This Town

The weather around here has been cold and dreary. Dude I am so ready for Spring.

I'm actually ready for summer-or at least summer weather. So, I'm reliving our trip to Vegas in november when it was 25 during the day and a balmy 15 at night. Those were some lovely days.



I took my friend Rae Lynn's advice on this layout and used up a project life card for my title. It's a great way to use leftover or favourite cards on layouts. They aren't just great for PL spreads. Check out her class at The Paperie this month for using PL cards in layouts!

Now, onto the layout. The title card is obviously a reference to Frank Sinatra's 'This Town'. I do love that song. And it's Vegas personified in my opinion. Also, it was featured in ocean's & we know how I feel about those movies.



Just a simple layout with some leftover pics that didn't make it into my travel album.  I realized I made a mistake and put 'Eataly' on the card with the Olive Oil Gelato from Otto. Oops. Mario Batali just has so many restaurants going on. Maybe he should open up an Eataly there too!? Have to fix that little flub I guess.

I'm hoping to share the travel album next week with some tips on using project life products & project life-style spreads for travel albums.

xoxo
K

Monday Mini Album: Project Life Fall Edition

The Toronto Raptors have been doing well on the basketball court this season. I'm not a big fan of watching b-ball on the t.v. but give me a court and some stadium snacks and I'm your girl. As a result of their success, I've 'lost' my husband for the season. Looking at the glass half full, it does give me all kinds of time to work in my scrapbooking room!



And I have been. I've been cluing up some projects that needed to be finished. I completed and shared my December Daily a few weeks ago.

Today I'm sharing my Project Life Fall Album. I'm working on PL with a new approach this year- 4 Handbook mini-albums. Once for each season. Summer + Fall are done. Winter  & Spring are coming.

As usual it's long. So, I created a set in Flikr and added a few of my favourite elements in pics below as well. If you'd like to see all the pics and take a closer look you can view them on my flikr page here.




Fall is my favourite.

xoxo
K

Project Life: Fall

I've been working on my project life Fall album.



Of course, Fall isn't over just yet. I'm documenting September, October & November in my Fall album. I'm using another handbook by Studio Calico to contain the project.

I've compiled a few of my fav pictures so far to share with you.



I used up an old Hambly transparency with some fall foilage for the opening page of my album with some wood veneer.



I love that card from the Midnight edition of the Project life kits.



Week in the life using a few badges I've been hoarding and can't even remember who their made by!



I love creating 6 by 8 page layouts in these albums as well. Lots of pink here-unusual for me but I like the look.




The other side of that layout is this one. I love these pics of these two. On the other side I broke an SC card in half to fill the pockets and used one of them as a pocket for my tickets from the show.



Some beautiful Fall photos and some letters & a badge by KP.

The page on the left is neat because I used another piece of the transparency-



And created a flip up with it to showcase a few more pics.



And last, for today, is another full page layout. I adore the 6 by 8 size. It's so quick an simple.

xoxo
K

PL Summer Album; Part 3

This is Part 3 of my Summer Album. You can view part 1 & 2 here & here.

This is part 3 a.k.a The Most Magical Part of Our Summer.

So we went on a disney cruise.

Very good friends of ours got married this summer on the Disney Dream. Our entire friendship circle packed up and set sail for 4 days at sea with Mickey & Minnie.



We brought reinforcements. And then our friends ran up and down the stairs past this photo. Said reinforcements were not involved.



Chillin'. Also the kids area was a little different from the adult area. We stuck to the adult area.



We met a few characters. Ya know, just laying around tanning and then Mickey decided to lay down on the lounger beside me.



And then we had a wedding. It was lovely.



And we hung out on the prettiest beach ever. And saw sharks, sting rays & fishes. No joke. There was a baby shark. M refused to go back in the H2O.



Pictures with the bridal party & the fam. Such a handsome group of boys.



And then there were fireworks. We celebrated N's birthday the day we got off the ship at a great spot in Orlando together. It was yummy.



