Project Life 2012 | Week Seven

February 21, 2012 By

Project Life 2012 Week Seven
This week I did another one-page layout but designed it so that it would coordinate with last week’s page since they face each other in my stack of layouts that are sitting on top of my desk album. Here is what it looks like with my week six page:
Project Life 2012 Two Page Spread

I stuck in Scarlette’s ziplock baggie painting from earlier in the week and just stuck some letter stickers right on top of it. Please note the photo of the homemade chicken pot pie, which, after five years of marriage Jeff declared the best thing I have ever cooked. Praise the Lord and pass the ammunition, she’s learning her way around the kitchen y’all.

Project Life In Progress: Title Page, Week 1, Week 2, Week 3, Week 4, Week 5

I’m linking up with Jess over at The Mom Creative today + I’d love to see your pages!

Here are the supplies I used (some affiliate links included):


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Having A Ball

February 20, 2012 By


Jeff taught Scarlette how to throw a ball this weekend. Not surprisingly, she’s already better at it than me. I guess we know who she gets her athletic abilities from.

Unrelated: I was playing around with my facebook timeline cover photo and then I decided to make it a freebie so I saved the template as a layered .psd file and wrote up a tutorial for it. I posted it along with step-by-step instructions here so if you want to use it, it’s all yours! It’s a beautiful day here and we’re taking today off from the interwebs to enjoy playing outside! YAY SUNSHINE!

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Facebook Timeline Cover Photo Template

February 20, 2012 By

I made this image for the cover photo on my facebook timeline. Then I decided to save it as a layered .psd file in case any of y’all want to use it. It has all of the months so you can just switch out the date, background and photos as you like.

Here’s what it looks like on your facebook page:

To use it, just click this link to download the template: fbtimeline_v2_ka

Here are the instructions w/step by step photos for adding your own images into the facebook cover photo timeline template:

1) Open the facebook timeline template in Photoshop or Photoshop Elements
facebook timeline cover photo template
2) Also open the photos you want to place in the template
3) Make sure LAYERS are enabled. If you don’t see your layers, go to WINDOWS>LAYERS in the main menu
4) Click on the photos you want to use and copy it by going to EDIT >COPY (or you can click CTRL A and then CTRL C)
5) On your layers palette, click PHOTO ONE HERE to highlight the layer and paste your photo into it by going to EDIT>PASTE (or you can click CTRL V)
facebook timeline cover photo template
6) Click on the layer titled FRAME ONE in your layers palette. Select the MAGIC WAND TOOL from your tool box and then click on the inside of the first frame. You’ll see dashed lines around the inside of the frame when you do this.
facebook timeline cover photo template
7) Now click back onto the layer titled PHOTO ONE HERE where you place your photo. On the main menu, click SELECT > INVERSE. This will make dashed lines appear both inside and outside of the frame. Click the DELETE button on your keyboard.
facebook timeline cover photo template
8) If you want to change the month, just click the little box next to the month you want to use.
9) Repeat the process using FRAME TWO and PHOTO TWO
10) Go to the main menu and click on LAYER > FLATTEN IMAGE. Then save it and upload it to facebook!

*You can also change the background color, before you flatten it just click on the layer titled BACKGROUND and choose your PAINT BUCKET tool from the toolbox. Choose a color and click anywhere on the background layer to change!

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52 Reads | Matched by Ally Condie

February 18, 2012 By

Book Review for Matched by Ally CondieMatched
by Ally Condie

After all of the heavy reading over the past few weeks, I picked up some more YA dystopian fiction. You’re welcome. This one has the typical love triangle angst but the situational elements to it make it interesting rather than annoying.

Here is an excerpt from the book description

For Cassia, nothing is left to chance–not what she will eat, the job she will have, or the man she will marry. In Matched, the Society Officials have determined optimal outcomes for all aspects of daily life, thereby removing the “burden” of choice. When Cassia’s best friend is identified as her ideal marriage Match it confirms her belief that Society knows best, until she plugs in her Match microchip and a different boy’s face flashes on the screen. This improbable mistake sets Cassia on a dangerous path to the unthinkable–rebelling against the predetermined life Society has in store for her.

I found this book to be a bit reminiscent of The Giver with it’s emphasis on the Society keeping the past from the collective knowledge of its citizens. I thought it was almost just as a good as Divergent, but the pacing was much slower. The story itself was well written, although the love interests didn’t appeal to me quite as much as the exploration of other relationships between the characters. I liked a lot of the smaller themes woven into the book and the way they played out across it and the sequel.

Oh right, this is part of a trilogy by the way. Overall I thought it was a good, quick, easy read. It was pretty intriguing, not completely predictable and I liked it enough that I’ll definitely read all three books. Actually I’ve already read the second, I just don’t want to spoil this one so I’m holding that review for a bit. Matched is a #1 New York Times Best Seller and deservedly so as Ally Condie is a much, much better writer than that other really famous YA novelist from Utah ;)   My GoodReads Rating? Four out of five stars.

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Five For Friday | Set The World On Fire

February 17, 2012 By


Are you even kidding me with that cuteness?

NOSTALGIA: I was looking for photos of Scarlette from last Valentine’s Day to do a then and now page. It was right around our 100th day in the NICU and I had forgotten how sick she was that week. But what struck me most was the verse I posted that day. It’s a beautiful thing to be living on this side of the mist.

MUSIC & LOVE:  I have Britt Nicole’s “Set The World On Fire” on repeat. If you need a little encouragement today, turn it on.  Scarlette is currently dancing to it. Look at her, setting the world on fire.

OMG MOMENT: I woke up to Scarlette’s chatter on the baby monitor and turned the video feed on. And I gasped in shock as I saw my baby standing next to her crib. I ran to her room in complete panic and disbelief that she had climbed out of her crib only to find her sitting sweetly in the middle of it. Befuddled, I looked around and realized that I had mistaken a toy tunnel next to the crib for my baby. And that also? I really need to put my glasses on before I look at the baby monitor. Now y’all know just how incredibly bad my vision is.

PINNING: I created a board on Pinterest for the stuff I’ve seen on there and actually tried. I always like to see notes from pinners who have done whatever they are pinning so I thought I’d keep all the projects/recipes I’ve attempted so far all in one place. You can see it here and then you can go make those apple dumplings because they are the bomb. <- Hello, I went to high school in the ’90s.

OVERHEARD IN OUR HOUSE: “Oh my gosh I’m bleeding! I’M BLEEDING!” “Actually honey, I think that’s batter on your forehead.” On the up side, my pumpkin/chocolate chip muffins are delicious.

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