Project Life – Week 17

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Becky Higgins, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Project Life, Scrapbooking

Hi there!

So glad to be getting another post up on time.

This week:

• We flew home from Brisbane. Paige loved the plane again
• I went back to work 😦
• Paige went back to kindergarten 🙂
• It was ANZAC Day – we went to the parade in town.
• I picked up an old crochet project
• Paige had to write a prayer for kindy

LHS was mostly done using Studio Calico cards:

RHS – I added the flag from the Parade:

Because ANZAC day was such a special day I included an insert too. The collages are 6×8:

So that was the week that was 🙂

Thanks for looking.

Sharon xo 🙂

PS: I will be sharing this post at The Mom Creative

Project Life – Week 16

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Becky Higgins, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Project Life, Scrapbooking

We had a super busy week this week, we were lucky enough to fly to Brisbane to visit my sister for 5 days. I will be doing a trip journal so have skipped over a lot of the details in PL this week.

Left side:

Right side:

A few close ups:

Thanks for looking, I will try to get another post up soon with the trip journal.

Have a great week.

Sharon

 

PS:  I will be sharing this post at The Mom Creative

Week 15

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Becky Higgins, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Project Life, Scrapbooking

I’ve been on a roll over the last few days and have caught up on quite a few weeks (see previous post).

I will now try and do each week and continue to do the catch up posts as I can.

This week was done using a Studio Calico kit from January – ‘Woodbrooke Road’

It was a quiet but fun week for us. We were both on holidays and had a great time.

See you next time.

Sharon.

PS:  I will be sharing this at The Mom Creative – check it out.

The post where I start to catch up…

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Becky Higgins, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Project Life, Scrapbooking

Trying to catch up.

Week 8:

Week 9

Week10

Week 10 Insert – 6×4

Week 11

Starting to get there…

Sharon

Me undecided? Not usually.

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Becky Higgins, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Project Life, Scrapbooking

I’ve been plodding along with my 6×8 pages but they just weren’t doing it for me. I never felt like I ‘knew’ where the week began and ended. I do love the smaller format but will keep it for mini-albums, trip journals, December Daily etc.

Have now gone back and put everything back into 12×12 layouts. I won’t bore you with individual photos of what you have already seen. Here are a couple of collages.

Now, finally, onto something new… Journaling and embellishment not finished, but you get the gist.

Week 7 LHS

Week 7 RHS

Week 7 Insert

Here is something more up to date:

Week 12 LHS

Week 12 – RHS

Week 12 Inserts

I went to the funeral of an old boyfriend in this week. I wanted to include it somehow but I’m not sure how to yet. I’ve just popped the order of service into a page protector and the You Are My Sunshine card – this was his favourite song and they also played it at the funeral.

Week 12 Insert 2 – I had already made this one before I decided to go back to 12×12 – I just popped it straight in to the album.

So that is a bit of what I’ve been up to. I’m just glad to be getting something done.

I will be sharing this post at The Mom Creative – check it out for great inspiration

Thanks for looking.

Sharon

Project Life – Weeks 1-3 – Redo!

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Becky Higgins, Holiday, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Road trip, Scrapbooking, Silhouette Cameo

Hi! It has been such a long time since I’ve blogged. I really lost my mojo but it might be slowly creeping back.

Up until now I have only completed 3 weeks of PL, last year I was always up to date and had a blog post done at least every week. Life has been busy and I was quite unwell since Christmas Eve until only a few weeks ago really, nothing too serious – just very run-down.

I started the year out doing typical PL 12×12 layouts using the Design A page protectors. Absolutely loved the Seafoam kit when I saw it.

I had vague plans of changing my approach to 2013 and using the SN@P albums but it didn’t happen, even though I had bought 4 of these little 6×8 albums to use for the year.

Last weekend I did something that I have never done before (since becoming a Mum). I went on a 6 day ROAD TRIP with two of my girlfriends, including Sarah from Documenting Chaos.

We headed south to the Sunshine Coast, where we met up with 12 other PL fanatics from the PL Australia Facebook group. We had an absolute ball and it was great to be around a group of lovely ladies who all ‘get it’ about Project Life.

I’ve almost finished a trip journal using a SN@P album and it has got some enthusiasm started. Yay! (I will blog this book when it is finished too).

I have gone back and pulled all of the cards from my 12×12 pages and restarted 2013 using the SN@P albums. Here are a few of the redone pages – not quite finished but in the book 🙂 :

I have printed most of the photos for the rest of the weeks and will do some more posts shortly.  Here you can see the page protectors with all of the photos in them.

