Yay for holiday weekends! I got a whopping 17 layouts done this weekend, bringing my grand total for the month to 37! I’ve now finished through the end of July 2013 and I am relishing this short period of being only 17 months behind. 🙂 Now I’m deciding if I should just scrapbook random layouts for a bit or if I should push on and tackle August 2013. Decisions, decisions. Now obviously these are super simple layouts, but I’m ok with that. I have plenty of more artistic layouts sprinkled throughout. Not to mention that Kate wanted to look at one of the finished scrapbooks this weekend and I had an epiphany. As we looked through the book, I wasn’t critiquing my layouts. I was marveling over how tiny she was! So I’ll continue to push through and just try to get some stories down. Here’s an example of one of the super simple layouts from this weekend.
I don’t even think that I cut most of these papers. I just moved the scraps around until they looked like what I wanted. 🙂
Honestly the most time consuming aspect of this was adding these strips of Amy Tangerine tape and gluing down the wood veneer hearts. Which took almost no time. 🙂 And to be honest, this layout is more complicated than most of the ones I made this weekend. I go through phases of wanting to be artistic and creative and phases of just wanting to get it done and checked off. Both are fine!
I’d say that I didn’t really spend more than 30 minutes on anyone layout. That’s still quite a bit of time spent scrapping, but I’ve recently managed to get Raptor addicted to scrapping too, so I just give her some older papers (she doesn’t care that they’re not trendy), prints that I’ve ended up not using, and old journaling cards from my used up Project Life core kits. I’m having her journal on her layouts now. It’s super cute. (And good for her writing skills.) It was really satisfying (and motivating!) to get a whole month knocked out. I batch printed the photos and then forced myself to just focus on them.
Other things I’m hoping to get done this week:
- Baby Boy’s Blanket
- Storage system for the nursery (hello Ikea!)
- 2015 Week 3 PL
- 2014 Week 3 PL
StartFinish book club book by Thursday- Figure out carseats
- Design layout tracker
- Pick another month to scrap and finish it
- Work on wipes
- Make spreadsheet for borrowed baby stuff