Thankful for Projects

I am loving this series, and over the past few years have found great joy in becomine part of a bigger community celebrating life together.

In the past couple of years Facebook Lovebook, One Little Word, Yesterday and Today, Week in the Life, Take 12 and various other projects that get me thinking and documenting our lives. It gives me a change to look on the bright side when things get overwhelming… like yesterday!

I didn’t manage to Take 12 photos this month, but I got several pics in there!

Here’s my Take 12 images so far this year…

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I’m posting a quick thankful thought each night as part of Cathy Zielske’s 30 days of thankful project

Introducing Edward #weekinthelife

We are excited to share that Edward James Shanhun was born at 5:29am today.
3.43 kg (7lb 9oz) 52 cm long. Everyone is doing well.

Love from Phill, Melissa and Emily

Day 4: Lest We Forget #weekinthelife

Today was ANZAC Day, remembering those who have fought for our freedom and those who continue to do so.

We spent the early hours of the morning caring for our little girl who has come down with another cold (she eventually slept from about 4pm-2am, then 2:30-7:30am).

She’d emptied out the whole tissue box into her bed and was just happy to have some cereal and go back to bed at 2am. Mummy joined her for yoghurt and headed back to bed again too.

In the morning we left Daddy to sleep in and I did a bit of admin tidy-up for The Fathering Project and Fresh Styles. I’m trying to finish up all my work before baby number 2 arrives.

We then headed to Neil Hawkins Park with our lifegroup. Emily was thrilled that all her friends were there.

It was a lovely picnic, but I was wishing I still had cooler maternity clothes that actually fit! Only just over a week to go, so never mind! Thankfully none of us got sunburnt and Phill was finally able to pull out the Coke cricket bat and ball he’s be waiting to use (oh and they men kicked the footy as well).

After a bit more work, I had a sleep and woke to find Phill and Steve had put together our newly repaired trampoline! (Thanks Mum!).

We finished the night with Phill’s home made pizza and Liz’s choc brownies. Phill even said he didn’t mind being in Week in the Life when the pizza looked this good!

After showing Steve Phill’s China trip pictures and moving a bit of furniture ready for the new baby, it was time to say goodnight.

I actually got a full night’s sleep on Wednesday night (well I only got up 3 times and went straight back to sleep).

My week so far…

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You can follow along on in many places and share your work:

• Big Picture Classes Free Week In The Life Community – includes message boards and gallery (and archives from last year for additional inspiration)
• FLICKR | Week In The Life 2012
• TWITTER | #weekinthelife
• INSTAGRAM | #weekinthelife

Over at Digital Scrapbooking HQ I’ve put together some tips for Week in the Life, along with my plan on how I’m tackling it.

Week in the Life Day 3

Today was a tough one for me with little sleep last night (maybe I was hungry? I eventually got myself some yoghurt at 4:30 and back to sleep!), blood glucose monitoring, lots of washing, Emily coming down with another cold and an appointment with a new obstetrician (while my GP/Obs is away for the next 2 weeks). On the plus side, the baby’s head is engaged and my longitudinal blood sugars came back at 5.2 which is totally fine.

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I’m cooking a roast for tea, so I hope that I’ll feel better with a full tummy tonight!

But on the other hand, I’m thankful for only a tiny reaction to the flu immunisation I had on Friday, a day with Phill at home tomorrow for ANZAC day and Mum who was able to come and mind Emily while I saw the Doctor (oh and help me change my sewing machine needle, cut pumpkin and replace the elastic in the bassinet cover – love you Mum!)

You can follow along on in many places and share your work:

Big Picture Classes Free Week In The Life Community – includes message boards and gallery (and archives from last year for additional inspiration)

FLICKR | Week In The Life 2012

TWITTER | #weekinthelife

INSTAGRAM | #weekinthelife
Over at Digital Scrapbooking HQ I’ve put together some tips for Week in the Life, along with my plan on how I’m tackling it.

