This little gem arrived in the mail today. A little, tiny baby Fiona. 
Monday, February 28, 2011
365: Monday, February 28, 2011
365: Sunday, February 27, 2011
The ice cream man was back today. Aaron paid $4.00 for a single choco taco. I proceeded to go to Wal Mart and buy a box of 4 for $3.61. I think the one he got from the ice cream man tasted better!
365: Saturday, February 26, 2011
Aaron went to the Kid’s building workshop at Lowe’s today. He made a really cool Nascar race car. It has a pull back mechanism in it and just flies across the floor. I wonder who thinks of these cool toys?
365: Friday, February 25, 2011
Dippy egg, bacon and cheese sandwiches with orange smiles on the side. Heaven on a plate.
365: Tuesday, February 22, 2011
Mancala on the Ipad. (with the game board sitting on the coffee table!)
Sunday, February 20, 2011
365: Sunday, February 20, 2011
The wagon is finally leaving. My oldest son received this as a birthday gift from a family friend when he was two. It is broken and now it’s time to let it go. It did give us a good 10 year run!
365: Saturday, February 19, 2011
Aren’t these cool? Kid’s kits are now retail! I wonder who thought of that? (wink, wink)
365: Monday, February 14
This says a bit about where I am in life right now. Santa soap dispenser photographed in the same picture as a Valentine’s glass. Sigh.
365: Sunday, February 13
Aaron and I finish up his Valentines for school. I custom design them with my scrapbooking software. This year he had a joke on them.
Sunday, February 13, 2011
12 of 12, February 2011
I haven’t found a layout that I want to use for this year. So today you get a collage of photos. I am still learning how to use the Livewriter update. I THINK I like it, but the jury is still out.
Left to right, top to bottom
1. Starting Saturday off correctly with a fresh can of coffee.
2. Aaron in the sick cave.
3. Max’s bed is empty? This early? He spent the night at Sully’s.
4. Dan now in the sick cave with Aaron.
5. Craig’s morning ritual, the NY Times on the I pad.
6. Time for Jazzercise, loving our new location.
7. I finally broke down and bought a new printer- wireless and all!
8. Max plays basketball with the neighborhood kids.
9. Craig cooks steaks for dinner and eavesdrops on the kids at the same time.
10. Dinner
11. “tap-dancing” and begging puppies
12. Max is getting so tall!
365: Saturday, January 12, 2011
Boy on the mend in the sick cave. Dan has been keeping vigil over him.
365: Friday, February 11, 2011
Egypt was liberated today from the 30 year rule of Mubarek after 18 days of protests. The world watched as it was documented and organized on Facebook and Twitter. Incredible to see.
365: Thursday, February 10
What a difference 12 hours makes. Poor baby has a temp. of 102.5. He’s on Dadwatch today.
365: Monday, February 7
This is Justin Beiber- loved by the girlies, hated by Max. This is his BB gun target. Ha!
Sunday, February 6, 2011
365: Saturday, February 4, 2011
I spent the day on Saturday with scrappin girlfriends. We often communicate by text!
Saturday, February 5, 2011
Wednesday, February 2, 2011
The multi-tasking child, homework and texting the girl at the same time.
Tuesday, February 1, 2011
365: February 1
New month, new Biggest Loser snack. Peach cobbler! It is raining, raining, raining right now. I’m glad we don’t live up North, they are getting whacked with snow. This storm is shaping up to be the biggest one since 1963!
365: Monday, January 31
A not so fantastic photo, but I took it from the doorway of the garage at 7:00 in the morning. I LOVE being able to put Aaron on the bus from my front door. I am so spoiled!
365: Sunday, January 30
I try really hard to write at least 1 handwritten note each week. This week saw 3. The one in the middle is Jane’s birthday letter- a bit late---but done nonetheless. (thanks to my friend, Cyndi for the stationary!)
365 Info
Warning: lots of scrapbooky stuff coming, enjoy the layouts if you don’t want all the details!
How do I get from the Picture of the Day to those lovely photo books? A little bit at a time. The goal is to complete a layout containing the week’s photos before the following week is over! I use my blog as a reference to get the correct photos, then I copy and paste the journaling in to the layout. One of my favorite designers has made this whole process easier by offering a monthly 365 kit. You can go check out Vicki’s blog and 365 offerings for yourself! At the top of the store page, there’s a link to her blog.
Tips for making 365 easier:
1. choose a kit and use it for the full year, choose one with parts that come out each month (like Vicki’s), or choose a really big kit. (check The Daily Digi for kits, you’ll need to subscribe, well worth it!)
2. load your photos on to a blog or gallery with your journaling every few days
3. choose a font to use for the whole album, I chose Lucida as it has cursive and print choices
4. make some weeks in to a 1 page layout to save on printing costs down the line, see weeks 3 and 4 for an example
5. find 5 or 6 templates to use and rotate them, don’t reinvent the wheel!
6. don’t be too hard on yourself with daily photos, nothing is too mundane for your photo! Don’t you wonder what your room looked like when you were a kid? Have you ever photographed the inside of your fridge or documented a temperature or gas prices? If you forget a photo, grab one from another day and use it. Try not to make a habit of this though!
7. As you pull your photos off of your camera, put them in to a folder by month. Your computer will show you what day they were taken.
8. Make sure the geo-tagging feature on your phone and your camera is turned off! This is especially important if your pictures are on-line.
9. If you are a paper scrapper, leave your album kit and journaling supplies out. You could also print your photos each week as a collage and just mount it with the journaling to save time.
The Layouts
I started by doing the first 2 days of the year on one page to get my weeks to go Monday to Sunday.
This is week 2. I’m still struggling with getting the layouts consistent from week to week. I will go back and tweak these a bit, I want to add a page frame on this layout and change the photo frames on week 1.
This is an example of 2 weeks on a two page spread. I used the same template in a mirrored layout. Happy Scrapping!
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