PL2022 - Title Page | Sahlin Studio

2022 kicks off my 2nd year of documenting our every day, in a photo album format. 

I decided to go the photo album route last year, when I had trouble tracking down page protectors. It's worked out great and I have enough room in my current album to fit in this years photos too.

If possible, I like to try and capture a snapshot of each of us at the beginning of the year. 

Here's the title page for this years album. 

[The handwritten 2022 is from Paislee Press and was sent out to newsletter subscribers]

The following Sahlin Studio products were used: 

Kindred Spirits J. Cards: https://the-lilypad.com/store/Kindred-Journal-Cards.html

Kindred Spirits Kit: https://the-lilypad.com/store/Kindred-Kit.html

December Daily 2019

This post is a few months overdue.  

My 2019 December Daily album is complete. [cue angels singing here...]

We are nearly through March, but better late than never I say. And I wanted to share it here on my blog. 

After all, what else is there to do right now? 

I don't have a binder. Didn't order one. Currently, it's being held together by 2 large binder rings. I don't plan to get a binder. I might create chipboard covers for the front and back. I might replace the binder rings with zip ties. I might just leave it like this. Right now, I don't really care. I'm just glad that the album is done. 

This year, I didn't document day-by-day. Rather, I documented story-by-story. It was such a refreshing way to look at this project. It took a lot of the stress away. In fact, I had more story ideas than days of the month. Then time got away from me, and I just wanted this album done and put away. 

I had ordered Document December product from EllesStudio. I loved the journal cards, paper, stickers, numbers and plastic shapes that were part of her kit. I will definitely use EllesStudio product again in the future. I used product I have accumulated from from past years, some of which were ali edwards, paislee press, studio calico. I used digital product from both Sahlin Studio and Sahin Designs.  Other than the Document December stuff that was purchased, I didn't buy a thing. Though I did look for Christmasy vellum/transparencies. I would have loved more of those 'see through' elements. But found nothing like that available. 

I also have a mixture of typed journalling and hand written journalling. 

Guys, this is my favourite album yet. I am so happy with how it turned out. 

Let's have a look... 

 

Pull out tab for the next two pages, story 17 talks about Madelyn and Ama's annual gingerbread house decorating, which almost didn't happen this year. I'm so glad Madelyn insisted.

Story 18 was about Madelyn's friend group at school. How they all decided to do a secret santa, and everyone got and received such thoughtful gifts.

Another pull out tab here, about how Barry knows my love of the silly Hallmark movies, and ordered these socks for me and then gave them to me when they arrived. So appreciate his thoughtfulness.

This is one of my most favourite pages, and was definitely a labour of love. There was no way I could print small enough to add things to the calendar of this card, included in EllesStudio, but I knew I wanted to use it, because it has December 2019 on it. 

I printed out all these photos, cut them out and glued them on this page.  Mostly they're pictures that got added on the day they were taken, dr appt for me, candles on sale at Bath and Bodyworks, clothing club Christmas Exchange, Trex group at the Nutcracker, etc. 

It really only means something to me, and I'm totally cool with that. 

Like I said, this is my favourite album I've created for December Daily so far. 

I'm so glad it's finished.

PL2019 - Weeks 1, 2 & 3

I'm playing a bit of catch up already with this years project life album.

Here are the first 3 weeks of 2019.

Week 1: 

• We rang in 2019 as a foursome. I know I did a whole pocket page on this, and included it as my end page for 2018, but it was also technically the first day of 2019. 
• This weeks walk downtown was so mild, if winter was like this, there wouldn't be a problem.
• The girl asked me to braid her hair, so obviously I did.
• Taking Christmas down is always gross. Even though things look so neat and tidy.
• Signed up for January's 30 day smoothie challenge. I didn't have a smoothie every day, but did have about 4 a week. Found some new taste combinations that were really good. 

Week 2: 

• Barry and I got the opportunity to actually meet Bryan Bauemler and it was really awesome. 
• Grade 8 field trip to the new Public Library. The building is quite amazing.
• Mason home from school wearing his new Christmas garb. 
• Silly snapchat filters, we only play with Snapchat. We just save the silly images on the phone. 
• A beautiful sunrise I drove towards, after dropping Mad off for an overnight Trex camp. 
• First game of EMHW - the ref lost control of the game, more players in the penalty boxes than there were on the ice and benches. 

Week 3:

• This week was both Esso Minor Hockey week as well as Esso Golden Ring. We spent a LOT of time sitting in arenas. It was disappointing for both kids, as the Mustang's lost in a shoot out, and Adrenaline lost in overtime, after being tied. A heart breaker for both. 
• Madelyn at a Dr. appt, to see about a sore tailbone. [Nothing they could do]
• Super Blood Wolf Moon, lunar eclipse happened, it was clear enough to see the eclipse and the moon turn red. 

