Weeks 22 - 34 of my Project 365

I just realized I am way behind on actually blogging the 365 pages and figured since I'm making templates from them it might be a good idea to have the pages they are created from actually posted. So, to catch up, here are weeks 22-34. Plus with so many collected together it gives a really good feel for what the completed book will look like. I'm absolutely loving it!

Project 365 Weeks 5-8 Templates

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This is the second set of templates, weeks 5-8 of project 365 in PSD format only. Enjoy!

Project 365 Weeks 1-4 Templates

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I lost my internet connection earlier tonight, possibly because of a down cell tower, solar flare, or divine intervention. I don't know, but I had empty time. My children are sleeping, I've scrapped 4 pages already today, and I have a hard time working on an Autumn kit when it's 90 some degrees, so I was thinking. I have had several people ask about the 365 pages and where I get the templates for them, just this week another sweet lady asked that same question. This surprises me some since they are such plain pages, but hey, I love them that way so I'm sure more people do too, right. Well, there are no templates because I make a new one up each week, all different but attempting to keep with the mostly white story board feel so that at the end of the year I can print them all into a nice, minimalistic coffee table book. I just want to be able to flip through it and take in the whole year at a glance. Anyway, like I said there are no templates, or I should say were no templates because tonight while bored out of my mind and unable to play online I started making templates from my 365 pages. So, if you like the clean story board look then it's your lucky night. I'm releasing weeks 1-4 tonight in a pack and I plan to release more packs in the future until you're all caught up. Now, if you're not doing project 365 this is a good chance to jump in. You could start this week and go from here or digital cameras date their files so all you have to do is look them up and drop them in the templates and at the end of the year, tada, a year in review all nice and neat. I also like using them for highlighting favorite shots of a photo session. It's a great way to display them. The templates are only in PSD format since that's what I do, so if you can use them, enjoy.

Teddy Bear Picnic

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I am enchanted by old fashioned things like hand made quilts, daydreaming, picnics, well loved bears, and storybooks that take you away.  I wish we could all retain a bit of childhood, hug our stuffed friends and share our secrets with them.  There are so many secrets to whisper.  The end of summer always makes me a bit nostalgic like this.  I think because it was always such a point of change.  As the leaves turned, so did life; school started, freedom ended and it was a bit like an old friend leaving.  I would hope for an Indian Summer and a few last glimpses of  warm days.  So as we approach the end of another summer I'm looking back, not just on this summer but all the summers before.  Teddy bears and picnics, tea parties under a tree, and the sound of bird song and wondering what their lyrics meant.  Maybe it was one too many princess stories but I would always try to speak to them.  I was sure if my tone was soft, a bird would land on my finger and we could sing together.  Silly, I know, but I have had them land on my outstretched hand so maybe, just maybe, not so silly...  Anyway, this kit is for the daydreamers, those kindred souls who want that one last lazy day in the shade of a tree before turning the leaf in their storybook.  Autumn air is drifting in on a cool breeze but I'm hoping for one last teddy bear picnic.

Teddy Bear Picnic Papers

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Teddy Bear Picnic Quick Page by JetjeZ

Isn't this the sweetest thing?! I absolutely adore this page created by JetjeZ and feel so lucky that she has graciously created us a quick page from it! The way she has created such an idyllic scene and has the bears playing with each other and looking up at the photo is simply adorable! You can download your copy on her blog, The Life and Times of JetjeZ

A little inspiration...

Happy Birthday Lil' Miss

She had 2 requests for today, lollipops and cherry tomatoes. Happy Birthday my faerie princess, I love you!

Blog Stalking

Don't you love big tissue paper flowers? I made these for a little party I threw for my children a few weeks ago and today I find myself making more. The littlest loves them and since her birthday is coming she gets flowers. Pink and white this time since they're for a little princess.

