Project Life Week 7

This week brought with it Valentine's Day.  Being midweek was a bit of a pain as we were both working, but I found a lovely card from Ian when I got in the car (he's a big softy really!).  I did cook us a lovely meal and banished the boys to their bedrooms while we ate it - needless to say they jumped straight onto their X-Boxes so they were quite happy.

The diet went out of the window again on Saturday thanks to Ian & Joe's baking efforts, and Sunday was spent with Debbie & Lisa checking out the camping deal at Chessington World of Adventures.

Week 7 LHS

Week 7 RHS

 

PL products used:- Turquoise Core Kit, Pages Design A & H.

Other products used:- "Everyday Fun" "Thu" & "Sat" overlays by Amy Jaz Designs; Tuesday & Sunday titles by Kate Hadfield; Kitty Love text added in PSE; Arrow sticker is a Post-It Note.

Project Life Week 6

A bit of an emotional week this week.  We lost Grandad 10 years ago on Feb 7th, and I wanted to do something to remember him in my album.  I didn't want it to feel morbid to future readers/viewers of my album - more of a celebration, but I wasn't sure what to do.  It was also a pretty quiet week so I didn't have much else to put in this week.  I sought the advice of the lovely ladies on the Project Lifers Facebook Group - this group is such a mine of inspiration and I knew they'd know how to do it.  Someone suggested using a larger photograph and trimming it so that it fits into 3 pockets.  I chose one of my favourite photographs of Grandad and enlarged it to a 6x8 portrait, added a simple white border and printed it out.  After trimming it to make one 6x4 and two 3x4 sections, I slotted them into the pockets to form one large picture.  I love the effect, and it is really quite fitting as Grandad was always larger than life!  Underneath I used a lovely journaling card which I had seen on a page by Kari Vaclavik - she very kindly sent me the file to use, which I scaled to 6x4 and added a 3x4 digi journaling card next to the text.  Once printed, I handwrote my journaling.

As I said, it was a quiet week, so instead of the normal 12x12 page on the right hand side I decided to use a Design H page, especially as week 7 turned out fairly quiet as well ;-)

I have definitely come to the conclusion that having a cat makes PL so much easier - I have PLENTY of photos of him to add in as fillers lol.

Week 6 LHS

Week 6 RHS

 

PL products used:- Turquoise Core Kit, Turquoise Textured Cardstock, Pages Design A & H.

Other products used:- "Smile" & "I <3 Today" overlays by Amy Jaz Designs; Sunday title by Kate Hadfield; CS Lewis Quote Card by Elise ; In Loving Memory Card by Kari Vaclavik.  Word Bubble added using PicSay Pro for Android.

Project Life Week 5

A very special week, with the safe arrival of Toby.  Hope it isn't too long before we have the chance to meet the newest member of the family properly, and to congratulate Amy & Leo in person!

January seems to be a month of meals out - not good for the diet.  This week was the 1st Crayford Leaders' Meal at Assos in Crayford.  My only regret - not taking more photos!

Another week of appointments, with a trip to the Dentist followed by another check-up at St Thomas' - this one at the Lupus Clinic for my Behcets Syndrome.  As I had a 9am appointment, it seemed like a good idea for Ian to take me up to London on the back of the bike - well, it would have been if it hadn't been persisting down with the wet stuff!  I arrived dripping wet, and freezing cold - thankfully the wonderful nurse in the clinic made me a very welcome cup of tea to warm me up.

Thursday evening was spent at Joe's school for Parent's Evening.  I'm not sure who came home with the bigger head - Joe or me!  Every teacher we spoke to said how well he was doing and that he was a pleasure to have in their class.  There is still a little room for improvement, but on the whole I am one very happy Mummy!

Rugby on Saturday - watching England v Scotland on the telly!  Then Freya's 2nd Birthday Party on Sunday - she is growing up WAY too fast!

Week 5 LHS

Week 5 RHS

Week 5 Pull Out Journalling 

 

PL products used:- Turquoise Core Kit, Turquoise Textured Cardstock, Pages Design A.

Other products used:- "This Moment" & "All About Today" overlays by Amy Jaz Designs; Tuesday, Thursday, Friday & Saturday titles by Kate Hadfield; "Too Adorable" Photo Flag is from the Photo Flag PNG set by Cathy Zielske.  Collages were made using iPiccy.com; arrow sticker is a post-it note.

 

Project Life Week 4

What a difference a week makes!  Last Saturday we were living in white-out world - this Saturday the sun was shining and the snow had melted, although the pond near Costa's was still partly frozen.  Now this is more like it, Mother Nature ;-)

James collected THREE awards at school this week, including an Award for Excellence from the Head for carrying out the school's core values of Community, Uniqueness, Love of Learning, Aspire & Respect.  SOOO proud of him!

