October daily or December daily that is the question.

Or both!?!? So this year I have been seriously contemplating doing both October daily and December daily documenting for the fall and winter seasons. I know I enjoy December daily and that I also love Halloween and all things fall. So why not do both? The know that I will probably going to regret this life choice but I need to use all those free prints that snap fish and Shutterfly offer each month right.

Anyway, my daughter really loves looking through her albums and seeing how things have changed for moved around. So I think I will do both this year wish me luck as I have already started planning out my October daily album layouts.

Little is starting preschool... ack!!!

So this was the first week of my daughter’s preschool classes. Sunday night I printed out a first day of school sign that she could color and this is how it came out.

She loved that aspect of the morning I cannot believe how grown up she is getting, she loves to read and paint, and do all things crafty. But also is obsessed with the outdoors and loves to go hiking.  A couple of weeks ago she and I went for a walk through Garden of The Gods and she had so much fun running and walking and looking at the leaves changk

She is also a social butterfly who loves to make friends. Although I cannot understand some of her fashion choices, today it was her lepricorn (leprechaun unicorn) tee shirt and big bell bottom jeans. Well tonight is movie night so we shall see if she still wants to watch Aladdin or if she would prefer to see something else.  That is all for today and HAPPY FRIDAY THE 13th!!!!!

Scrapbooking and crafts

Well I hope you all are well and had amazing start to spring. This season I have started to scrapbook quite a bit more than I had in the past, I have created a 8x8 inch book that my daughter can use on a regular basis and I have also started a "the last two years" book for my in-laws. The way that I have been able to get all this done with the crazy schedule at work is the wonderful and glorious Project life app... yes I do realize that I am behind the 8 ball on this app but I have been using it for the last couple years as a way to plan out the project life layouts in my 12x12 album for the little, but I only just found the feature where you can export the layout in a smaller size and print from home instead of paying to print the pages as a 12x12. I picked up some 8.5x11 card stock from Hobby Lobby for half off the retail just to test if it would work in the printer as the associates in  my local store were not entirely sure if it would work. I will be honest the color saturation is not fantastic but it works.

I know that my little does love the album and finding out if there are any new pages magically added to it.

Crafting wise I have not quite finished the projects that I have wanted to complete in the last couple of months, I did however get the giraffe completed and the pink unicorn for my friend Emily's kids. I am still however working on the charizard for my older brother or my store manager. I am honestly leaning more toward giving that to my older brother. I will probably do a more detailed post on that when I have it completed and post photos. The current lighting situation is not conducive to the taking of pictures.

Well I think that is all that I have to say at the moment, I am going to try and post more often. I am trying to complete the December daily album for last year and I think i may also take part in Ali edwards' week in the life project this year it starts on the 6th of May which is honestly right in the middle of a long stretch at work for me, 12 days in total without a day off. woo hoo ok for real I am going to get ready for work now and get the things I need to from the store before I go in.

Wow how I love google photos for my back up

So this is the first time I have uploaded the photos from my phone since I recieved this phone as a gift from my parents when they found out I was pregnant with my daughter in 2015... that is at minimum 12000+ photos on this sucker and it has been uploading for about 2 hours and still has a fair way to go. however to be fair as of the writing of this I am at the end of February 2017 and almost half way through the upload.

current projects update for october

Current projects for this month are as follows;  October Daily that I am posting about on here, wedding prep and planning, baby book for the little, and hopefully a new sweater for her I just need to find a pattern she likes.

Currently for the October daily I have been writing out my stories from the day not in my notes app on my phone like I had originally thought I would do I have actually been writing them down in my classic sized happy planner instead at the end of the night, stories that I have pictures for are easier to remember as the day goes on more so than those that I do not have photos for, but it is weird to be how much I am writing down I may have more than one page per day to be honest.

I had actually thought I would use my bullet Journal for the keeping up on my stories as I tend to carry it with me everywhere I go, but surprisingly I do not. I honestly haven't opened my bujo in almost a month, which is unfortunate to me.

So excited today it has started the process of becoming winter here in Colorado as well, my daughter was so surprised this morning when we went outside to head to daycare. She was so happy to jump in what little snow we got over night, and see where her foot prints were and the trail as she walked.

Today for me though, its a curl up under the blankets with a large coffee and pjs. So today the outfit will be a black and grey sweater dress and leggings with booties, possibly if I feel like putting in the effort to look cute (to be honest I rarely ever feel like putting in the effort lately).

On that note I will be working on my readings for RIP Readathon with Creating and co. its been interesting, I have already started Black K Klansman by Ron Stallworth, and it is crazy interesting to me. I love the fact that it is a memoir and that it was written by a police detective in my home town. Once I complete that I will start rereading Miss peregrines' school for peculiar children, but I also want to start that sweater for my daughter's Christmas present.

project life Baby's first year

So as you know I have been working on the little's baby book as a combination of project life pocket pages and 12x12 layouts. so far it is working out pretty well I have gotten all the way from birth (still need to scan some photos from another photo book that was shipped to me but that is not important) to just past her first Christmas, this page I am particularly fond on because it was one of the first 12x12 layouts I have ever done and I think it turned out more than halfway decent. I know I need to not be so self-deprecating in my humor, but hey it amuses me so that is really all that matters. My daughter really made out like a bandit her first Christmas and still plays with most of those toys.

I am also trying to find a way to turn the pocket pages from her first trip to the zoo onto a 12x12 layout as the local scrapbook shop I have begun to frequent has paper specific to the local zoo. These pages I have been having some issues getting around the idea of posting as I don't really want too many people to know exactly where we live... although I am pretty sure that I have posted about where we moved to local wise if not specifics on here before...

Wow I have to learn to stay on topic, anyway the zoo visit are the pages I am currently working on for her baby book, and the current year album I am working on a day at the park where she wanted to explore the finer points of grasshopper catching and trying to work the swing by herself.

October Daily and wedding check in

So this week has been mostly about me writing the stories to go with the photos I have taken. The first story is actually from before the start of October, her first time doing a relatively long/short road trip to Trinidad, CO to meet the fiance's sister's godmother. The photos will actually be coming from snapfish this time around instead of me printing them at home, this is due to time constraints with the wedding planning and Halloween planning. I don't think I thought this plan through very well but I do want to continue with the project.

However the wedding planning has been insane in and of itself that I am not sure how this is going to turn out. This past weekend we had the cake tasting, and the meeting with the photographer, the cake decorator did tell us some more not so great things about the venue we chose. Although she did also let us know that the new GM was pulling the ship back together, and helped to ease some of our fears about the venue. So honestly if you live in the Denver, Co area and you haven't tried the dessert stand yet you should their cup cakes are amazing and they have so many different and unique flavors. and the ladies there were awesome.

I am so excited for our cake flavors I just hope that more people RSVP for this thing. The only things that we really need to finish up are the place cards, the memory table, the guest book, and the marriage licence... I suppose the most important thing would be the licence right? That is the one thing that we should really be worried about getting, as long as that is completed then the rest should fall into place. This week I will also be picking up all of the ingredients to make the favors for the guests, its fascinating to me how the favors have turned into Aspen leaf ornaments when we thought we were only going to give favors to family and our super close friends to me baking 100-200 cookies for all of the guests to get a couple of them at the wedding, and special batches for my parents and his parents. but we shall see if it turns into something else as we get closer.