Just Make Stuff

Almost the same...

This room is almost the exact same as when I last rearranged it three and a half years ago, which is a world record of consistency around here. But there was a small yellow table under the window that was replaced with a narrow table Sean put together for me. It has occasionally been a place to take a photo of a card I've made and much more than occasionally been a place to lay out piles of paperwork for school as I work through them.

And are you judging my dinosaur lamp? Sean thinks it's ridiculous and he is totally right, but for some reason I love it...especially with it's cord wrapped in neon pink yarn.

Project Life 2017: Summary

I only shared one batch of 2017 pages last year, so I am finally sharing the rest now.

I love using the app as much as ever and continue to be really grateful that it's this easy to save memories each week.

At the end of each year I have tallied each book when it was complete...

2015: 98 pages 791 photos

2016: 124 pages 1,108 photos

2017: 116 pages 1,021 photos

I still do one page per week and then extra pages for any event I have a few (or ton of) photos from. One of my favorite parts of the book this year was saving a bunch of screenshots from my Instagram stories.

I have had these printed as 8x8 prints through the Project Life app and plan on moving up to 10x10 prints for 2018.

The next planner...

I decided to make a pretty big change in planner-ing (because that's a word, right?) for 2018. I have used an A4 binder for years, but I would rarely take it out of the house since it was so big. So I decided to put together a mini Happy Planner. They have cute pre-made ones, but I decided to get a cover and make my own. 

I cut out some favorite cardstock for dividers, but didn't make tabs this time. And I designed super simple week and month sheets...

Here are PDFs of these sheets...  Download 2018 calendar   Download Blank month    Download Weekly page  I trimmed them to 7 inches tall and 4.75 inches wide. 

Then I cut a bunch of plain paper so I can make to do list after to do list.

December Daily-ish 2017: 02

I finished this book up a few days after Christmas and it's packed with seventy-two little pages. A few pages were shared already and here's a bunch more...

Living Room Update...

When I was planning this little redecoration this past summer, I asked Sean if he would have ever changed this room from when I first decorated it a couple years after we moved in. I wasn't surprised to hear that he could have happily left it back in the 2002 version. Meanwhile, I was rather amazed with myself that I practically left our living room alone since 2011.  

Sean painted our old armoire navy and hung up shelves for me. I had a new slipcover made for our rocking chair (a sentimental piece of furniture that I credit for why Sean and I got engaged) out of a soft and cozy gray flannel. I also bought plants and kept them alive.

Over the holidays I was so excited to change out the shelves with Christmas-y-ness...

You never know me with me and my voracious rearranging habit, but I think this room might be good for at least another six years.

New Year...

Happy New Year right on time six days into the year...but that's not too bad, right? 

This year I really, really, really want to figure out a way to get back to actually making stuff. I want to go back to the days where I cranked out a few scrapbook pages or cards or tried a new craft...or any craft. And then I want to share it here. I have really missed this part of life.

So, with this in mind, I picked a word for the year.

A word that is very 2004, but I have decided that the crafting enthusiasm I had in 2004 needs to make it's way into 2018...

Here's to a year of crafting, making and creating...

(2017//2016//2015//2014//2013//2012)