Project Life: June 2012 (Week 2)

Some pages for week 2 of June 2012

This week, we went to Gymboree Harbour Front (again), for a free class that we got from Ben's birthday party. Vio was suuuuuuuper excited about it, and the teacher mentioned that he was really good (as in really happy in the class). Caitlyn was quite alright (she doesn't understand much yet), but she really enjoyed the bubbles and parachute part.

This week is also SUPER HOT week... And one fine day, it was raining, and just so happen that Savio & Caitlyn had a looooong afternoon nap. So soon after they woke up from their nap, we brought them for a walk in Jurong Lake Park (just a stroll). They enjoyed it a lot, especially since we let them picked up the things from the grounds (fallen leaves, etc). And they just looked soooo cute when they hold hands together!

I have a few of these cute headbands (for phototaking purposes, of course). Don't know why, I just LOVE these kind of things.. haha.. And seems like Caitlyn quite like them too (especially the turtle, she asked me to put it on her again and again and again..)  But of course, they only lasted a few seconds on her head.. :p

Project Life: June 2012 (First Week)

First week of June is here!

The hot favorite at home now is the ball tent. But unfortunately, they play it the unconventional way..

The just LOVE to turn it outside down, sit and JUMP on top of it. Sigh.... The ball tent's days are numbered.. Now it can't stand straight anymore... When it stands, it will be slanted to one side.. wahaha.. Well, at least it's better than it being a white elephant ya? ;)

Project Life: May 2012

It's been a while since I last uploaded my Project Life pages! Yes I've done the pages for all the photos until today! Yay! It feels really good to be NOT behind.. hahaa..

Here are the pages for the month of May... Some highlights:

1. We went to Gymboree for Ben's 3rd Birthday Party, and the 2 kids JUST LOVE IT A LOT
2. We bought Ball Pit and its Tunnel for Vio and Caitlyn. So yes, our house is getting kinda smaller and smaller!
3. We went to Chinese Garden on 1 weekend
4. Well, the other photos are mostly some snapshots of our daily lives ;)

Enjoy!

My Photobooks are Here!

Finally! The moment I've been waiting for! My first-ever photobook (that was meant for me) are here! - actually make it two as they arrived almost at the same time.. Only 1 day different!

I ordered them from Artscow, and I must really say that though the price is really cheap, the quality is good! I LOVE THEM!!

The first one is for Caitlyn's First Birthday Party & Celebration.. It's an 8"x8". I think I paid only about $15 SGD for it? Here it is:

Not bad ya? Well, at least I'm quite satisfied with it! The above photobook was designed by me (each and every page of it!

And here's the other one.. it's a 6"x6" photobook, which I only paid about $8 - $10 SGD? So cheap! This is for our last year's "holiday" to Sentosa! Haha.. It's a project that I've been delaying and delaying since I don't have time to do it! I have planned to make a mini album for it, and I have even bought the papers, embellishments and all that. Then I figured that making photobooks would be much easier and MUCH faster. And well, they look pretty nice too :D For this one, I finished it in 1 day (coz I'm using the ready-made template provided by ArtsCow). Wow, can you believe it? 1 day to complete the whole album! If I were to make the traditional scrapbook, it might take me 1 month to complete :p



Project Life - April & May 2012

Yayyy... I'm finally NOT behind!! I have completed all the photos until present day.. Here they are! 1 page for the last week of April, and the rest are for May...

Oh wow.. It's only the first week of May and I already have 3 pages! Hoho..
It would be 1+ more month before I start to send these images to print as a photobook! (For this year, I plan to have 2 photobooks: 1 for first half, and 1 for second half of 2012)... Good plan, huh? Hope all will go well according to the plan! :)

Project Life

I'm sorry for not updating the blog regularly for sooooo long.. Truth is, I'm kinda busy lately! Well yeah, I'm full time working mom, and I spend most of my time after work to play with my two beautiful kids, I also run an etsy shop (after all the kids are sleeping), AND I also do scrapbooking in my other free time (provided there are any). Well, that sounds pretty busy of me, huh?

As if that's not enough for me to handle, recently I also decided to do Project Life! Well, ok at the beginning it wasn't really "Project Life". I just decided to do the photos digitally and print them into photobooks, instead of printing it manually in the good ol' way, and slipping them to premade photo album. And why did I make this decision at the first place?

1. Digital pages can have more than 1 photo at one page, and I admit I have TONS of photo to do! So having some photos done at 1 go would be nice
2. I start to have problems keeping the bulky photo album, they're really taking much space! Photobooks would be much thinner
3. I must admit, I'm REALLY lazy to do up the dates. Normally I would select and print the photos, sort them to be in sequence, slip them to photo album, and write the dates for the photo. Now that's tedious and I don't really enjoy the last part.
4. The photos look kinda boring. Ok I admit I love fancy stuff and I just love decorating the photos. So just printing it plainly and slip it just like that in the photo album looks kinda boring to me
5. I found this groupon about photobook from Photobook Singapore, and that's when the idea of doing the photos digitally came to me.

And yes, I have done the photos from January 2012 until present. (though I'm still about 2 weeks behind!). At the first place I'm doing them more like digital scrapbooks.

Sometime back, while I'm busy downloading tons of digital scrapbook freebies across the net, I found this term "Project Life", and hey! I love how that sound! Now when I read more about this "Project Life", I'm totally hooked. Oh my, how can I not know about this sooner??

Project Life is a very smart approach to scrapbooking, founded by Becky Higgins. I must say that it's really smart! One scrapbook page is smartly divided into few sections for photos, journals, etc. Now I find it really good as I can record my daily life, have many photos at one page, and all still looks pretty and organized.

Well, of course I modified the Project Life a little bit. Instead of doing it week-by-week (having a spread for 1 week), I decided not to limit myself. So I will just scrap my photos in the Project Life way, but not according to weeks. So for me, 1 week can have more than 1 spread, or no page at all. So it all depends on whether something worth recording happen that week or not. And so far, I just loved it!! And not all of my page would follow Project Life templates. Some special ones would have a scrapbook page by their own.

Here's the page that I've done for April 2012 so far (1 more page pending, and then I'm done with April!). Mostly in Project Life templates (that I made myself, following the real Project Life template. But anyway, they look the same, don't you think?)