Category: project life

This is from September 1 – 15. When I started working on it I wasn’t really in the mood but it ended up coming together really easily and it’s actually one of my favorite spreads.

These were normal weeks. All pictures are just daily life with a couple of pregnancy bump shots. There was kind of a pink and green color scheme in the photos that I tried to stick with, and of course neutrals.

On the above journaling card I wrote about a small moment I observed and it’s something I’d never remember if I hadn’t written it down.

I surreptitiously grabbed a photo of Meredith at daycare through the window just after I dropped her off. It was so cute because she is much happier when one of her little friends is already there and this day they both sat down at the table to eat their morning snacks together. I love watching her friendships being born.

I hit 20 weeks during this time. I didn’t write anything about it but I still wanted to include the milestone.

And then a few other tidbits that didn’t fit anywhere else. I end up doing one of these cards almost every time; it just works well for me.

Still so happy with this!

I’m caught up again, and back on schedule for every two weeks! Feels so good.

This spread is approximately the last half of August. They were just regular weeks so this is normal everyday life stuff. Again, it was great to have a bunch of horizontal photos to fill the space and I’m definitely going to keep making an effort to do this.

I got a short video of Meredith taking a “running jump” into a kiddie pool at her cousin’s house and it was super adorable.

I decided to write about one of our Saturdays and detail what exactly we did that day since it was a fun one. It also goes along with the photos at the bottom which are from the birthday party at The Little Gym. I noticed later that the stamped date is wrong, but I just left it since it’s close enough.

On the right there are mostly just photos of Meredith around the house – playing in her room before bed, jumping up and down on the couch watching “Jessie,” playing outside, going through all her clothes, and then one of me outside watching her play.

And I still like having a place to write down all the other random stuff that happened.

It’s great to have one creative part of my life back in action! Next up is working on my niece’s stocking since we just got the kit in the mail. My mother-in-law and sister-in-law are going to be working on it too so we can finish on time. Wish us luck!

I am getting back on track! The weeks aren’t lining up exactly because this spread encompasses roughly the first half of August, but eventually I’ll get back on a two-week schedule. One thing that helped me a lot in putting this together was that I had a lot of horizontal photos to pull from.

I’m still keeping things simple and it was nice to not have any inserts to deal with. The first page was pretty much all about our impromptu trip to Nashville to vist a friend.

I loved the video of Meredith chasing geese so I uploaded it to YouTube and printed a QR code for it.

This pocket includes the bulk of the journaling about the trip. I wanted to write more than what would fit on a 3×4 and since it was personal I thought a fold-out card would work best. I hope the arrow will clue future me in to the fact that there is more written inside. :)

The right side is daily life stuff. A couple of Meredith playing with her cousins, at the store with daddy (he won her a stuffed animal that she carries around with her now; so cute), playing in the sandbox, and a bump shot with a recap of my latest doctor’s appointment. Then I used one journaling card to write about a few other things that I didn’t have pictures of.

Feels good to be getting back into the swing of things!

I am finally finished putting together the spread for July. I’m so behind and I’m not loving doing it this way. The first half of July was still first trimester haziness and then towards the end I emerged from that and began to feel better, but we were super busy. David’s grandmother passed away so we had a lot of family stuff going on, and Meredith had her birthday and party. So far in August I’ve been feeling great (hence the blogging I’ve been able to do) but it’s taking awhile to get all areas of my life on track like they used to be. The scrapbooking schedule is not a priority, in other words.

So here it is. There are two inserts: one has Instagram photos I took on Meredith’s actual birthday and on the back are photos from her party which was the following weekend. For those I relied almost solely on my mom’s iPhone pictures so I trimmed them down and mounted them on paper to fit into the square pockets. The second insert is this blog post and I chose to leave the back blank.

There are many reasons that a monthly spread isn’t working for me, but one of them is that although I’m not taking a TON of photos these days I still have more than can fit, and too many of them are vertical iPhone photos. So this layout is mainly pictures with three chunks of journaling about big events: Meredith’s toddler phases, Gigi’s death, and a pregnancy update.

In putting this together I tried to keep it really simple and easy. A little stamping and similar labels on all the vertical photos to keep them coordinated. I used mostly neutrals on all the papers since there was color enough in the pictures.

Same thing happening on the right side.

Here is the insert for the sort-of day in the life I did on Meredith’s birthday. If I had taken better notes I would have included the times on the photos but I didn’t, so I didn’t.

This is just a closeup of the tab I used for the insert. Nothing exciting but it says it all.

And photos from Meredith’s party. There were a lot more but these give a decent overview. I just wish we had more pics of the rest of the people that were there.

So that’s that! Next weekend I’m going to attempt to get another layout done that includes just the first half of August. My goals with this project starting now are to take more horizontal pictures and to get back to bi-weekly spreads.

 

 

For awhile there the last thing I wanted to do was work on this project. I barely took pictures or notes, which is why this single spread encompasses five weeks; the end of May and all of June. I’m totally fine with that and just happy to get anything down. I put this together in two sessions: one to get the basic layout and papers in place, and two to add journaling and finish up.

So this is from May 27 to June 30. Not a lot happened other than finding out I’m pregnant and getting through the days. Other than one picture of a picnic with a friend, these are all updates about Meredith and journaling.

When I first got this positive test my husband even made the comment, “I’m sure this will be documented to death.” Funny that this picture is the only one I took. That’s just how tired I’ve been.

I love this picture of Meredith with an armful of stuff. Lately she won’t go anywhere without it all.

And another one of my favorite pictures of her. It really captures her happiness (and love of dirt). Like I wrote, she reminds me every day why pregnancy is worth it. :)

So I am sort of “caught up” with this now, but I don’t think I will be able to go back to 2-week spreads just yet. We are dealing with a lot of toddler issues and transitions with Meredith that I want to get straightened out and it is taking all my time and energy! I am going to try to keep up a monthly spread for now until I get back into my groove. We’ll see how it goes. :)