Yesterday I sat down and finally got to the last 2 weeks of my PL! Again keeping it real simple so I can keep it going!! I also just got my first printed pages from Persnickety Prints and I must say I love them......they did an awesome job! Once I get them in page protectors and an album I will share!!





 this will be a 5x7 insert for this week.....






So that's it and I'm up to this past week now which will have loads of pics due to the babies birthday!!

I am really enjoying the rhythm I've got going to my PL project this year. Simple and easy is keeping me on track and going! I just sent my first group of prints to Persnickety Prints and I can't wait to see how they come out. I'm printing 12x12 and putting them in an album....hmmmm.....need to get an album now! I'm actually allowing myself to think I might go back to where I left off last year and pick it up again.....we will see! Here is my week 6 layout.

Here is week 5.......

I worked on my project life pages for week 4 on Friday night and finished them up on Saturday afternoon. I took a lot of pictures again this week and so I have my usual 12x12 spread and in the middle of that I did a 6x12 page with some journaling and pictures. We celebrated Claire's 16th Birthday and Hannah Grace was 23 months so I did a recap of the month for her. I take so many pictures of the baby! She is always available and still does not mind my camera in her face. But I need to be pro active about getting shots of the other kids too, it's just so much harder. I will send all of January out to be printed this week. I am gong to try to print once a month so we can have the pages in the album and I can also keep up with any memorabilia that I want to add monthly then.












And that's a wrap for week 4......simple, clean, easy and doable!!!

Here are last weeks layouts.......I took loads of pictures so there are 4 pages!




So far I'm staying on top.......with my fingers crossed it will stay that way!!

So I completed last weeks layout....not many pictures due to the flu that I finally ended up with. So I guess I can say I'm up to date with PL.....I want to say it now cause who knows if I'll ever be able to say it again.......

left side

right side

It's a New Year and I've been thinking about, praying about changes I want to make.....in myself mostly but also in the way I do things.
For the past few years I've prayed about and focused on one little word that I could work on for the year. This year my word is "intentional". I truly want to be more intentional in every area of my life, as a follower of Christ, as a Wife, as a Mom, as a memory keeper, as a photographer......and the list goes on. My desire is to be more purposeful in all I do. The hurdle in this is that to do that I need to be more organized.......insert sigh here! So that is my starting point for now.
So last weekend as we fought the flu and hung out at home I organized my computer and EHD's.......backing everything up and going through digital scrapbooking supplies. I looked at the few layouts I got done the beginning of 2012 for Project Life and I realized how much I loved them! Why did I not continue all year with this project??? So I decided to try again to get these weekly layouts done and record our memories in this fun way.
My focus is going to be on my photos and the journaling.....not so much making fancy scrapbook pages. Simple, clean and easy. Doable...I hope! Here is my title page and week ones layout..........

title page

left side of layout

right side of layout

I know that it is only through the strength God provides me that I can accomplish any changes in my life. So being intentional about my relationship with Him is my biggest priority or all else will fail.

Yes, that is right......I am caught up with my weekly Project Life pages!! Yeah! Now keeping caught up is another thing altogether!

 These are my 2 main pages for the week with an 8.5x11 insert with the next 2 pages. Super simple and super easy but I got my stories down and that's what is important for me!



8.5x11 insert front and back.....

I hesitate to even start this post.....I sooooo did not keep up with my project life last year. Could be having a baby and all sorts of other things got in the way. I took loads of pictures and had good intentions but sometime in mid April I just never got back to it. And so that leads me to this year......
I have seen some amazing products out there for doing Project Life in a digi way and so I have decided to start up again as I think keeping it all digi will make it much more doable for me!

One problem I have been fighting with is time management..I only have so much time to spend on pursuits for myself and right now my passion.....yes my MAIN PASSION is knitting! Oh, don't get me wrong I am still taking loads of photos......too many probably! But when I have a spare minute I grab my needles and knit away. But I really want to document these everyday stories and remember and capture them.......

So today I made an effort to begin my digi Project Life and completed the title page! I am hoping to catch up this week with all of January so I can try to do my scrappin on Sat. or Sun. afternoon for the past week. I am going to need to schedule this in if it is going to get done......

I am happy with how this turned out.....I am using pocket page protectors to make it look like the paper version of project life.....I am hoping I can stick with it this year! The pictures are from our Christmas card shoot and the family one is from Christmas Day....the verse is one we are concentrating on this year as a family......Loving God and loving others. Now on to week one........we'll see how it goes!!!

This year instead of doing Journal your Christmas like the last 2 years I am taking this photo class at BPS. I have decided to take the photo prompt and journal about that and make a simple 6x6 album for this years Christmas. I am using a modern american crafts album 6x6 page protectors and going all digital. I really want to focus on my photography and post editing skills that I have been learning so here is a look at my pages so far! These are 2 page spreads.......




So far I am enjoying the prompts and really enjoying the photography process.......I will post picks of the album cover when I finish it!

Well, I've been a really bad blogger lately....so let me catch you up on what I've been up too!! I finished LOAD with flying colors.......it was so great to get so many layouts done!!! Here are the rest of my layouts...

LOAD Day 28

LOAD Day 29

LOAD Day 30

LOAD Day 31

Here are 2 more layouts to add to my LOAD group!!
Day 26
 Day 27