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Project Life 2012: Week 12

Week 12 and I'm about a month behind! It's not because I've lacked interest or desire in doing the project it's because I've been on vacation. Then getting back from vacation was catch-up time for everything else that I missed. I had to put this to the middle burner (not the back burner).

So here's my first catch-up post. I'll be working on the others the rest of this week and weekend. Just to give you and idea of how much it's going to be I took around 1900 pictures (give or take) during my weeklong trip. Plus I had two birthday parties as well.

Project Life 2012 - Here's a link to the gallery of all 12 weeks. It's also on the sidebar on my blog.

Page 1

I used this beautiful yellow textured paper because this week was unseasonably warm like summer and it turned everything a beautiful green color. So I decided to go with warm and sunny for the header. The flower and middle are October Afternoon and the numbers are Authentique (one of my favs).

My dog who I just call Dog-ee. This is him after work licking his chops because I usually pet him and talk to him and give him a treat for guarding the house.

This week I just printed off some dates using the Rockwell font and hand-wrote the major items.

Painted piggies. :)

Page 2: I used the bigger 4-6x6 page protector because I didn't have a whole lot for pictures during the week. It was more the excitement of going on vacation the next week. Packing re-packing. that sort of thing.

A quote that resonated with me this week. Heard it on MPR.

I've been doing 30 things on my blog over the past month so I figured I should put one of the posts on here so I picked the pet peeves one. Not sure why. Underneath it is some antiques.

a 2-pager!

The Hunger Games (movie)

GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

Seriously. Go see it.

If you loved the book you will love the movie. I'm not kidding. This as quoted by my sister Kimmie, "Is one of the best book to movie I've ever seen."

I LOVED THIS MOVIE! It was good, made you think, gave you the willies, made your heart ache. Seriously, I'm speechless other than to say GO SEE THIS MOVIE!

 

Project Life 2012

I decided to try Project Life by Becky Higgins. I got the idea more from Ali Edwards though. She did it last year and is doing it this year too. 

Basically you do a two-page spread about each week. Initially I thought it would be a lot of work and just too much to add to my already huge pile of projects, ideas and STUFF that I have on my plate. I mean really? You have to do a 2-page spread every week! But if you look at the set-up of the pages it's not so bad. It's less like a traditional 2-page spread and more like a mini book. Just grab some 4x6 or 2x3 images and grab a couple journalling blocks and you're done. No need for excessive embellishment.

So, at the last minute, I decided to give it a try. I already do the December Daily and that's a layout every day during December. Surely I can do this? Plus I'll actually be getting something done. Getting a handful of pictures and a notecards worth of journalling down. I need to document this stuff because I'm getting more behind even as I type this. That's what really sold me. Getting something down every week. :)

I bought a 
12x12 leather binder from Archiver's in red because I couldn't get the Becky Higgens package. She has a whole package you can buy with the binder, page protectors, journalling cards, date cards, etc. I didn't want to do that. I wanted to use  my own stuff (to save money). Although her stuff is already set up for you, so it would be a tad bit easier but...I bought my own.

These pages protectors (not all the same because I wanted some variety): 4x6 and 4x4

9 4x4's

One 6 x 12 Eight 3 x 3 Inch

Four 6 x 6

After I had the products I had to decide on a first page. Some kind of cover page that would be cool, would set the tone for how my album was going to be, something that would say "Turn the page and look through this gigantic book it'll be interesting and fun and loaded with awesome pics!" LOL

Well at that point I stalled out. Yep. So instead of sitting around looking through all my stuff I went to the internet and started looking at other people who had done Project Life. I started with Ali, then went to Becky's blog and found a whole host of ideas which led me to other blogs, to a Studio Calico discussion post which led me to several pinterest sites with ideas.

So happily I perused the internet pinnning ideas as I went. In case you are wondering what I found here's a link to my Project Life Pins.

Then I sat down and just did it. Just did my cover and the first two weeks. It was fun. I loved it. I didn't overthink. I just grabbed my favorite pictures, some ephemera I collected and got down to business. Here are the results:

(if you click on the images you can enlarge them)

My Cover

I used some pictures of my from the last month. I was going to take some special ones but I figured I might as well use what I have.

This is the 4x4 9 picture template. I cut out some 4x4 squares from some scrap paper and used 3x3 pictures.

I love this center square. I used a combination of thickers foam letters 2 and 0 and used some american crafts letter stickers for the 1 and 2. I used some Karen Russell phrase stickers (very old) and stitched on the heart with red floss. (I drew it on with a pencil and just went over the drawing with the floss). Then I just drew a thin line around the box to emphasize it. Simple. Easy. Not too much digging for supplies involved (in reality that can be the biggest time drain).

I wanted to do something with numbers, so I used the numbered cut-out and glued that on a white 4x4 piece of cardstock then cut out the 5 and 2 from a piece of travel paper and added weeks with some small letter stickers.

This one just shows what I'm documenting. My Life (rub-ons). I used a Martha Stewart butterfly with some stitched on red/white striped floss. (I think Doodlebug).

