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The Book of Eli

With Eli's second birthday rolling around I got a wild hair to put together his baby book.  I had printed all of the journal entries from his blog I kept while he was in the hospital, so I just needed to print the photos and get them into a book.  I decided to go with a project life style book for Eli and it is going much faster.   I started with the ultrasounds and the month of August because they were easy.

Shoppe Update: Happy Mother's Day Earth!

I recently recieved a request for some earth day cards, here was the inspiration...[from this site]

And the samples I have come up with.  The recycleable card was inspired by Bonnie who gave me one of my cards back with a post it not with her message on it, so the green card was born.  You will find them in my shop!

 

Crazy Montana Weather

First we thought Spring was really here for good.  Nah, we knew better the wind blew in and blew down our wind break on the porch.  Yikes!  They said it was reaching 95MPH at times.

 

 

Then that wind slowly blew in a blizzard.  CRAZY.  Felt bad for my little cow friends (actual cows, I'm not calling my human friends cows ha ha).  But I have to say I'd take this weather any day over hurricanes, tornados, earthquakes, and floods!

Photo Challenge Accepted

This month I am accepting the challenge to do a photo a day with fat mum slim.   I do that pretty much anyway with good ole project life in mind, but this will get me to think outside the box.  I love it!  I will round up all my photos May 1st!

Growing UP 2 Fast

I wanted the whole up thing to really shine through in the balloons.  Josh asked if we had enough to lift the house.  Sadly no.  And Eli had never been around balloons before so it was either gonna be reeeeally bad or reeeeally good.  Thankfully they were a huge hit!

My Aunt Denise is a cake decorater (she will be doing our wedding cupcakes) and knew my cake work would be under a pro's eye but who cares!  I had a blast making it.  I made buttercream frosting.  And a family recipe for:

Chocolate Mayonaise Cake

1 C sugar

1 C mayonaise

1 t vanilla

1 C cold water

mix

2 C flour

2 t baking soda

5 T cocoa

mix, bake in a 9" square pan at 325* for 45 minutes.

Had to try the #2 idea found on Pinterest since I printed 525 photos for Eli's book (some sneak peaks about that coming soon) it made it easy to just stick em' on the wall.  I used Tombow adhesive but let it dry before hand so it made a 'post it note' like glue.  

Project Life: Week Seven

Valentine's week made me realize I am not writing down all of the stories I want to include and trying to include EVERY photo I take.  This layout was hard.  There was a lot of extras I was trying to fit in and photos and lack of stories.  This week helped me realign for future weeks on what is important to me to include.  Photos of memories and stories to accompany them.

I broke all of my Mom's rules by putting pink and red together.  Uh-oh!

 

Josh's card to me, where he always signs his first and last name.  Cracks me up!

This is a back of a fantasy football magazine that I have been dying to use.  Just so happened it fit in the custom page protector!  Ali Edwards has a tutorial on how to make your own page protector sizes.

 

 

 

L + J: A Wedding Update

This is our venue, in all of it's calving glory right now.  I'm excited to see it transform from it's usual duties for L + J 2012.

 

Project Life: Week Six

This week was a good one.  My dates are off but will be corrected since I found the Elle's studio strips I used!

 

Ali Edwards started 'A Day in the Life' this year.  I barely took any photos (2 with my phone to be exact) so I just included the notes I took.

This is my favorite week with instagram photos.  I made a collage on 8.5 x 11 paper and wrote each description on the following page on smash paper.

I love the photo of Josh, he rarely will be in a photo with me and here he came on his own to get in the shot.  And he's smiling which is even more rare.  Love that.  The I heart you I just had shutterfly print it out for me and viola!

L + J: THE Dress

Patterns have been picked!  I'm excited.

The inspiration for the bottom:

from Abigail Wright Designs

And the inspiration for the top:

From Short Wedding Dress

And the inspiration for the underneath, but I want black instead.

from offbeatbride

Project Life: Week Five

Eli gets all of my 'mis-prints' to feel as though he is creating too.  Perhaps the youngest project lifer?

I start by printing contact sheets from iphoto of my instagram photos (on my canon mp980 that I picked up from the canon website refurbished 2 years ago).  You can see a great tutorial on this by Elise.

I let my photos and ephemera guide my color choices for paper.  This week seemed green and purple.    

So glad that I got a photo of me straining Eli's food.  He is now eating everything by mouth.  Project life really puts things into perspective for me.

 

 

 

Stuck with the food and drink theme, including the caps from Josh's recent drinks.  I picked up that coffee paper from the nutritional guide at Starbucks.

And one insert this week.  Went ahead and took the freedom to just chop off the page protector to work for me.  Thanks for the inspiration Ali!

Another week in the books and it feels great!