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I wanted to share some of my ideas for using social media to scrapbook with Project Life. On the layout below I combined a picture taken when we visited our son Joshua at college with one I scored off his facebook page (oh yes I did!) with pictures taken on his week long mission trip to Vietnam. A couple of students uploaded pics from … [Read more...]
You might be asking, what happened to Project Life? Well, you're probably not but I'll tell you anyway! I have been failing miserably at keeping current with my pages. In the past I have gotten behind a week or two because I normally print my pictures every 3-4 weeks. With all the blogging I'm doing I am not staying current. My plan is to … [Read more...]
Since I went scrapbooking last weekend I thought I'd share the Music is in Me layout I created about my oldest son. As you can tell, there is nothing very complicated in my scapbooking style. I like a nice clean (usually symmetrical) combination of journaling and pictures. This layout just makes me happy. I love tracing my son's musical … [Read more...]
I'm going scrapbooking this weekend so I wanted to leave you with one of my favorites: a bedtime layout. Nothing fancy, just sweet pictures and fun journaling. My son Joshua, who is now 20, used to love to make a bed in every corner of the house. When he went from crib to a big boy bed I would awake in the middle of the night to find him … [Read more...]
My oldest daughter is turning 24 today (happy birthday, Rachel!) and I thought I'd help her celebrate by sharing this girls scrapbooking layout I put together. These are some of my favorite girls: my niece, my great niece and my two daughters. These pictures were taken on Easter, 2006. My niece Jennifer now has two more children and my daughter … [Read more...]
This year I decided to make Christmas cards with the Cricut diecutting machine. I love to make homemade cards but don't have as much time as I used to. I got a little smarter and used one of my scrapbooking retreats to make a bunch of Christmas cards. Do you think I've gotten the cards mailed? Ummm, no. Christmas picture printed and … [Read more...]
Today's Project Life layout was fun to put together with less photos and more memorabilia and journaling. Both pages share some "out of my comfort zone" moments. The left side layout has a couple of pics from my adventure singing from West Side Story again. What fun to sing with "my" Tony from 28 years earlier. I also included some … [Read more...]
Went on a scrapbooking retreat this weekend and got caught up with my Project Life pages! I was about six weeks behind and it took me a while. Note to self: don't get so far behind! The good thing about it was I had all my memorabilia and pics ready to go. I just had to decide on type of page protectors and themes for the week. Here's a layout … [Read more...]
Since I've spent the last three "Simple as That" posts focusing on my great nieces and nephew, I thought I'd feature my own family today! Here's my husband enjoying sitting around our fire pit (before it got cold.) My youngest son posing for the camera. My youngest daughter enjoying her cousins. Give a boy a … [Read more...]
I am terribly behind in my Project Life memory keeping this year. Although I'm fairly up to date with getting my pictures edited and developed, I have not gotten them in the album. I also have much of the memorabilia together so it's a matter of choosing the page sizes and orientation, printing off some blog journaling, and I'll be on my way to … [Read more...]
What began as a little family journal in 2008 has turned into a passion for sharing my life, faith, adventures and dreams as a DIY, crafty, bargain hunting, homeschooling, memory keeping mom of both biological and adopted children. Make yourself at home! Click here to read more about me.