I did a little stitching around the picture of me sewing because...well, I just thought it would be cool and ironic. LOL

and obviously I'm a dork. LOL

I stitched red on the corners on this one because I had some leftover red floss from the heart on the 2012 and I thought it was a close up of me and Jacob so it made it feel even closer and more cuddly. I didn't mean to include someone else on the cover besides me but I liked this picture a lot.

Here's Week 1: 1/1/12 - 1/7/12

See, it's nothing special. Just a bunch of pictures and a handful of journaling. Just enough to get something down.

I am going to always, well, probably mostly always put the week date on the top left corner of the layout just so that there is some consistency.

Page 1 using the 9 4x4 page protector. I like this one because you can get a lot of images on here.

I didn't do the pictures in any particular order except the food. Figured I'd keep that all in one line.

Piece of red paper, a white tag with red heart, glittery 1 number sticker from Making Memories, thin strip of white cardstock with date stamped using red Tim Holtz ink.

Easy Peasy Lemon Squeezy LOL

I love this picture! I put the address on the bottom. I used remington noiseless font and printed it on a piece of white cardstock then cut that out and glued it on.

Here it is again. I messed around with it in Photoshop. I love this picture. :) It's right downtown Minneapolis next to the McCormick and Schmick's

I typed up the menu of Jayde and I's dinner at McCormick and Schmick's. I just went to their website for the details.

Page 2 of Week 1

The We Bought a Zoo square I just copied an image from Google of the poster, resized it in Photoshop and printed it on cardstock. Then glued the ticket from the theatre on there. I think that is something I'm going to do continually this year just to document the movies I go to. I would like to add some journalling about the movies but only if I have room.

My journaling page. I used some notebook lined scrapbook paper and cut it up into 4x4 squares. I just joted some notes down for each day as to what I did. I'm just recording the basics. If there is a bigger story I want to tell I will but I didn't have one for this week.

Note that on most of the pictures I wrote something about what the picture is or a short sentence or phrase about it. I think that will also be something I do weekly. Write on the picture itself, add a phrase or word sticker, create something in word and print it on cardstock or print the picture with words on it.

Week 2: 1/8/12 - 1/14/12

This week was an excercise in using all the cameras I own. I have pictures from my Canon DSLR, my Canon point and shoot and my camera on my Droid Bionic (used several different apps for the images)

Page 1 of Week 2

Jayde and I went to bingo with his mother and her and I won, hence the blank bingo card (one of my non-winners) with the amount in letter stickers of what I won.

I made this 4x6 page with 3 images, so there is a 2x4 and 2 2x3's of the pencil case that I sewed together and gave to Michelle. I made a tag (top left image) of my initials kind of like branding. LOL

A 4x6 with our names on top and some letter stickers on the bottom.

This next page is the 8 1/2 x 11 insert I added for this week because I had so many pictures that I wanted to include. I made this using the Pocketbooth app on my android. I took several pictures of my nephew that come out like photo booth pictures. I downloaded them to my computer and made a 8 1/2 x 11 blank canvas in photoshop and dropped the images on there. I centered them because I figured it was easier to center instead of having to cut them out and put them on a piece of cardstock. That would have been more work than necessary.

I punched out a heart then cut around it to get the frame then lightly glued it on and stitched crosses to hold it in place. Peanut Baby is two different kind of letter stickers. the baby has flocking (I believe Making Memories).

I have to say I love this page. I really do. I loved putting all of those pictures on there and highlighting my favorite and putting the nickname I have for my nephew.

Here's a close up. (p.s. I will be having pictures of my other nieces and nephews too it just so happened that Jacob came to visit on Wednesday)

This is the second page of the insert. I used the same heart punch and then added the descriptions of the people using the Remington noiseless font again on white cardstock.

Here's a close up.

Page 2 of Week 2:

My journalling. The pink cow on the right is something I got from the Burger I ordered from Burger Jones in Burnsville.

Another movie. I copied the poster from the website, resized it in PSE (Photoshop) and then printed it on a 4x6 piece of picture paper. I added the ticket stub and some words to describe it.

Two pictures I love. The one on the left is from my phone the BeFunky app which allows you to change to b&w and added the black border. The second is from my DSLR. I added the cute and fat because that's what I call him sometimes. LOL I figured it was good to get some of the phrases down that I call him.

Chicken Fettucine that made from PW. I turned the image from my phone into a polaroid hence the weird looking image but I didn't care. I liked playing around with the app, Poladroid.

Stuff from Auntie Sheila's house. I just had to include it. LOL

So that's about it. My cover and the first two weeks. Honestly, it took more time to take pictures of the pages, correct them some and download and write this post than it took to actually make the pages. :)

Here is the full album Project Life 2012

 

Movie Quote-er

I was reading this post from Ronda and it is so me. Seriously. I love movies and I quote movies all the time. Most of the time when I do this people just stare at me like I'm crazy or stupid or insane. Unless it's my family because they know the same quotes I do, well , most of the time. LOL So Ronda here's my favorite movie quotes.

"I have a dollar, one dollar!"

"I couldn't help but wonder..."

"Ya schmuck!"

"Why don't you tie your shoe before you fall on your stupid head."

