Project Life | week 5

welcome to week 5 of my project life album!

ok, first page. i journaled about my husbands work and how he had important meetings on monday. me and my daughter both wrote a few notes for him on the bathroom mirror where we usually leave eachother messages.

next photo is from when my daughter recieved a package full of make up = made her day!

the 4th photo actually has a story about how cold it has been this week (-21 the other night!). the story is underneath the photo as i used a flip pocket. 

a small insert this week. 

you can see the back of the insert here. just some instas.

the second page is simple this week. 

both the first and second slot is a flip pocket with journaling underneath the photo. the first one is about me working on some projects. and the second is about me feeling a bit blue this week.

the last pocket i used to list what wedid this weekend.

From pin to reality

link to pin

this image just jumped out on me about a week ago, and now i see it everywhere on pinterest. i had another errand to the city and i bought a small canvas and painted it black. i haven´t measured it, but i am pretty sure it is 15 x 15cm.


one evening infront of the TV i took a bunch of old magazines and began to cut out the letters to i love you about a million times ;)




then the next day i lined all the letters up and painted a strip on the canvas with glue and choose my letters row by row. when i was happy i added a coat of clear glue all over the canvas as a seal. 

i am all giddy with the result and plan on making a few variations of this! 

since last time i have started a new board at pinterest where i save all my from pin to reality projects. check it out! 

i am working on the last details of my blog hosting week at Write Click Scrapbook that start on monday. it will be all love themed! i hope to see you there! 

Re-Scrap 2012 | February

here are the three older layouts that will work as inspiration for 3 new layouts in the month of february.

page first posted in 2009. 

first posted here in 2009.

also first posted in 2009.

this is a post related to one of my 2012 projects.

Write Click Scrapbook | February gallery

for february´s gallery we all created projects with a musical theme. i chose to create a page with my current playlist. i think it is a great way to preserve life right now. here is the goods for this digital page:

materials digital template (Crystal Wilkerson, Notebook template #1-4) + patterned papers (Crystal Wilkerson, Funky Christmas + Cosmo Cricket, Ever After and Mr. Campy paper packs) + embellishment (Cosmo Cricket + Crystal Wilkerson) + fonts (Blackout, Book Antiqua, Travelling Type)

i have made pages with music lyrics before: read more here about this layout!

a CJ entry to Maries CJ back in the day  :)

slipping through my fingers lyrics ♥

do you scrap with inspiration from music?

Magic Monday

this monday i have a list over small things that meant magic to me; 

* i had the experience of amazing energy last tuesday. some of you know already that i suffer from depression and anxiety and that my energy level is the one thing that always is low. but i actually stopped and thought about how energetic i felt even though i had extra things both monday and tuesday and that usually makes me even more tired. it was pure magic.

* i got a few extra special emails last week that made me feel so good about myself, them and the world in general.

sunsets like these.

and living in a place on earth where the traffic stops regularly for these guys :) 

have you experienced magic lately?

Project life | week 4

here is my 4th week of project life.

as you can see from my spread i have a few extra pages this week; two actually. 

i backed my inserts with some yummy new papers. the first two slots are backed with Studio Calico Flower bed paper. i read a really good short article in a magazine late sunday night last week and cut it out right away and added it to my first page. 

the foam thickers are from American Crafts called Custard (the link goes to the white version) and the smile tag is from a Cocoa Daisy kit . i journaled about my monday at a computer meeting for work to the left and backed my journaling card and instgram photo on a Amy Tangerine patterned paper called Scatter Sunshine.

i got a haircut on tuesday and sneaked a photo there too :) the journaling is written on a piece of Sassafras paper called Sweetly smitten. 

here is my first extra page which is a free download from ali edwards for her week in the life project. i printed the page for tuesday and filled in what i did during the day. 

(if anyone spots the typo, i saw it now!)

as i was fast asleep during the last times there, i added a filler card from the clementine edition sold at jessicasprauge.com. 

the second insert is a page protector that had 8 smaller slots that i trimmed down to 4. i added a few more of the journaling cards i bought at lilypad which i love! and also a free digital kit from erica hernandez that i downloaded from 2peas. 

again i used different cards from the Clementine edition and the Lilypad. 

i got a suprise package from cocoa daisy this week and wanted to include the cute tag and business card they included. 

i took a screenshot of my pinterest at one point this week and just added it in there too. 

the right upper slot is about how cold it has been this week.

and the last slot is featuring midnight in paris that i saw saturday night. 

there you have it, my 4th week!

from pin to reality ~ epic fail

i thought i´d amuse you all with a from pin to reality project that failed. yes, they do that from time to time, don´t they! 

link 

ok, so i set out to make the fairly simple craft of crayon hearts. it is a craft that i have wanted to do forever. 

ok, so if i had the photo from pinterest infront of me while setting out to do this, i would have NOT shaved the crayons for crying out loud! it stuck to everything and i even got a blister from the knife ;)

you see the mess, right? anyway, i did this pan and another one in plastic that you can spot in the first photo. 

yup! not oven safe. hehe...

the shattered hearts are from the above photo and the others are from the other pan, which are ok i guess but not thick enough to be worth the work really...:(

if i do make this craft again i am just chopping the wax crayons up and maybe use a deeper pan :)