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project life 2013 : week 13.

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It's week thirteen and I love this project.

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click the photos to enlarge for a somewhat clearer image.

Week of : March 25 – March 31.

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What happened this week? I was up in Sacramento. Mostly this involved trips to Target, long walks around the block and pricking my finger four times a day. 😉 But also, it involved a baby shower, celebrating a best friend's engagement, making favors for the shower, a coffee date with a friend, Easter, seeing my brother and photos in a flower field.

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Anything special in the spread? I included the invitation to my baby shower in a 5×7 pocket. The invite was small so I stuck it in with a cut down piece of Seafoam 12×12 paper. The orange dots on the front matched and the gray and white dots on the back matched too. Rad. I added a bit of journaling on a card from the baby edition.

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Techniques this week : Really nothing special. Up to my old tricks of writing on photo white space and wrap around labels.

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Overall thoughts : I really love the spread this week.

Ratio of iPhone photos to "real camera" photos : 7 to 4.


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Ratio of photos taken by Elise to photos taken by Paul : No Paul photos this week, but my mom took one, my dad took one and Ashlee took two. 😉 Plus, Paul's donuts made a big appearance.

Supplies used : Seafoam core kit, Seafoam 12×12 paper, Project Life baby edition, Studio Calico Project Life kit (letter stickers), Paislee Press Noted card (recolored by me to pink), Life Love Paper Easter freebie 3×4 card, Freckled Fawn arrow wood chip,  Elle's Studio "remember this" tag & 3×4 card with tab, Chic Tags journaling tag, Paper Source label. The little dress was on one of the cards I got at my shower.

Tools used : Design A pocket pages, 5×7 pocket page, Fiskars corner rounder, Zig Millenium pen, Rotatrim paper trimmer, Office Depot date stamp, staz-on ink. All photos were printed at home on my HP Photosmart 2575 printer on Office Depot semi-gloss photo paper.

Project Life is a memory-keeping system created by Becky Higgins. I use photos, text and stuff to document our life weekly. You can see all the posts from 2012 here and 2013 here. Do you have a question about how I am tackling this project (including anything about the photos)? Check here.

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22 responses to “project life 2013 : week 13.”

  1. Emily Lee Avatar
    Emily Lee

    OMG – enough with the hugging the bump/pregnant selfies/gratuitous belly shots, Elise! Seriously. It’s enough to make me stop reading your blog. There are at least three in every post. We get it. You’re pregnant.

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  2. Giulia Avatar
    Giulia

    this is her personal project and she is sharing it with you. maybe the only thing that’s making her happy right now is her adorable little girl and that’s the only thing she feels like documenting. maybe, we don’t know how she is really going through life right now.
    we choose to read her blog because we like her projects or her writing or her photos or something. if you don’t, you don’t have to read.
    there were so many other ways to say that you’d like to see more variety in her project life spreads.
    but you did it the hurtful way.
    you knew your comment is going to hurt. why did you post it?

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  3. Melanie Routhier Avatar
    Melanie Routhier

    Elise I love this spread! Thank you so much for sharing such a personal time in your life with us. I wish I knew about PL when I was pregnant, I would have taken so many more photos of my bump.
    PS. You look beautiful! Please don’t let a negative comment make you think that any one else thinks the same. This is your blog and everything about it is the reason I check it daily. I wouldn’t want you to change a thing!

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  4. libbi m. Avatar
    libbi m.

    Like the old saying goes… If you can’t say anything nice, don’t say it at all. Shame on you.

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  5. Christen Avatar
    Christen

    Are you serious? I hope you are kidding 🙂 I love this blog…if someone looks thru my album they will see my kids and pets. They are my life. Elise, thanks for sharing your life with us. I get a lot of inspiration from you. Keep it coming!

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  6. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    The first thing I thought when I saw this spread was, “Oh, I really like this one!” I’m glad you thought so too! It just flows beautifully and you can feel your joy in these photos. You are a beautiful person, artist, scrapper, blogger, sharer and mom-to-be and I love reading about all aspects of it. If I didn’t I would simply skim through or find another blog to read. I’m sorry not everyone can do the same (above comment does not even deserve a reply).
    I hope you’re having a wonderful weekend, finding joy in the walks you’re taking and hugging your blooming belly WITH pictures.
    (Also, when you emailed me last week about never knowing how others will respond to your blog posts, especially those regarding birth, I actually thought, “Could anyone really have a negative reaction to a blog post about birth?” Sadly, apparently they can. Boo.)

