Heather Johnson Photography

Welcome to Week 46. A week I started, lost somewhere on my harddrive, so needed to create again. (Hence it’s very simple and Clementine-centric nature.) Not to worry–the next few weeks are going to be fun, fun, fun. I have a few new products (really more than a few, more like like a lot) from both  Designer Digitals and the  Sweet Shoppe and I can’t wait to make holiday themed Project Life pages AND December Daily layouts. Still not sure how hard it will be completing two projects like that at once but if I can complete December Daily with a hospital stay and a newborn, which is how it was last year, I can do ANYTHING:)

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This week was really light on photos so I used a lot of filler cards/journaling cards. I made sure to journal about how the baby loves wind blowing in her face, she practically screams in delight, and how Holly and I have been spending a lot of time crafting. This week we worked on our homemade reindeer, but truth be told I am much more excited to dig into our Kiwi Crate Christmas box next week!

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Most of our week was spent upstairs working on Holly’s room. We have a first birthday party for Marie in two days, so we really needed to deep clean up there as we need the space to spread out. (Two dozen people in about an 850 square-foot first floor might be a wee bit tight!) Worked out well as Holly has been BEGGING for a decorated room. She is sooo happy up there now, and even I have to say it’s much cuter and easier to spend time up there. The room is a T-shape, so we made the east side a princess bedroom and the west side a fun playroom. We found great storage furniture at IKEA and Target had tons of cute little girl room decor. I even managed to create a creative arts area on the North end, complete with a sewing table! I wonder if this will help me sew more?

I am already working on Week 47–lots of photos and fun coming up!

Here we are, week 45. Less than ten weeks until the end of the year. I can say without hesitation that I love this project just as much this week as the first, and I am really excited about next year already. (But perhaps even more excited about December Daily which starts in just two weeks.) Seems the only thing I have time for, besides photo-editing. Which reminds me…I really do need to get back to it, so this will be quick.

And I will, I PROMISE, get to posting some of the photo sessions from this fall soon. So much fun stuff to share!

Week 45 was a fun week for sure. It was the week I was able to jaunt out to California for a photography workshop and meet the one and only Jasmine Star. (More importantly I was also able to sleep uninterrupted for two whole nights for the first time in, oh I don’t know, two years?!)

I kept things super simple this week which is what I tend to do when I am a bit behind. Pretty much the clementine kit and a few embellishments here and there. Mostly photos.

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As I was leaving the church after voting on Tuesday, I heard an elderly woman talking to someone about how she voted that day–and why. She was talking about wanting her grandchildren to know (who are very young right now) why she voted the way she did, and what impact she thought it may have on them.  I had the idea to do a nice big narrative about why “mommy and daddy” voted the way we did after I listened to her story. It’s shaded for privacy, but I really love how it turned out. I think that it made a great addition to the album.

And that’s all I wrote for Week 45!

Trending a week behind…but should have week 45 up tomorrow. I hope. (I probably should mention I haven’t even started it yet!!!) It will be very California-centric as that was the bulk of my week, and my photos.

Week 44 was the week of Halloween so we had lots of fun things going on. I made an insert, or in my case an extra 12×12 shutterfly page, to showcase all of the Halloween stuff–amazing I have never thought of doing that before. When I sit down in January to assemble all of this I just might make some more “insert” pages like this to elaborate on certain events. I loved how it turned out. I am going to let the pages do the talking as it’s already 11pm and I have a sick baby who doesn’t like to sleep anymore!

There is a lot of journaling this week, including a very funny hunting story. I swear, I don’t know where she gets it!

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My Halloween Insert:

See you soon for week 45!

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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.

 

 

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!

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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!

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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!)

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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!