Project Life week 6

Another week had passed....it's time again for Project Life!

This week, we take it easy and kinda relax a bit, after the vomiting spell last week. We had fun playing, eating, crafting and we had a birthday celebration.

Crafting wise, again I put my sewing machine to good use, and also some of my purchased digital elements. I created my own journal tags and I love it....will be creating more...

I have an insert this week, one side is Elise's guided drawing and another is Grace's happy family drawing.

Here's my spread this week, with insert...


And without insert


The left page...


The right page

One side of the insert

Another side of the insert

And some close up on my journal tags

Take Twelve 2012 February

Stumbled into this challenge at Ella Publishing Co...Take 12 photos on the 12th of each month...I found that it is pretty fun to do, so I have to do it...I missed January but it's ok.....

I plan to make a collage of these 12 photos and have it as an insert in my project life for week 7....

(gosh...I was typing this post and was already ready to post it, then I went in to nurse Elise and suddenly realized that today is the 13th not 12th...what was I thinking?...may be I thought I'm living in the United States...haha....Never mind, I'll just cheat a little for this month....grin...)

Well, here's the 12 photos....

1. Started off the day with a visit to the hospital...Elise for review, Grace for runny nose, sore throat and some rashes at her chin (which gave us a fright)

2. VeGood drink for the girls while on the car

3. Elise trying out the spectacles (she put it on herself) in their second home..grin..Toys R US

4. Lunch at grandma's house

5. Making music (with the newly bought musical set) with grandma

6. My iPhone gave me "Unable to take photos as you are out of storage space", so I was busy deleting photos

7. Goodies from my favorite shop...Material

8. A peek on my project Life Week 6 spread...going up tomorrow

9. Elise getting the iPad fever "bug"

10. this below scene happens quite often in my house..throwing tantrums during meal time

11. All ready for bed...

12. my entertainment while nursing Elise

Project Life Week 5

This week, well was full of crafts and sickies. It started off with me having a real bad gastric...which later on turned out to be an upset tummy due to food poisoning, followed by Grace coming home from school claiming that she felt very cold....and her tummy ache too.....then in the afternoon the nightmare starts....Grace vomited...twice...and later while on our way back home from my parents....she messed up my car....ohhh.....while at home, it was my turn...then followed by having a real high fever....sigh....Wednesday was an oil-free meal day and everything seems to be on the better side....but wait...on Thursday, Elise got the vomiting spell and seems to be the most serious one....and finally on Friday, Elise was hospitalized...phew....what a week....
Having said that, it was a week with the least photos....but on the hand had the most (among the 5 weeks) memorabilia to be included in my Project Life pages....no insert for this week....
Here's the 2-page spread....

The left page...containing all the photos from being groovy with daddy to hospital room....

And the right page, I used the design E page protectors, to house the memorabilia...I treated each square as a mini layout....

Project Life Week 4

I'm obviously late late late......it's supposed to be Tuesday, but it's now Thursday....
During normal weeks, I usually will start planning out my pages on Thursday and Friday, leaving enough spaces for the last day of my week, Saturday...if Saturday is loaded with photos...I will make some changes to my layout....but that normally does not happen (at least for now).....I may or may not also start printing my photos on Friday.....and as soon as my week ends on Saturday night...I will print out the rest of the photos and jump right in creating my pages....normally I will need another night (i.e. Sunday night) to complete the pages....the latest, my pages including inserts will be ready by Monday night.....
However, due to the festive season last week, and us being away at my parent's house during the end of last week....my routine needs to be changed....I did plan out my pages while at my parent's house...since there's extra hands taking care of my sticky glue....but when I hit home on Saturday night....all I did was sitting in front of my TV, catching up with episodes of TVB drama on Astro on Demand that I missed....and again on Sunday night for the grand finale.....grin...
And so I only finalizes my layout on Monday and printing out the photos...then miss Grace and I were sick due to food poisioning and on Tuesday I was drop dead tired and sick.....so, I only managed to get my pages done on Wednesday.....
Ahem....sorry for the above ramblings.....here's my pages...
I have an insert this week....on one side is favorite shots of Miss Elise (note..she kinda posses for these shots) and the other side was some sunset photos that my brother took during our beach outing....
Lots of reds this week.....RED is the color for Chinese New Year.......and this week, I've got the sewing bug....I took out my sewing machine and started sewing....
A peek of my layout plan and my scribbling....

the spread this week with the insert

the spread this week without the insert

the left page

the right page

front of the insert

back of the insert

some close-ups

Project Life Week 3

This week was totally random....
There's us preparing of Chinese New Year, Elise being naughty, mummy being crafty, kids enjoying pizza lunch...etc....
So for this week, my spread was full of square Instagram photos...and I do have an insert....I just couldn't resist...I decorated a basket for my mother-in-law and was playing with all 17 effects in Instagram...and so have to show it.....on the other side of the insert, was yet another layout of Elise having fun at my parent's house...

Project life Week 2

This week started with me worrying that I will not have enough story and photos to build up the 2 page spread....but it ended up with 2 inserts!!!!

With cousin Amos here in Malaysia with us...there's always fun and play....I don't want to leave out those photos and so included a 6" x 12" 4R insert...

Other than that...I have another insert for a notice from Grace's school about their CNY reunion party, while the other side of that insert have an A4 layout of our preparation for the upcoming Chinese New Year....

This 2nd week of 2012, Elise was having tummy bug and fever, so I included a spot documenting her journey to recovery.....despite her being sick, she did say and do quite a bit during this week, so I had a 4" x 6" spot to record those that she did....

This is the left page...

and here's the right page, with the insert on the left

both insets

the 2-page spread without the inserts

...closer look on the 2nd insert

...closer look on the mini layout

slot documenting those that Elise did

slot documenting Elise's recovery