Project Life 2011 - Week 22

What can I say, another week to post.

It's very scary how quickly time is passing - we're almost half way through the year already. I'm pretty sure that my album will be bulging at the seems but hopefully it will all fit in as I don't want to start a second album.

I saw a really good post on Ali Edwards' blog the other day, about the first year of her daughter and the album she had made - it is soo cute and I would love to do one for each of my two kids but I really don't think I have enough of the bits and pieces that make the albums so special - I've kept a few things from when they were babies and will have to go through them and see if there's enough.

Anyway, I've enough to do just keeping up to date with Project Life.

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Project Life 2011 - Week 21

Week 21 - wow. Must admit, it is very hard work to keep up with this project. I read on Scrapbookers Inner Circle that the Project Life kit is becoming available in June for the UK from Amazon - that is GREAT news - just a bit late for me this year and not at all sure I would continue with this next year. Still thinking about getting the kit and using it just as a normal photo album....

Project Life 2011- Weeks 18, 19 & 20

A big catch-up! Managed to get three weeks done - life has been busy which means lots of photos to choose from but not enough time to get them ready for the album!

Week 18

Week 19

Week 20

Project Life 2011 - Week 17

A good week - We started the week off with a long bike ride to prepare for a cycling holiday that we were considering but it made my mind up that it wasn't a good idea - 4 days in a row in the saddle was going to prove too much. We've booked up a walking holiday instead along the North Norfolk Coast.

The photo's show Steve repairing his puncture - we were at

the Millineum Bridge admiring the view when suddenly we could hear a hisssss....

The end of the week brought love and romance into our lives - our daughter returned home after 5 months in France on the same day as the Royal Wedding - what a great day!

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Week 16 Project Life

You can see that i have included the little tag book that I made for my friend's son, Jack, in this week's project life. I'm trying to include any little projects that I do during the week. I've used the layout of Becky's project life kit this week, well certainly on the right side, and it definitely makes life a lot easier. If you knew all your photos were going to be landscape 6 x 4 you could plan ahead a lot and batch print the photos - still, never mind, may be next year....especially as i hear that Amazon UK is going to stock them :)

Project Life 2011 - Week 15

Just spending a bit of time catching up with Project Life - it is so easy to get behind with this project and then it's oh so tempting to give up......but I'm still trying to keep with it, it's so nice to look back over the last four months and see what we've been up to.

I've managed to capture a bit of what Ash and Sean have been up to this week - Sean has been in France "bouldering" and took some great photos. I've focussed on him getting to the top of this peak. He's even put together a few sentences for the journal.

Ashleigh had her 22nd birthday whilst working in France (pure coincidence that they are b

oth there at the same time). To mark the occasion I printed off (nearly) all her Facebook Birthday Messages and on the other side of the insert, I've printed off her most recent profile pictures - decided to use Facebook as this is the main method of us staying in touch!

On Saturday me and a few friends had a lovely weekend in Richmond, stopping off in London and as a big surprise, Steve had managed to get us into No 10 Downing Street! Wowweee, were my friends impressed! We had a tour round and went into the many rooms - the highlight was having our picture taken on the grand staircase with all the ex-Prime Minister's photos hanging on the wall in the background. Will definitely have to scrapbook that day.We then went on to Richmond and had a lovely time in the sunshine walking along the River front and having pre-theatre meal at the Piano and the Pitcher. We went to see Tell me on a Sunday in the evening at the very lovely Richmond Theatre. On Sunday we had a walk to Twickenham, it was hot and we stopped at the pub on the River front for a cool drink. It was a great weekend.

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Sue

Project Life 2011 - Week 14

I started the week off with determination - I will exercise every day! And so I set myself a timetable which I find is an easier way to keep to a routine - and it worked as I got up early every morning and did my routine and I even managed to cycle into work a couple of times.

We had our monthly book group meet to review Room and get next month's choice. Room was very good so if you feel like a good read I highly recommend it.

We went to Nottingham to book Sean's accomodation for September - it's right smack in the centre of Nottingham and looks great - he's going to have a brilliant time! The weather was fab and we drove in my TT and had the hood down on the way back - magic. Whilst we were there, we went to Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem - supposedly the oldest pub in England which is steeped in history.

The sun was still strong enough to sit out early evening and enjoy a Kir Royale :) Haven't we been so lucky with the weather, so early in the season - I'm guessing the rain will come soon....

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Sue

Project Life 2011 - Week 13

Still continuing with this project - some weeks there is lots happening and others not much at all - but this is what the project is all about - recording the day to day stuff as well as the good stuff.

I'm hoping that in years to come when great-great-grandchildren are looking through the album they will get a glimpse of what an ordinary life was like in the year 2011.

