Heather Johnson Photography

After three of four weeks of posting 6-10 days late, here I am at Week 43 posting four days before Tuesday. Here’s to being motivated! (Or here’s to having free time again. Or maybe it’s here’s to having a house full of people that go to bed at 7pm on a Saturday night so what else am I going to do but scrapbook?!! It’s really any or all of the above….)

This week came together so easily. Bought a new kit that I really loved working with, and had a lot of great photos of the girls enjoying the fall. We even had our first show of flurries this week too, but I couldn’t get a picture of it to come out with my iphone. I was going to notate it somewhere here within the layout but I just ran out of room. I have a feeling that next week will be just as fun/fast to put together–it will be Halloween after all!

Left Side:

I am back to posting big this week. I loved the page too much to make it little:) For the first time I used a 4×6 in it’s entirety in the title card spot–love that. And the subway words brush? Love love love! I have quite a few of them, even one for Halloween next week. I love everything Karen Lewis does, so if you’ve never seen her work I urge you to check it out.

The rest of the page is made up of impromptu leaf parties, Holly showing off her birthday shirt, and a picture and description of her party. Come to think of it, her birthday party was actually part of week 42 wasn’t it? Oh well….it doesn’t matter! I can’t keep everything straight anymore…and years from now, when I look at this, I am sure I won’t remember that my  ”Project Life Weeks” ran Sunday-Saturday!

Right Side:

This page shows some of the fun Holly and I had at the Pumpkin Patch today, us at her preschool’s “moms and muffins” event, plus some random going-ons at the house. We subscribe to kiwicrate.com, and I have to say I highly recommend it. I Love everything they send and Holly is super excited to get the green box every month with the crafts inside. This month it was shadow puppets, and she had so much fun putting on a show for us with them. (And I am once again impressed with the low-light capabilities of my camera–love how this picture turned out!)

An every day thing I captured were the cookie wafers she always leaves after she eats Oreos. I was getting ready to clean the table and realized that I had never taken a picture of what she doesn’t eat…and since my camera was sitting on the kitchen counter I grabbed a shot. Too funny, and something that I know I would forget if I didn’t get a record of it.

The biggest hit of Holly’s party, and just around the house shenanigans, is Justin’s Halloween mask. This thing is SCARY looking in person, and Holly just loves it! At her party the kids just loved to be chased round and round the yard and in the house–I can’t wait to see the reactions when Justin wears it Wednesday night.

That’s a wrap folks. Off to upload some pages to Shutterfly and watch some TV from the week. Hopefully this week I can begin posting about the 30+ photo sessions I had in the months of September and October, I have so much to share!

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Project Life is a product and a system created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here. If you live outside the US check Becky’s site for more information on sources. View all my posts about Project Life here.

 

 

What happens when you go to put your weekly Project Life layout together and have no photos? Like seriously not ONE photo–not even with my iphone?

You remember that you have a super-cool all text digital template from Paislee Press from years ago that will work perfect. I present to you my photo-less week 42. (It looks a little goofy pictured here, but when sitting side by side it looks really cool–very simple, like a magazine, and plenty of white space in the “gutter area” so my words won’t get lost!)

The left side:

The right side:

Both sides together:

Not to worry, next week will be chock-full of photos. At last count I had already taken 364!

I am linking up this week at the mom creative. Check it out for lots of inspiration!

I’m here! I’m here!

I am not behind, but I am not ahead. I am barely hanging on:) I read on Facebook the other day that October for photographers is like April for accountants–so true. With a senior session, a family session, a wedding, and approximately 30 mini-sessions to keep on top of (let alone process and edit) it doesn’t leave too much time for anything else.

Put a five year old’s birthday party on top of that and WOW. Mommy overload!!

Anyhow, I won’t do a lot of commentary, just post the past two weeks for you all to see. I was able to showcase one of my favorite photos of Holly EVER on week 41–love the impact of a 6×12 photo!

First up, week 40:

This was Holly’s actual birthday week, and the week she got her ears pierced. I got to spend time in her class that week, which is always super fun. I have done it the past two years, and it’s so interesting to see, socially, how the kids are developing. This was the first year I really noticed that boys were with boys and girls were with girls…and then within the girls there were groups. Cliques. At five. Oh boy. I did manage to get two shots of Marie in this week. One was her first time in a pile of leaves (she had absolutely no idea what to do besides eat them) and another image taken with my iphone as she scampered away from the bedroom chair. She is always making a bee line for the bathroom. I have no idea why–it’s the last place I would want to crawl to. I am not sure it’s been cleaned since August….

And week 41:

By the end of the week I FINALLY had my D700 back, and had a new lens rented for the wedding I shot on Sunday. Me thinks mommy needs this lens in her bag! I had a sad number of photos this past week because of my a) missing camera and b) busy schedule, so I took the opportunity to create two “something I want to remember” cards that are just filled with things each girl is doing now. Run on sentences, incomplete sentences…really just brain dumps of stuff. Might not be the most eloquent, but boy am I glad I got all of it written down!

I also found photos I thought I deleted last week–the cuties of Marie in the red polka dots. She was clapping and playing peek a boo, and of course flashing her smile. She lights up a room that one.

And that’s all I wrote for weeks 40 and 41!

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Project Life is a product and a system created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here. If you live outside the US check Becky’s site for more information on sources. View all my posts about Project Life here.

 

Welcome to the busy season for photographers! I didn’t realize until I was getting ready to post this that it had been weeks since my last blog post. I have SO MUCH to share, but am so focused at churning out everyone’s galleries AND creating a new portfolio website that I haven’t had time for much else!!

Here is week 39, a couple of weeks late, but done nonetheless. I did both week 39 and 40 in about two hours last night…and that was starting from scratch. Using Marcy Penner’s planning pages really helped me get my photos/thoughts together, would definitely recommend them if you get behind.

I have decided to post my two pages side-by-side. I like everything a bit smaller so you can see the whole layout, and it occurred to me that I probably didn’t need to share all of my journaling with the world all of the time! If you have any specific questions, let me know, but going forward this is probably how I will display my pages. If you follow me on pinterest, I will still be posting individual pages.

Here’s week 39′s spread:

Whenever I am short on time, I always revert back to the Clementine Kit. I just love that kit! Updates this week including working on teaching Holly to read and feeding Marie eggs. She LOVES eggs and eagerly will sign for more when she is ready for more. I must say it really is hard functioning without my DSLR, my eye has gotten so used to the crispness of my prime lenses that my old point-and-shoot is driving me crazy. 90% of my shots were blurry (I turn the flash off) so it was slim picking this week in the photo department!

One of my favorite shots from the week was of our yogurt sundae cups. As we finished up I was remarking about how different our tastes and preferences are…and then I though–YES–a 4×6 slot for project life! Detailing out what was in everyone’s cup sure does tell you a bit about each of us!

I will be back tomorrow with Week 40. And hopefully the post soon that I promised weeks ago about Chutes and Ladders park in Burnsville. Like I said, BUSY SEASON!!!

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Project Life is a product and a system created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. To learn more about Project Life check out Becky’s Website. The pieces used in my album are available through Jessica Sprague here. If you live outside the US check Becky’s site for more information on sources. View all my posts about Project Life here.