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{Project Life} Weeks 13 – 17

Written on May 1, 2012 by haynay in Project Life

It’s blog catch up time…I’ve decided to not write much about PL, but show you pictures of my weeks. (Altho I do reserve the right to say SOMETHING!)

{Week 13}

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Meeting my online friend, Ophelia

{Week 14}

The kids and I headed to Denver for the Women’s Final Four (we met my sister and mom)…did you hear? Baylor won!

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I also got a Silhouette Cameo this week! My very first thing I cut? The interlocking BU!

I really love the glitter letters on my journal slot! And, I needed to record the first ever 40-0 season, men or women!

In addition, I decided to do more digital stuff…over the second half of this week and all of next week, I did everything digital, in photoshop. Then I printed and cut out. If you use the right drop shadows, you cannot even tell they are digital.

{Week 15}

Like I said, did all digital, in my bed, one Sunday night…while catching up on dvr’ed shows! LOVE this when in a crunch and trying to catch up!

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{Week 16}

This was one of the hardest weeks to do for me. How do you record a funeral of a loved one. I pray I did Memaw justice. And, then to combine it with a birthday? Difficult.

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This week I combined digital and paper. The paper I used was Simple Stories Fab-u-lous…LOVE!

Oh and I HAD to put the picture of Mom and RG3 in there! She was flying home from my house, and they were on the same flight from DFW to Waco, and he was generous enough to sign FIVE autographs for her grandkids and take a picture. What a nice man! Oh, and just to let you know…he went #2 in the NFL draft!

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{Week 17}

(I’d shared this yesterday with Week in the Life, but wanted to keep it in sequence here!)

So, that’s me, caught up!

WOO HOO!

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{Get Off My Butt} Day 1

Written on April 30, 2012 by haynay in Exercise, Personal

I’ve been saying…when I finish this, on Monday, tomorrow…I’ll start working out, I’ll start drinking more water, I’ll go on a diet.

The problem: there is ALWAYS something putting me off….ALWAYS. This week it was: I’m going to Chicago this weekend, I’ll start Tuesday.

Well, today, I said “NO!” I’m starting today. now.

So, I texted my friend and neighbor Meredith (who teaches yoga) and asked her for the schedule for a beginners class.

Then, I went to change clothes and put my tennis shoes on…right THEN!!!

I walked for 35 minutes, up hill, down hill, over speed humps (this is what you get when you live in the mountains).

They totally tried to slow me down!

I realized through doing a Week in the Life last week, I TOTALLY have time, every day, to work out…in some capacity. I CAN DO IT! It just have to make it a priority…so, I’m putting it out there to the Internet world…I am going to do this!

One person to inspire me is my sister’s bff, Adrienne. She’s set herself a goal of getting rid of the last of her baby weight. So, we are doing online weight-loss encouragement together.

I’m not as brave as Adrienne (who put her weight and measurements on the Internet)—seriously she’s BRAVE!!! But, I am putting a before picture on here….this is me today.(in my daughter’s room who has a full length mirror)

My goal: get into shape, lose 25 pounds. period. that’s it.

And, I’d like to do it by the time I go to my 20th high school reunion at the end of July! Because my date is beautiful…all three of them…Kori, Michelle, and Vanessa. (Heath is going to be fly-fishing with his dad and can’t make it)

So there you go!

I’m getting off my butt!

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{Week in the Life} Wrap Up

Written on April 30, 2012 by haynay in Project Life, Week in the Life

I finished!! I’m so very excited that I actually finished this process, and LOVED doing it! I was going to take pictures of each spread like I started Day 1 and 2, but I decided to just reduce the jpgs and put them in here! I loaded them as thumbnails and am not sure how this is going to work, but I’m trying it!

So there are my pages! I left it simple, only changing the colors of the flags, etc of Ali’s templates. I printed them all on photo paper and put them in page protectors. I really debated about where to house this project, but ended up deciding that they will reside in my Project Life Album!

I put them in between the regular page protectors that I used for the week. And, what did I put in those slots? I put pictures that I took that didn’t make it into the templates! Then, I did a journal blurb about it. Take a look (sorry about the quality, snapped a quick picture with my iphone):

For these PL protector pages, I used Simple Stories Fab-U-Lous. I LOVED these, the 4×6 and 3×4 cards come on a 12×12! I cut them apart, rounded the corners and boom! Done! I LOVE them! In fact, I went to Scrapbook.com and ordered more from this company on Saturday! If you are PL person, go check them out!

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{Week in the Life} Day 2

Written on April 26, 2012 by haynay in General

I finished Monday’s Week in the Life pages and about to start Tuesdays and Wednesday. I told myself when I finish Tuesday’s pages that I will clean the kitchen and living room. Then, I will reward myself with finishing Wednesday’s pages. Then I’ll go clean my room. I’m still a reward cleaner!

Seriously, I . Hate. Cleaning.

Just wanted to make that clear!

Anyway, back to my Monday spread. I love the picture of Madysen and Cappy (the dog) Madysen was literally laying on top of me on the couch. I grabbed my camera off of the coffee table and snapped this picture under the pretense that she could look at the sidewalk chalk on her face! It was a good one too.

I realize it looks like my days do not include my husband! He’s around, just super busy. He’s been working nights which means sleeping during the day! He’ll show up in the next couple of days, I promise!!

