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Project Life: Week 2

Project Life Wk 2

Hello, Project Life!

So I ran into some funny little problems this week, which you can see in the photo above, and which I will talk about below.

First, here are my pages for Week 2…
Project Life Wk 2

Project Life Wk 2

In week 2 I started a new workout from the book, Conditioning for Dance. If you have a dancer, or if you are one, you need this book. It will revolutionize your dancing and the way you think about and use your body.

Project Life Wk 2

Trinity had seen my Week 1 pages and the old artwork from her and Aiden that I’d stuck in it. She immediately whipped up another picture and told me I could add it to my PL for this week. How is that for a testimony of scrapbooking in general, and Project Life in particular?

Project Life Wk 2

I did an interview with Debbie Hodge for her membership site. I printed up the notes and questions she sent me, which also had pictures of my layouts. My own handwritten notes are added on top.

For those who like a closer look, I thought I’d indulge…

Project Life Wk 2

And even closer for those problems I mentioned…

Project Life Wk 2

Funny problem #1 - I stamped my calendar upside-down. Ooops. Oh well, that’s life.

Funny problem #2 - The photo of my vegetable stock was originally horizontal and I knew I would set it vertically for this pocket. I had a temporary memory loss, though, and I added my journaling to it horizontally.

Funny (annoying) problem #3 - I haven’t put journaling directly onto my photos so much lately and apparently I set it too close to the edges because the processor chopped off a huge chunk of my photos. I’ll redo a couple of these when I send in Week 3′s photos. When I send digitally altered photos in to print, I keep them available for changes in case of problems like this. So all I need to do is move the journaling layer a bit.

Project Life Wk 2

Project Life Wk 2

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  • Julie

    Hello Noell,
    I like the journaling on the pictures.  Easy Peasy right?

    Still enjoying the podcasts!
    Julie
     

  • http://www.sorkensgalleri.blogspot.com/ Sorken

    I’m so glad I’m not the only one making stupid little misstakes like that, so thanks for showing them. :-) Plus it makes your album more interaktiv… …you have to turn it around to read it. ;-) Nice photos.

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Ha ha, nice spin!! :)

  • Christy

    Ok…so every time I see a project life page, I want to do one. Now to figure out if I can add that in with all the other scrapping I do. Maybe I will do one for the month.

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    If you let it be easy it can be very fast. I’m still scrapbooking a lot – at least as much as I already was before I started PL!
    I actually think it sounds harder to do a monthly PL because you’ll have to do a whole roundup process and try to narrow things down. Of course, if you have a good process, that could be done simply. But I know I would find it harder.

  • http://www.kateadderley.blogspot.com/ kate Adderley

    love your PL pages, lm having great fun doing mine,  love how you write on your photos, l suppose you do that digi, something l dont understand, but it all looks good, even the oops ones- lol

  • http://www.karenscorneroftheweb.blogspot.com/ Poirier-Brode, Karen (Ladydoc)

    Kate if you want to try type on your photos, I am going to recommend trying it with Picasa. Picasa is a free program from Google that helps you organize and edit your photos. It has a very simple type tool called text in the basic fixes section of the edit menu (text is the eighth icon there). Very simple to understand and use and you cannot beat FREE! The nice thing about Picasa is that you can very easily hit “clear all” in the text tool  (or “undo” if you are using other edit functions) and your photo returns to what it was before. No worries about having to make a copy in order to avoid ruining the file. 

  • http://1200somemiles.com/ Sara Grafton

    Thanks for sharing your funny/annoying problems in Project Life.  They are not very noticeable.  I think that Project Life can help us embrace a little imperfection :)

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Thanks, Kate! :) Yeah, I did that digitally. You can do it Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, and probably some other software I have no experience with. It’s fun!

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    They may not be noticeable from a distance, but there are a couple that are cut off enough that it’s confusing to read them. And of course, the point is to be able to read them and understand! :) So those ones (I think it’s about two?) are the ones I will fix).

  • http://www.facebook.com/kelligsmith Kelli Gibson Smith

    Love the brightly colored walls in you home.

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Thank you! I’m so glad I did it! It’s energetic and makes me really happy! :)

  • KatieK.

    Got the dance books in my amazon cart. Though if there is something for me to do so you get some sort of ‘credit’ let me know :). Found another one about dancer’s anatomy that is fun.

    I make mistakes ALL the time. Love that you are showcasing that mistakes are real life, since this is project life. 

    I did some watercolor painting Saturday night on top of some paper I sorta liked and sorta didn’t. As a way to deal with some frustration. Painting and gluing does that for me. However the more I did the uglier I think it got! I still added it to the back of a PL page with a byline of explanation. I’m thinking if I keep at the painting I will get better and then it will show improvement. So my PL album will be a combo of the PP & journal also.

    Have you thought of adding the corrected journaling tucked in behind or on a tag or as a bunch of letters like a puzzle and having folks figure out where they go?

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Thx for offering to give me credit on the book! Don’t worry about it – I could have used an affiliate link but I didn’t feel like taking the time. :)
    I’d love to see what the other book(s) are that you’re buying. Oh, and I meant to tell you good luck with your son’s audition — I think we were emailing back -and-forth about that, but I can’t remember now if it was through email or comments on the site.

    As for fixing the hard to read photos – It really will be easier for me to just move the block of journaling over and then reordering the photos. Seriously, very simple and much faster than any other option.

    It’s a matter of clicking on the photo, which is still open in Photoshop, clicking on the Move tool and the journaling layer, and then clicking the arrow button a few times. Then I’ll reorder it along with my newest photos for last week. No big thing!

    Thanks for the idea, though!

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=636803594 Francine Clouden

    I love this peek into your process and life, problems not withstanding. And um, can you share your stock recipe? :)

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    Sure! :) These are approximations. I vary the amounts of the vegetables depending on what I have in the kitchen. And I look for my wilting vegetables…

    10 cups water
    2 onions
    1 sweet potato
    2 carrots (or 4 carrots if I don’t have a sweet potato)
    2 potatoes (or can do 1 if I have 2 sweet potatoes)
    2 celery stalks
    2 or more garlic cloves
    fresh parsley springs
    1 bay leaf
    4 allspice berries (that’s what the big dark brown balls are)
    4 whole black peppercorns
    4 whole red peppercorns if you have it
    1/2 tsp salt

    Put it all together and cover. Bring to a boil on high heat. Lower heat simmer about an hour. Let cool slightly and strain with a tight-woven colander or cheese cloth.

    Note: I don’t bother peeling my onions, garlic, carrots, etc.

  • http://www.facebook.com/dedra.long Dedra Long

    Loving your project life Noell! I’m working on mine too, but have had serious computer problems recently. I have decided to burn the photos I take every month onto a CD and the last spread I do for each month will have a CD full of all the photos I took for just that month. 
    Tell Izzy and the kids “hello”. 
    loves. 
    d.

  • http://www.paperclipping.com Noell

    That’s a great idea! Sorry about your computer troubles! :(

    Yikes — seeing your comment just reminded me that I have some items I need to pick up from scrapbook.com. Oops!