P365 Catch Up

We were officially a week behind on posting our P365 pics until tonight...but I caught us up on the P365 blog AND even got my LO done for week 3, so I am officially P365 caught up, yay! Here are the last 3 weeks of P365 for me...

Seems to be rolling right along and I am liking how the pages are turning out now that I am in a groove, at first I struggled with not embellishing the pages so much.  But the plainer pages are growing on me now, they certainly go together quicker.

I'll be back later with my ADSR catch up...have a good night!

~My Birthday, P365 Update and a couple Layouts~

OK--Seems I have some business to take care of...

First and foremost, it was my birthday yesterday, yay!  My family gave me a nice day by letting do whatever I wanted, which turned out to be not much, LOL, so we decided togo to dinner!  Int he afternoon they let me open my gifts, bought me my favorite German Sweet Chocolate cake and some beautiful flowers, they sang to me and we all had cake, of course!  Then, we went to dinner a little local Mexican place near our house.  We all love it.  So, I was happy, you can go to my family blog for photos if you want to see my cake and flowers and such.  Got some good shots of me and the kids.

Second, I started P365 here the other day and have since recruited my almost 7 year old DD to do the project with me!  So, we started a dedicated P365 mother daughter blog for those pics and I will post the LO's at the end of each week here as a summary.  Go to our new P365 Blog to see how we're doing...hint-hint, she's DYING for comments, she thinks that is so cool to get confirmation that people are looking, let's face it, we all do, right?

And last but not least, I have a couple layouts to show you...my first of 2009.  I've only done two because I have been so busy getting myself organized!!  P365, new desktop, new planner pages, kids back to school, I am doing ADSR (layouts on that coming soon), etc, etc.  OK, here they are, both New Year's related...

The first uses Britt-ish Design's 'Life's a Party' (available at ScrapMatters)  kit which worked out so well for my theme party...

Full Credits Here

This next one uses Alma's Scrap Habit's cute kit 'Brighter Tomorrows' (also available at ScrapMatters) There is a funny story here...I did this for the first ADSR assignment, and I did it wrong, people have been PMing me to tell me, isn't that sweet?  So, I need to do another one, too late at night and I missed the specifics on the requirements!  But I still LOVE how this turned out,  and it is getting a great response, so here it is!

Full Credits Here

And that's it for me tonight, visit my other blogs if you wish!

~Happy New Year! and Project 365~

I hope everyone is off to a prosperous 2009...we sure rang it in with gusto at our house...we had a dress-up Rock Band party...soooooo much fun!  See pictures on my family blog.  Here's a little tease...  

And speaking of the new year...I am going to tackle the Project 365 project this year...you take a photo of something in your life everyday all year and end up with a montage of memories at the end of the year.  A bunch of us at ScrapMatters are going to do it and they have a thread posted there where we can share ideas on what to photograph and how to scrap the photos.  For my January 1st photo, I took this photo of us eating breakfast this morning after last nights festivities...we all had a slumber party after the New Year's Eve party, and when we got up this morning, we had a huge breakfast together and continued to enjoy the holiday together, cooked by my DH, thanks hunny!  It was an awesome party, excellent company and an all around fabulous memory!  Definitely worthy of my first photo for Project 365.  Here it is...

And last but not least, my New Year's resolutions...I am writing them here because I am the queen of justification.  Hopefully having them here in "public" will  make me think twice about breaking them!  LOL!

~Workout 3 times a week

~Blog more regularly (I am going to try a 'schedule' i.e. Mondays are a tidbit or neat link I find, Sundays are my 365 recap, etc.)
~Scrap  183 layouts, I know, weird #, but it's an average of one every other day

~Be more diligent about craft time with the kids (we started planning a date every week for craft time together and with the holidays, things got hectic and it went my the wayside, I want to get that going again)

~Less procrastination!  i've done better on this recently, I want to keep it up!  This can mean anything from going through the mail as soon as it comes in to cleaning out a closet.

~Be "smarter" about money..which has a myriad of meanings for me including buying less "frivlous" items when I am out shopping.  Wal-Mart kills me, I go for groceries and inevitably end up with ten things I didn't think I needed!  Being more mindful of that will help.

What are your resolutions?

See you tomorrow!