It's week twenty-five and this was the week Ellerie was born.
click the photos to enlarge for a somewhat clearer image.
Week of : June 17 – June 23.
What happened this week? Paul was home. We waited for baby girl Monday and Tuesday. My labor was induced Wednesday, June 19 and Ellerie arrived 28 hours later via c-section. We spent Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the hospital. Saturday night, we made our escape and Sunday was spent at the house.
Anything special in the spread? I decided to just focus on photos of the baby girl and then journaling from that "I want to remember post." More happened this week but everything (obviously) pales in comparision to her arrival.
Techniques this week : I added a month divider into this spread to set it apart within the album. I lucked out that the June divider was yellow and matched the other embellishments. I stuck the "20" stickers on there to mark her birthdate.
I also added the 8.5×11 page of text about our hospital stay. On the backside I included the certificate the hospital made with her footprints. Eventually, when I write her birth story, that will get added to this week's spread as well.
Overall thoughts : I feel like the addition of the baby makes this a whole new ball game. I have loved documenting my life as a single woman, as a married woman and now I begin the documentation as a mom. It's a different task now that I actually know the little person who will someday pour through these albums. My Ellerie girl changed everything.
Ratio of iPhone photos to "real camera" photos : 3 to 6.
Ratio of photos taken by Elise to photos taken by Paul : 7 to 2.
Supplies used : Seafoam core kit, Seafoam month divider, Kelly Purkey letter stickers, Paislee Press &/E, heart and mama printable, Studio Calico "3" card.
Tools used : Design A pocket pages, 8.5×11 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.
enJOY it 
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