Category: crafty

Week 14, April 1-7. Still love this project!

I pretty much just had photos from two events: my brother, his wife, and their niece Stella came over for a playdate one evening, and on the weekend we visited a local wildlife refuge. The one other picture, of Meredith in the stroller, came from my mom who took her to the dog park one day.

I thought about combining this week with the next, but since that was my vacation week I knew I’d have plenty of photos from that to stand on its own and I didn’t want to cram. So I looked for ways to fill the pockets.

On the left I included my April goals, which I’m doing every month, a journaling card about the play date, and an incident report form from daycare.

On the right I journaled about our trip to the refuge, included the April calendar card, a quote from Meredith, a card I got in the mail, and another “week in review” card to write about other things that happened.

I like these quote cards for recording new things Meredith is learning to say.

The card was from a VP at the hospital where I work because I caught a potential medication error and reported it. Pretty cool to get a handwritten note like this.

The “week in review” card is a staple for me. I do them lots of different ways but they’re perfect for writing about little things that don’t warrant a photo or a card of their own.

On to the next! I’m on the verge of getting behind again so this weekend I have some work to do. :)

This is from the week of March 25-31. It includes Easter and my day in the life record, so even though it only encompasses one week, it is very full. That’s how it goes!

On the left side I tried to include all the more routine parts of our week.

Then there is the day in the life insert. I really like this way of documenting this once-a-month project I’m doing, and I think I’ll keep it the same each time. I am using these page protectors which are perfect for iPhone photos, although they are smaller than 3×4 so I had to cut each photo down. Next time I will remember that and add a border to the photos before printing so I don’t cut off any part of it. The top left pocket will be for the date – that stamp was a special edition from Studio Calico – and I will probably change up the title label from time to time.

Then it’s just photos.

If I need to fill up a spot I will do so with filler cards like this one at the end. I thought about adding journaling to the photos themselves, but instead I am choosing just to include my worksheet in full. It gives the best overview anyway and I think it will be fun to go back and read.

Now on to the right side of the spread. The top two thirds of it are all photos and journaling from Easter.

Then the bottom (along with a couple photos on the left page) is devoted to our trip to the antique festival.

This is a really blurry close up picture, but I wanted to show you what I did since I had sooo many vertical pictures this week and hardly any horizontal. For three of the 4×6 pockets I used washi tape to put together two photos that went with each other. It works, but is not my favorite thing to do so much because I think it looks busy. Oh well – I will work on taking more horizontal photos!

Another Project Life update! I was pretty behind on it, and one of my primary goals on vacation was to catch up. It took me about an hour and a half the other day just to choose, edit, upload, and order photos. Whew. I want to at least stay on top of that part each week so that I’ll have them ready to go when I get some time to put the spread together.

This is the weeks of March 11-24. I took a decent amount of photos so for the journal and extras I kept it pretty neutral. Although the spread encompasses two weeks, the photos are not in chronological order so I included dates on most of them.

Week 11

It was a pretty normal week at home. We had a family shopping outing, had dinner with my brother-in-law & his family, and I went to two baby showers. I started developing pinkeye. The QR code links to a video of Meredith kicking the soccer ball.

Week 12

This was a really blah week. My pinkeye blossomed, Meredith got an ear infection, and we all just had very low energy. There were two high points – a fantastic evening at home, and the birth of my niece Karley.

I loved Meredith’s old backpack so much, but it was getting pretty raggedy. She loves her new one too, but I wanted to document the old one.

First time to put M’s hair in pigtails, and a few random things that happened.

Documenting the blah along with the good. :)

Lovely evening.

Hello Karley!

Meredith is so cute with her obsession over family photo books. Maybe she will be a scrapbooker one day. :)

I’m finishing up the next two weeks’ worth of spreads today, and I’ll try to share them both next week. I’ll be caught up at least for one week!