2021 PL week 4

Week 4 had lots of good things. The lunch at the Seafood Palace, the way the cat loves to sleep here, there and most anywhere, the art finished, and of course the Inauguration of President Joe Biden. Unfortunately, this was not a year to take Lotus to Washington DC to actually see it. What havoc his predecessor has left us. Looking forward to weeks getting calmer and calmer, day by day.

 

2021 PL weeks 2 and 3

 Our life changed a good deal in early January so my time became very busy. These two weeks tell that story in a very abbreviated fashion. I am still learning how to use Travelers Notebooks and making them all a 4x8 size is a work in progress. I do like the look and hope I'll keep it up this year. I may start making some of my own templates. We'll see how my time looks in the coming weeks. Some days buying a product is easier and cheaper time wise.

Thanks for looking and I'll see you later this week I hope!

Back to Project Life With a Twist

I thought about trying out Travelers' Notebooks last year and went ahead to buy an album in December. That's a good sign I'm actually going to do it rather than just think about it.

So here's the first week. While there are two pages I put them on one layout so you could see them side by side. The left was made in PSCC and the right in PSE2019. The hardest thing for me in PSCC is getting an element or a photo onto and in a layer. I'm sure there will come a moment when I go Aha! that's so easy. It just hasn't come yet. But I am liking the simplicity here esp with life still affected by Covid19. The simpler the better. I definitely enjoyed this and am learning PSCC bit by bit.

 

30 Days of Thankful Days 28, 29, 30

Yes, this is the last post for the yearly November project. Glad to have done it and glad it's finished! That's my usual response for any long term project I start. I still do the yearly Project Life but 2021 may be quite different. We'll see!

FWIW here it is Saturday the 5th and finally  on the 3rd the hole was dug once again, the gravel went back in and the cement has been poured and is curing.  Now perhaps 2021 will see our street repaved too???

30 Days of Thankful Days 25, 26, 27

 Well here it is December and my 30 Days of Thankful is complete. I may print these myself as I have a new HP Envy Printer and 3 months of free ink! Great colors and easy peasy to use

Time to get into the Christmas mood and start the decorating. Fortunately, all the fall items are happily back in the attic. I do hope to clear some of these out next year as 2020 was not the year for that.

30 Days of Thankful Days 22, 23, & 24

 Tsk tsk... once again forgetting to post my Thankful days. So here are three more. We never really had much cold weather in November and today, the very last day of the month, is is just pouring! but with 64 degree temps. Well, a good soaking helps the plants.

Some follow up to those images above. Lotus's mother is not allowing her to visit nor let us go there to see our granddaughter. The Covid test was negative as I presumed. Caution is best.

30 Days of Thankful Days 19, 20 & 21

 Time moves on, some days quickly and other days just seem to be another one of those Blursdays. But taking a photo does help capture at least on good thing each day.  And there's always one or two or many...just noticing is the lesson.

So that's then end of November's week three. More to come as life goes on, the good and the not so good as it always is.

30 Days of Thankful Days 17 & 18

These two days were all about Hygge...a new machine for hot drinks and the good reliable gas fireplace. I resisted the latter quite a bit when we got married but the instant gratification of a cozy fire was well well worth it.

 HAPPY  WEEKEND!

 

30 Days of Thankful Days 15, 16

As I get over the hump of this project, I am so so grateful to have learned how to set up a calendar template for this year. All I have to do is edit the 7 layouts from the first week for the 2nd week by ONLY changing the date.  Once you have your days of the week in order for the first week, the rest of the weeks are just the next seven numbers. The days will be the same.  Ditto weeks 3 and 4.  Then each day it's just  adding the photo and the journaling. Easy Peasy! I do the following week around Friday or Saturday so I never feel rushed.  Maybe one year, I'll do the whole month or two weeks at a time! Maybe...

Back with you later this week! Stay Grateful!

30 Days of Thankful Days 13, 14

 Getting back into the groove with this project. Life is much smaller in a Covid world than it was in the Before Time and I find I'm not as mindful as I used to be in using my camera i.e. iPhone.  I also wasted time trying to find the photo of my Nana that I wanted to use. Maybe I'll find it again and maybe I won't. Just another thing to let go.

