Friends are good for the soul...

 

In December, I was lucky enough to be able to reconnect with Lillian. We met on Twitter about 4 or 5 years ago. She moved down here, and we were able to get together to scrapbook and get our boys together for play dates. I miss her and was so excited when she told me her and her husband would be in town to visit. We had a lunch date and it was so much fun. Can't wait to see her again sometime! 

This was the first digital scrapbook layout I've done in years (literally!). It felt good to play around with kits again, and made me want to buy some new ones soon.

Products used: "Geocaching" digital template by 2pawsdesigns. "Storyteller" kit by Paislee Press and One Little Bird. Word art from "Thank You Friend" by Ali Edwards for Designers Digitals.

Project 52: Week 4

This week's theme is shadows.

I had high hopes for this week. I kept thinking of all these cool shadow photos I could take and I just kept forgetting. Then the past few days it's been cloudy when I've been outside. Really frustrating when you realize it's Friday and you missed all those opportunities.

But, I decided to just take my photo inside this week. You win some, you lose some. :)

Cameron is always doing some sort of ninja moves around the house so I told him to strike a pose for me. Turned out better than I thought it would.

Interested in joining in on Project 52? Go here. 

Project Life 2015: Week Three

Hello week three, so nice to have you done.

We did a lot of wedding stuff this week, so that affected this week. My best friend, co-worker, and I went to a local bridal fair. Totally overwhelming, but it was interesting. I got a few back-up options for a DJ, and it was just neat to see all the services offered. There were many photographers, but we already have ours, so that wasn't something I was looking for. We also had a mostly kid-free weekend this particular week, which was very odd. It was nice to be able to spend time one-on-one with J though. We had a date night where we went to go pick out wedding rings and went to dinner. We found J's ring, but my ring is proving difficult to find a wedding band to go with, so I'll probably have to work on that with a local jeweler.

(There is a photo behind that blur. Other than our family, I won't share a whole lot of photos of others' children with "the public". There's a thing I have about it. Best friends and fiance's don't have a choice though. ;)

Seriously though, this Project Life app is a lifesaver! I'm curious if it is more affordable for me to make pages this way or the other way? I haven't done the math on that yet. For one, because I'm horrible at math. I really like how I can mix the kits throughout our album, and just use whatever I want out of them. I haven't tried mixing and matching throughout sets because I'm OCD and it would probably bother me, but it's nice that it's an option!

How's your 2015 Project Life going? If you aren't participating, what is your favorite recent layout or project in general? (Put the link in the comments, I want to see! :)

Project Life 2015: Weeks One & Two

Welcome to my Project Life 2015.

My hope is to post each layout I do for 2015 on here. Everyone was posting about their approaches and what not. My hope is to just attempt to keep up this year. I am VERY behind on last year's album. It is okay though. I was out busy living my life instead of documenting and that's okay. I just want to do better at keeping up this year.

I made this layout using my Project Life App on my iPhone. I love that app! I think it will help me out a lot this year. Plus, I haven't yet picked out a kit I like. I think this year's will consist of me using what I have a lot of the time.

I've slowly been building my scrapbook stash back up. I really want to include some cute embellishments this year... just some things to add a little more to what I'm already doing. Most of the time when I sit down I just want to get. it. done. I'm hoping I feel a little bit freer to do more this year. Plus, I'm not holding myself to the weekly schedule. If I want to do a whole layout about the pumpkin patch and nothing else exciting happened that week, that's what I'm gonna do! :)

Are you doing Project Life this year? What is your "approach"? ;)