Technology is Fascinating - Frustrating

So, I just spent some time and created some new slides for my church's website. There's a really cool slideshow on the home page, but when I added the new ones, some of the existing ones no longer appear. There must be a limit on the number of slides it plays, but I don't know what it is. Arghhhh and grrrrr. And when I bring up this - my blog - home page, it's jumpy. Seriously, the left side is stationary but the right side is jiggly jumpy. Does anyone else get that, or is it just me?

I had Scott today, 8:45 to 4:45. I should say, I "enjoyed" him today, as I always do. What a good boy, but he has a cold, poor baby. Get well soon, sweetheart! I go on the computer some while he plays or naps, but for the most part I just want to play with him, you know. I wish I could have Gabe too, and I do on a rare occasion, but they are just a bit far away and not on the way to work, as we are with Becky. Anyway, here is the first part of March, through our Arizona trip. Loved spending time with Ken's folks and getting some nice long walks in. I was directed to bring some warm weather back with us, but alas, I could not fulfill and it has been a chilly spring so far. Warmer weather is on the horizon, though.

More hours in a day, please

I should be in bed, but I'm not. Still putzing with the new computer, moving stuff over from the laptop and getting things tweaked. I cannot determine when I acquired Photoshop Elements 7 or how to get it over to the new PC. I must have downloaded the upgrade from version 4, which I had previously. I'm not going to spend the money on the new version 11. And Quicken! I was using 2000. I purchased Quicken 2013 but holy smokes, it's a whole new ballgame. Sheese ...

So, rather than do a double page layout to upload here, I kept the pages separate. Maybe they'll enlarge a little bigger here. I don't get nearly as fancy as some of the other Project Lifers, but it's a learning process. There are so many neat shares on the internet that I'm downloading, from Facebook mostly. I've surely turned into a digital hoarder. Here's the last two pages for February, 2013. March is done, except for yesterday ... Easter Day. Hope you had a wonderful day celebrating the risen Christ! Hopefully March will get uploaded soon. And onward we go, into the month of April. Our Scottie is 20 months tomorrow, and Gabriel 16 months on the 7th. Time is flying by.

3/4 of February

My style of "scrapping" for late 2012 and now for 2013 has changed ever so slightly. A good online friend, Donna, who frequents an Italian wine cellar with me every so often (insert shout out here to Niki and the Cellar sisters), is actually on Becky Higgins' creative team this year. I first became aware of Becky Higgins through her work for Creative Keepsakes magazine, but she has since become quite a businesswoman in her own right with a scrapbooking concept she has termed Project Life. Through Donna we became aware of this style of physical scrapbooking with plastic template pages and journaling cards and filler cards or digital page layouts. I'm actually doing both, since I purchased three of the PL mini albums so far. More about that later.

Anyway, once again it's getting late and I have a couple of tasks to do and it'll be out of the house early in the morning to attend an all-day church synodical leadership conference. So, I do want to share the first three double-page layouts for February, and I should have one more to finish up the month. Here we go:

Oh, how I wish you could read the journaling. Well, you get the idea anyway. The boys are just a delight, and they got to spend time together twice this month, once at a not-so-happy occasion and once at our house. Scott is running, Gabe is oh so ready to walk and can take a couple steps on his own before falling forward into waiting arms. Too funny. So, enjoy. And if you have questions, let me know!

Baby, It's (Still) Cold Outside

Worked on some Project Life pages today, among a (few) other things. I am thankful for my Wednesdays. They keep me, I dunno, centered. Two 2-page spreads for January, and this is the second one. I'm experimenting a bit with the size of the thumbnail and in the end, a larger size just doesn't seem to work ... in the preview, anyway. It seems one still can't read the journaling when clicked open to a bigger size. I might have to do one side at a time or quiz some peeps I know who do this blog thing a lot more than I do to figure out the best way to display the pages. All this stuff just takes time to learn ... you know? How do all those great looking blog bloggers know what to do?

Baby, It's Cold Outside ...

... after all, it's January! I got a few things done this weekend. Very few, it seems. Sigh. Well, I am close to ordering my 12"x12" 2012 book and I got started with 2013. A light bulb came on today for me. I will upload the pages to my annual book every month or couple of months rather than doing it all at once. It will be a lot easier, I think. I use Lifephoto out of Milwaukee and the books are super high quality.

So, here is the first (intro) page ...

and the first double-page spread, which covers the first half of January ...

I do like this digital Project Life format. Keeps things a little simpler, in a way. And really it's what I did before, just a different look to it with the clean template style and journaling "cards." I did buy several (three) Becky Higgins Project Life mini albums which will come soon from Amazon.com. I just want to putz with an idea I have for a Prayer Journal and also I might use two of them for ABC books for the boys. We'll see. I wanted to make a few cards this weekend, too, but haven't yet. Time to make salmon for dinner since we were out and about last evening and didn't eat in. You'll have to read all about it in the next installment. Having said that, you probably can't read the journaling. More sighs. There aren't enough hours in a day to figure all this stuff out. It would be nice to know how to create a fancier blog look, too. Another day.

It's a Wrap - 2012

So, here are my Scrap Last Month pages for October ...

And two for November ...

And 4-1/2 double page layouts for December. Too much fun!

Welcome, 2013!

So, the first half of 2012 was completed in a timely manner. The second half, not so much. Yet, I used Black Friday to catch up through October, and then November and December came together just fine. In fact, here it is January 2 and I have completed 2012. Hurray for me! (So much to do, so little time. This is a priority for me, as you can see.)

So without further ado, let's get these layouts posted. Two double page spreads for July ...

And two for August ...

Four double page spreads for September ...

Whew. October, November and December will follow soon, perhaps tomorrow night. Time for sleep!