Project Life, Week 1, 2015

I debated for a while if I was going to do project life...well attempt it again this year. Last year I only made it to April, but I do plan to go back and finish it. I do have a lot of partially done pages that just need to be finished off.

Anywho, I've started this year off to a great start. I'm actually getting

into a really good rhythm. First, I discovered that I have to keep my pages simple. Second, I've found how I like to print my photos and how to use them on the pages. This has made the pages I've made so far go much quicker and I can actually get a page done in one night. I'm a slow scrapper so that is amazing to me. I just hope I can keep it up.
I usually like to use left over bits for my project life, but I could resist digging into a few new things that I picked up. I couldn't resist picking up the I Am 6x6 pad from Simple stories and Frosty friends from doodlebug. I had to use them right away. I know the wooden hearts and I think the wooden frame were picked up from the closing of my local scrapbook store. A big pet chain store wanted to expand so they terminated the scrapbook store lease and a couple other little stores. They couldn't find a new place, so they had to close up. Major bummer! I tried to use up a bunch of gold embellishments. I'm not a fan of gold and never ever use it, but it seems to be all the rage right now. I have way too much of it. I don't mind gold with purple though. If only there was more purple in all the new stuff coming out!

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Valentine's Day Wreath

Now that the Christmas decorations are down, it is time to make some Valentine's Day decorations to put up! I have seen some in the store, but it is much more fun to make your own. So here is how I made my sweet heart wreath. First you need a hoop (the one I used had about a 7 in diameter), 7 big wooden hearts, 8 small wooden hearts, paint, glitter, ribbon, and some hot glue. I took all my hearts and painted them a solid color and then went back over them and made some patterns or outlined them. I thought they were looking a little boring so I went back and put some glitter on random ones. Then I went around and hot glued the big ones and tried to make them as evenly spaced as possible. Then I hot glued the smaller ones on top of the bigger hearts, tied some ribbon, and then hung on my door!

Fish Finger Glove Puppet

I just love being back east and being with all of my family for Christmas, but I don't like the travel and I really don't like the germs. We managed to bring back with us some lovely east coast germs. Little Moose took it the hardest and still is a little bit sick. Anyways, I finally got the chance to get back onto my computer and I just have to share with you what my sister-in-law made for us. There are a bunch so I'll share one every day this week! I love the bright colors of the fishes! Each glove puppet came with a poem. They are just to cute!

Scrapbooking, Adore

Every once in a while, I make a layout that I absolutely love and this is one of them. I think it might be the rainbowness of it all that I love. This is really a random photo of my daughter that I took while we were waiting for the bus. I played with the photo on my phone and made it more rainbowy. I really like how it came out, so I printed it out for my project life, but then I decided it needed its own page. It really is a random page for a random photo. This is my page for the Memory Nest . The circles on the sketch were my major inspiration. I felt that they would make a fun background. At first, I changed the circles to triangles and then I noticed all these old frames on my desk. I'm a chipboard frame hoarder. lol. I thought most of the frames were really ugly or they had patterns that I would never use. At first, I was going to just paint the frames white, but then I decided to make them gray. I'm glad I made them gray because now they

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