Tuesday and I have been having fun collecting for the nature exchange we are participating in.
This little bundle of wonderful nature bits is going to Russia. I printed out a picture like this and labeled where we found everything (again with in two block of our house). I figured it would be nice to compare to when it arrives and is dried out a little. From top left: pine cone from a couple blocks away, holly berries and leaf, moss, bits that fall from trees whenever it’s windy, maple leaf, little thing that drops from our neighbors tree, more moss (it’s wet here!), rosemary (from our herb garden), lavender (from our front yard), little flowers I managed to still find blooming in the yard, leaves, leaves from a blueberry bush and rocks from the Oregon coast, random berries and leaves.
Like I said we’re sending our package to Russia. I have an atlas that I found at an estate sale that is in Russian (I hope!). So I wrapped it up like this:
That is Russian right? I love these mail exchanges and hopefully I can find some more for Tuesday in the future, I’m very excited for her to get our egg carton. Did anyone else participate?
Celebrating crafts, kids and the everyday through photographs.
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Scrapbooking is totally crafting for me. I don’t know who is going to want my scrapbooks down the road, but I know I love looking at them, a lot. I love all the memories, all of the details and the fun products. Just the chance to get crafty is so fun.
From the tiny bit of snow we had last year. Love this photo so I printed it big.
The Tuesday on this layout is a negative from the pillowcase on craft weekend. I didn’t iron it perfectly onto the paper so it’s a little messy, but I still love it.
I took a lomo print, cut it up and arranged it to make the strip of photos on the top. The prints have individual photos in a weird order (counter clockwise I think).
A rare double pager, but I just couldn’t weed the photos down to less than this. I think I took fifty photos of her eating applesauce (two years ago!) and printed at least a dozen!
I love doing layouts like this so much, but I’m onto something new too. I got my supplies for doing Project Life next year and dove right into them. I decided to go back and scrapbook 2011 month by month using the separated page protecters. I’ll share soon, I just have to say, I love it for all the random photos and so does Bj. He is glad to see them out of the three-up photo albums I store my printed photos in that are not scrapped (Library of Memories style). I’m not sure if I’ll go back any further than that, and I think in 2012 I’ll do weekly or bi-weekly pages, but either way I’m glad to be recording my memories, as always. -
We basically live on Tuesday time around here. Especially in the evenings. I’ve attempted to get on a schedule with her before, and I’ve heard how much kids secretly love that and blah, blah, blah. But it has never worked for us. The closest thing to a schedule has been the last almost two years in her nap being somewhere between lunch and dinner. The biggest wrench in the whole thing is her night time sleep. I mean it doesn’t take a genius to figure out that if you rock your kid for hours at night, and it’s 11:30 before they get to sleep, you’re going to have to stay up pretty late if you had anything to get done. Along that line, here’s what I worked on until 2:30 AM yesterday!
I’m really, really hoping this visual schedule works for us. If it doesn’t at least I’ll know I tried EVERYTHING!
I made the cards from old Kolo pages I cut apart and vinyl letters cut from my Silhouette SD (note: for this transfer tape is a must, so you don’t have to move letters one by one). I made them the same size as the cards that came with the chart (I used this one). First I went through my stash of photos already printed to find activity pictures, and cut them 2″ high. For the activities that were missing I finally figured out how to print custom sizes on my little 4 x 6 printer, so I printed two to a page. Side note: I have a Picture Mate from Christmas 2005 that still totally rocks my socks. I can’t recommend that little Epson enough! If you’ve done Week in the Life with Ali, than you probably have most of things you do day to day in picture form! A lot of my photos are from that week.
Tuesday loves this thing. A little too much, I think I’m going to laminate all the cards before she wrecks them. My original idea was just to use this in our newly implemented “school” time. Since routine in general is hard for us and concepts of before, after, in an hour, later, etc. are too I thought this would help with our day over all. I’m going to try it out for a while and see how it goes. I do wonder what will happen if something doesn’t go as planned, I’ll probably just slip the cards out. And it would be fun to leave a gap and give her three card options to choose from. Or later on leave a few out and let her decide which comes first, etc. I’m pretty excited about it. I’ll let you know how it goes!
Oh and I should mention that the nap didn’t happen today, which knocked out writing notes and scrapbooking (and made her CA-RAZY by four).
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