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  7. elise blaha Avatar
    elise blaha

    Haha – oh Emily. Thank you for your thoughts. Please, PLEASE stop reading if my photos are bugging you. Some weeks there is not much to photograph around here other than the bump.

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  8. Alizabeth H Avatar
    Alizabeth H

    I will NEVER understand why people think it is acceptable to be SO RUDE on the internet.
    Elise, I was thinking of quitting project life this week but your work inspires me to keep going. Thank you so much for sharing. 🙂

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  9. J3SS1C4 Avatar
    J3SS1C4

    Thank you for sharing another beautiful spread! It looks like this week was full and busy in all the good ways! 🙂
    Your photos of the donuts and the succulents are awesome, and I enjoy seeing pictures of you and your baby bump because you look so happy and radient! I’m sorry not everyone feels this way, and I’m glad you share what you want to share without taking those negative comments to heart, because we’re all here because we enjoy reading what you have to say 🙂

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  10. creole wisdom Avatar
    creole wisdom

    What a great group of pages 🙂 I for one love the belly shots. Can people not celebrate their season of life? Keep up documenting, so many of us love it!

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  11. creole wisdom Avatar
    creole wisdom

    Let me take a moment to validate you, not because you need my 2 cents, but because I want to encourage you: this is your season of life. You can celebrate and document it as much as you’d like. What a treasure this will be for your and Paul’s daughter in the future. She will love that her mom took self portraits!

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  12. Claire Avatar
    Claire

    I don’t do project life but I love reading about it on your blog. its so inspiring and makes me want to do it! I must do some research and see what is available in the UK :)I love documenting life and then being able to look back and remind myself! Thank you for always sharing 🙂 xxx

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  13. Alinor Avatar
    Alinor

    love this week spread. that egg card is just AWESOME!

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  14. Ffion Avatar
    Ffion

    Love this spread too. 🙂
    I don’t know if it’s my perception of your work that’s changing, but I feel like you’re getting – I don’t know, more coherent in your designs? Don’t know if that’s the right way to put it, but I just feel everything flows so well together, the composition, the colours, the patterns… It just seems to get better and better 🙂
    Don’t let the rude naysayers get you down… (man this is a personal project, what the hell do they expect, yes, you ARE pregnant, it’s called project LIFE for heck’s sake… -_-) Keep doing your thing love 🙂

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  15. Fiona Avatar
    Fiona

    Beautiful spread, Elise. I love all the colour and spring in your pages! Those doughnuts look amazing, I’ll bet they were yummy! You look really beautiful in your pregnancy shots, too. They are right at home in your project life pages! I am constantly inspired by your pages, and this week there is a certain beauty to the pages, maybe it’s the lighter colours, and maybe it’s just the pinks, but I really like them!

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  16. JC Avatar
    JC

    Love this, E! I’m a few weeks behind on PL and all the beauty in this spread has me excited to get going again.
    Thank you, as always, for sharing!

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  17. Joanna Avatar
    Joanna

    Personally, I love the bump pictures and your style 🙂 Your PL posts always inspire me, this one being no exception.

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  18. Mindy Avatar
    Mindy

    i love your belly shots! as someone that is done having babies i so enjoy seeing other mommas on their journey into motherhood. i can’t believe people can be so rude to someone on their own blog. thank you for sharing all that you do!!

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  19. e Avatar
    e

    such a cute lay out!

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  20. elise blaha Avatar
    elise blaha

    🙂 thank you friend.

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  21. NC Avatar
    NC

    Only just saw this but had to comment to say please don’t stop documenting what YOU want to document. Your Project Life is a record for you and your family, not purely for our entertainment and we are privileged that you share it with us.
    Thank you, your blog is my favourite.
    Naomi (long time reader, first time commenter)

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  22. Chrystina Avatar
    Chrystina

    Awwwwwwwwwwwwwww. Cutest doughnut story EVER.

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