AAM Monday: Project Life Weeks 23 and 24

By taking a week break, these pages are a bit behind but you get the point. That is one of the things I like about digital scrapping. You can take some time to get a bit of reflection on the week - if you like. Doing it right in the moment works too. It's all good.

I'm really liking how the cards with a lot of white add a lightness to the page. I made the 4x6 ones and have kept that one and the Cathy Zielske small one as templates. I love them! I often like to use a patterned paper as the bottom layer so with this week's black it really did the job I wanted it to.

This StudioDD template on the layout below summed up my feeling about my new phone! I'd waited longer than I planned - pure laziness -  to switch from the 4S to the iPhone6.  I'm still getting used to the size in my hand. I really like the StudioDD templates, often more for the collection of elements rather than the whole shebang.  On this one, I deleted about half the original elements! but it's a great way to get an assortment of things without buying endless kits. Makes me happy! btw, I have also set up a collection of these template previews in Lightroom so I don't have to tag each and every item in the template. I tag a lot but not all!

I find that Project Life is really a part of my life now but I'm still trying to decide if it's a print and go in the binder or wait and do a 'book' book. 1st world issues to be sure.

Five on Friday: June 27, 2014

I really feel like this week has flown by without a lot of things happening. Did I even think?

1. The World Cup. So far so good for the US, but I am sure glad I wasn't in the heat of Manaus (gagging on the thought of that weather) or in the downpour of Recife. A comfy chair, a glass of iced tea and air conditioning were just fine with me. Not so for Jermaine Jones who may be the 2nd US player to suffer a broken nose in the games.

2. Food. I'm not dropping pounds like crazy so I think I've eaten this week, but other things have had priority and breakfast and lunch OR dinner have been just fine. Of course we did finish up the last of the batch of brownies.

3. Feeling like I was getting nothing done, I started the habit of making a list, most days, of 5 things to do, including one or so things I knew I could get done. Good incentive to start with the small things.  I've put off taking  the most current box of giveaways to the charity shop but got that done and it certainly did make me feel good. Get more out, get more out!

4. Bit by bit emptying my attic boxes now living in my studio has been another list item.  Two boxes have been whittled down to one third of one box and two+ plus trashcan's full have gone. The box on the left with the big envelope is full of things that need to be shredded. That's progress not perfection.

5. Another Funeral. Men are terrible about going to the doctor and some die from that kind of procrastination and magical thinking that something will 'go away'. Today there is more one woman who didn't need to be a widow. Men!