project life: year 30 - may

yes!  i have started back on project life.  for the past couple weeks i've taken 3 or 4 days to work on it and now i'm only 1-1/2 months behind. :-)

today i am going to share my album and the little bit that i have for may.  since my birthday is on the 30th that means i only had two days to put in for may.  i actually did 2 full 12x12 layouts and one project life spread for those two days.

later this week i'll share all of my june layouts with you, so be sure to check back!

just a brief explanation of what i did on the 30th and 31st... on my birthday i went with my parents to tulsa for a bit of shopping.  we had a great time even though there were thunderstorms off and on all day.  but then that evening, just as we were leaving town we ended up in a really bad storm that ended up producing a tornado just behind us!  it was definitely the scariest thing that i have ever been in.  i'm so thankful that it was a small tornado and that it didn't produce too much damage.  then on the 31st i went to rogers with my mom for a day of shopping and then that evening i met up with friends for dinner and some froyo.  i really had a great two days celebrating my golden birthday.

i'm going to use this layout to complete one of my scrapbook challenges in my 31 before 31 list.  this will be for the "journaling" challenge.  i rarely include that much writing on a layout, but the tornado was such a memorable experience that i really wanted to record it.

i may add another 12x12 layout to the may section as i do want to include my 31 things before 31.

- jess

project life: year 29 - june - part 2

i'm going to try this week to post all the pics from my project life album.  this album is still really far behind in being completed, but it is something i am going to really focus on this month.

these are two postcards i purchased at the gift shop of the museum

i simply cut the logo from the bag they used when i purchased the post cards from the gift shop

come back this week to see more pics from my project life!

- jess

vacation album

long time no blog posts :-/  just super busy here.  tonight i'm going to start being on call 24/7 with our printer who's printing some catalog updates for the company i work for.  every time they put a page on press i have to be there to approve it, which is every 2-4hrs.  unfortunately i live about 30 min away, so it can make for some LONG nights.  during the day my office is only about 15 min away so that isn't nearly as bad.  looks like it's going to take them about all week to get all of our job printed, so i'm already looking forward to next weekend. ha!

anywho, i had a few minutes today and thought i'd try to get at least one post up this week.  i found these pics on my desktop and realized i'd never blogged them!

last may my parents used their timeshare to go to a condo in panama city, florida and i was able to go with them and also take one of my really good friends, alyssa.  we were there for a week and it was AMAZING!  i definitely want to go back again.  oh, we also spent a day at destin...

we spent a few days shopping, my favorite past-time ;-)  one day we went to shell island.  and of course we went to the beach several days...and i even had an encounter with a shark!  here's a video clip we took on the beach talking about the shark.

alyssa's birthday is in july, so for her birthday last year i made her this album from our vacation.  funny thing is i never got around to making myself an album!  i need to get around to that soon...lol.

~ jess