Here's Nana in Knaresborough with my eldest child. A summer day in Yorkshire still required a coat or wool sweater back in the pre Climate Change times.

30 Days of Thankful Days 11, 12

Still enjoying this project but usually doing it a day later than the actual date. How did this week get so busy? I feel like I did less but also had less time. But then I realized I did sit and read for a change. I mean I read for hours... truly relaxing.

No, nothing about this year has been what one could consider normal. Or is this going to be the normal for a long time.

30 Days of Thankful Days 8, 9, 10

 A good feeling to have my home kind of back to normal with dh back from his biking trip in SC and FL. Sadly he had to cut it short because of potential hurricane hits and such strong winds that the beach was under water in LOW tide. He loves riding his bicycle on the sand in Daytona. But back home I had my own life.

Now let's see if Fall has really arrived. It was in the 70s as I drove back home to Annapolis on November 10 which is why my grand daughter was in a cotton t-shirt. I had the a/c on in the car!

30 Days of Thankful Days 5, 6, 7

 So much for great intentions on my part. While the photos (and accompanying thoughts) got done, the little part of actually doing the print and uploading them just didn't happen. I had a chest freezer fail and my days were spent finding ways to shove the meat into our fridge freezer and other chest freezer. Sadly I had to fill a trashcan with defrosted food and some assorted ancient items.  It was exhausting.

So moving on to the point of this page. :)

So it's still a good project and I'm enjoying it because it's always import for my disposition to recognize the not so good but be sure to find the truly good in my life.

30 Days of Thankful Day 4

So we may have to wait a long time, there may be some incredible protests and legal battles but it's so good that so many people voted - especially in this challenging year. For too long we've forgotten about all those who died to have this privilege. It's something to remember, always.

30 Days of Thankful Day 3

 

This is how I voted! the only drawback was no 'I voted sticker'.  :(

30 Days of Thankful Day 1 & 2

 I decided that I would do this project again this year. It's such a good way of remembering there is good in the world despite... A simple one for Sunday November 1. 

I will have to remember to add a slight stroke outline on this and subsequent one so you can see the actual edge. This is pretty much the same design I used last year but this year I am going back to the 4 " square.

Adding Day 2 here now so I can be caught up with November 2

Pretty Things in July

Some months my  Creative Team obligations are easy and other times I struggle to do justice to a product and yet keep to my own style. It's a balancing act.

The graduation girl missed out on a whole graduation with the Covid Quarantine but did get this little photo shoot withe some friends. 

Hard to remember last year was such an easy year for same granddaughter to travel and savor the delights of Paris among other spots in Europe

But the actual graduation was a drive by. Not the big events that her brother and older sister had but this was definitely an graduation event that was unique. It was hard not to compare it to 'what could have been' so I hoped my words would help her. It was just as hard for us not to be there too.

So three pretties of my beautiful granddaughter.

Project Life weeks 27 & 28

It's been harder and harder to commit to doing even one more thing. I know I've a big dose of Covid-19 depression one day seeming very much like the next. I finally recognized my lack of incentive to do much of any thing and did stick to my scrapping. Poor old Project life fell by the wayside.

Not much exciting though I did make my first foray to another country for library books and did a bit of shopping there. But darn if the weather was getting so so hot. And it was goodbye June...

The summer months are always the hardest for me as I really dislike the heat and humidity. You'll never find me pining for life in Florida or most any of the southern states. I've had my time in the tropics and god willing never again.

That week had my dh thinking he might have the virus so we started his week of quarantine. However he felt no qualms about asking me to go out and get things he felt he needed. 

See you next week, I hope!

Covid19 March & April Streaming

Slowly getting these done. There's always good escapes from reality. 2 hours most nights...

And then there's these

I hav been busy doing a lot of Creative Team scrapping which helped me tell stories that linger in the brain but evaporate if not told. Some big events happened that were damped down with Covid effects. But life moves on despite disappointments and sometimes we learn who we are.

Here are some of my favorites from June.