Talk to you soon,

Sharon 🙂

Project Life 2013 – Week 3

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Becky Higgins, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Polka Dot Creative, Scrapbooking, Silhouette Cameo

Well I’m still up to date so that counts for something. My pages are fairly simple but they are capturing life at the moment.

I’ve been quite unwell since Christmas and seem to have lost my mojo, hopefully it will be back soon.

Still loving the Seafoam kit – it is just so subtle and really lets the photos shine. I have added a few extras to the core kit, I will keep doing this and will also be adding my Studio Calico PL kit pieces when it finally arrives.

It was a rough week here but I’ve tried to include it without being a downer:

• Insomnia for me (thank you night shifts – I am now nearly nocturnal)
• Job losses at the hospital I work at – tough times, very unsettling
• Hospital trip for me – I am supposed to be resting… with a 4 year old??
• Crafting!
• Playing with my girl
• Lego has arrived!!
• We are both in love with our Chook Cook – perfect eggs 🙂

Here is the layout:

The left side:

Added a bit of washi, some stamping and a Silhouette cutout. The tag on the title card is one that came in a parcel from Polka Dot Creative (love those little extras).

The right side:

The top left pocket is actually a transparency – it will look better when the next week goes in. I cut up a grid card to label some of the photos.

Here are some close ups:

I like the splashes of black and I think the subtlety of the Seafoam with lots of white is giving the pages a nice clean look.

I got an Olive kit last week so I might start doing some weeks in Olive too.

Hope your week has been better than mine. Thanks for dropping by…

Sharon  🙂

Project Life 2013 – Week 1 & 2

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Becky Higgins, Instagram, Memory Keeping, photography, Scrapbooking

Hi,

Well it has been a while since I’ve done a Project Life post. Happy New Year!!

I am still about 4 weeks behind on 2012 but will hopefully get them up to date in the near future.

This year I am using the Seafoam kit (love it), and I found out yesterday that my subscription to Studio Calico Project Life kits will be on it’s way for February. I want my pages to have a lighter look this year and I think that these 2 kits with the help of my Silhouette Cameo that I will get that look.

Here is the title page, I will be adding more to it when I get some more photos.

Week 1 started quietly with an afternoon at the beach with my friend Sarah from Documenting Chaos and her family.  The end of the week was busy for us – Miss Paige turned 4 and I threw her a big party at the local pool.

Layout:

Left side:

Right side:

Insert:

Week 2 isn’t quite finished – I might add a bit more embellishing but it is fine for the moment.

Layout:

Left side:

Right side:

So that’s it so far. Hope the new year is treating you well, thanks for looking 🙂

Sharon

Aleida’s Challenge

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Memory Keeping, photography, Scrapbooking

Hi everyone,

I try to make sure when I am documenting our life in Project Life that I remember to not only document my daughter’s life but to also include photos of myself and my mother. Paige turned 4 yesterday and she may not remember us the way we are today.

I love to see photos of myself with my Mum when I was a little girl and I don’t think I have any of me with my grandmother. To remind me to do this more often I have joined a photo challenge that is a tribute to a lovely lady.

The challenge is to take a photo every month with Paige and include it in our Project Life – she will hopefully be able to look back on these photos when she is older and realise how much she was cherished. I may take it one step further and get a photo of both of us with my Mum too.

Here is this months photo:

The details of the challenge can be found over here at PLUCKY MOMO

I’m also going to show you one of my favourite photos – I had it taken when Paige was 2 days old. When I saw the prints I said “OMG! Look how tired and old I look!” – the photographer reminded me that I would look back on this photo one day in the future and think “Look how young and love with that baby I was”. And even after only 4 years I can see that love on my own face.

So do it for yourself, and do it for your kids – head over to PLUCKY MOMO and join up this lovely photo challenge.

Bye for now,

Sharon

Some of my past weeks

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I’ve been a bit behind in Project Life and blogging. Here are some of the last few weeks and inserts that I’ve done recently.

I will be sharing this post at The Mom Creative.

This is Week 43 and also part of my Project Real Life.

Daycare art insert for Week 43

Week 43 insert – front and back

Week 44 Front and back

Week 44 daycare art insert

Week 45 Front and back

So you can see I have been doing bits and pieces but am just not quite up to date. I will do another post soon. Please leave me some feedback if you have time.

Cheers,

Sharon