Project Life 2013 - week 26

We did it! Half way baby! This year is flying by, I really cannot believe were here already.  My volume one is now officially donzo and I really don't think I could fit another week in it.  So here is my last spread;

The left side again pulling out what I wanted to highlight the most. An awesome family movie night on the last day of preschool. A fun watercolor class in Berkeley taught by my friend Shanna Noel and a fantastic dinner after with my friend Kari. If you live in the Bay Area and love mac and cheese, you seriously need to try this place. So yummy!

On the right for my title card I used this new template designed by Catherine Davis for Studio Calico, they photos are transparent and the affect is super cool. The pictures aren't all from this past week but since its the end of volume one and the end of June I decided to pull some from the whole month to close out the book. We had our usual rain day(s) in June and we got new phones! Us girls hit the mall for a little fun, some fresh hair for me and some sun for her. My favorite show is back for the summer, yippee! Simone for some ungodly reason likes these gross things, I have no words. We've been having a heat wave and its pretty gross. On Sunday I let her play with my class kit and she had a blast painting a whole bunch of masterpieces.

I also did a really simple insert this week to hold the photos from her last day of preschool and the promotion ceremony. It needs its own page but I wanted to highlight some special ones. I slipped the program into the backside of this.

I do still need to come up with a final page so I'm trying to decide what I want to do with that. I also need to come up with something for the first page of volume two so lots to keep me busy.

Have a great rest of the week, its July! Crazy!

Studio Calico's August class, Toolbox

Earlier today Studio Calico announced their August class, Toolbox. You can read all about it here and see some sneak peaks below.

 

Here is a list of the teachers and the contributors, one in particular may look familiar.

I'm so excited to be part of this amazing group and I would love to see you in class on August 1st!  I'll be sharing more details and possibly some sneaks as we get a bit closer.

Project Life 2013 - week 25

What a great week! Let's get to it.

 

On Monday I volunteered in Simone's preschool class for the last time, it was sweet to watch them practicing for their promotion party that's coming up and I was tasked with assembling each child's portfolio and as the journaling says I forced myself not to look at Simone's. I want to wait for that day to see it all. I need to remember to bring my Kleenex.  The title card was kind of a pain, I had the cork paper and wanted to make it look like a cork board on the wall. I had a heck of a time getting that little cut edge on the calendar I made on my Cameo. In the end it worked and I love it!

 

Simone had her first week of swim lessons for the summer, we had our first summer artichoke. Sorry the white text is really hard to read when photographed.  A quote I found on Pinterest that really spoke to me. Instagram updated and added video, so of course we made one while Larry was filling our tank at the gas station. A toy that Simone had to have but we didn't buy, I may go back for it because it was so cute.

 



 

I ordered my first batch of prints from Origrami, and I LOVE them. We took a bike ride last week while Simone was at school, it was great. We took a quick day trip to a new lake and had a picnic lunch. It was lovely, we might go back and camp there. The first day of summer and Simone's water play day at preschool all in the same day.

 

 

I decided to do two small 7x5 inserts this week, the first is of the super moon, did you see it? We did on Saturday and it was awesome! In case you were wondering, that photo below is mine, I shot it with my camera with the longest zoon lens I own.  I used this tutorial on what settings to use and it worked great.  I did take this out of the protector before I photographed it because black just loves to glare from inside plastic.

 

 

Larry brought out the telescope and Simone loved looking at the moon. 

 

 

We had a small-ish gathering of six families that we have spent the past two years in preschool with. It's going to be hard to say goodbye, but hopefully we'll still see each other. Two of the families will continue on with Simone at grammar school so that's great and two will be playing soccer with Simone in the fall.  Six families however, produce a lot of kids, 14 in total, including our one. My two photos from the day are all of the kids. The adults were having too much fun gabbing and eating and I ended up not taking as many adult photos as I should have. The little wooden tab pulls out a tag that has all the kids names on it. Because in 20 years I probably won't be able to remember them.

 

 

The kids all swam and had a blast running throughout the house playing like kids do. They did all sit for just a bit to eat and I snapped this shot of them.

 

 

Thanks for stopping by! I hope you have a great rest of the week.

Project Life 2013 - week 24

I can't believe how close we are to the half way point in the year.  As you can see my volume one album is pretty close to full so I'm hoping that I can squeeze these last three weeks in.

I suppose that half inch thick mini book I made for the Fair a few weeks ago hasn't helped but I'm pretty sure I can make it all work. I'm just focusing on keeping everything flat as best as I can.

I just received 3 packs of the Design F protectors, 1 pack of Design D as well as another album from Amazon this past week so I should be set for supplies for the rest of the year. The album is We Are Memory Keepers, the color is Vanilla. 

On to this week, a whole bunch of Father's Day which I dedicated the whole left side too.  I realized I need to start making more layouts again to contain all these pictures I can't use.  I've been so bad on keeping up with them so I really need to start focusing on them again.

Larry's son was working close enough that they could both meet up in Lake Tahoe on Saturday for a visit so he snapped a picture of them while they were hanging out at the lake.  He came home Sunday around noon so Simone and I were able to give him his gifts and celebrate a bit.  I had decided at the last minute to make something so I sent a message to the older two kids and asked that they take a photo holding a letter.  What they sent back was fantastic! I couldn't have asked for better photos. I snapped Simone's picture on Saturday, the three photos I used are at the bottom and you can see the finished piece that I gave Larry on the top right side.

The card in the center top is from the Moment's collection at Studio Calico, designed by Nicole Reaves.

Since the slots were all used for photos I opted to make the center card flip out to hold the journaling about Fathers Day and a few other pictures from Sunday. I have found this is always a great way to squeeze a bit more in without having to create a whole other insert.

One struggle I had this week was how to fit in the pictures I took at a Japanese Tea Garden we visited. I loved them and they were screaming for super large blow ups but I didn't want to create an insert. I decided to use one as my title card and just add the date right on the photo. Its not quite as big as I wanted it to be but these pictures really need their own layout so that needs to happen ASAP. The rest of the top row was more pictures from that day, the yellow card at the end is also from the Moments set. 

Simone got her much anticipated letter about kindergarten this past week, we've been waiting not so patiently for its arrival.  Her school is year round so luckily we did get the track we wanted just not the time so were hoping for a last minute change on that. I shared a little about the blog feature Shanna did on me last week, I ended up matching my Starbucks cup perfectly and these yummy almonds were devoured in about two days.  A cute photo of Larry and Simone prior to the Father's Day field trip with preschool, the card next to it is also from the Moments set. The last picture was too cute not to use, Simone and I coloring on Saturday and she drew what looks a lot like a set of islands in the Pacific on her forehead!

The little pocket on the bottom left is actually the packaging that Studio Calico uses for their kit stamps. It's new and this one is sized just a smidgen over 3x4 so when it came I thought it would be fun to use here. I trimmed it just a bit so the size was right and covered a few parts of it with cardstock and photos. The little veneer clip was from a kit I purchased from Studio Calico, they aren't sold separately but sure could be. I attached it to the bottom flap with my tiny attacher.

The color on the inside was such a pretty shade I left as much as possible showing, and made sure to leave the Yes Please phrase, it went so well with my picture.

So if you have any of these make sure you hold on to them, my mind is spinning with ideas of what to do with the little ones too.

I hope you have a great rest of the week!