Anyway, I've been doing some thinking (no "Ohhhhhh that's why I smell something burning" comments needed lol) and I have decided to start making the rounds. As I can, I plan to visit the blogs of my followers and people sweet enough to leave comments here. I just thought I would warn you before I visit your "homes". I've started the trip on my 365 blog and have stumbled across some beautiful places and people. In fact, it has been so fun that I'm very excited to visit all of you. It's nice to have some stories behind those little square photos. So, if you're stalking secretly, come on out and say hi. I am usually nice, rarely bite, and I may just visit you too.

Coming Soon... Teddy Bear Picnic

See you soon!

S.W.A.K.

Dear Debi,

   The date is August 14, 2010, I thought you would like this memory and I'm writing to share this moment with you again as I'm sure that by now this tiny thing has passed beyond your recollection.  Oh, it's not that I think you to be feeble minded, it's just that, well, we both know you have a tendency to forget.

   The house was quiet this morning and I sat on a giant pile of blankets and pillows not not making a sound.  It struck me with perfect clarity that this was one of those moments to remember.  We've been having a heat wave with intolerable temperatures and so, I have moved everyone down to my craft room in the basement.  Our reprieve from the heat is not due until Monday and we've been down here since sometime Thursday.  During these hot days together, we have been spending time in the "living room" area playing games and watching movies and at night we move the furniture to create a giant bed for the kids to camp out on, hence the pillows and blankets where I sat.  (You of course sleep on the couch since your back will not allow anything less.  You remember, don't you, when you tried to be a tight rope walker on the gym set and hurt your back falling from the top bar, right?  I'm only asking because as I may have mentioned earlier, things may at times slip from your memory.  Not that it is a bad thing mind you, as long as it is the good that you remember.  I mean retainers flying, back cracking, a slight loss of consciousness would be a good thing to forget.  Oh dear, I've reminded you.  Well, that can't be helped now can it?)  Where was I?  Oh yes!  This morning I woke up first and saw for the first time in years, possibly since there was four, all of my children in one place, sleeping, with expressions of angels, my breath caught, and it was during this moment that I realized this heat wave, cursed as it is, could possibly be one of the last times they all camp out together.  It is a bitter sweetness to have this insight.  So, as the filtered glow of morning sun started drifting through the windows, lighting the angel's faces, I had to smile and be thankful for this moment given to me. It is not often that one thinks to remember in the moment of discovery.

   There it is dear.  A tender moment preserved, that can no longer be taken from you.  Even though your kids may now be grown and moved away as you read this, this memory, this small glimpse of heaven, is yours and with you always.  Cherish it, for this is what made your life beautiful. 
                 
            Yours truly,   Debi
                                                                                                   

Summertime

What is this??? Yellow leaves on my Black Walnut tree? Already? This isn't the only one either. The peach trees have lost some orange leaves, my flowers are turning brown, the corn is tousled out (at a sad 3 feet tall), the sumac are getting red, and it looks like the middle of September here. Even though autumn is my favorite, I have a feeling that these signs are foretelling a rough winter. No, I haven't been checking woolly worms or even the Farmer's Almanac for that matter, I'm just watching it sneak in, early. Well, I'm not quite ready to say goodbye to summer yet. In fact, I'm rounding up a new kit, due out in about 2 weeks, just for the idyllic days of summer. I'm trying to hold on just a bit longer before I let my mind drift to pumpkin and apples, spices and Indian corn, mums and crisp mornings... ya know, maybe early an autumn isn't so bad...

Shadow Walker

It is the changing that does it, that makes me wonder. Those moments of in-between. Neither this nor that and I loose myself in a thought. A thought, the only thing of true existence because once there it can never not exist, it just is; unlike a body, tangible and destructible. So, who will think of me while I stroll though the intermission? Who will make me real? Will I cross someone's mind and is that when I awake no longer lost in the haze of mid-land? Is that the moment my eyes flutter open and become clear, my good morning? Is it morning now or am I still strolling in the mist, waiting to become something more than a shadow?

Flax-Golden Tales

If you are a dreamer, come in.  If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, a hoper, a prayer, a magic-bean-buyer.  If you are a pretender, come sit by my fire, for we have some flax-golden tales to spin.  Come in!  Come in! ~Shel Silverstein