Project Life: October 2015

I’m plodding along with my Project Life pages, trying to keep ahead of being behind an entire year! Meanwhile, we (fortunately) continue to accumulate photos and wonderful memories, so once the summer is over I need to dedicate myself to scrapping every day! But, for now, here’s another month completed.

Early in the month, we made a trip to Hyde Park for my grand-nephew’s baptism, and followed it up with a day in Manchester, Vt., one of our favorite getaways. Skylar and I attended our first ZooClass at the Seneca Park Zoo—a wonderful educational program geared to 4-5 year olds. They also have a class for 2-3 year olds.

The end of the month found us in Chicago. We were lucky enough to be there for Caleb’s first appearance in the Cherub Choir. I loved this shot of Sarah sitting in front of the fabulous mural at Herm’s Palace in Skokie. It’s my favorite place for a Chicago hot dog, a true indulgence, but delicious! By Halloween, we were home, but I included an Instagram shot of Caleb in his Halloween costume as well as the little girls around the corner with whom we went trick or treating.

While we were in Chicago, we spent a morning at the Lincoln Park Zoo, and I added an insert with photos to record that special event.

A gentleman kindly took a family photo of us at the zoo, which turned out to be a favorite of mine.

I finished an album after the July 2015 pages, but had never created an opening page for the album, but have gotten that finished as well. 

Most of the cards came from the Becky Higgin’s Project Life “Everyday” Edition created by Paislee Press. I painted some wood veneers to spell Family, and as well as the little camera, and added some Papertrey Ink die cuts and stamps to create the date card. There’s quite a bit of gold metallic accent on the cards, but it doesn’t show up in the photos. I die cut the hearts with a Simon Says die and backed it with metallic gold paper to match the gold in the cards. I came across the quote somewhere on the internet a long time ago, printed it out and stuck in the album, knowing it would be great for an opening page.