Project Life Tuesday and One Little Word

It's that time of the week again! Project Life!!!! Thanks for stopping by,  Here is my week in review. I have also decided to post One Little Word Stuff this week, mainly due to the fact that the last time I posted anything was just the January Prompt! And if you are interested in seeing more Project Lifes. Please head over to The Mom Creative where there will be a huge link of everyone else's!

And before I forget... I have a set of card stock from the Original Set of Project Life. (Looks like this but it not digital, its the real paper) If someone would like it's theirs all you need to do is comment and I will contact you so I can send it to you, not sure if it will be ASAP. I would also really like to see what you do with it too, no pressure! If no one wants it I'm taking it to my church's rummage sale at the end of the month. I have no use for it other then to keep looking at it and wonder where I would use it.

So with out further hesitation Here is Project Life! 

 We are starting a new project in church called "The Story" in September, so it was introduced at the Quarterly Business meeting.

 My dad fixing a light fixture that need to be fixed 18 months ago and my personal favorite. My kids at school asked me to do a craft project and I made a sign that said "Get to Work or Deteniton!" They weren't impressed!

 Guest Speaker at FresStyle and Some Huge Storms this week!

 Peanut came to visit us this weekend and it was Cinco De Mayo! So we went for Mexican food!

 Some of my Favorites from the weekend. One thing I loved is that my mom let go and just let me take her picture without make up! Usually she complains about how "ugly" she is!

Here is a close up of my mom and my peanut!











And One Little Word: My word for the year is OVERCOME

February's Prompt
9 picture that represent my word
 1. A church I worked with in Flint, MI closed their doors for good Feb 1 2. We got a new dog. Every time we leave the house this is the view from the window. 3. My current Bible Study that is kicking my word into high gear. 4. Found this quote 5. COFFEE: Helps me overcome anything 6. Overcomeing my own self. I scribbled in my book and didn't dwell on it. 7. A little note from Caty: (I Love you) and she calls me Bubby. 8. I decided to start Project Life here is my core kit 9. LOVE, LOVE Octavia Spencer (Minny from the help)

 February's Prompt
A self portrait after a huge snow storm!

 Harry Potter- A fictional Character that has overcome great things

March's Prompt was to take action: I just loved this little saying

 March's Prompt A plan to take action . I chose to start Project Life.

 April Prompt was a Letter to myself and Another Self Portrait!

 Bev, right now you...

One year from now....












I'm still working on May's Prompt but I have to make a list of 5-10 things of actions to take to make my word more real to me!

Project Life Tuesday

It's that time of the week again. For me to post what my week looked like. If you are here from The Mom Creative, welcome! If you found me through Facebook, Welcome!

Not much extra this week just a very simple layout. After last week's post I kind of took a break with all of the editing. Plus I need my stamina for my cousin's wedding, so I decided to keep it very simple.

Here is the layout at a glance...

 I got a 3 hour nap with my dog and this was the shot I got.

 In the picture that "looks" like I'm sleeping. I did set the timer for 10 seconds and promptly fell back to sleep. I was then woken up by the flash.

Project Life Tuesday! Prom Edition

Welcome to my post for Project Life Tuesday, you can go to The Mom Creative to see other peoples but this is my week, Enjoy! This was a huge picture week. I did find a way to include 70+ pictures into this weeks layout while only using 2 incerts.

I was playing around with my timer to see if I could get into the pictures this week, so while I was working on putting together my Project Life I captured this shot.I also didn't realize that I would be taking a ton of pictures with kids the next weekend!




It was kind of a rainy week so I took a shot of the window. And these are two of my students that always happy, so it is really hard to have a bad day when they were around.

We got to have my niece this weekend and I bought a new printer.

Dad found about 2 lbs of Morel mushrooms in the great north!

 So I crashed prom and had a great time. I was listening to the kid and I think I had a better time then they did. But here are all of my favorite pictures. Oh and I danced my heart out!!!

I did make copies of all of the students so they can have a copy as well!

