2019 MOC7 Days 15-18

Here it is Wednesday and so there are more pages for you to look at! First of all there is the winter scene from  the only snow we've had so far.

Then there was a page I really enjoyed of my son and his former classmates from high school in Paris.  They are meeting in the hotel  where Iain works.

Speaking of my son, the next layout was for his birthday. At 47, children don't get real presents any more. Just more love.

Finally a different sort of heritage page of my mother in her garden. Some journaling will be added for 'my' version to be printed. 

I hope you enjoy looking at these and the varieties of pages that can be done digitally.

2019 MOC7 Days 11-14

Moving along with the pages. Now that first one was quite a bit out of the norm, esp for me. Fill in a silhouette with items to express the inner you.

The Day 12 layout below was to have text from the photo as in "I've gotcha!" an old but interesting technique.

Day 13 was to use different times of the day, a riff on Ali Edwards' 

A Day in the Life.

And finally, a clean and simple page, a style I have grown to love as long as a story is told.

2019 MOC7 Days 7-10

Another round of images for you this Monday.

Big news - for me! - is that my 2018 Project Life book went to the printer. Shutterfly had it's traditional late January sale where you get FREE PAGES after the normal 20! When you have a 100+ book that's a very big savings. Delivery is scheduled for early February so I'm trying to be patient.

I hope you enjoy seeing the variety of challenges that came up in this MonthOfChallenges at The-Lilypad. It takes time and some are not always my favorite but it certainly reminds me that there are so many different techniques to use which makes it all fun.

2019 MOC7 Days 4-6

Another round of those Month of Challenge pages.  I hope you enjoy seeing the variety of challenges there have been at The-Lilypad. It does push me to try other styles and techniques. I may not love each page and the ones that others like best does not always line up with what I like but so what? It's all fun!

2019 MOC7 Days 1-3

Here they are, the first three challenges for the MOC7.  You can find more details at The-Lilypad
A challenge a day for the whole month of January and this is the 7th year but only my 3rd. The camaraderie is the best plus you get 31 layouts and learn a bunch of skills. I'm in!

Day 1. Blind Scrap


Day 2. Photograph - Shallow Depth of Field


Day 3. Grid Page


Three more tomorrow til I catch up with the 17 or 18 done so far. I like to make a small (8") size book of these pages when I'm done.

Oh my, oh my 2018 Project Life Finale

Has it really been 10 days since I posted here? Yes, it has. How the time did fly!

I did finish my 2018 Project Life but as yet have not up loaded the last two months or so to Shutterfly, nor done a cover. I have a simple idea for the cover that may or may not get done today or Saturday plus a nice piece of word art for that single page 1. Then I will be ready for the "Free Extra Pages" sale whenever that comes.

But the last two weeks. Boy it felt good to get them done! The last weeks of the year are quieter and that's good so the pages are simpler. That too is good at this time of the year.

Next week, while I hope to get back to Project Life, I'll be adding the pages I've made at The-Lilypad's MOC7 (Month Of Challenges 7). While I enjoy a challenge, doing one every day tends to  get me in what feels like a time crunch sometime. If I don't get the challenge done that day I really feel it  hanging over my head. That doesn't feel good so I do my best to check the challenge early and try to get an idea of how I'll do it at the 9am time frame which is when I like to get down to stuff on the computer.  Do you have a set time for any computer work or fun work if you aren't working outside the home? In any case, see you back her Monday with some of my layouts.

AAM Monday: Project Life Weeks 49 & 50

Back again with the tail end of 2018. Somehow it always seems so so long ago when we're actually only 6 days into 2019! I guess the mind does shut the door on the past in some way. But god willing and the creek don't rise, next Monday will finish weeks 51 and 52. We'll see!

Interesting but mostly Meh

I saw this on Instagram and usually don't fall for this kind of thing. But I was curious as to whether my Year of Color would look much different than the image someone else posted. I just screen shot the image and only wonder about that dusky chartreuse circle that is escaping. Perhapsthat outlier is my Panetone Color of the Year 2020??? ya think?

Travel With Me Tuesday: AKA Project Life Week 48

Happy New Year to all! Glad to be as caught up as I am with the projects from 2018. It never all gets done by the first of the year but that's ok. As long as I'm only a week or two 'behind' I feel that I can go into 2019 with my feet on the ground and my mind clear enough. It helped that I didn't do a December Daily last year which makes me want to do it all the more this year. But back to 2018.

December arrived without snow but instead Boston greeted me with an absolute downpour. Later there was brisk weather as the city was lit up for Christmas and I had time with my son and my daughter in law. LOTS of walking which is always a good thing and gives me a bit of wiggle room for the food he makes me and what's ahead for Christmas.