My top Ten

Happy New Year's Eve! No big plans around here, but to wrap up the year, I thought I'd share my favorite layouts of the year.

So glad I remembered at the last minute to take a quick shot this day.

My first layout published in Creating Keepsakes!

Tomorrow starts my first ever Project Life attempt! I'm excited. And scared!

All dressed up....

and somewhere to go! She got all fancy yesterday for the neighbor's Christmas party and just had to have a photo shoot in front of the tree.

Project Life here I come....

I've been wanting to try Project Life for some time now, but I could never commit. I was doing so many layouts, that I didn't think I had time to do anything else. But lately, layouts are few and far between. So I have another plan for 2012.

My Project Life is going to be done on a weekly basis and my week will be from Mondays to Sundays.It will cover the little things that often get forgotten in layouts. The little things that actually make up life.

I will continue to do layouts for each kid and these layouts will go into their own album. The difference that I see happening is that instead of the 2 albums per year that Anna has been getting, there will probably only be one album per year per kid. Because the little things of every day life will be covered in the Project Life album, I won't need to make a layout about them unless they are really special details.

I will print pictures at home and will use my Instax camera and phone for quick pics.

I will attempt to refrain from buying anything for this project other than the page protectors and the one set of grid lined journaling cards. Last night I spent about an hour, start to finish, stamping and splattering some journaling cards to have on hand. The rest of this week will be spent digging through my stash finding other things to add to my Project Life bin. And then the next week will be spent finding this bin so that I can put all of my stuff in it.

It's been raining all day here, so it's a nasty picture.

I want neutral colors with lots of white space. (Sounds a little like my layouts.) I am crazy inspired by Marcy Penner and Liz  from Paislee Press. Good thing they are on the Project Life Creative Team.


In 30 years, my kids can fight over who gets the Project Life albums. Because we know that they are going to cherish these albums and want to look through them every single day. ;)

5 months

At 5 months he
never wears socks that match his outfit
can sit up on soft surfaces
eats bananas, apples, prunes, carrots, and peas
thinks it's hilarious when Anna jumps on the bed or spins around
still loves Adele
loves to suck on MY thumb
has pooped on pretty much all the important people in his life

Blech.

We've been sickly around here. First Anna and now Blue. I had tried quarantining Anna upstairs, but that lasted all of 5 minutes. So now Anna is getting better and Blue is getting worse. Poor guy. At least he isn't a grouchy sick baby.

Well, well.

As you can tell, I never found my blog hop post. It's floating around somewhere. Probably with my holiday doily banner I made last year and couldn't find this year. And that thing was so cute, too. Huh.

 Anyhow, I do promise to one day get back to regular posting. It's just this no sleeping thing that's killing me. 

My plan is to start Project Life bright and shiny on January 1, and since I feel like it's going to be a major undertaking for me, I think I will start working on some journaling cards. Stamping them, printing them. Something. Anything to make me feel like I'm doing something. Because at the moment, I'm doing nothing. 

Nothing at all.

 So let me leave you with a picture of the missing banner. It was cute, wasn't it?

Technical Problem....

I had my post for the hop all ready to go, but now that I get on to check it, it's disappeared!!! Oh this technology kills me.

So while I try to figure out where my post is floating around in space, here is the list of other participating blogs. The next stop on the hop is KimberlyKalil, so please make sure to check her out!

So sorry!

http://blog.funmama.net

http://kissandtellscrapbooking.typepad.com/

http://blog.mshanhun.com/

http://xnomads.typepad.com/

http://nickylamarche.typepad.com/

http://scrapsandsass.blogspot.com

http://www.scrapworthylives.com

http://mahsliceoflife.blogspot.com

www.MichelleRoycroft.blogspot.com

http://www.kimberlykalil.com/

http://www.yourmemoryconnection.com/

Truck Love

It's amazing how an ordinary thing like eating pizza in the back of a truck can make four girls have "the best day ever."