Project Life April

Welcome back to Faith, Trust and Pixie Dust. One of the things I look forward to the most during the week is when everyone links up at The Mom Creative for Project Life Tuesday! This was a big week for me with Resurrection Sunday and my cousin's bridal shower. So with out any further hesitation....

We went to my sister's house for Easter dinner. She made ham with all of the fixings. I also started training for a 5K and that was the last day I ran due to shin splints. We had some snow show up and but it is gone.

 I took a Design A and cut it in half to add some more pictures from the Bridal Shower. One of the funnest things that happened was while the Bride was reading one of the wonderful cards she got from a guest about "Have a wonderful shower, your the bride..." The Bride's daughter announces for all to hear "You really do take a shower with my dad!" I thought my cousin was going to die from embarrassment!

My Dad went mushroom hunting and all he found was ticks!

I did find a Sonic and had 2 Cherry Lime-aids. I didn't get on the scale this morning a little worried!

 Lemon Ice from the Culver's = awesome!

 My dad really struggled with the idea of US dollars. He asked if his Speedway gift card that he usually put money on in Michigan would work in Indiana. I told him that 1 Indiana  dollar is worth 15 Michigan dollar, because the economy is so bad in Michigan.

Project Life: April 1st thru April 7th

Welcome back to my blog. I have really enjoyed this journey with Project Life through The Mom Creative and really enjoy looking at your pictures as well. This is a much smaller week then last week. I also have a feeling that April 8th thru the 14th will be big as well. I'm still trying to figure out how to take pictures of my Project Life without a huge glare in the middle of the plastics.

 Since I enjoy reading all of the journaling I thought that it was only fair to give you a close up of my journaling.

 I did want to keep one picture and journal card private so I put some sticky notes on top of them!

Project Life 2012

I love looking at everyone's Project Life and a lot of my Facebook friends ask what the project is so instead of sending everyone to someone else's blog I decided to show off  Last weeks and I will be posting it at Jessica Turner's Project Life Tuesday. So if you want to see more then just mine head on over there every Tuesday watch the links fill up.

To give a little back ground information on this week, my niece decided that she wanted to spend her spring break with my mom, dad and myself. It was kind of a last minute thing so I decided to dedicate the entire week's layout to her. I interviewed her and used a lot of her pictures from her camera. 

 

In the picture above you can see a picture of her fort, a chair full of her stuff, we had lunch at the Big Boy, Papa giving up his big boy bed so that Peanut could sleep with my mom, and a shot of Peanut riding her bike and you can see Papa's arm in the back ground.

I added a couple of inserts. I used a 6x12 plastic and cut a 12x12 sheet of card stock in half to print a bunch of questions I could interview her with. I took the one of the free printable from Becky Higgins and customized the Teen Life Story to what I wanted. I did ask some other questions but over all I used what had already been written.

 Here is another insert. I used Design F and cut off a row. You can see a lot of Peanut's pictures. Some are from me, but she went wild with her camera.

 More Shots from Peanut's Camera.

 I did have my mom and dad do a little bit of the journaling. They wrote notes to Peanut and I pretty much summed up the week.









From this week I learned that $50 is well spent to give an 8 year old a camera. While I have a ton of shots of nothing, I do have some really great shots that I never would have gotten because I wouldn't have handed over my camera.

Overcome January Prompt

My word for 2012 is OVERCOME. At first I didn't want that word but I really felt like this class was something that I needed to do and “overcome” was the only word that was right there. To be honest didn't sound like a "fun" word and if I had to be really honest with myself it sounded like a lot of hard work. Now only after 2 short months, I can see how much I needed to work on this word for the year.

In January I wanted to invite self-control, God given security and to love my own hand writing. I mainly choose to invite things that I wanted to work on in 2012 (Read “New Year’s Resolutions”).

By the end of February, I still hadn’t finished the prompt but knew that I needed to start Project Life again. I really enjoyed doing it when I did it 2010, but got overwhelmed so I just stopped. But I do enjoy looking at everyone else’s and I can tell you why I had to start it in March.  So I could make it my own and add all of the extra stuff that I save in a pile on my desk and then I find it later and wonder why on Earth I saved it.

