The Red Wren

Project Life Week 2

Guess what? After a bit of a marathon this week I am pretty much up to date this year. I have to finish off week 8, but the rest complete, yay! I’ll share the layouts over a few days rather than bombard you all with 5 blog posts. Writing my manifesto earlier this week really helped get my head around the direction I want to go in with scrapbooking. I’ve come to realise that a perfectly uniform album isn’t me as I’m a bit of a hodge podge person who likes a lot of different things, so why ...

Memory Keeping

Project Life Manifesto

If you’ve read any of my recent entries about Project Life and December Daily, you’ll know that I’ve struggled a little with my own style lately. I’ve overthought, overcomplicated and have been overinspired. Over the weekend my friend Essie posted her Project Life Manifesto on her blog. After ...

Gardening

Summer Fruit and Vegetables

It’s been a hot summer in Melbourne, an odd summer really. There hasn’t been much middle ground. It’s either really hot, or back into the mid-20’s. Until this week there’d been very little rain. It hasn’t been a good summer for vegetables. Zucchinis are stunted, tomatoes were green too long, ...

Memory Keeping

December Daily

I completely my December Daily this week which brought with it a huge feeling of satisfaction. I also felt quite proud that I’d taken on what proved to be a much bigger task than I thought, and actually finished it unlike so many other projects I take on. I want to share some of my thoughts ...

Memory Keeping

Project Life 2014 – Week 1

I’m a little bit behind with my album at present, but that’s ok. I’ll catch up over the next week or so. The main reason for being so behind was due to my December Daily taking a lot longer to wrap up than expected, but now that is done and dusted I’m back into it. I only put the January ...

Memory Keeping

Project Life 2014

I’m very behind with project life already. Here we are in February and I have finally settled on a cover. I agonised over this one a lot more than was necessary. I always feel a cover sets the tone for what’s inside and given I’d like to do more of my layouts with physical product this year I ...

Sewing and Craft

Chains of hearts

I noticed a chain of origami hearts at a friend’s home last weekend and decided that was just what I needed to add some cheer to the lounge room. It started with a few hearts, then quickly became a whole pile. The instructions I used can be found here.

Life and Outings, Memory Keeping

Happy New Year

It’s been over a month, but I’m back! Unfortunately just before Christmas I landed in hospital for a few nights which completely killed any plans to give you some more Christmas freebies before the season was over. I’m ok now, just have some pesky gallstones that will be removed along with my ...

Sewing and Craft

Christmas Sewing

Gee, it’s a been a while since I updated hasn’t it? Truth be told, I’ve spent most of my crafty time on Project Life (which I blog about here) and hadn’t sewn for months and months. I purchased Christmas fabric back in July, and really should have followed through on the urge to sew and sew ...