I actually found time to make a few cards....never mind that the kit has been sitting on my desk in pieces for literally months.
And for your scrolling pleasure, some weeks of Project Life pages......
I still love that I can adapt the photo templates to my needs and the amount of pictures I have any particular week.
So yep, just scroll along and re-live those memories with me....
Just to keep me accountable, I'm posting completed Project Life pages. Am I slightly behind in my record keeping? Uh-huh. Two words....Canning. Season. Fortunately, #1--I'm not terribly behind, and #2--it's so easy to play catch up. So scroll on down to see some summer documentation...while I go tackle lots of onions.
With the traveling we did back east,
and then tending Elise's boys,
it might not surprise anyone that I've fallen a little bit behind on....well....
just about everything.
Fortunately between my camera roll and my daily journal, I can get caught up on at least this one aspect of my life..
Making my way through 3 or 4 weeks from this year, although I don't have the journaling quite in place yet, and another couple of weeks of last year's catch up.
Getting there.....It does my heart good to see that I only have 5 more weeks of 2022 to document.
Not forgetting this year.
There's also not as much going on health-wise to occupy my mind and make it difficult for me to stay caught up.
Also, the tablet is amazing for my old eyes.
I only have six more weeks to document from last year.
Sorry/not sorry for the family history explosion this week.
I love the ease of this process.
Another installment of keeping myself accountable for finishing up 2022's family yearbook.
For your scrolling pleasure...
Family history documented.
Stories revisited.
While many of my pages use the default template seen here,
You can scroll back up and see the variety of options for pictures of different sizes and quantities.
I'm definitely getting closer to calling this particular family history project....done.
And holy cow, I did a lot of canning last fall.
I've been making great inroads into my attempted Project Life catch up.
Part of the reason it's been slow and difficult is that I've got old eyes.
I wasn't able to read the journaling on the app on my phone.
Even when I wore my cheaters, it wasn't easy to see.
I solved the problem by getting a tablet so everything could be bigger...
...which means I've been cranking through the weeks.
It's been fun to go through the stories again,
and since I've gotten a lot of pages done recently, I'll be posting them for perusing this week.
Documenting history today.
This might not be considered history, but it is. This is Sam's quilt.
He's part of my family history,
and this is one of the ways I personally document it.
This little bee button on the back is a little love note from Gramma Honey. (As an aside to my kids....since I found these buttons only a couple of years ago, I have enough for all the quilts I've made that don't have them, if you want them.)
This is also family history. Older blog posts that represent that time period in my family.
It's all part of family history, and since I'm not going to print off 4,000+ blog posts, I'm cherry picking. Past,
and present.
This is also history.
Tardy history, but history nonetheless.
I kept my hands very busy last week and this week.
Here's proof that I did actually finish off Sam's quilt top. I need to get some batting and then it can go to the quilter.
I also finished off a couple of card kits that have been occupying space on the craft table. I used this kit for some Christmas thank you notes. This particular design was a lift of one by Kristina Werner.
When I got tired of that, I tried a new design or two. I've found that the quickest way to get through these older card kits is to pick a couple of designs and make multiples of them until I run out of papers.
It felt good to play with paper again.
I've been documenting my frantic catching up with last year's Project Life pages.
In order for that NOT to happen again this year,
I've also started working on January 2023 pages.
You can see there's a big contrast between the style I picked for 2022,
and the one I picked for this year.
I was just feeling the need for something a little more minimal.
So filed under "staying accountable" for last year's stories, here are the completed catch up pages for this week.
I'll just let you scroll through, wandering down memory lane a bit.
Just a reminder that there are many and varied templates in the app that enable me to fit what pictures I have into workable spaces.
In all honesty, it's been a while since I've been creative in any way. Canning, preserving, and garden produce have taken a lot of time. So has some travel catch up, and in all honesty, my mother's needs.
I did finally finish off a card kit that's been sitting on my table for a while. In the interest of full disclosure, these cards were finished off sometime in September before the heavy canning started. I told you it's been a while for the creativity.
I'm still playing catch up with Project Life pages.
I'm actually done up through Week 27, but haven't quite got them ready and sized for posting.
As an aside, I recently received my 2021 year book.
As always, I'm glad I've kept this project up. It's just so great to see all these memories in a concrete form.
I finished off another crazy quilt block.
This one didn't go as smoothly for me as the first 2 did. The background block pieces didn't sew together to the measurements I needed, and I had to consult with Eric, who is the math nerd in the family, to try to calculate how to make it work with the angles I was given. It was a slog, and in the end, I'm still a little under, but I think I can make it work.
I also had to consult with a stitching friend to figure out how to make the loose straw around the neck happen. In the end, we decided I had to have a knot behind every strand. Cute, but laborious.
So while things turned out fine, it wasn't a smooth process and I don't think I'll be touting this block as my favorite, but it's D-O-N-E.
I got a little more catch up done on Project Life pages.
You've seen all these stories.
As I was putting these together, I discovered some weeks didn't have very many pictures.
The various templates in the app will accommodate that, but I'm somewhat out of practice taking lots of pictures.
Some weeks I have to be selective and winnow,
...and some weeks I don't. I've been more in the "don't" category lately.
