366: Week 3

This 366 project is tougher than I expected. First, because when I'm busy, I forget to take pictures. Some days I'm grasping at straws and other days, I have too many. I finally decided to go approach this as a diary and select the photos that represent what made me happiest or had the biggest impact on that day. Hopefully, I can use some of the "pretty" ones in other posts.

Day 15:
Almost two full weekends of working until my bones ached, I have the Craft Room
all cleaned and organized. My friend took the bookcase and TV stand
off my hands this week, so it's even cleaner now.

Day 16:
My clean desk greeting me for a Work from Home/Big Deadline day.

Day 17:
I've been working so hard at knocking off the To-Dos
and working my way through the giant "Projects" list in my iPhone.
Our honeymoon album arrived this week!

Day 18:
I caught the "Revenge" pilot on the flight home from Paris.
I'm now embarrassingly addicted to this show. 

Day 19:
MENTAL HEALTH DAY! I sat down around 8:30 a.m.
with the intention of working on this scrapbook until about 11:00 or so.
Andy called to check-in and I asked what time he was going to lunch.
He said he already had...it was 1:45 p.m. Oops!
Great Mental Health Day!

Day 20:
I knew about the snowstorm for two days, so I naturally waited
until it started to go grocery shopping.
Four 15-minute errands and two grocery store stops took six hours.

Day 21:
Even with two days off, I'm up at 1:37 a.m. the night before a party setting the table.

Sparkly Baubles

I am hosting a "sparkle and shined" theme brunch this weekend. I asked my girlfriends to wear something sparkly, but I'm having a hard time finding something for myself to wear that's both flattering AND affordable. I'm thinking about just blinging it up. I have quite a few sparkly necklaces, but I'm bored with them. I'm kind of liking the odd subtlety of this necklace.

{Source: Anthropologie}

Speaking of sparkle, this necklace is on clearance at Macy's. I've been stalking it weekly to see if it's still there and if the price has dropped. It's on open display, so I hope that people aren't trying it on and scuzzing it up. Ha! If I get it, I'm going to make Andy take me to dinner just so I can wear it. 

{Source: Nordstrom}

366: Week 2

DAY 8, 01.08.2012:
Wide Awake at Bed Time

DAY 9, 01.09.2012:
F@^K. It's January 9th.

DAY 10, 01.10.2012:
Working from Home.
I was literally online from 6:30 a.m. to midnight
with one Diet Pop and one Noodles with  Butter break.

DAY 11, 01.11.2012:
Morning Rush Birthday Cake Run

DAY 12, 01.12.2012:
The First Snow of 2012  

Day 13, 01.13.2012:
Swimming Pools, Sausages, and WAY TOO MANY Soliloquies.

Day 14, 01.14.12:In the home stretch of spring cleaning.
These closet doors haven't closed in over seven months.

The Calm During the Storm

The trees were so beautiful on my walk home tonight. Living on a busy street, our window of pretty snow is limited. I was heading home late tonight and was lucky enough to catch a break in traffic and enjoy a little snowy serenity.

365: Week 1

I tried starting a 365 project on my birthday, in hope of practicing my camera. I last about two weeks or so before I got busy and fell behind. I decided to try a Hipstamatic album this new year for a few different reasons: to practice composition and for visual motivation to break out of the ruts I tend to get myself into. And since it's Hipstamatic, I will ALWAYS have my camera with me and won't have to do any processing. Hooray! Processing is what kills me.

Day 1, 01.01.2012: Hanging onto the holidays at my parent's house

 Day 2, 01.02.2012: So long, Santa!

 Day 3, 01.03.2012: Back to work

Day 4, 01.04.2012: New Year, New Possibilities
The P.S. calendar wasn't my favorite design,
but the numbers are big enough to be seen across the room
when I'm on calls and the bright colors really cheer up my drab office space.

Day 5, 01.05.2012: Busy Work chaps my hide.

Day 6, 01.06.2012: 5 Point Breakfast

Day 7, 01.07.2012: Crafting in the Car en route to Dad's Birthday Party

My goal is to drop the week's photos into a blurb album every weekend. So far, so good!

My Dad is 60!

A wrapping paper table runner. 

Place Cards...

 ...turned Party Hats!

 Each party hat had a photo of my dad and the wearer.
(Except for my bro.)

My dad's had a pix of him and his aunt/mom.

Andy and my mom were the only ones who humored me and wore their hats,
as my dad and brother were worried about "ruining their hair." They are both total curmudgeons.

 My #60 fell off in the car. :(

To make the hats, I unassembled a cardboard party hat and traced it onto 12X12 and 8.5x11 cardstock from Paper Source. I used crepe paper streamers to make fringe decorations. I used my Sillhouette SD to cut the 60s, which I attached with floral wire and scotch tape, and the blue ovals for the photos, which were attached with foam squares.

Saving my Christmas Money

I hope that everyone had a lovely holiday! Our Christmas celebrations were joyful and our New Year's Eve was peaceful. And both were delicious. I am normally very pessimistic, but the calm and anticipation that I feel as I enter 2012 can only be described as otherwordly. I don't know what's at the root, but I hope the feeling stays with me and passes on to my friends and loved ones.

One of my first goals of the New Year is to obsessively check my morning e-mails for the almost-daily 30% sales at Banana Republic. I have $125 in gift cards burning a hole in my pocket. I think that I'm going to get this:

{Source: Banana Republic}

Thank you, Pantone!

I also want these, but my lame knees said "no."

{Source: J. Crew}