Stash busting?

I'm absolutely loving project life right now. I love seeing the every day. I love that I can look back on this in a few months and remember the little things. I love that I can look back in a few years and see how much my son has grown.

I love that I have been using items from my scrap stash...slowly.

So far I've used OLD stickers, OLD rub-ons, OLD chipboard, flowers, brads, buttons, papers, grunge paper, die cuts, the list goes on. I love that these old items have a chance to see the light of day instead of being forever banished in the drawer.

I promise to post pictures tomorrow when I have actual daylight.

December Daily: Days 11-25

And I present to you the remainder of my December Daily...

Yeah, yeah, I still need to print the picture for this page

Overall I LOVED this project. I'm not sure if I will do one again this year since I'm doing Project Life but maybe I can incorporate the two projects somehow. It was a great way to use paper and embellishments from my stash.

December Daily: Dec. 1-10

Here is the second part of my December Daily. Part 3 will be up tomorrow!

Thanks for looking!

December Daily: Nov. 24-Nov. 30

I am finally finished tweaking my December Daily. I can't believe I actually finished it. I never finish anything!

For those of you who are wondering what a December Daily is can go here. Ali Edwards originally started the whole idea for December Daily and her yearly albums are absolutely beautiful.

My December Daily starts on Thanksgiving and goes through Christmas. These pages go through Nov. 30th. Part 2 will be revealed tomorrow.

So cute

This post is completely off topic but it was too cute to not mention. I'm sure the story will make its way into my Project Life this week.

My son's best friend made him some pictures and wanted his mom to mail the package to him. So she put it in the mailbox like any good mommy would do. Said package made its way into little buddy's cubby at daycare. He was So. Excited.

He will be the first to tell you that they are best buddies. It will be sad when they start Kindergarten next year as we live in separate school districts.

Project life

I'm almost finished with week 1 of project life and I already love it. There is no pressure to make a huge layout thanks to the pockets. I'm also optimistic that I can rid myself of some of my paper and sticker stash. There really was no reason for me to purchase one of the core kits. I really don't care if each week matches or not. I also used my silhouette like crazy this weekend cutting images. I even made a phrase out of my own handwriting!

Pictures will come soon as soon.

Oh bother

I was so excited to start my first week of Project Life. I ordered and picked up my pictures over my lunch hour yesterday....only to leave them on my desk. Yep.

I realized this about 10 minutes after I had left work. It was too late to turn around and get them and I really wanted to get started this weekend. What's a girl to do? I stopped at my friendly neighborhood CVS and printed them again. I shouldn't say friendly because I don't think the checkout girl said 2 words to me. I probably shouldn't even say neighborhood either because I live about 20 minutes from anything.

Hopefully I won't forget my pictures every week. I need to set myself a reminder!

Sorry I've been away

I apologize, dear readers, for being absent for the majority of December. I had good intentions of posting at least something but never got around to it. 2 birthdays and Christmas in general kept this girl busy.

Plus I had issues with not being able to post photos but I think that issue has been resolved.

I have lots to share and hope to post fun pictures over the next few days. There are lots of fun things on the horizon so stay tuned!

December Daily: Thanksgiving?

I think I was a little too ambitious when it came to doing my first December Daily. I decided to start on Thanksgiving and document through Christmas...maybe even until Dec. 31st.

But then we didn't do anything for a few days and the little guy was sick. The show must go on!

I was a little discouraged until I emptied CJ's backpack today. It had a few of his thanksgiving school projects. I added an insert of his art into the thanksgiving spread. I'm still waiting on more pics to be printed before I make more pages.

And without further adieu I present my Thanksgiving pages.

30 days of thankful: days 28-30

day 28: again, thankful I get sick time at work to stay home with my sick boy. Cold are going around our house. Luckily I've seemed to avoid it for now.

day 29: I'm thankful for my electric blanket. There is nothing better than crawling into a toasty warm bed. I normally turn it on about 30 minutes before bed then shut it off. I get really hot when I sleep but my feet are always freezing. Once they warm up I'm A-OK!

day 30: I'm thankful that the boy is spending the night with grandpa and grandma tonight. That means we will get to grocery shop without trying to tell someone why he can't get toys right now (birthday in 2 weeks!). Plus it means that I get the house to myself tomorrow. Too bad I'll be trying to rid my house of skunk smell. Long story....the dog was skunked last night and now my house REEKS of skunk. I'm the only one who can smell the stench since the other two have head colds. Yeah, fun times.

30 days of thankful: day 28

Day 28: today I'm thankful that I got to stay home with the little guy while he sneezes and coughs all over the place. I'm thankful for the humidifier I've had on high all day. And I will be even more thankful if I dodge this round of sickness. Both him and Chris have had this lovely cold.

Will this work?

So, I started writing a post earlier with pics of the calendars I made only to be told that my photo memory is full. Say what?

I'm going to try uploading a picture and post from my phone to see if it will go through.

30 days of thankful: day 27

day 27: Today I'm thankful that I have such an awesome boss. I had my annual evaluation yesterday and she never has anything negative to say. She's kind, understanding, and trusts us all to do our jobs without micromanaging everything. I also work with such great people. I don't always love my job but it never seems like a "job". It can be boring at times, it can be crazy busy at times, but I've been doing it so long that it's very routine. I mean, come on, paying bills all day isn't glamorous work. :)

30 days of thankful: day 26

day 26: I'm thankful for Netflix. I don't usually get to watch "live" tv. Maybe it's because my husband is a remote hog. Maybe it's because there is crap on tv nowadays. Maybe it's because I'd rather be doing other things. But it lets me watch tv shows that I've been wanting to watch. And so what if I burn through an entire season in 2 days. Is that so wrong? :)