A Project Life Update

I've been really bad at keeping up with updating things I say I'm going to update (sorry about that!), so in the spirit of updating, here is my Project Life album from January to the end of February ( if I update it till now it will take all day to get through all the pictures so look for a March-April update soon! Promise!). If you are interested in what the first page looks like, I shared my title page HERE. 

Actually, I shared this first page too, but not with journalling cards :)  

This is the week of Jan 1st to 7th.

Jan 8th to 14th

Jan 15th to 21st 

                                                                           Jan 22nd to 28th

Jan 29th to Feb 4th 

Feb 5th to 11th (don't worry, no one was hurt it was just a training exercise :) 

Feb 12th to 18th 

Feb 19th to 25th (oops still need to print some pics!) 

And last but not least, Feb 26th to Mar 3rd 

Hope you enjoy and have a good weekend!

It's here! It's here!

I am so excited! Can you tell? Why am I so excited you ask? Well, I'll tell you :) Remember when I wrote this post a few weeks ago when I was impatiently waiting a certain something? Well, it's here finally, my project life stuff has arrived!

I had ordered the cobalt core kit, then I changed my mind and decided I liked the Clementine version better. I also ordered a black signature binder,  a package of the big variety pack of photo pocket pages, and a pack of Big envelope pages. I was so excited I nearly ripped the box out of the purolator man's hands :)

I guess there had been a mix up with the company who distributes the Becky Higgins product in Canada and I was supposed to get my order around Christmas, but that didn't happen so I had emailed the company to see when my things were going to be shipped. The woman emailed me back right away and we got it sorted out and she felt so terrible about the mix up that she overnighted it straight away so I could get started :) Long story, sorry! 

My plan was to highlight a week per layout in 2012, so I had been taking pictures and making notes and had my idea for my title page all planned out. When I got everything out of the box, I got started right away! Here is my title page:

The core kit comes with everything you need for a title page and last page all planned out, but I knew I wanted to add pictures to the title page at least. I still want to add our last name and the year somewhere, but haven't decided where and how yet.

I also threw in all the pictures I wanted to use from the last 5 or so weeks, so I continued on with that. Now I just have to finish the journalling and add those card to the pages and I will be all caught up! Here's the first week of January:

 I'm hoping to get most of the journalling finished today. Oh and those big envelope pages I ordered? Those are going to be a part of some scrapbooks I'm planning to document the kids school years, an idea I got from Stacy Julian called "school of life".

In other news, our week has been kinda quiet around here, my mom watched the kids for us for a few hours the other night ( I had to work, Pat had a meeting, so nothing fun) and she and Gabe made this,

 Cady made the other tower :) Gabe played with it a ton yesterday while I did my thang (see up top :)

And poor Nyla has been sick with a sore throat so she's been watching a lot of Garfield (their latest favorite movie) and reading.

How is your week going? Any fun and exciting things arrive for you to play with? :)

P.S If any of the links for the project life stuff above don't work for you, you can check out Becky Higgins site HERE. Also, if you don't live in the United States and want to order stuff, there are links on her site for how to do that, they ship all around the world!

P.P.S. I am not affiliated with Becky Higgins at all so I don't get any perks or anything for sharing all this (I doubt she even knows I exist :), I just really like her stuff and her outlook on what scrapbooking is and the fact that she is a mom herself and understands all the challenges we all face :) Just so you know :)

Impatiently waiting.....

The other day I mentioned Project Life, and some of you may know what I'm talking about and some of you are making the "huh?" face. So today I'm going to share a little bit about it because it is on my mind constantly as I am waiting for it to arrive in my mailbox!

Project Life is a scrapbooking product line developed by Becky Higgins ( you can check out her blog on my blog list). But it is not "just" a scrapbooking line, it is a way of thinking about life. I absolutely love the video Becky did explaining project life and it explains the whole idea way better than I ever could. You can check that video out HERE or like I said you can check out her blog over to the right. I love watching it and getting inspired, not just about PL, but seeing the quick glimpses of her home and all the beautiful colourful paints and fabrics she has going on (and her cute kidlets too) :)

I am so excited to start this process and I can't wait to see the product I ordered in person cause it looks so gorgeous on her site!

So, have you heard of Project Life before? Are you as excited as I am to start a new year with a new project?