And we found tacos & went to Wet & Wild the next day with B-rock. When in rome right?!

And that's it for our summer album. It was an E.P.I.C summer.

xoxo
K

PL: Summer Album Part 2

Yesterday I shared Part 1 of my Summer Album.

Today I'm sharing part 2 a.k.a 'Summer at Home'. It's broken up into two groups- Part 1 is before our Florida vaca and Part 2 is after. It just made sense to include both here on this post.

PART 1



We had some visits from O-Town friends which are always welcome-and a great excuse to go out for brunch.



We spent a lot of time at 3 Pond grilling dinner-which led to S'more making naturally.



I rode my bike and we made pizzas on the grill. Of course, we ate more ice cream too.

PART 2



We went for walks, hung out with family and saw some fun movies.



We went hiking with friends and checked out some new parts of the East Coast trail.



We bbq'ed with pals and hung out.



Dina Wakely came to grace us with her creative presence. And we celebrated our 4th anniversary with an epic night out at Aqua.

It was a good one.

Stay tuned for the last, magical part of our summer tomorrow.

xoxo
K

I have a new plan for PL.

Yep. So I've been doing KTOL a.k.a 'Keeping Track of Life' all year long and love it. It's a simplified version of PL in that it includes one double sided page protector and an interactive layout. Being able to do one layout using multiple photos is awesome.

But, this summer I decided to do a Summer Mini Album.



I used a Studio Calico Handbook for it and discovered how much I enjoyed the size and manner in which I could fill it. I didn't use date cards or anything. I just scrapbooked using pocket page protectors. It was awesome-I even managed to include some 6 by 8 layouts.



And so, I decided that it would be a great idea to do a seasonal project life. My plan is to use this Studio Calico woodgrain album for the Fall album. One for Winter & one for Spring.



So my Summer album is now complete-well, except the journaling which we all know is my weak spot. It's large and very, very full so I'll be sharing it over the next few days here on the blog.



So here goes Part 1 a.k.a The 3 Weeks We Spent in Ottawa. 'We' being a combination of M, E, & I as well as E &I.



I used a serious combination of Kelly Purkey PL kit products and some of my favourite things. This is the opening page. I used her 'Hello Summer' stamp and gold brilliance ink to stamp the sentiment repeatedly on white cardstock to create the background. Then I used this 3 by 4 kraft card with beautiful white letterpress.



Our summer bucket list still needs to be printed but I've left a spot for it. You'll notice that that is a repeated sentiment throughout this album. I sometimes like to add my personal thoughts and ideas after displaying my work on the blog.





I discovered I love tacos-specifically fish tacos- at El Camino in O-Town with some of our fav people Mike & Nicole.



While we hung out M went to Ottawa Explosion Weekend with Mike. It involved a few Gatorade-fueled mornings.



I got to visit some of my old students which was pretty awesome.





I used lots of KP flair-I love it all. And those food stamps came in very, very handy this summer! Not just in O-Town.



We ate at some of our fav places of course like The manx for brunch. And there was lots of prep for L's 2nd birthday party-monkey themed of course.









I met up with lots of friends including the girls from MA. It was awesome to see them and catch up on life and school and all that good business. I miss them so much. We were such a good team together.



After M went back home I made time to discover some cool local spots I'd never been to in O-Town.



Eugene & Kobe became fast friends and they really enjoyed one another's company. You could say they had a summer romance.



We ate lots of ice cream...



And I tried an awesome new spot- Supply & Demand. They had the most delicious Kale caesar salad.



Nicole and I went to the spa. It was epic.



I celebrated Canada day for the first time in O-Town. I was always at camp in NYC when we lived there.



And then we visited the burbs. It was a short lived visit that ended in a return DT where there were less children to be harassed.





And I got to see all the girls in a fun & silly martini night. Then we went home.

It was an amazing start to our summer and one we would def do again! If Mike & Nicole will have us! They were the best hosts ever this summer-dealing with me & E.

Tomorrow I'll be sharing some more of our summer at home. Stay tuned!

xoxo
K