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Plwk35

It's week thirty-five and I love this project.

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click the photo to enlarge for a somewhat clearer image.

Week of : August 26 – September 1.

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What happened this week? We were home. My friend Melanie came to visit. Friday afternoon I flew to Las Vegas to celebrate a friend and came home Saturday afternoon. Paul and Ellerie hung out here and Paul sent me text photos of the girl.

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Anything special in the spread? I was super low on photos this week. Super low. It happens. Into the 3×4 pockets went fun decorative cards and a few short stories on journaling cards.

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Techniques this week : I wanted to share something about the plush butterfly E has become obsessed with. I deliberately took a photo of it on the black and white striped rug, knowing that the stripes would be the perfect place to add journaling.

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Overall thoughts : I much prefer having tons of photos to choose from instead of scrambling for seven. 😉

Ratio of iPhone photos to "real camera" photos : 3 to 4.

Ratio of photos taken by Elise to photos taken by Paul : 6 to 1.

Supplies used : Seafoam core kit, Midnight core kit, Kelly Purkey badge and 3×4 cards, Martha Stewart and Avery Label.

Tools used : Design A pocket pages, 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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12 responses to “project life 2013 : week 35.”

  1. Lori Avatar
    Lori

    Yay! It’s Sunday, so I get to see your latest take on PL. I look forward to it every week. Thanks for sharing and inspiring!

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  2. Hayley Avatar

    I love your blog! I’m very interested in where you got the airplane 3×4 card. Also the go, see, do card. Thanks!

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  3. elise blaha Avatar

    Hey Hayley! Aren’t those fun?! they came from the Kelly Purkey project life kit at simon stamp : http://www.simonsaysstamp.com/servlet/the-57314/kelly-purkey-simon-says/Detail

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  4. Jess Avatar

    I hope your trip away from Ellerie went well!

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  5. Amy B Avatar
    Amy B

    Wanted to offer a totally unsolicited idea for those weeks that don’t have enough pictures. Sometimes I go back and take a picture of something after the fact. Not a person too often, but an object that can go along with a story (one from that week or just a family story I’ve been meaning to tell) and put it in anyway.

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  6. Shelly Avatar
    Shelly

    Who makes that plush butterfly? Do you know where it was purchased?

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  7. Mindy Avatar
    Mindy

    as always LOVE your project life posts 🙂
    this is just a curiosity question…i’ve noticed that even when you have visitors (like your parents) or when you went to vegas that you don’t include pics from those events. is it that your just keeping it focused on family? i always have too many photos to choose from & sometimes find it hard to know what or who 🙂 to eliminate….

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  8. Allie Avatar

    I came here to ask the exact same question! I’m curious too, why you don’t include visitors?

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  9. elise blaha Avatar

    🙂 Yes! That’s what I did with the butterfly toy.

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  10. elise blaha Avatar

    It was a gift so I am not sure where it came from but the brand on it is “milestones”

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  11. elise blaha Avatar

    I have talked about this before – but usually, I put my camera DOWN when we have friends and family in town. It’s odd, I know. I tend to just be in it. I am working on getting better at getting more photos of others. 🙂

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  12. Mindy Avatar
    Mindy

    i think that is great that you are present 🙂 it’s something we all should do more of!

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