I've made an extra insert this week to put in my Mother's Day flowers which my lovely son and daughter arranged to have sent to me. This is the first year where they have both been away from home on Mother's Day and I missed them both very much.

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Project Life 2011 - Week 12

With the nice weather remaining, I tried to cycle to work as many times as I could - it is such a nicer way to travel to work. Steve finished his rehabilitation course with not much of a better outcome. We had a great get together for the WAGS (Wistow Annual Growers Society - or something like that) where much jollification was had along with rather too much wine....

Project Life 2011 - Week 11

It's funny cos the start of all my weeks begin with me doing a bit of exercise - I'm a great one for saying "I'll start on Monday" - just wish I could keep up the motivation all week :) It's the same wit the diet - by the weekend I feel in need of treats for being so good during the week and then put on any weight I may have lost!

Big news this week was that Sean got offered a place at his first choice Uni to study Graphic Design - Well done Sean. And how do you like the decal on my laptop? Steve bought it for me for my birthday - I love it, very clever of somebody who designed it, who knows, may be that will be my boy some day....

Last weekend we went to Kew Gardens and had the most idyllic day - the weather was simply gorgeous and wandering around the Gardens was just beautiful, it really was a perfect day. We loved it so much we bought an annual membership and will definitely be going back there.

I've made the big 6 x 11.5 collage in Photoshop Elements - it's a great programme and I am ever so slowly getting to grips with it. The little coin stuck on the collage is one Steve made as a souvenir of our trip - well, I say "made" - really, he popped in the pound coin, turned the handle and out it popped :)

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Sue

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Project Life 2011 - Week 10

Week 10 - Sean had his big interview this week for Nottingham Trent - it's his first choice so he really wanted to impress. He felt it went well but you can never tell...

On Friday our friend's son Matt was performing in Guys & Dolls at The Central School of Speech and Drama - loads of us went along to support him and it was a terrific night - Matt was excellent as were the whole cast.

The funny looking picture at the bottom is where I had my ring cut off - I've got a lump on the inside of my finger which needs surgery so I've had the ring cut off in plenty of time.

And I couldn't let this week go by without mention of the catastrophic earthquake in Japan.

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Sue

Project Life 2011 - Week 9

My birthday was this week so I had a lot going on- and it was also our monthly reading group meeting which coincided with my birthday so my lovely friends all brought some lovely nibbles along and we celebrated it together. Managed to get lots of photos for the project - that's a good thing, because of this project I am taking loads more photos than I normally would. I got some fantastic presents from my friends and my lovely husband.

I had so much to say this week I've included an extra long journaller (Ali Edwards) - these are wonderful when you've got a bit extra to document.

A very useful present that I got from Steve was a Photoshop Elements 9 book - I'm really trying to get my head around Photoshop and sometimes it all comes together, like it did with my photomerge of all my birthday cards - I'm not saying it worked first time, but I got there in the end :)

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Sue

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Project Life 2011 - Week 8

Another week has gone by and this brings us to the end of February!

I'm find this this project ok as long as I can keep up with it - but it's all worth it when I look back over what I've done so far, it will be a great collection of memories that hopefully will provide an insight as to what life (well, my life) was like in 2011.

Everywhere I go, I find myself keeping all the little tidbits that you come across knowing that I will be able to use them in this project - it takes the pressure off having to take photos all the time.

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Sue

Project Life 2011 - Week 7

Love is in the air - Valentine's Day was my inspiration this week:

My silhouette came into it's own this week and I used it for practically everything. Not sure how I would manage without it. This week is a tribute to my wonderful family and friends

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Sue

Project Life 2011- Week 6

Quite a busy week - I had our monthly book club on Tuesday when we reviewed my book choice, The Ice Cream Girls, which everyone thought was very good :) Sue's choice for February is Twopence to Cross the Mersey, a book she had read when she was younger and had very fond memories of it.

Sean had two Uni interviews, one at Norwich and one at Kingston. He was lucky enough to hear the next day that Norwich had offered him a place. He's still waiting to hear from Kingston, and on Saturday some very dear friends came to stay for the weekend, so all in all, a very full week.

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Sue

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Project Life 2011- Week 5

A big week this week- we went out to see Ashleigh at her ski-resort so i've put lots of photos in which means adding an extra page. I'm loving doing this project - it's a great way to document the year - it's a bit time consuming not being able to use Becky Higgins kit but I'm liking the variety of the pages.

I'm really trying to get used to using Photoshop elements and cropped all my photos using elements but would love to be able to do more. I've used my wonderful Silhouette for cutting the elements and for the journal blocks. The new studio software is brilliant especially the wrap around font update.

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Sue