Ok...safe to say I LOVE Project life!!

I know...another scrapbook thing...I said I would not do it...I have mountains of stuff already I thought I HAD to have....so when I saw project life...I just walked away...nope!..not going to get caught up in it. NOPE not going to do it!!..NOT GOING THERE!! After-all,..I have THOUSANDS of dollars worth of stuff I already am not using...

Then my mountain of pictures stared back on me...I swear they were begging to be let out of the stacks of boxes...Seemed at night they were calling to me "let us out!, let us be viewed again!" after months, I finally hauled out a pile of scrap stuff, a pile of pictures and sat down to scrap...5 HOURS later I had a scrap page completed...I looked back at the mountain of pictures and said "this is USELESS!" at this rate I'll never be caught up! Expecially the very next day I purchased my Nikon 5100 and took over 500 pictures in ONE DAY....OH GOOD GRIEF!...the Mountain of pictures grow DAILY!!

Then one night, I couldn;t sleep- (I swear the pictures in the boxes were screaming at this point and ganging up on me...after-all there is 40 years of pictures in those boxes!).. I got online, I've always followed Becky Higgins...She truly inspires me is so many ways...I read her blog...every entry from NOV 2011 to the beginning from when she started her blog years ago...PROJECT LIFE was Screaming at me..."wow, I can do that!...it looks easy enoguh, its cost effective, time effective hmmmm....(a little voice said walk away...BUT...this looked too good to be true...could this really calm down the out of control pile?...hmmm)(that little voice again...walk away!...don't do it!)

Credit card in hand..I headed over to amazon.com to place my first order Ok..I'll order ONE little kit,,just ONE...I'll try it.

.I ordered on a friday...it was here on MONDAY!..WOW!!! I instanly ordered kit #2...Kits 3 and 4 quickly followed, paper, inserts, plastics followed. great product,super fast shipping (Ok she is in Phoniex..but still!)...I was hooked...16 layouts completed in 2 hours....REALLY?...yes REALLY!!!...I did my first purchase in nov 11..I'll admit it did sit in the closet till after Christmas..but once the holidays were over...the scrapping began...a 2012 album was born (which I now carry everywhere...add things along the way and YES, a picture a day!..my friends even tease me since my binder has a special spot in the CAR!! 54 completed pages in less than 3 weeks! and many more to come...Can I see myself caught up on all my pictures? YES!! Can I be 40 years caught up by the end of 2012? With project life and maybe a little bit of traditional scrapping tossed in for good measure...YES!!!

OK...I'll Admit it....I'm in LOVE!!..the super fun, quick, fast, simple way to scrap!
Thanks Becky HIGGINS and Project LIFE....This is one amazing project! I'm so glad I'm hard headed and didn't listen to that little voice of walking away...now that little voice says "hey did you take a picture today?-Where's your PL kit- let's go!"

Mid January

How does it happen that one day the new begins and before you even know it- half the month has past? Where does the time go anymore? I'm excited with this year so far...

I am well on my way with my new scrapbooking project with project life- all I need to finish is a few insert pages, a title page and my goals for this year and it will be current and up to date! I am loving the simplicity of this project and not only am I documenting and perserving memoires, I'm also relizing the simple pleasures of each and every day! I am loving the pages I have already created and can;t wait to do more!

SOme of my other goals for the year are a bit on the slow side- but I figure one day at a time. I did go out to fashion bug this week and picked up a couple of cute shirts and My favorite type of pants (I call them Jeanie pants- reminds me of I dream of jeanie tv show) I also purchased lots of fun new jewlery!

Pictures to come soon of my PL pages...stay tuned...

A new year and new beginnings

WOW!! 2012-where does the time go? it's been about a year and half since i have post anything and decided its time to start blogging once again. I have lots of fun ideas for this year and hope to share them here.

In the last few months i have been picking up some little photo opportunities and made a big purchase a new Nikon 5100 camera which I love! It's already paid for itself in less than a month! and I have met some wonderful friends and families along the way. AS time goes on I will post my pictures as I have new adventures.

Another fun activity i am trying is a new form of scrap-booking called project life by Becky Higgins ( I really admire Becky and have been following her and her products for several years now)Project life is very simplified, easy and quick. I love the look of it and have taken on the challenge of trying to take a picture a day. So far its the 10th and I just need to print a few pictures and slide them in, everything else is all current.I can't wait to see the end result at the end of the year.

Speaking of scrap-booking, one of my major goals for this year is to clear pictures off my laptop, old hard-drives, face-book, cell phones, boxes, Walgreens websites and anywhere else there may be pictures and get them in albums! I have mountains of supplies and mountain of pictures- this is the year to get them all organized and in albums so I can still enjoy my pictures and keepsakes without them being ruined. My goal is to keep up with my 2012 project life album as well as scrapbook at least 1000 pages this year- that wont get all my pictures done but it sure will make a huge dent!

Other goals for this year is to save has much money has I can, take a trip home to see my family (North Dakota), work on losing weight- goal is to lose 75 pounds in one year and to get back to living on my own. well here's to a great new year full of fun new changes....Happy New YEAR!