"Do, there is no try."

"Multi-pass"

"Ccccccorbin, Iiii Haaaave no fire, Iiiii hhhaave no matches."

"I shall call him squishy and he will be mine, he shall be my squishy."

"Mine mine mine mine..."

"Come on Vonn!"

"I can cheat but with you I don't have to."

"Wax on, wax off"

"Yay for you, woohoo!"

"You're killin' me Smalls."

"Ted Nugent called, he wants your shirt back."

"Bridget Jones, wonton sex goddess with a very bad man between her thighs. Oh, Mum!"

"Life is like a box of chocolates, you never know what you're gonna get."

"You ever danced with the devil in the pale moon light?"

"Hello Clarice."

"Bring me the big knife!"

"Why you want to leave me?"

"No patty fingers, if you please."

"Have you ever seen blood in the moonlight Will, it appears quite black."

"There's only two things I do well sweetheart, and skatings the other one."

"There's no crying in baseball!"

 

 

Avatar

 
If you haven't seen the movie Avatar...go see it. Trust me it's frickin' sweet! I had reservations about it at first because it sounded weird and like it was a little bit too CG but it's not weird and the CG is so awesome!

I went to the theatre and saw it in 3D and that was sweet. You should see it that way if you can. It's insanely gorgeous and a very good story. I'm giving it 4 stars. So go see it. I'll be surprised if you don't like it. :) 

Transformer's: Revenge of the Fallen

 

See this movie in the theatres! Seriously. It is a good summer blockbuster. Will it win dramatic awards...nope but it's a good movie to see. Lots of action, super funny and for all you fellas a little T&A. :)

I liked it. Was it as good as the first. Close but not quite. I will buy it on blu ray though. I've watched it twice so far and I'm going to the IMAX tonight so...my advice. See it in the theatres if you wait until it comes out of video you will be disappointed. That kind of action needs a big screen. :)

Taken

Watch this movie. It is awesome! Oh yeah. I want to see it again. I'll buy it. That's how much I like it and how good it is. Will it win an oscar, no, but it wasn't designed for that. If I had to say anything it's 1 part Bourne, 1 part Man on Fire so if you like those movies or just plain like some action and suspense, see this movie.

 

Seriously. See this movie. It's good. Liam Neesan as a bad-ass is awesome. You wouldn't think so looking at him but he is the ultimate bad-ass. That's all I'm gonna say. 

Gran Torino

 

Go see this movie. I'm making a definitive statement here. Normally I don't say that about a movie because everyone has different tastes but no matter what taste you have; good, bad, retarded, crazy...see this movie. It is good, no AWESOME! It's funny and dramatic and heartwarming and heartwrenching. Go see it. I already plan on buying it when it comes out. That's my ultimate endorsement, if I walk out of the theatre and know that I want to buy it or if I go to it more than once in the theatres.

I'm not going to give away any of the plot but I will say that I love Clint Eastwood, he's hilarious and mean at the same time. Not sure how that really works but it's so true. He doesn't even have that much dialogue, not really, but it's the grisled way he says it, his actions, mannerisms...that make this movie funny and dramatic all at once.

GO SEE IT! 

Twilight - the Film

So...the big question, "What do I think?" Honestly I'm having a hard time coming up with a definitive opinion. Seriously. I'm on the fence, truly. A stiff breeze could blow me either way and I'd fall off on one side or the other.

I liked it. It mirrored the book fairly well. I guess mirror is a strong word. More like it had the same feelings of the book. They didn't ruin that. Granted they skipped parts and rearranged and added some stuff but nothing that ruined the integrity of the author's intent.

It could have moved faster I think but the book was slow in the beginning as well. The acting could have been a bit better. It just seemed like acting. It could have felt more real. There could have been more of a connection. I mean there was a connection between the two actors but other than that it could have had a more realistic feel. I know, it's a movie but you get me, yeah?

Bella's Dad was hilarious. I didn't expect serious romantic drama mixed with some witty humor but there you go. Spoiler Alert! Case in point, Edward wants to meet Bella's Dad and when she tells her Dad he's busy cleaning his shotgun. Hilarious!

Actor to Character...they pegged Mike Newton to a t, Bella's Dad, Esme, Carlisle (although initially I wasn't sure), Alice and Emmett. Bella was fine but she seemd a bit too skinny for me (yes I'm looking at superficial too) and she seemed too vulnerable. I always pegged her as more strong and having more confidence but she didn't seem that way to me in the movie but then again that's my take.

What else? That's it for now. Any other opinons?

Sex and the City

Did you buy your copy of Sex and the City? It came out yesterday. I stopped at Best Buy on my way home and picked up a copy.

I am going to watch it with some girlfriends on Thursday. Should be a blast. I think one Cosmo drink could be appropriate.

I did this online quiz a couple weeks ago where you figure out which character you are and it said I was Carrie. I'm not sure if that's appropriate or not. I'd say I am a little bit of everyone. A little prudish (Charlotte), a little crazy (Carrie), a little tom-boyish/hard-core (Miranda), and a little sex-kittenish (Samantha)