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{Week in the Life} Day One

Written on April 25, 2012 by haynay in Week in the Life

I decided to start Week in the Life on Sunday. I think I said that in an earlier post. Tonight, while my kids were swimming and practicing baseball, I churned out Sunday’s Layouts. I’m cheating a little, but if this is how I get an important project done, so be it. I’m using Ali’s Week in the Life Foundations template set. It’s all done for you, just plug it in. Oh, and I didn’t go by hour, but on Sunday, I made a list of our activities for the day. I’m not sure if this is what I’ll use the journal space for in the rest of the week. I guess we’ll see. I did decide to change the colors to yellow to match my Project Life…because I have decided this week is going as an insert in my PL album. So, take a look at what I got done tonight.

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Perspective

Written on April 24, 2012 by haynay in Personal, Week in the Life

I spent some time yesterday catching up DVRed shows…specifically grey’s Anatomy and Private Practice. As I watched these episodes (which were about a dying mother of a child about Hunter’s age and a girl who had been kidnapped and finally found) I realized what would happen if I passed. (morbid I know) I would want my babies to know me and remember me forever. I would want them to know how much I LOVE them and how they bring so much fulfillment to my life!
Last week Heath and I attended his grandmother’s funeral. As we spent time with his parents and sister, we spoke several times about her letters and writings she left. In addition she left boxes of family history and photos for each of the grand kids. She wanted to ensure that they know their family history. It was very cool.
With these two occurrences, I spent a lot of time last night thinking about my legacy. My kids. My husband. I often dismiss my scrapbooking as my artistic outlet. I even tell myself that it might be a waste of time. That there are better things I could do with my time. But, I just love it so much!! Good thing because I’ve had an epiphany. If I want to leave clues about who I am as a person, how much I love my family, what I believe and treasure…isn’t scrappin the perfect way to do that? If something happened to me tomorrow, wouldn’t my beloveds be able to know me through my scrapbooks?
I think yes.
I’m so excited to be doing A Week in the Life. It’ll give that much more insight to my kids and beyond.

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An entire post…gone!

Written on April 23, 2012 by haynay in General, Personal, Project Life, Week in the Life

I don’t know what exactly happened. I wrote an entire post on Saturday night, published it and everything and it has disappeared! Jeez.

It was insightful too…all about me doing A Week in the Life this week and figuring out if all I really do is baseball or not! And now I just don’t have the energy to actually write it all again.

I am on the second day of A Week in the Life. I started on Sunday. I know Ali started today, but I’m a Sunday to Saturday girl. I do it in Project Life and I’m going to do it with this!

Speaking of both…I finished week 15 PL last night (all digitally in Photoshop and printed), and found the SWEETEST notes on my page today…from my husband. It brought tears to my eyes. Why?

1. It’s super sweet.

2. He’s LOOKING at Project Life!?!!? That is so special to me!

Okay, I should get lunch since I have to pick up the kids in an hour. I should also take a picture of me blogging for Week in the Life!

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Excited to announce

Written on April 6, 2012 by haynay in General

I had several people remark to me that they were sad my Disney-inspired kits would not be available anymore. I’m excited to announce, though I won’t be designing any new kits or products, you will STILL be able to find SOME of my product at MouseScrappers! I’ve put My Magical Place products in the store there so far. I’ll be adding a few more things over the next couple of weeks.

MouseScrappers is a fun place to get together with other Disney people…if you are a Disney fanatic or just a one time visitor to the wonderful place. Mousescrappers is a great place to get inspired to scrap your trip(s)! There are challenges, speed scrap, and wonderful inspiration! Go take a look if you’ve never been there before!

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{Week 10 and 11} Project Life

Written on April 6, 2012 by haynay in Project Life

Hello world! We’ve been super busy around here, but I’m caught up…pretty much! I decided on a quick way to share PL this week…I used an app on my iPhone called PicFrame. I took pictures of my LOs with my phone, then put together these photo framed collages.

Week 10: we had a super busy week as it was Spring Break for the kids. This year we went to Phoenix for the Texas Rangers’ Spring Training. We caught two games and a practice. SO much fun!! I really love the pictures of us at the games. The bottom one I placed on an old Texas Rangers baseball card that I found at Mystic Paper, a scrap store in Mesa, AZ. (Of course I had to scrap shop while there!)

Then, on Wednesday, we headed home. Albuquerque was hosting the 2nd/3rd rounds of the NCAA basketball tournament and the Baylor Bears were playing in our town! We were so excited! (I should say…we are big sports people!) We even hosted a BBQ here at our house on Friday night with some friends/family that came into town for the games. You can see a picture of all of us in the bottom left corner of the page taken by Matthew Minard, a friend of my brother-in-law. The hard part for me was getting everything we did this week…ALONG with Madysen’s 7th birthday! But I do like how it turned out!

I HAD to have inserts….2 of them, front and back! I know I’m not doing separate pages for these events, so I wanted to include a lot of fun pictures from our week! The first is the Spring Training program. The back of that includes the NCAA bracket Hunter filled out from the USA today at the hotel, Madysen’s birthday present request list, and our wrist bands from the Baylor basketball games. Then I also added 20 pictures of each event. I picked out my favorites, printed the 2×2 (all on one 8.5×11 photo sheet), cut them and stuck them in this coin collectors page protectors. I love these things people! (I found the coin pages on Amazon.)

{Week 11}

This week wasn’t nearly as exciting, no inserts…boring compared to the week before, but it’s done! And some weeks that’s good! I did not want to fall behind, so therefore, I am happy! I did use several “Smash” journal cards. They are a little small for the slots, but they work!

It’s Friday, kids are out of school for Good Friday. Hunter and a friend are in the backyard playing baseball—shock! Madysen is watching a movie and drawing—shock! I need to be folding laundry, but am blogging instead—shock! Heath is study for oral medical boards—shock! I am going to clean the kitchen, then work on week 12! Have a good one people!