The Red Wren

Project life – Week 40

{this post is a week late…oops!} This week I suffered from the 'can't be bothereds'. I usually have my photos printed on Mondays but this week I made it all the way to Wednesday. But it's done. I decided to try out a new pocket layout this week. This range is new in Australia and called (a bit cheekily) Making memories Project Life. The pockets have 2×4 slots, so I purchased some of their 2×4 cards too. The verdict? The pockets are much wider than BH pockets ...

Freebies, Memory Keeping

Free Journal Cards

Earlier this year I announced that I was taking a new direction on this blog, giving away digital freebies as well as rambling about my garden and Christmas. I put up one set of blog labels, then real life got in the way. Since starting Project Life in August I’ve been making lots of digital ...

Memory Keeping

December Daily

A little while ago I discovered something called December Daily, which is the brainchild of and hosted each year by Ali Edwards. Given that I love everything Christmas; decorating, festive music, festive food, Christmas parties, and taking a million photos all month long, this is the most ...

Gardening, Life and Outings, Memory Keeping

Project Life – Week 39

(otherwise known as the week of too many photos). We had a lot on this week. We had play dates with friends, adventures at the Rhododendron Gardens, and Tulip Festival, rides on miniature trains.. Come end of week I'd narrowed my weekly photo selection down to 52. Eek. Through lots ...

Memory Keeping

Project Life – week 38

This week I went back to a digital aproach, editing everything in photoshop then printing the end result. I'm really, really happy with it. I didn't have as many photos to work with this week, and I did all my journalling with the photos rather than use a separate space. This gave me ...

Life and Outings, Memory Keeping

Project Life -Week 37

After using mainly digital cards for last weeks' layout, I decided to just use the one kit this week and do nothing digitally aside from collaging a few photos. The result? Meh. There's nothing wrong with it, I do like it, but because I don't like my own handwriting and because I do ...

Gardening

Green manure- digging it in!

There's not a lot to say about the digging in of the green manure, other than it smelt lovely and fresh, and was harder work than it looked. It now needs a few weeks to break down in the soil, then our bed will be ready for planting. The broad beans in the foreground are next. We're ...

Life and Outings, Memory Keeping

Project Life – Week 36

For this week I experimented a bit more with digital design. I purchased the Dear Lizzy dgital Neapolitan kit and used that as the base for my layout. I then added a couple of my own cards, text, and photos. I'm really pleased with how this one turned out, but I'm not so pleased with ...

Life and Outings, Memory Keeping

Project Life – week 35

I completed my first project life spread last week and I'm so pleased with it. The process of getting there was somewhat amusing; I messed up the resolution on a couple of them and they had to be reprinted. I enthusiastically sliced through my 6×4 prints which had two 3×4's on ...