Higgins Design B page protectors to work with from the previous week. And it turned out to be just what I needed. I had a lot of photos that I wanted to include for week 8. 

The title card and the first photo. The photo is of an instagram I took of the girls. In between riding their bikes they came up with the idea to race Noah's cars down the driveway.

I cut out the yellow "awesome" banner from the Studio Calico Project Life kit.  To print out the instagram I simply cropped it to 4x4 and put it on a 4x6 layer, added my journaling and printed.

I held an imprompto mini photo shoot for Katelyn over the weekend. Just went to the side of the house and took some quick shots. I need some photos for her baptism (which happened last weekend) invitations. (In our church, they do this at age 8).

Added this great brush from Ali Edwards.

The second page. More house photos. I promise they will end, we are moving in soon !!

I wanted to include a visual- right on the picture of the "new" things that were happening with our new home this week, because as you can see a lot has happened.

Took the top half of a blank journaling card and printed it on it. Stapled it to the photo with my Tim Holtz Tiny Attacher. Love that thing. It saves me a lot of time, just staple and your done.

Our kitchen as it looks right now. Took the word "Hello from the HELLO SCHOOL - Ali Edwards brush kit.

This is a bad shot of our backyard but it was all shady at the time that I was there.  I used an old frame from my stash to frame my journaling that I printed right on the photo. Again, used staples to attach. The banner "So Very Happy" is from the Studio Calico Kit."You could use the new Studio Calico frames for this type of look as well. Can't wait to get my hands on some of those.

** Sorry - this one didn't photograph well**

The kids always beg me to "Go see the house". Every day, it's never ending. And this scene is what you will usually see when we are out there. They gather up all the FUN things that you can find on an active construction site and make stuff with it.  They could literally be out there all day. So I wanted to get a photo of them out in the backyard "making stuff".

This first journaling card I used a sticker from October Afternoon. Added my journaling and the wood arrows from Studio Calico.
The second one is some paper from Dear Lizzy, the brads are also from Lizzy.

I stapled a business card onto one of the journaling cards from our trip out to the home and Garden Show. Fun way to remember that we received lots of these. It was so much fun !!
The second card I used the home brush from Karla Dudley. You can find it here.  It is part of her Christmas brush collection. I turned the color to gray and added the words to the top.

That is it for week 8. I am going to see if I can get a start on week 9 soon. But we are hoping to move in next weekend, pending what day we get the keys to our new house. This will be the last post for a little while until I can hook up the computer and un-bury all my scrapbooking supplies. Please be patient with me as me and my family start fresh in our new home. I will be back, maybe soon with moving pictures !! Until then, carry on and keep scrapbooking.

Project Life Week 7/Valentine's Day

Welcome to week 7 and Valentine's Day. How is everyone ? I am good, surrounded by boxes and chaos, and appointments, and phone calls and then you throw real life in the mix and it is just crazy !! Oh and then add in a birthday party and my middle childs birthday today and company coming into to town today !! EEK !!

Anyways, let's get on with it. I am going to be brief today. So please, PLEASE, don't hesitate to ask questions if you've got 'em. I will take time to answer. But time is very limited these days.

I did a "Normal" week spread the week of Valentine's Day and here it is. I used the back side of week 6 where I used Design G.

Noah caught getting into the cupboard. Happens all the time.

Katelyn took this shot of me.

Daddy trying to drag a few kids around.

The journaling cards.

The second page of Week 7.

Katelyn turned 8 years old this week.

We went to the park on Katelyn's birthday. I did a collage of pictures from the park.

The weekly house shot.

Journaling cards. The first one I used a filler card from the Seafoam kit.
The second card talks about our cabinets going in.

The first card is from the SC PL kit. The second kit is also from the SC Kit. Journaled on the bottom about getting a babysitter and going out dancing at our church.

Now I want to move onto my Valentine's Spread.

Pictures.

This card is from the SC PL kit. Put the DINNER brush on, added the heart and added my instagram photo.

Hearts. I love them.

The first card is a heart overlay from Fancy Pants. Added the heart that I used to decorate our dinner plates with. The other card is an instagram pic of our dinner lighting.

These two cards were from the SC PL kit.

The second page of my Valentine's Spread. I wanted to use some of the horizontal journaling cards that came in the SC PL kit.

Title card.

Journaling card and photo.

More journaling cards and photos.

That is it. Have a great weekend. And again, if questions please leave a comment.