OLW January

Let’s take a look at what I did this past month for my OLW. This year’s focus is HOME.

My monthly intentions:

1. Project List – Got a master list. Now to start getting those items checked off.

2. Home Management Binder – I wanted to create a place to keep all my to-do lists, coupons, important info, and random bits of whatever that seem to multiple. I checked out a few posts on Pinterest and started formulating my own binder. I have a major projects page, my weekly to-do list, a pocket for coupons, and the rest of my OLW pages.

3. Craft Space Organization – I spent a fair amount of money at The Container Store to organize all the cabinets in my new craft space. It’s in a great space right now and so very usable.

4. Daily Housekeeping – My intention was to do at least one housekeeping duty per day. I’ve been very good sticking to this goal.

5. Curate Pinterest Board – I’ve got a nice collection of pins right now. I can’t wait to really dive into those.

Extras:

— January PL pages: I just completed all of my monthly pages this week. Loving how this new approach is working.

— Dining room: We’ve got most of the pieces in place for the dining room. I just need to add some curtains and this room is complete. Very excited. 

— Arthur’s playroom: I started with a completely blank canvas at the start of January. A few weeks later and things are shaping up. I need a few more decorative pieces and to organize the rest of his toys. Plus, I’ve got to get some curtains up there. One of next month’s intentions!

My OLW Pages:

I decided to add in my monthly OLW pages to my home management binder. My first page includes a nice self-portrait, some decorative cards, and the big prompts from January.

The next two pages hold my monthly intentions. While it wasn’t a prompt for January, I wanted to lay out my proposed large projects. This should help my keep me on track throughout the year. I may add to these intentions, but this is a good start.

Project Life 2014 W25-27

I'm finally catching back up with my weekly spreads.  While I'm still chugging away, once this year is over I'm going to month sections with however many pages I need instead of weekly spreads.  The pressure might just be getting to me...

Week 25

This week I went with the basic Design A layouts with few embellishments.  The pictures basically speak for themselves.  They didn't need much.  I love the little epoxy stickers that I added to some of the pictures (hearts, houses, arrows).  They look so much cuter in person.  As for the week, I highlighted Arthur's 8 month pictures one day late and trips to the park, pool, and arcade.  Definitely a typical week during the summer.

Supplies:

• PL Kraft
• PL Baby Neutral (stat card)
• Amy Tangerine Thickers
• Epoxy stickers
• Washi tape
• Random other stickers

Week 26

This week was so full of events that I had to add an insert (Design G).  I went with some nautical themed cards for our visit to San Francisco Bay and animal themed cards for our visit to the Oakland Zoo.  Other than the cards, I added some Basic Grey alphas to label some of the pictures.  I kept the embellishments extremely sparse because the pictures were so busy.  Including the insert allowed me to highlight some great pool pics and some around-the-house shots.  The pic with Arthur eating paper features some graphics from the Little Moments App.  I liked how it turned out, but know I don't have time to edit each one of my pictures.

Supplies:

• PL Nautical Theme Pack
• PL Animal Theme Pack
• Glitter alphas
• Basic Grey alphas
• Washi tape

Week 27

For the week of the Fourth of July, I used the Americana Theme Pack, but made sure to pick cards that would coordinate with beach pictures as well.  I love how it turned out.  Thankfully I had enough vertical pictures to fill the Design D page from last week.  I then added some gold sequins throughout the spread to help tie in the firework theme.  Even the sun wood veneer looks a bit like an exploding firework. I like the random nature of the embellishments for this week.

• PL Americana Theme Pack
• Random wood veneers
• Epoxy stickers
• Studio Calico gold sequins

Project Life 2014 W23-24

Week 23 Family Album: Our first week with the twins here and we made sure to get out and about.  We did so much this week that I had to add another two page spread to fit it all in.  We went to the pool, parks, Great America, and SJ Museum of Art.  Even with four pages, I had to narrow down the pictures.

I chose to change it up and go with the WRMK Memo this week.  I am loving the orange and blue combos especially.  They are really great pops of color throughout the pages.

Supplies:

• WRMK Memo
• Random die cuts
• Basic Grey alphas

Week 24

Family Album: Another four page spread for the week.  This time I got away with using a smaller insert instead of another 12x12 page.  Loving the pictures from this week.  I let them mostly speak for themselves.

Supplies:

• Kraft

Archives: Cards #29

Originally published on January 19th, 2014 Before getting to the actual crafting, I wasn't able to get my SU order for December before leaving for Indiana.  I completely forget what I even ordered.  I was able to collect it at January stamp club.  Oh yeah, and December was my hostess month.  Lots and lots of goodies.

At stamp club, we made some cute cards.  It was also the start of our new 6 month round.  We drew hostess months and I got February.  Just in time for Sale-a-bration.  Now what should I order?

On the PL front, I finally got everything organized to put together the weekly spreads for the holidays.  I also got some great ideas from my Studio Calico class I joined for January.  Can't wait to put some of them into my spreads.  And I decided to do a monthly wrap-up page with my books read, life goals and progress, and photo a day pics.  I didn't want to have to include every photo a day pic, so I thought to combine some of my features into a monthly wrap up page.  Each month has one side (two months per page protector) using design F.  I have room for eight photo a day choice pics.  I went through and picked title, books read, and life goals inserts for each month.  I tried to play with some color schemes.  I plan on adding embellishments as I do the months.  In the meantime, here's a sneak peek of January's page:

Shopping Scores: Lots of new things!  I picked up some Project Life supplies online: G and H page protectors (for inserts), Seasons Mini Kit (had Holiday, wanted general seasons), a WRMK 3x4 and 4x6 kit (Tangerine), and some random cards from a fellow PLer (from Honey and Kraft kits).  And then I went to Michael's for snail and ended up buying a corner rounder punch (mine is horrid!) and a 2in circle punch.