the moments in between

2012 : captured // project life weeks 48 & 49

it's time for my december 2012 : captured class at 2peas - which completes this year long class. CRAZY. it seems like i was just putting the first one together!

i'm ending the year with an easy product focus - use what you love. because that's what it all comes down to. reach for the products that make you smile, that inspire you - and putting this album together week in and week out will be less of a have to and more of a want to.

this month, i asked two of my favorite PLers - michelle wooderson and monica mcneill - to share a week as part of a class. you can see michelle's week here and monica's week here. thank you both again for contributing!!

i put together two weeks for the class - one had not enough photos, one had too many. so a couple of photos/stories from week 49 ended up in week 48. sometimes, you have to be willing to break the rules. =)

week 48 // nov 24th-30th : madison, wi and visiting with friends. laundry. raskog carts. snow and field trips.

week 49 // dec 1st-7th : foggy mornings. badger shirts. science fair. paper airplanes and national lampoon's christmas vacation.

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happy monday!! i'm finally feeling caught up with real life after my start here workshop release... next up, i try and catch up with christmas prep!

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured // project life weeks 15 & 41

it's time for my 2012 : captured class at 2peas. this month was all about the cool PL friendly lines that are popping up everywhere. my week using these lines went together so quickly that i decided to do two weeks for the lesson. =)

i had two fabulous guests working with me again this month - nicole harper and jenni hufford. you can see nik's week here and jenni's here. i love both of their PLs and was thrilled to have work w/ them this month!

week 15 // april 7-13th : easter. squirt guns. light sabers. pleas for a dog. swim lessons and hide and seek.

week 45 // november 3-9 : raking. jury duty. election day. photo proofs. baseball practice and deck staining.

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happy friday!!! sam is off school for conferences - we are celebrating w/ a pajama day. totally the right way to kick off the weekend!

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured // project life week 41

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it's time for another 2012 : captured class at 2peas! this month is all about die cuts. i'm kind of addicted to die cuts - they are a great fit for my "bits and pieces" scrap style. i'm also sharing a couple of organization tips for keeping all your project life goodies under control.

i had two fabulous guests using die cuts this month, too - you can see allison's week here and shanna's week here. =)

week 41 // october 6-12 : archery. driveway football. windmills and ipods. tree climbing and r/c trucks. awesome school reports. getting spookified.

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happy tuesday!! i'm feeling like i could have used an extra weekend day. or at least that's my excuse for two straight  "finishing the morning routine in the car" starts. darker morning and cooler temps have us all moving a little slower.

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured // project life week 35

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it's time for another 2012 : Captured class! in september, i'm talking about working with embellishments. i LOVE dimensional accents, but they aren't always great in the PL pockets. this month i'm sharing tips on getting big impact with small embellishments. i also put together a little slideshow of how i built the week from start to finish! i asked sasha to play along with the theme this month - you can check out her week here. 

week 35 // august 25-31 : the second week of school. new routines. new backpacks. a parade. bike rides, music stars and a lego harry potter app.

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happy saturday!! speaking of project life, i just ordered the new 4x6 grid cards. i'm thinking of challenging myself to do a week using nothing but cards, stamps and washi. i don't know if i can keep it that simple, but i need to do SOMETHING to catch up! i'll keep you updated if it happens. =)

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured // project life week 33

my 2012 : captured class for august went live on the 15th. pop on over to check out all of the tips! this month = all about office supplies. as a long time lover of pens, stamps, tags and clips, this was a very happy month to work on.  i had two fabulous guests again this month - be sure to check out what they did as well! you can find jen's week here and pamela's week here. =)

week 33 - august 4th-10th // two at day camp all week. one little chatterbox with an affinity for legos. a movie, a clean floor, some golf and a self service sign.

i also talked about memorabilia this month - which put me in a good mindset to SAVE and USE it. versus spacing it and then trying to dig it up later.

i'm entirely behind this summer... but i opted to skip ahead to the most current week. i'm hoping it will inspire a little momentum! 

i added an insert this week for camp photos - i just needed a liiiiiitle more room. the 6x8 simple stories page protectors are a good size for this.

the tags in that bag will be journaled on by the boys.

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happy weekend! it's our last day before the bigs go back to school. which means a lot of scrambling to make sure we have everything ready. i can't believe it's that time of year already.

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured // project life week 25

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oh hey, project life, remember me? i may have sort of buried you in patterned paper from other projects, then went on vacation, then came home and stacked more stuff on you. oops. but i've unburied you now and maybe we can see each other more often?

but seriously. i need to get back into a pattern of printing out weeks and working on them as i have a bit of spare time. summer does not grant me many uninterrupted chunks of work time, so i have to adapt. yes, i'm aware that summer is more than half over at this point. ha.

for my july class, i'm talking about using paper scaps and 6x6 pads, and ways to make weeks go together quickly. my fabulous guests this month are celine navarro and laura o'donnell - you can check out their weeks here (celine) and here (laura). THANK YOU both for sharing such awesome inspiration!!!

week 25 // june 16th - june 22nd : last ball games. a CWS game. legos. guitar homework. popsicles, ice cream bars and riding a bike.

as i putting this week together, i had to remind myself to find the balance between the big cool events (last ball games, cws), and the everyday over and over stuff (legos, popsicles).

also, as i went through my notes for the last few weeks, i noticed a downward trend in photo taking (well, aside from our vacation!). i MUST get back on track there.

one more thing - i'll have a tutorial up on the 2peas blog soon on how i made erica's 4x6 layers cards into digital cuts. totally thrilled that this worked out because i love her designs!

