Project Life 2014: Week 23

I was actually AHEAD of the game this week and finished week 23 Saturday night before the week even officially ended.  The downside of that is that I had nothing to work on all week.  Oh, the price one pays be caught up!  :-)

Week 23...

Jeff had a class/work thing that week that he was particularly excited about.  Thankfully they posted photos to facebook everyday that they could download.  It was like having a kid at camp again!  I got to search for a glimpse of Jeff each day!  :-)

Here's Jeff's week 23...

Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2014: Week 22

Week 22 turned out to be another one of my favorite weeks so far this year!  The week itself was great... but I really like how the pages came together.  This was my first time in FOREVER to actually buy a kit to go with my photos.  I usually just use stuff from my stash and/or products from the designers that I work with.  But this time I fell in love with Just Jaimee's June Storyteller kit and since it matched so well, I had to buy it!

Week 22...

The supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2014: Week 21

I struggled with this week for a while, but once it came together, I think it's one of my favorite weeks!  Who says that patriotic kits can only be used for the 4th of July??  :-)  I was first drawn to this kit because of the Wrigley Field pic, but I eventually was able to tie it in well enough with the rest of my photos as well.  It doesn't scream Independence Day too much, does it?

Week 21...

Supplies (links on pinterest)...

Project Life 2014: Week 20

Another low journaling spread :-/  Last year when I had more of a set formula, I almost always had a big 4x6 journal card with a rundown of the week, day by day.  I'm 22 weeks in to this year and still haven't found a good set formula... sometimes I like that, other times it really bugs me.  A couple of things I've found that I MUST have are a calendar card and the week number though.

Supplies used (board on pinterest)...

Project Life 2014: Week 19

I guess one of the perks of being behind with posting is that I get to look back a little.  These pages are from about a month ago when Alex had a week bookended by music performances... Sunday was the 2nd Led Zeppelin show and Saturday was the first performance of Lucky 13.  A friend of Alex's from SOR was having his Bar Mitzvah and got some friends together to form a band for the party.  They practiced for weeks and performed 4 or 5 songs.  Alex had a blast.  Typing this, I realize that I should be doing more journaling on my pages :-/  I've got to get caught back up and stay caught up.  I find that the first thing to go when I'm behind is the journaling.  I'm dangerously close to being completely caught up and the week I'm working on is a little light on photos, so maybe it'll be a good one to start journaling again on.

Anyway... here's week 19...

Here's a video from the Sunday Led Zeppelin show...

Project Life 2014: Week 18

Week 18 was one of those weeks where I apparently forgot to take photos other than two days at the beginning and end of the week!  Lots of filler!

And since I forgot to include it with the week that had the OK Computer pictures, here is some video of the show...

Project Life 2014: Week 17

 Week 17...

These pages will be printed back to back and will fall between the pages above.  I'll trim them to 6x12 once they're printed...

Supplies from the members content from Little Dreamer Designs.

Project Life 2014: Week 16

Week 16...

Is it just me or is this year flying by incredibly fast?  I'm working on week 21 right now, which made me realize that in just five short weeks, I could be ordering my book one with the first half of 2014 in it!!  Seems completely unreal.  That is something that I've found with doing PL, the weeks seem to just fly... I just get one week done and it's time to start another!  I totally love it though (even though I'm still in a bit of a slump).

Pretty much everything on these came from the April members content on Little Dreamer Designs.

Project Life 2014: Week 15

Well, apparently there are some benefits to procrastination!  I was procrastinating on posting, not really on purpose, just busy.  I had skipped week 15, but had weeks 16-18 done and ready to post.  Yesterday I finally finished up week 15 and when I started this blog post I realized that I had finished it in time to post everything in order instead of skipping around!

This week was way different for me.  Very colorful and "busier" than I normally do.  I've never thought of myself as a watercolor paper girl, but these papers from the facebook hop freebie kit from the Lilypad just happened to match Clara's solo costume perfectly.  I love how these pages turned out!

In other memory keeping news... Clara is still plugging away at her own project life book.  Her April prints arrived last week and we're working on her pages together.  I love that she's enjoying this and I truly love that it's something we do together!  I still need to take photos of her completed pages.  We've also joined a Project Life Random Acts of Kindness group and have had so much fun sending out and receiving surprise packages of supplies!  

Our next project I need to blog about is our travel journals for our big summer trip.  We've decided to do Smash Book style journals.  Clara picked up hers on Saturday and it is an actual Smash Book.  I'm on the fence about what to get.  Right now I'm currently leaning toward the Michael's Recollections Creative Chaos journal.  I love Smash Books, but I like that the Recollections one is a three ring binder.  We started acquiring fun supplies on Saturday at Michael's (and I may have impulse shopped my way through the Joann site later that evening).  My Mother's Day gift was directly related to this project too and I can't wait for it to get here!  I'll post more on that once it's in.  Next up, Clara and I need to find a good compact way to organize our supplies for the trip.

I enjoyed scrapbooking in the past, but never as much as I do now.  Project Life was the first step... I love the bare bones memory keeping of it and how the whole family has gotten involved with taking photos for my books.  It's at a whole new level now that Clara has started her own projects.  As we enter the teen years, I'm so glad that we have something we do together.  And hopefully it become habit for her, something that she can take with her for her adult life as well.  I'm also enjoying that with doing these projects with Clara, I'm slowly escaping my safe little digital scrapbooking bubble and starting to play with paper.  

Anyway... enough rambling!  Time to hit "publish"!

Project Life 2014: Week 14

I should type more, but had a fabulous deep tissue massage earlier today at the chiropractor and now I'm barely capable of forming complete sentences :-)

So here it is, week 14...

And I just realized that I'm typing this on Friday night and setting it to post on Saturday.  So the opening sentence isn't true for when this posts, but it was true for when I wrote it.  :-/

Project Life 2014: Week 13 Part 3

 The last of spring break week!  Our trip to Silver Dollar City... the highlight of every spring break!

Supplies: