Wee Wonderfuls

move those babies

I'm working on a new, very satisfying, project. Finally uploading the camcorder video from 2004-2007 onto the computer. It's a fun time. The camcorder only plugs into the old defunct laptop that won't find the network and has zero disk space because somehow the computer we used for 10 years ran on 25MB of hard drive or some such nonsense. I am doing my best to not cry that I didn't have my trusty iPhone to capture every moment of Oscar & Phoebe's babyhood. It's ok. I have something at least. And one bazillion photos. It'll be ok. I think I might make fancy baby books next. I didn't really do that for either of them. That's something I really wish I'd done in real time. Maybe between my blog and my emails, and we had an old family blog somewhere. Maybe I can cull all the info into a completely awesome baby book. Since it seems I sort of forgot to do that. I need to go research. Seen any amazing baby book projects out there?

Jul 8, 2014

Ok I'm stepping outside. I've been working on the spread for hours and I cannot get it right. My PL has caught up to when I started using the Collect and Day One apps. I must have 100+ photos I want to include for this one week. And we did nothing... went to the pool, watched World Cup, went to butterfly house, ate donuts. But I must have documented every step we took. Is it just Summer? Only so many photos of walking to school, soccer practice and doing homework that one can take. But summer! I have a photo of every flower in the garden, every cocktail made, every time they get on their bikes I get out my camera. Because I have cute biking paper that I bought back in March!

I don't know why I'm fighting it. I'll surely end up with a 6 page spread for the one week. I'm not much for editing.

Watercolor

First stab at watercolor lettering. I think I need better supplies. Maybe not use ikea paints. And to read the directions again. Very intrigued by the calligraphy course. Wonder if I can figure this out on my own.

New apps

Finally got around today to upgrading my iPhone's OS and was able to download some cool apps for my photos and journaling - Day One, A Beautiful Mess and Collect. Here are some photos from collect, I love it! And day one is awesome. I don't have it all figured out yet but I wrote 7 journal entries already today. This will be so helpful when I go to work on my PL pages.

April page

PL page in progress. I like the repeaty rainbows.

Lemon balm

Okay lemon balm, you have my attention, and half my raised bed. What does one do with you??

free!

Things checked OFF my to-do list:

First year of PTA! One more to go.

Exploremore Day

dance recitals and events

2 soccer seasons

field trips & end of year parties

relearning how to ride our bikes

 

We are ready for Summer! I have a crazy long list of things I want to make. First I need to clean up the layer of PTA that's covering all my craft stuff. Then I'm going fabric shopping (hello cotton + steel!) and then printing my photos for Project Life May/June pages. Hope these kids are ready to be ignored! 

 

this time in May, 2009

I was making this little shirt for Phoebe from Nani Iro fabric. It's tucked away in the attic now. I never sew for her anymore. I should. She's pickier now. And very in love with her sequins and sparkles. I should just be sewing for myslef.

the rain already knocked these all down

They were so beautiful last weekend on mother's day. So glad we spent some time in the park by the library taking photos. I feel low grade anxiety for these 2 weeks Spring is really at it. Like I'm going to blink and miss it.

Herculean

That's the effort it took for me to sit and play with felt for an hour this morning. Oh the things I had to ignore, stuff down, turn off. And I am not really an overly busy person. If I have a concrete task, it's done before I can even write it on my to-do list. But if I want to just fart around in my craftroom I can't seem to fit it in. 

Ok, now I'm just staring out the window again. This is what I revert back to whenever I get stuck with something in my day. I feel like flippin Walter Mitty. I need a mean Adam Scott to throw paper clips at me and snap me back to it. Sorry, we just watched that movie the other night. We all enjoyed it, 4 Lang thumbs up!