One Month Down

  Yay!  31 days of taking a photo everyday!  LOVE it!  I have had fun putting this together and I love the entire month completed.

The full spread!  And here are the close ups.

And here are the “stories” behind the photos

Day 25: Something I made

I wanted to take a photo of something scrappy, but while at work, I spied this guy.  I made this school house/tissue box my second year of teaching.  My kiddos get a kick out of the fact that it is a tissue box.

Day 26: Color

My original plan for this was to take photos of ROYGBIV, but non of my apps had enough “windows” to work them all in.  So this is what I settled for.

        *a huge apple my mom gave me

*My Amy Butler teacher bag

*My wallet

*Crayons of course

*and my sandals – love California Winters.  And my feet are not that tan, the app did that – ha!

 

Day 27: Lunch

Self explanatory

Day 28: Light

This one came courtesy of Mike.  It was the weekend and I knew I was spending the day at home.  I wasn’t sure what I would be taking a photo of and then Mike texted me this photo – ummm – perfect! 

Day 29: In my fridge

this one came at the perfect time, I had veggies in my crispers – ha!

Day 30: Nature

Took this one on my recess break.  I was running copies, ran outside, held my phone up to the sun and that’s all!  Pretty right?

Day 31: Me(again)

Me, again.

I made it and I loved doing it!  Are you going to play along this month?  Let me know, I would love to follow you.  Here is the next list!

(click the photo to go to the site).

Thanks for stopping in!

Michelle

Project Life|Cover Page

 

So, I have finally finished all of December in my Project Life.  I love it!  I have had so much fun putting them together.  I think I say that each time, right?? Okay, I’ll stop. :)  I was even super excited to see my PL pages pinned on Pinterest.  Love when that happens! 

  It was finally time for me to put together my title page.  There were so many inspiring ideas floating around Pinterest and Message Boards, that I just didn’t know how I would make mine.  The first downfall was that there is no mom and daughter photos of Alyson and I (that aren’t candid), so I will definitely be working on that this year.  And I really don’t like taking pictures of me (unless I have my phone and am having a good make-up day- heee).  And because this album will cover just me and my girl, I knew it would be different than the many I have seen out there in Blog/Pinterest land.  I wanted to make sure that this albums’ cover focuses on “us”, Momma and daughter.  So this is what I came up with.

I originally thought I would go with what came in my Becky Higgins kit, but I scrapped that idea when I came across the Free rainbow chevron card.  I knew I needed the fun kit that it came from. 

In the kit there was a “Hello, my name is…” tag.  Since it was editable, I changed it to suit us.  I love it.

I am loving the see though pocket with my Ali Edwards cut.  I am not sure if you can tell because of the white background I used.

And because I wanted to use a large photo of Alyson, I made the bottom portion fit into the 4x3 pockets.

And that’s it!  I love how simple and fun it is.  I think it captures who we are right now.  It will be fun to see what the last page will look like!

I will be back tomorrow to share my first week’s page, along with a freebie. 

Michelle

So it seems…

  So it seems that Thursday and Friday are the hardest days for me to blog.  I am thinking that is is because in the beginning of the week I am a bit more rested and have the energy to do what I need to do at home & still have time to blog.  By Thursday and Friday, ummmm, not so much.  And that’s okay, but I always have something I want to blog about just no energy to do so.  I thought since I have the morning to myself, I would share some photos I took this week while Alyson and I were out.

  Alyson marked on her ToDo list (she aw mine and made herself one too) that we would go get ice cream.  I agreed that Wednesday would be the perfect mid-week break from homework, washing dishes, etc.  So we were going to go to Farrell’s, but she really was hoping for Baskin Robin’s, so that’s where we went.

  I took along my “real” camera to capture this little outing.  And I am so glad I did.

The time we went worked out perfectly.  And as you can see by Alyson’s outfit, it was warm, felt a bit like a summer evening (I can’t wait for summer).

Alyson always likes to taste a new flavor when we go, I think it’s the spoons:)  After we got our pre-dinner ice cream, we headed out to check out the shops.  Her favorite is World Market.

All the valentine stuff was so fun to look at!  I didn’t bring my wallet, thank goodness, but I may have to go back for a couple things.

I mostly took this photo because of the chocolate all over her face.  She thought it was the chocolate I Love you bar (which she wanted).  You can’t tell here, but the chocolate made it to her nose too!  I didn’t have her clean it, because well, who cares, she will clean it when she’s done!

She fell in love with many desks there – ha!  She wanted one of each style!  I snapped this and told her to get away from the white furniture – heee!

After taking mental notes of things I wanted (especially the Cupcake red-velvet wine), we left to hang out and finish our cones.

My favorite shot of the evening.  The sun/lighting was just perfect. 

All of this fun in 30 minutes??  Priceless.  She already has a plan for us this week.  Fun!

Have a wonderful weekend!

Michelle