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happy monday! we were up and out early to get ben to camp for the day... hoping to take advantage of having just 2 around and getting some errands knocked out. ;) i also have a clean desk with 3 mostly finished pages on it. i'd love to get those done so i can move onto more trendspotting LOs. hope your monday is productive as well! =)

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured june // project life week 23

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my 2012 : captured class went up on friday - but since i spent the weekend doing baseball-y things and matthew had taken over both my old and new laptops to get files transferred over. so with all that behind us, i'm ready to get back on track with life. =) this month, my guests were vee jennings and melissa stinson and we're talking about stamping. you can see vee's week here and melissa's here.  they both did an awesome job - i hope you enjoy the inspiration!

week 23 // june 2-8 : baseball. squirt guns. fireflies. vex robitics. sam being sam. good mail days.

neutrals, stamps and pops of bright colors. totally my favorite way to do PL, so this month's class was a natural fit.

i tried to mix in a bit of non kid stuff this week - it gets left out too often. you can see more details on the techniques and ideas i used this month here.

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happy monday! i woke up with a cold - boo. between that, a busy weekend, a late night for matthew and the boys (they went to a college world series game last night) and crazy hot weather, it's been pretty quiet around here. here's to a more productive tomorrow!

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

 

2012 : captured // may : project life week 16

there's just something about this time of year. my 2011 book is missing several weeks in the late april / early may time range. and now my 2012 book is as well. i'm once again contemplating a catch up plan. i've got week 15 half done, and have weeks 17 and 18 mostly mapped out. i need to sneak some time to at least get photos printed!

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though i may be a smidge behind, my 2012 : captured class for may went up this morning. this month, we're talking about stickers. they're a quick and easy way to dress up a journaling card - and i'm all about quick and easy right now. i've been joined once again by two fabulous guests - emily spahn & lisa day. you can see their pages here (emily) and here (lisa). they both used stickers in some really fun way on their weeks - i hope you'll check both of them out! we're also all talking a bit about staying on top of photos - both taking them & organizing them.

week 16 // april 14th-20th : time for baseball. hello, darth vader. committing to classes at a new school. an art show. and a road trip to des moines.

the oh hello! sticker + darth sam cracks me up.

i've shared a quick and easy tutorial for making photo collages using picasa over at the 2peas blog. collages are becoming my go to for those events that come with too many photos - i've used them in quite a few weeks this year!

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happy tuesday! i'm about to clean up the mess that i made while putting this week together yesterday, and to start a new one. i'm nearing the due date of a big project that i can't wait to share with you - just gotta keep moving down that to do list!

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured // april : project life week 14

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it's time for the april edition of 2012 : captured!  these months we're talking about washi tape. man, i love tape. i ended up with 18 different ways to use it - 2 of those came from my fabulous april guests, marcy penner & kristin tweedale. you can see their pages here (marcy) and here (kristin). i'm loving what they contributed, and hope you will too!! i'm also sharing some thoughts and tips on getting caught up - now that we're getting into a busy time of year and the newness of project life has worn off, i thought it would be timely.  i've been working on getting back to currently myself, so these ideas come from a very "been there, done that" place. ;)

week 14 // march 31-april 1 : baseball, brackets, birthday parties, bike rides and the breast stroke. highs of 90, highs in the 60s. just another spring week.

they played in the sprinkler. on april 2nd. that is so not right.

i had to put my 2peas art from kristina into the book. it made me smile to see that box on my porch!

i've got a tutorial on the 2peas blog explaining how i did this card - i'm kind of in love with diecutting photos now.

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happy monday! our weekend did NOT go as planned. at all. ben's first ball game was called for lightning after 1 inning, and his second ball game was cancelled because the fields were way too wet.. the threat of some really nasty weather kept me home from the crop. sam's bday party was bumped from saturday to sunday - again, due to weather reports.. thankfully, things didn't get bad as they had predicted. and i did get to enjoy some downtime with my favorite boys. 

(project life is a system created by becky higgins to take the stress of of scrapbooking. for me, its a reminder to pick up my camera and capture the everyday. you can learn more about how i use project life here, and you can find all of my project life updates here. if you want tips + tricks to use the supplies you already have in your stash in your PL album, check out my 2012 : captured class at 2peas.)

2012 : captured // march : project life week 9

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my 2012 : captured // march class went up today. this month the topics were digi journaling cards & adding other voices into your album. my two fabulous contributer this month were erica hernandez & joscelyne cutchens. you can see their pages here (erica) and here (joscelyne). they both aboslutely rocked their weeks and have SO much awesome info to share with all of you!!

week 9 : february 25th-march 2nd // origami yoda. painting the bathroom. trying out a two wheeler. sick ben. 

with this month's focus being on adding other voices, it was definitely in my thoughts as i took notes and photos this week. it's something that i let slide when i get busy, but everytime i come back to making sure to include quotes & kid written journaling, i'm glad i took the time.

i had a lot of fun finding new ways to personalize digi journaling cards.. i hope you'll stop over to the class to read more! 

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happy happy thursday! yesterday i stopped being 35 and started being 36.... ;) i had a wonderful day celebrating w/ my boys. and now it's back to errands and trying not to catch a cold. the weather's too gorgeous to be stuffy and icky headed!