What's Happening!

 Happy mid January! 

I can't believe that 47 years ago today, I was getting ready to have my first baby! I knew NOTHING! LOL!! 

In this picture I'm 12 days late and I'm both extremely excited and scared..and as you can see, I gained 50 lbs!! It was the Burger King Whoppers with cheese without tomato LOL.

Tomorrow's the big day! 

In my previous post I showed you my December Daily for 2023. Since then I've started telling my story in the Project Life style but this year, I'm using a 9x12 sized album instead of my usual 12x12. I'm definitely excited starting this project. Also, I'm going to be documenting weekly instead of monthly. Lots of changes and changes are GOOD! 

Here's my title page. Usually I'll include a Christmas photo of the whole family but this year we didn't all get together at the same time. But..that's ok. I've included my 3 kids in the title page because I document what we do together as a family anyway. 

Here's my first week of January..

I've just started week 3 and will post that along with week 2 after I add the smiley faces to the kids etc. Gotta clean em up first. 

I bought some sock yarn last year during the eclipse and it's actually dyed to look like the different colors of the eclipse. I've started some socks with it. 

How cute is that little stitch marker?! 

For years I kept a journal in a Daphne's Diary notebook. She designs these GORGEOUS spiral planners, I guess you'd call them. Not enough room inside to actually call them a journal but I used to find the room to write every night. Then, the pandemic hit and I couldn't find them. Since 2019 they haven't been in Barnes & Noble (and believe me, I've searched). So it was a total surprise to see them on Amazon at the end of December! I bought one and I'm having so much fun with it! 

Check it out!! It comes with a little paper flap on the inside front and back with all kinds of stickers, post cards, bookmarks..just yummy stuff!! 

Here's the inside back flap. So cute!! 

So Eric sent a text message to our family group about journaling. When I was looking through one of my journals, I came across this page that just warms my heart..

Funny story;

I had bird feeders in the backyard during the summer and we had the hardest time keeping Oreo from eating the seed. He'd pig out on it then get sick, plus being the only house in the neighborhood with bushes and trees, we didn't get much in the way of birds. So we didn't put up feeders this year and when we did put one up, it was the kind that didn't make a mess or sprout. It was in a flat tray type of feeder and the wind would just wreck havoc with it. 

Fast forward to now, I told Paul since Oreo isn't playing out back and nothing is going to sprout in the cold and snow, I wanted to put out some feeders and see if the birds in the arborvitae might come. I didn't have a finch feeder that wasn't a mess so I used a regular small feeder. 

The next day I told Paul. LOOK! Our feeder is almost empty! We've had birds! 

the feeder on the left

Paul says, no we haven't had any birds. The wind took all the birdseed 😡

Anyway, I tried and I did get a new finch feeder. Hopefully that will cut down on the amount of seed the wind whisks away. 

Well, I've rambled enough. As always..

Thanks for stopping by. 

Project Life April 2024

 Hello,

And here is April's Project Life! I really enjoy this whole process. I'm hoping to make a video (my first) of my Halloween mini chipboard album I made. I will do that before adding the photos from Halloween last year. 

I expect to add a whole story about my girl's trip to Vegas in a Travel Album. 

As always..thanks for stopping by. 

Project Life March 2024

 Hey there!

Slowly but surely I'm catching up. I'm actually on to May but I haven't posted my March & April here yet. I was actually quafeling between making my blog private so I wouldn't have to put stickers on my little grands faces and to be honest, I would do it in a heartbeat if it meant anyone who wanted to look, just had to ask. BUT, that's not the case. I would have to send invites to everyone 😖.

So I will continue to put emoji's on their little faces (per mom's request because of all the weirdo's in internet land). 

Here are my March Project Life pages. Most of the supplies are from Ali Edwards Stories By The Month kit and Becky Higgins Project Life.  

The bottom journaling card was perfect! Came from the Project Life app. 

 

Look who's driving!! The caption says "Here's to strong women, may we know them, may we be them, may we raise them. 

Project Life February 2024

 Here are my Project Life pages for February. I've been working on lots of other things and unfortunately my PL is taking a back seat. I am almost done with March though. I'll post about my girls trip to Vegas soon. OMG! What a blast we had. 

As always, 

thanks for stopping by. 

Project Life January 2024

 Hey, hey!

I have to say I'm pretty happy to be up in my craft room playing with my Project Life again. It's been quite a while since I've been able to come up here and not feel guilty. It's a long story 😌.

So here's the first couple of weeks of January. Stay tuned for the rest of the month and some cruise pics from February in February's Project Life. Click on any photo to enlarge. 

As always,

Thanks for stopping by 😊

Project Life May 2023

 Hi there,

Pretty excited to be "kind of" caught up with my PL for this year. Here's May..

As always..

thanks for stopping by.

Project Life May 2022

 Hi! 

As you can see, I'm still playing catch up with last year but you know what? That's ok! Because I'm printing my photos and getting my stories told for my family and my future self. Doesn't matter if it's last year or 10 years ago. 

As always...

Thanks for stopping by.