Sunday saw the arrival of my 42nd Birthday - aarrgghh!!  We did have a lovely meal out with the family though, and finished the week suitably stuffed ;-)

Week 4 LHS main page

Week 4 RHS insert

Week 4 LHS insert

Week 4 RHS main page

PL products used:- Turquoise Core Kit, Turquoise Textured Cardstock, Pages Design A, D and 6x12 Pocket .

Other products used:- "Sat" overlay by Amy Jaz Designs; Sunday title by Kate Hadfield; "Awesome" Photo Flag is from the Photo Flag PNG set by Cathy Zielske.  The word balloon was added using the PicSay Pro app for Android; Collages were made using iPiccy.com.


Project Life Week 3

Welcome to White-Out World lol.  This week brought us the first snow of 2013, although there was only a light dusting until the weekend arrived - just in time for our QSWP duty at the memorial service for Bill Hall, a great supporter of the Scout Association and founder of The Fort - Greater London South's County Campsite.  St Stephen's Church in Dulwich looked beautiful in the snow, but it did make driving down the windy hill from The Fort resemble a ride on a slippery roller coaster!  Still, thanks to Ian's expert driving, we made it safely back onto the main road.

On Sunday our little tiger had his first experience of the cold, white stuff - he wasn't too sure to begin with, but soon ventured further into the garden which gave the opportunity for some gorgeous photos.  I even got a bit arty with the photo of our street at night - I really love sepia!

Week 3 LHS of main page

Week 3 LHS of insert page

Week 3 RHS of insert page

Week 3 RHS of main page
 

PL products used:- Turquoise Core Kit, Turquoise Textured Cardstock, Pages Design A, D and G .

Other products used:- "Mon" overlay & "Tuesday" "Friday" & "Saturday" Vellum Overlays by Amy Jaz Designs; Tuesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday titles by Kate Hadfield; Wednesday Tab by Amy Martin Designs; Groucho Marx Quote Card by Elise ;. The collages were made using iPiccy.com.

 

 

 

Bad Blogger!

Yep - that's me!  I'm WAY behind with the blog posts of my weekly Project Life pages, but on the plus side, I am caught up to the end of February with the actual pages.  March is well underway, and I've even started on the first week of April.  So watch out for lots of blog posts from me coming very soon!

Can you believe we are already 25% of the way through 2013??  This year is flying by us at a rate of knots - but looking through my PL Album, we Maynards do seem to be enjoying (and participating in) every moment of it.  To mark the end of the first quarter of my first Project Life I am joining a very talented bunch of ladies as part of the April Project Life Celebratory Blog Hop organised by Margie Scarpignato.  There are 17 of us in total, so there should be LOADS of stuff to inspire.

The hop goes live on Friday 12th April at 4am PST (that's 12noon for those of us in the UK).  If you haven't played along with a blog hop before, it's really very simple.  Pop over to my blog on FRIDAY 12th APRIL and you will find my contribution.  At the end of that, there will be a link to the next blog in the hop - click on that for more inspiration .... and so on.  With 17 participants, you may want to make a cuppa first lol.  Do remember to leave each participate some love in the comments - we all love to know what others think of our work.

If you haven't already done so, please feel free to follow my blog.  My posts are sometimes a little erratic but I am working on that!

Hope to 'see' you Friday ;-)

Project Life Week 2

I knew my obsession for alphabet & number stickers would come in handy one day - only problem is I'm only using the 'w', 'e', 'k' and numbers from each pack lol.  I think I'll have to come up with some other interesting ways to use the remaining letters ;0)

Highlights of the week - a trip to St Thomas's Hospital for an eye check-up which resulted in EXTREMELY large pupils and very blurry vision.  Getting from the hospital to the hotel to meet Ian was fun - I'm so glad I didn't have to get the train home!

Friday night saw Ian's Staff Christmas Party (it's always in January in the Hotel industry!).  The theme was Gangsters & Molls, but as it was a Friday this year, I wasn't able to go ;-(  Ian decided he didn't really want to go without me, so he and Alex both donned white coats and played at being Stewards to allow Alex's staff to go to the party.  They did manage to pop their heads into the ballroom though to celebrate the announcement of a full 5% bonus and a 3.5% payrise with a beer - but just the one ;-)

Saturday brought dinner with the Borehamwood Gang - it's been so long since we all went out together, but it felt as if we'd only seen each other last week.  A sign of true friendship!  I really hope we get LOTS more opportunities to get together this year!

PL products used:- Turquoise Core Kit, Pages Design A.

Other products used:- "Mon" overlay & "Saturday" vellum overlay by Amy Jaz Designs; Thursday, Friday and Sunday titles by Kate Hadfield . The collages were made using iPiccy.com.