Friday, June 14, 2013

Project Life 25 {5.6.2013 - 5.13.2013}

Would you believe that for my very last Project Life page in this album, I forgot to take pictures all week?!

So I improvised! I added a whole bunch of pictures from fun times over the year!

top left St. Lucia
top right Navy Pier Fireworks
bottom left Boardy Born
bottom right White Sox Game

top right Our engagement anniversary
bottom left Engagement photo shoot
bottom right Prom

And, of course, the last page. I love how easy the last page and first page are. The cards are pre marked about where they should go!

Well...that's it...until I start this year's Project Life that is!

Have you done Project Life or something similar before? Were you as excited to see the end as I was? (Not that I'm excited for it to end, but its just so exciting to finish a big project like this!)


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Tuesday, June 11, 2013

Project Life 25 {4.25.2013-5.5.2013}

Happy Tuesday!

How was your weekend? I'm so happy that it is finally summer!

I'm enjoying some time relaxing at home. Tomorrow I am having my hair and make up trial and I am trying on my wedding gown and veil! I'm so excited to see the whole look come together :)

Can you believe this is the second to last layout in my Project Life 25 book?

Of course I had to feature my favorite DIY candles for summer! And please excuse my crazy look in this picture on the bottom right! It was 80s day at school, and I wore my Jake Ryan t shirt, which fit in high school ;)

And how could I not include our prom picture (top left). I was so so excited to be able to go to prom with AJ. I didn't have a date the first time, but I had a fabulous date this time :)

Are you ask excited as I am to see this project come to a finish? Not that I didn't love it, I just really love the satisfaction of finishing a project that has been so long in the making!


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Friday, June 7, 2013

Project Life 25 {Not Entirely Sure What Happened Here}

So, I'm not entirely sure what happened here.

I guess the last time I shared a Project Life layout I accidentally shared part of 4.15 - 4.21 and part of 4.22 - 4.28

What can I say? It was the last few days of the school year and I don't even know what I was thinking?

This is the rest of the 4.15 - 4.21 page


And this is the rest of the 4.22 - 4.28 page

Ah! I'm glad that I got that all sorted out! And I'm even happier that it is Friday :)

What are your plans for this weekend? Anything fun?


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Thursday, June 6, 2013

Summer 2013

Today is the last day of school! At noon today, summer officially begins!

Last year, I created a summer list for myself. I really loved it because it helped me make sure that I got to do everything I wanted.

So I created one for this year too :)


What's on your summer list?


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Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Find Your Voice {Free 8 Week Summer Workshop}

Oh man, no WOYWW for me today! I'm working on creating centerpieces for a friend's party, but don't have any pictures to share (yet!)

But I do want to share something fun...a free eight week story telling workshop!

Yep, that's right, I said FREE!

Kristin, who you may know from the popular currently lists, is offering a summer workshop about telling your story.


The workshop starts on June 24 - and I can't wait! Check out her facebook page, with more information, here :)


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Tuesday, June 4, 2013

Project Life 25 {4.15.2013 - 4.21.2013}

I cannot believe that it is already Tuesday.

How did that happen?! I'm pretty sure the last time I looked, it was Thursday night!

Friday and Saturday were a little crazy here. We had graduation rehearsal and graduation for my school. This is the school's very first graduating class, and we were celebrating one graduate. The ceremony was beautiful.

Except for the sound and video projector.

You know who was in charge of that? Yours truly.

Everything went great during rehearsal...but graduation itself was a different story. There were some last minute changes, and I ended up

     *starting a video with very loud audio during the dean's speech
     *accidentally playing a video while it was on mute and not realizing until halfway though (after frantically muting the videos during the above issue)
     *timing everything perfectly for the music/photo montage, then neglecting to turn off the ipod while shutting down the montage and the music started again
     *playing the last song so loud that it was mostly crackle on the loud speakers

On the bright side, no one will ever ask me to do A/V again!

So yeah, that was my weekend...how was yours?

In happier news, I've still been all caught up in Project Life. I promise the share something else soon...just as soon as I work on something else! But right now, I am very content to work on Project Life and continue to make strides to finish this album!

This page is all about the schedule and textbooks at my new school. I've never had such comprehensive textbooks before, and its such a treat to have a really reliable resource to fall back on! Of course, I had to block out some identifying school details too, but it really wasn't anything too interesting!

In our first month here, we had a serious tornado warning. I had no idea what to do, but I had my big kids in class who knew what they were supposed to be doing. Sitting under our desks, waiting for the all clear. Fortunately, the storm didn't come close to us, and we were able to resume class an hour after the threat was reported.

Do you ever get caught up in one project and just can't work on anything else? What projects do you get caught up in?


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Friday, May 31, 2013

Project Life 25 {4.8.2013 - 4.14.2013}

Its Friday!!!

I'm so excited!

Seriously, this has been the longest week - and its only been 4 days (just fyi: I just typed 12 days...so yeah...that's how long I think its been!)

So, as usual for Friday, even though I shared one yesterday, I have a Project Life page!

I only have one side of the page this time, as the other side has all pictures from my school's gala. Since I'd basically have to blur out the whole page to comply with the social media rules in my contract, I thought I'd skip it!


Also - I think I finally found a way to photography my layouts here! I was looking for ideas when I found this article on How to Photograph Your Scrapbook Layouts.

So, I didn't follow all of it, just step 3. I fun tacked my layout to the wall, took a picture and un stuck it.

Love it! I will definitely be using this technique more often!

What's your favorite way to photograph layouts?
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