It’s the middle of March, and I’ve finally completed my Project Life pages for January. I’d think I was way behind, but I follow a couple of people who are still working on last fall’s pages, so I guess it’s not too bad.
The first page backs up the Title page for 2014 which I posted here. It documents our last day with Sarah, Adam, and Caleb, our arduous ride home from Chicago as well as the start of our next road trip, just two days after we got home. The cute cork calendar is from Lawn Fawn, and is part of a two piece set. I’m saving the frame for another spot. I cut down a 3X4 card from the Project Life Travel set, added some Simple Stories letter stickers and a car from an Evalicious sticker set. The map was fussy cut from another journaling card, and I added two black pearls for the starting point and ending point of our road trip.
I ended up using some different page protectors for the last four pages: Design G by Becky Higgins. They’re about an inch narrower than the 12X12 pages, but since I’ve been combining different size pages in my albums for several years now, it doesn’t bother me at all.
The top two photographs would have made a great Zoom In, Zoom Out post, and may show up there some week when I don’t have anything new to share. The journaling tells the story about the two museums we visited and the other stops we made as we drove to Florida.
I love photographing the beach, and these were some of my favorites from this trip. The one of the sun set was taken out the window of the condo Tracy’s mom rents in Fort Myer’s Beach. The two fishermen at #11 of my 100 Strangers Project (more about that later.)
We took a couple side trips to the Everglades and the Thomas Edison Museum and winter estate with Ellie while we were in Florida, and ate out at some great restaurants both on the road and while we were staying with her. I found the fork and spoon charms when I cleaned out the studio in January and added the “YUM” with die cuts from Papertrey. The pocket is from Simple Stories. The arrow on the bottom photo is a Technique Tuesday stamp designed by Ali Edwards.
And then we were home, and the warm temperatures were no more. The “Frosty” wood veneer came in a kit (not sure which one), and I included one of my favorite photographs from the Frugal Still Life class. I wanted to put a label of some kind on it, but couldn’t find anything that didn’t detract from the composition of the photo. The “Hello Home” card was from the December Cocoa Daisy Project Life kit. Tracy gave me a three month subscription to these for Christmas. The cute journaling card with the books is from the January kit, and I stamped the date with the new Slide Frame set from Papertrey Ink. The rest of the page documents my progress with my One Little Word which I intend to do each month at the end of my spread.
Now to get February done before March ends.
