Everyday telling of a story

Project Life 2012 : week 2

I've been waiting for a little bit of sunshine around here to take some photos of my PL week 2. But I couldn't wait any longer because it's another one of those grey days around here. So far, PL has been very doable for me. I find that I've been adjusting it to my liking instead of being dictated by it. For example, if one day, I didn't take a picture of a certain object that I wanted to tell a story about, well, I document the story but I will take the picture the next day. I don't take pictures every day, I just couldn't do that. It would be too overwhelming for me and I would fall off the wagon quickly.

So here's a look at what our week looked like Monday through Sunday.

There's lots of food pictures: snacks, breakfasts, lunches and dinners.

There's is also a couple of inserts. The first one is a picture of the movie Tintin that has a popcorn baggie on the back and inside the baggie I included a small tag that tells the story of that day when Josh and I went to see the movie. The Tintin insert is a 6x6 so I have to stitch it once I make room on my desk for my sewing machine. I made a small note about that on a sticky note.

The second insert is an 8 1/2 by 11 sheet protector that is holding two documents the children brough home that week. The front is an award certificate to Joshua for always bringing his school library books on Wednesdays from September all the way to the month of December. I think I partially deserve that award ;)

The back of that sheet protector has Danelia's pre-report update on one of her classes, careers. I'm very proud of her about this because she's been doing so great in each project, that her teacher has asked to keep each and every project she's done so she can have it as an example to show future classes/students. This mom is very proud.

The last page has a combination of pictures of food and routines such as homework. I also included a picture of some flowers my husband sent me when I was having a bit of a blue day. I stapled the card that came with the flowers to a journaling card. I thought it was funny that the florist wrote from DAD instead of DAN.

I loved working on this week. I love that I was able to have a good balance of pictures and a few pieces of memorabilia such as the David's tea insert which is a paper bag, the Boston Pizza logo that was on a little box of a chocolate dessert, the flowers card, the popcorn baggie and my children's school documents . Those little bits and pieces are what make this album so real.

Can't wait to get started on week 3. I have my pictures taken but don't know yet which ones will make it into the album, I have quite a few to chose from, I noticed there was a theme going on last week so I think it will be fun to put the pages together.

 

Project Life 2012 : week 1

This is my very first time trying Project Life and all I gotta say is that I'm loving it! Take pictures, journal, embellish if I'm in the mood and stick the elements in the pockets. That's all there is to it but it's so much fun! I will do weekly double-spreads from Monday to Sunday. This first one will be from Sunday to Sunday because I wanted to include January 1st. I had a hard time photographing these pages because of the page protectors but once I find a way to do it properly, it will look better, I promise.

My week 1 was mostly spent in Montreal during our Christmas holidays so I documented that on my first page:

The second page was all about coming back home, unpacking, replenishing our fridge, some purging and organizing and a picture of Joshua excited that he could finally assemble the legos he got as Christmas presents:

I still have six pictures that I want to add to this week but I'm waiting for 6x12 photo pockets that I ordered. Three pictures are from New Year's Eve into the New Year (we partied with the kids until 3AM!) and the other three are from the children playing with their cousins in the snow.

There's another story I might want to add about Danelia's Church retreat as soon as I get some pictures from her Youth leader. But other than that, this week is complete and I will call it good. For my week 2 all my pictures are printed so all I gotta do is journal and embellish a little.

Thank you for looking at my week 1, come back soon for week 2. If you are doing Project Life, I'd love to see your pages for inspiration.

 

Noelia

One Little Word for 2012

My word for 2012 is: achieve

I chose this word because I want to focus on specific things this year and I want to achieve them, bring them to completion. I'm a girl with good intentions just like everyone else but I notice that I've been letting go of some areas in my life.

This word will help as a reminder to start something, keep at it and achieve my goal, whatever it is that I set for myself. Here I will describe in more details about my goals, wishes and hopes for 2012.

Bible reading - My goals for this year are mainly spiritual. I started a Bible reading program called "The Discipleship Journal" and I'm loving it so far. The intent of it is to read the entire Bible in one year. I'm really glad to have this daily structured reading program in addition to my weekly Bible Study Fellowship (BSF Bible classes as some of you may know).  I rejoice knowing that I will get to know God more intimately.

Prayer life - I'm also working on a "Prayer Notebook". I've never been one to prayer journal and to be honest, my prayer life could use some help. But this is different than a prayer journal, this is more of an aid and it organizes your prayer time. There is also the option to include a section to do some prayer journaling as well. You can customize the notebook to your liking. This idea came from this youTube video by Gina Garland: prayer notebook  My hope is that this will enable me to grow spiritually, renew my mind and have a healthy heart. I want to achieve this with God's help.

Physical health - Another area in my life that  I want to work on this year is to be physically healthy. I've tried this many times before and it's the hardest thing for me do achieve. I feel like this area is directly linked to my spiritual state, of that I am sure, it's all a matter of having a healthy heart to begin with. Once that is taken care of, the rest will just naturally follow. So I try again, baby steps at a time, not trying to get discouraged of the countless of times I have failed but instead being grateful that as long as I get back up again after falling, there is always hope. So this year I will give it my best shot to try and achieve this too.

Creative endeavours - Lastly, I want to get back to the things that I love doing creatively: blogging, photography, scrapbooking, decorating and organizing. Here again, I start a project and lose interest quickly if I don't see rapid progress. I miss scrapbooking so much. I miss creating with my hands and having that special time just for myself that I can get lost in my little world. So to remedy my lack of creative productivity, I joined the "Project Life" scrapbooking lifestyle and I'm loving it so far! Project Life is different that your traditional scrapbooking, you can make it as simple or as detailed as you want. I am doing a "weekly" overview (for an entire year) of our lives through the lens of my camera and via my words and some days I like to include little bits and pieces of our routines such as receipts from restaurants, clothes tags and brochures etc. I want to achieve a year of scrapbooking, I want to have a precious year of memories recorded for my family to love and enjoy.

I will have my Week 1 of Project Life posted really soon so make sure to come back to check it out.

Thanks for reading,

Noelia

 

goals, wishes, hopes for the new year

Read my Bible more

Pray more

Worry less

Love more

Achieve more

Happy New Year 2012

*courtesy of Designspiration*