Project Life 2017: Week 45

Earlier in the week, the barn across the road was up and by the end of the week, it was down. I'm so glad that I've documented it all these years.

Project Life 2017: Week 44

Today I cleaned out some PSDs from my Project Life files. I keep each year separate to keep things simple and easy. Anyway, I deleted the Photoshop files that I don't need anymore and ended up looking through some of the years I've already done. You know? We live a beautifully blessed life. I'm so thankful for alllllll that God has blessed us with.

Project Life 2017: Week 43

Happy New Year! I snapped some individual pictures today for our 2018 cover page and need to take a couple more tomorrow. I'm also working on some family Q&As.

For now, I'm still working on fall photos. It's such a pretty season. Nine weeks left to scrap for 2017. It's coming along!

Project Life 2017: Week 42

This week was full of fall things: leaves, fall artwork, autumn skies, and a cider mill.

On one of the days, I gave Leah my camera and Titus my phone. We went on walk and they took pictures of things that caught their eye. Leah's photo layout is posted below.

I showed Leah how to use a template, resize images, how to clip the pictures, add a brush, change the color of the brush, etc.  Leah's layout:

Project Life 2017: Week 41

I love the Project Life can keep changing to what works best or is more aesthetically pleasing. I'm wanting to make some changes. None that will cause any extra stress, but to keep my layouts more streamlined, cohesive, and pleasing to my eye. I'm happy to learn and change in order to make that happen. 

Project Life 2017: Week 40

This week we traveled to Missouri and back to surprise Brandon's brother for his 40th birthday.

Project Life 2017: Week 39

Hello! I've been absent for a while. My computer's hard drive needed to be replaced and that took a while. Once I got my computer back, I worked on our parent's photo calendars. Now I'm hoping to devote more time to Project Life and getting caught up. I had hoped to complete 2011 and 2017 this year, but I haven't even gotten through 2017 yet. I'll just keep plugging away.

As much as I don't like being behind, I enjoy working on a previous year (2011, for example) while working on the current year because it allows me to look back at precious photos. I just love pictures.

2018 starts tomorrow! Of course I'm a handful of weeks behind until I can start scrapbooking 2018, I've been thinking about our cover page, photos that we'll take tomorrow, and some questions to ask each of us to further document this time in our lives. I also need to search out a new font and week brushes to use for 2018. Other than that, not a whole lot is changing. Keeping it basic helps: photos, stories, brushes.

These three spreads are mainly from our fall party. It was our seventh party in our eight years living here.

Project Life 2017: Week 38

Because we love the barn and knew it could collapse soon, I took lots of pictures with it. And it's what we see when we look out our front windows. A few weeks ago, the barn was pulled down due to safety concerns. It is so sad to look at now. We've loved that barn for eight years. It has almost made me cry a few times since it's been down. It's crazy how a barn can make you feel that way. I'm happy I have pictures of it like the one below. I think sometimes we can take for granted the things that we are used to seeing everyday. Document it. You never know when it won't be the same.

Project Life 2017: Week 37

I didn't have as many pictures this week and had too many next week to make a two week spread, so instead I took the opportunity to resize some photos and include three large ones.

Project Life 2017: Week 36

Whoa...looking at this spread makes me see all of the journaling! There were stories to be told!

Project Life 2017: Week 35

I'm really loving the colors and photos in this spread - all the green and beauty of nature. ♥

Project Life 2017: Week 34

 I thought I had this two page spread almost wrapped up, but then I remembered some photos that my dad took. In order to include those and some photos with yours truly (since I'm normally behind the camera), it turned into two spreads. 

I love including big photos when I have the space to do so. And I love the photo that I chose to make big. Such fun memories. My mom is a good sport!

Project Life 2017: Week 33

My mom turned 70 this week! It's crazy to think about, but if you know her, you would never guess that was her age. I love her to pieces! ♥

Project Life 2017: Week 32

I love the simplicity of childhood. I miss being a kid. While my kids aren't always happy with what I don't allow them to spend too much time on (electronics and such), they have become thankful that they still play with toys and have great, functioning imaginations. They are seeing what happens to others when their lives are spent in front of screens. It's not pretty. I find it so sad. Childhood, real childhood, gets lost in all the hurry. There are only a little handful of years that one gets to be a child. The rest of our lives are spent being adults. I want to focus on living peaceable and living slowly. What's crazy is that it takes effort to do that. But I'm willing to always work toward that because the payoffs are huge. Let's live simply.