The following digital product was used:

Week 1 - Paislee Press Photo templates and Memory Keeper

Weeks 2&3 used the following Sahlin studio product: 

Week 2

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Worth-A-Thousand-Words-Elements.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Worth-A-Thousand-Words-Journal-Cards.html

Week 3

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Winter-Stories-Journal-Cards.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Winter-Stories-Kit.html

PL2018 - Week 37 & 38

Feeling pretty thankful, that we've been enjoying some lovely fall weather the past week.

Barry and I were away for our anniversary, and during that time, SNO-ctober [how I'm choosing to refer to it] hit Calgary with a vengeance. There was a snowfall warning of up to 25 cm some places got as much as 40 cm! What?  Holy cow.  Can you imagine having a snow day, on October 2nd?

On the west coast, where we happened to be, it was raining.  As one friend so eloquently put it, "You don't have to shovel rain..." And it's true. You don' have to shovel rain. Ever. 

Our drive out to BC was lovely, the colours were spectacular. All the reds from the maple trees and such, that we don't have here. It was a surprise to see, and we really loved doing the drive. On our way out, colours were gorgeous, on our way back... Well, remember the photo above? It had clearly snowed... 

These were both taken in the Rogers Pass area of the TransCanada highway. On the way out, the colours were stellar. On the way back, everything was covered in snow...

Once we got home, the weather didn't improve. Our first week back, it snowed more than it didn't. I was beginning to think perhaps winter was here to stay. Luckily, it did warm up. Which brings us to last week, temperatures were lovely. It was normal again. Seasonal. Thank goodness. Hoping that the snow stays away until December 1st. [Because, whether you agree with me or not,  December is just better when it's white]

Here is week 37 of my project life album. Yes, I did put week 38 on my calendar... But it wasn't. And I didn't realize the mistake before sending it off to be printed. Sometimes I make mistakes...

• It seems like the leaves are changing colours super early this year.
• A picture of me and my Mum, on a walk at Fish Creek Park.
• Ringette evals, which is a gross stressful time for all involved.
• Miss Mad and the dog. 

Actual week 38: 

• CC at Carrie's place, we're on our 18th year together as a group!
• Hate seeing all the leaves on the ground. Not ready for the cold. 
• Beautiful rudbeckia on our Edworthy walk this week. 
• We've already had a lot of foggy mornings this year too.
• Barry working on the lights in our family room. 

The following digital product was used: 

Week 37 - Paislee Press - Autumn Vibes 

Elements https://the-lilypad.com/store/Autumn-Vibes-Elements-by-paislee-press.html

Journal Cards https://the-lilypad.com/store/Autumn-Vibes-Journal-Cards-by-paislee-press.html

Templates https://the-lilypad.com/store/Autumn-Vibes-Templates-by-paislee-press.html

Week 38 - Sahlin Studio - Project Mouse Movies

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Project-Mouse-Movies-Journal-Cards.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Project-Mouse-Movies-Elements.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Project-Mouse-Movies-Papers.html

https://the-lilypad.com/store/Project-Mouse-Movies-Word-Art.html

http://the-lilypad.com/store/2018-Calendar-Cards-Stamps.html

Paislee Press - Guest Member Layouts

As a guest team member, I got to work on creating a project with a new release, and I got to pick product that I wanted to showcase. 

This was not an easy decision. Paislee Press has so many awesome collections, that it would almost have been easier to chose by closing my eyes and pointing at the screen.

Having said that, I have been drawn to this Autumn Vibes collection, since it was released last year. 

I think part of the reason for that, our hot summer. 

Our summers are lovely. But they're not typically HOT. I mean we get a sprinkle of hot days throughout the summer, but not day after day after day. 

However, the past two summers, have been hot. Consistently. 

By the time August rolls around, I've had a number of nights with little sleep, due to how hot our room stays. I hate to say it, but I begin to look forward to slightly cooler temperatures. 

I think that's what drew me to this collection. 

Here are the layouts I created using Autumn Vibes: 

The following Paislee Press product was used: 

Autumn Vibes - Elements https://the-lilypad.com/store/Autumn-Vibes-Elements-by-paislee-press.html

Autumn Vibes - Journal Cards https://the-lilypad.com/store/Autumn-Vibes-Journal-Cards-by-paislee-press.html

Autumn Vibes - Templates https://the-lilypad.com/store/Autumn-Vibes-Templates-by-paislee-press.html