I'm Too Far Upon My Journey

Happy Monday! Hope this is a lovely week for you. It's one of our busy weeks at work so I already know I'm going to be swamped and tired, ha.

There was an older lady in my church who used to sing the song, "I'm Too Far Upon My Journey." The words came back to me about a month ago or so. I just started thinking on it and how you don't have to be old to sing that and mean it. From the moment you start serving the Lord that can be your song...

- Jessica

He's Brought Me This Far

Happy Friday! Yay, we can see the weekend finally :-)

I've been watching a ton of scrapbook process videos lately. It has definitely made me want to do some traditional scrapbook layouts again. They really are my favorite of all papercrafting. And I was surprised how quickly this one came together.

When I started pulling the supplies together, I simply grabbed a bunch of new things. Though in the end I filled in with some older stuff in my stash. I knew I wanted florals and definitely a white background. Also I wanted to try a bigger photo than the 4x6 I typically use. One more thing was I wanted to play around with verticals. About half way through this layout I started tearing it apart as it just wasn't coming together...but I could see enough possibility that I knew I at least had the basis of what I wanted. I'm happy I pushed on as I quite like how this tuned out.

- Jessica

December Daily 2017

Hello all! I'm FINALLY sharing my December Daily album here today.

Honestly it took me through January to finish the layouts. Then I photographed it and it was so overcast that day that when I finally got around to editing the photos they were all horrible and out of focus. So then this past weekend I reshot it all...only to realize that part of them were still out of focus. I'm wondering if it was the glare catching on the page protectors?! Sooo I shot it a third time. And I'm still not happy with the quality of my photos :-( I'm not sure why I struggled so badly with these pics. Do you have any tips for photographing Project Life/December Daily albums?

Anyways. Lots and lots of photos to share today. I photographed it in spreads as it appears in the album and also took out each page and shot it individually. There are a few detail shots too.

I used an old December Daily kit and a couple 6x6 pads to go along with my photos. I wanted to keep it pretty minimal so I could quickly put it together. I really only used journaling/filler cards to keep the flow of where I wanted each page to start/end. Super simple journaling on most of the tops of the photos. I used an 8.5 x 11 album that I added some decorations to. Oh and I technically started on Thanksgiving since I had Holiday things going on before December. And I took my album all the way through the 31st. I'm soooo glad that I actually completed this album. I've wanted to make one of these for YEARS but never have got around to it.

Now...if only I could keep up a regular Project Life album! Ha. Hope you enjoy looking through my album today.

- Jessica