Happy Valentines Day!



I’ve been slacking…

On the crafting, creating and blogging...

But I have been getting caught up on the laundry.

The paperwork.

Yup 18 months worth all filed nicely away.

And the photo a day.

Day 3. Hands

Missing: Day 4 A stranger. Wish I could have gotten a picture of the cute elderly lady I saw with her rain cap on that was entering the hair salon that day. So dog on cute! But I didn’t feel it was worth getting in a car wreck over trying to take a picture while driving.

Day 5. 10 am.

Missing: Day 6 Dinner. I don’t know about you, but it’s chaotic enough just trying to eat, that I didn’t remember to take the picture until after I ate.

Day 7. button

Day 8. Sun

Day 9. Front door

Day 10. Self portrait

Day 11. Makes you happy

Day 12. Inside your closet



Hellooo...

Anybody home??

Day 2

February photo a day, Words:

Journaling is the one thing that has really held me back from scrapbooking. Not knowing what should be recorded and documented. I have found that starting this blog, (thanks Carrie for all the encouraging words and building my confidence to start) the words come together more quickly than they did when I first sat down. Although I'd like to share more crafty stuff with you, life right now hasn't allowed me to on a daily basis.

February photo a day

I saw this on pinterest and it jumped out at me. I don't know if I"ll follow along each month but figured I'd  try my best to do every day in February. I think I'll enjoy this challenge since the photo a day has some direction to it. I find myself drifting a lot these days. I printed this on computer paper and put it next to the calendar. I can view and cross off when completed.



Original post can be found here.

Okay so I snapped a couple yesterday but they all tie in together.

1.

These are the views of the crafts the are pulling me in all directions lately, plus the one thing that needs to be tackled next.

I'm having a hard time staying focused on one thing. I have too many things I enjoy doing so when the project I'm working on doesn't quite go the way it should, I walk away and pick up another. The only problem is these projects are spread through out our house and need some cleaning up and finishing.

My goal while Ryan is gone this time is to complete the many unfinished projects that are sitting out.

And then there are our taxes.

Yup, it's tax season again and I'm pretty sure I haven't done any filing since last tax season. When the pile out grew the shoe box, I started another pile. Gulp.

I also am pretty sure I got stuck with inherited learned this habit from one of my parents.

I really need to sit down and go through this stack of paper to find the stuff we need to do our taxes.

I have notice that I do collect alot of paper when it comes to filing.  Do I need to save every piece of paper that comes from the insurance company saying what they covered? Or every statement that comes for the doctors office? What do you save? What do you toss?

Sending our love

Ryan has returned back to work. Even though it did take several days for him to adjust to the days schedule and me getting used to having another adult around to help.  It was so nice to have him home for the extra few days.

Using my February kit I made a book that he could take with him when traveling away from home.

The book is filled with pictures of us. I even found a picture of us when we were first dating.

I know being away from home and working out of a camp is not easy. I wanted him to have a piece of home to be able to find encouragement and strength when the days are getting long.

 

The kids include some paintings and drawings they had created.

I wrote a letter expressing my love.

We are hoping the weather corporates for them to finish the work that needs to be done without too many weather days.

While Ryan was home the temperatures around here warmed up 56 degrees.

My day looks like it officially started at 3am. After returning home from the airport both the girls decided it would be a great time to start their day. *sigh* Hoping we can steal a nap in today. It just might be a 2 pot of coffee day. Glad we did picked up more coffee last night when we were out getting the few things that Ryan needed before heading out.  

I hate to tease the ones of you that missed out on the chance to buy a February kit from Paper Lovelies.

Sentiment and boat stamp from stampin' up. Ek success edge punch and cloud punch from fiskars.

The kits all sold very shortly after the kit was released.

Sentiment from Kiasercraft mini clear stamp and label maker. Kaisercraft pearls. Hug snug seam binding. Jenni Bowlin pin.

But I wanted to share with you the full views of the cards that I created using the wonderful kit.

Kiasercraft pearl,  paper dollie, stitching from sewing machine and sentiment from Ali Edwards stamp.

The kit included Kaisercraft's Sweet Nothings paperline.