I will finish the February prompt pretty shortly and get pictures up for people to look at. I like that I have that from of accountability but I’m still working on it. I also have a research paper and several other papers to write. I’m just not sure how to use the calendar but I will figure it out!

So here is my January Prompt

A Self Portrait- Caty took it for me!

The  five journaling cards!

Less than one week until 2012

With less than one week to 2012, there are several things that I am working on to start the New Year. You can call them Resolutions but rarely does anyone keep them, so here are my goals for 2012. 

*First Goal for 2012 (kinda) is I am considering doing the “OneLittle Word” journaling class.

"A single word can be a powerful thing. It can be the ripple in the pond that changes everything. It can sharp and biting or rich and soft and slow." –Ali Edwards

At this point I have chosen a word to focus on for the year and that word is OVERCOME. I have chosen that word because of the mini conference our women's ministry put on in the beginning of December.  The woman that was teaching it had us tell each other “Greater is he that is in you than the one that is in the world.” (1 John 4:4) I have been completely captivated by that verse since the conference. Right now I can go either way while signing up. I can talk myself out of it just as quick as I can talk myself into it, chances are pretty good I’m going to do the class, I am feeling a stir in my heart to sign up for it.

*Second goal for 2012 is to learn to love my own handwriting. I know that it seems really weird but I don’t really like to look at my handwriting after I first write something, but if I go back to it I have no problem with my handwriting.

*Third Goal for 2012 is to love Jesus more at the end of the year then I did at the beginning of the year.

*Fourth Goal for 2012: BLOG MORE!

I need to finish the cover for my 2012 journal. Pretty simple I think for the year. Maybe next year I will have a post and assess all that I tried to accomplish chances are good I won’t.

Planning Ahead

I think that God is really leading me into a season of my life that is very much a dichotomy. On one side God is asking me to surrender and wait for his timing and on the other side he is asking me to be plan some of the little projects a little bit better and not always wait to the last minute to get things done.

So let me explain a little bit about what I mean. Because of my lack of planning last year, I remembered on December 5^th that I wanted to do a project called DecemberDaily. December Daily is a scrapbooking album project that documents the 25 days leading up to Christmas pretty similar to Project Life. After I noticed the little detail I overlooked and found out that she starts to plan her album in October. Which is a much different than I decided to start my album last year. 

In case you checked out the website. I will not be doing anything near the ornateness that Ali Edwards is doing. I know what I can handle and the ocd-prefectionism that I possess when it comes to scrapbooking. They spell check things for you and make you check and double check things. Right now I’m planning on using Shutterfly to make a photobook. They are always having deals on their products and then I can print multiple copies to send to my Nana and my brother.

Ali did say the secret to the success of December Daily is having a base album done so all I have to do is put pictures and the journaling and move on. I have started the album on the website so it will be very easy to just upload pictures and place them.

I also started to get the Advent season in order and look to see if there were any new family devotions that would be fun for us to do. Last year we did A Family Advent: Keeping the Savior in the Season and it was really a great devotional. I would recommend it to anyone that is looking for a kid-friendly Advent devotion. They went through and put some added information like the “Fun Facts.” We did our reading at the dinner table at night; it seemed to work for us. It would be awesome to hear what you are using!

Since Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I have the spiritual gift of 3-ring bindersI thought I would share one of my favorite websites. A couple of years, I found a website called OrganizedChristmas. The entire website is dedicated to cutting the stress at Christmas time by making a 3-ring binder planner with hundreds of FREE printables that help you get organized. There are several different “plans” depending on how much you want to do. 

I would absolutely encourage anyone to read the article Before The Season: Focus On Holiday Values and work through the Family Values Worksheet. Because knowing where your true values lie allows you to set a path to true holiday happiness, and to avoid the minefields that our culture and commercialism will throw in your way.