Project Life 2012: Week 7

Here we go, Week 7! Valentine's week! I used a lot of red in this one. It was just an excuse to break into some of my cool Valentine's supplies...of course I wasted a lot of time digging through all of it to find the perfect items...then I spent time agonizing over what I wanted to use the most...which is not the idea of this project. The idea behind the project is to get stuff done in a limited amount of time. I'm failing in that instance but achieving milestones in actually keeping up with this project. So I'd say it washes out. :)

Page 1 and 2. The first page uses the 4x6 vertical page protector then I added an insert of the baseball card page protector then I have one 8 1/2 x 11 page protector then my final page. :) I think I should just get used to the idea of doing more than two pages a week. I just have so many pictures. :)

Page 1: Notice I blurred out a picture of my mother in the hospital. Sorry, not gonna show that on my blog. That would be mean. I did, however, show pictures of my Dad becuase he's a goof. LOL

Notice the heart theme going on? LOL I went a little crazy there but it's Valentine's week. :)

Love this paper. Seriously. It's so cute. I just inked the edges with Staz On Red, then with a little black, then added a black penned in border.

(note: recently I have been adding links to supplies/movies/restaurants in posts because when I view blogs and see something I like I always want to know where to get it. It's easy to be able to go right to the source instead of having to google it myself. I don't have any advertisers or anything so I'm not being financially compensated by doing so. I'm just doing it so you can find it if you like it. :)

detail on the hospital visit. On the right Dad is messing aroudn with the machine that was hooked up to mom to keep track of her oxygen levels, heart rate, etc. Dad was messing with it to see what his rates were compared to Mom's.

Page 2 - All devoted to Pre-Valentine's stuff.

Up close image of the journalling. I just used a piece of Valentine Paper that had journaling lines and cut it to fit my baseball card page protector.

I love this picture. I think it's cool. I couldn't not have it in my book. I cut the picture down to make sure that the focal point in the upper third corner was the heart-shaped cookie cutter. :)

Close up of the tasty and beautiful cookies I made using my Grandma's recipe. They really are quite good.

A picture of Nick's valentine card that I dropped off with cookie. I spent about an hour dropping off everyone's cookies and cards on Valentine's which was a huge feat because there are 8 houses all across the county (Simon's in Ellendale, Nick in Blooming Prairie, Jamie on Cty Rd 45, Kimmie on South side of Owatonna, Chris, Auntie Sheila and Jimmy all within a couple blocks of each other on the South Side of Town, and Michelle on the North side of town.)

Page 2 and 3

Babysat the Kidlets on Saturday night so that got it's own page. Lots to do and tons of pictures to choose from.

A close up of the journaling. The letter stickers are October Afternoon. I love that company. I've been using them more and more. They are beautiful, simple and not too crazy. I don't generally like loud and obnoxious stickers and papers unless I can cut it up and use parts of it. LOL

Pictures of Jack doing what he loves...playing with legos (his cash register I bought him LOL) and coloring/drawing. He is so good at it too. He's only 6 and he's so good at it. I might have to find some good drawing books for him or sign him up for a class of some sort.

This is Jack's suitcase. He packed, toys, legos, 5 one-dollar bills, a package of t-shirts, some underwear, a book, a tractor...um...some other miscellaneous stuff. LOL

A couple pictures of Gracie sleeping, coloring and eating her Cheese Pizza. She knew exactly what she wanted at Perkins. Pizza...even though I didn't think they had pizza but she knew.

This is just a 8 1/2 x 11 page protector that I put in the Valentine's I got. The white envelope was a copy of the one I made for my loved ones, the striped heart was from Jack and the Hot card was from Jayde. On the inside it says, "So hot that the box of gourmet chocolates has melted." It was cute.

This is the card Auntie Sheila made. I used a picture from Christmas that I took of them and then photo-shopped in the dog. Can you tell? I even added a shadow to mirror that of the shadows on everyone else in hope's that it would be close enough so that you couldn't tell. So...can you tell?

The last page using a page protector with 6x6 sections. I cropped the pictures to 5x5 then glued them down in the corners so that it would look like a frame around the outside. Then I added the 3 hearts to keep it a bit cozy or I'd like to think it's cozier. :)

Jacob's first cookie. I gave him a little baby heart cookies to eat since he's little. He two-fisted it into his mouth but only ate a small piece. Then he put it back on his tray and then tried to pick it up but it stuck to his finger. So he ended up double-fisting it again to get the rest of it in his mouth. It was cute.

Me and my nephews on Twilight: Breaking Dawn: Part 1. Both babies were together so naturally I needed to get a picture with them. I can never seem to get both of them to smile at the same time.

Picture of the girls on the big couch waiting for the movie to start.

Korby on the left (in the Batman shirt I bought him for Valentine's day) and Jacob to the right. Too cute little babies so very different from each other. Jacob is smaller and squatter. Korby is heavier and taller. Jacob has slightly curly hair and Korby does not. Korby has long fingers and Jacob has cute little sausage fingers. LOL Korby drools enough to sink a ship and has teeth, Jacob doesn't drool and has no teeth. LOL They were born a couple days a part.