Week in the Life Day 1 & 2 iPhone Photos

Just a quick post today to share my iPhone photos from day one and two (Sunday and Monday my time). Some of these will be culled - some were taken by me and some by Emily.
I've not got the photos off my 'big camera' yet and I also want to grab some of my screenshots of computer work I did today.
I like to start on Sunday and get a jump start on the week!

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Over at Digital Scrapbooking HQ I’ve put together some tips for Week in the Life, along with my plan on how I’m tackling it.

Why not link me up to your Week in the Life post in the comments?


Melissa

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Week in the Life Tips

Over at Digital Scrapbooking HQ I’ve put together some tips for Week in the Life, along with my plan on how I’m tackling it.

Ali Edwards’ Week in the Life always seems to come at a busy time for me. But then I think, why not document that too?

I am currently 38 weeks pregnant and would love to document this upcoming week, the last of our family of three. Last year I completed my Week in the Life on my personal blog but never got the album made. I am happy to say that I’ve got all the documentation and photos stored and ready for when I do want to scrap it though!

I’m thinking of using simple photo collage pages along with written notes and memorabilia.

Read on…

Here’s a little recap of my photos from last year’s WITL.

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You can read my other Week in the Life posts here:

1. Tips for Week in the Life
2. Day 1
3. Day 2
4. Week in the Life Day 3
5. Unexpected Call
6. Unexpected Arrival
7. Unexpected Delivery
8. Christmas in July
9. Day in our Life

Melissa

Christmas in July Crafting Fun! Day 7 #WeekintheLife

Another fun day with cleaning, prepping for Christmas in July and then crafting the day away.
After much planning we had an awesome crafty event to help us all get a head start on Christmas. We spend a few hours getting a head start on any Christmas Crafting projects (cards/decorations/etc) that usually get buried during the Christmas Season. We had festive food I'd been making all week - fruit mince pies, mini puddings, sausage and a few other goodies brought along by other crafters. Music was very festive thanks to the Shanhun’s collection of Christmas CDs.

Emily and Phill headed off to swimming lessons, leaving Sarah, Jodi, Mum, Lauren, Cait and I to craft. In between showers Phill worked on levelling the backyard, making a new top for his water damaged router table, and window shopping at Bunnings. Emily slept well and enjoyed seeing everyone too.

 

Dinner was prepared by Phill – chicke burgers and chips! Yum!

 

Quote of the Day

SWIMMING LESSONS!!! (Shouted loudly then…) Noisy!

Mummy’s ‘riends over

Favourite Photo

My stash of cards from the day.

My week in the life so far

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here

Want to join in? It’s not too late – you can always  You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing. Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life Posts here!

I’ll be sharing the album that comes out of this week soon. I’ve still not chosen the templates

Melissa

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Unexpected Delivery Day 6 #weekinthelife

• Phill gave Emily breakfast so I got a sleep in till 6:30ish
• Waving goodbye to Daddy.
• Morning tea with Mum O.
• Decor’s delivery – to say sorry for this shattered Thermoglass Dish – see my favourite Photo from the day.

• Hungry Jacks for tea – thanks to Phill’s footy tipping win! Emily ate her whole meal plus fruit bread when we got home!

I spent the day working on my card sets for Christmas in July, blogging and doing washing.

Favourite Photo

3 Thermoglass dishes and 10 plastic real seal dishes – AWESOME!

My week in the life so far

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here

Want to join in? You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing. Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life Posts here!

Join me again tomorrow for the last day of the week!

Melissa

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Unexpected Arrival: Day 5 #weekinthelife

Emily and I got up and dressed ready for crafting fun. I had a webinar to go to and made fruit mince pies for the Christmas Craft Party.

Emily played quite well with the little on at Craft Group, and I got more scraps die cut for future project while chatting to friends.

When I got home I saw an email from Phill this sent morning to say he’s coming home early! He thought he’s be in my 9pm. YAY! I cleaned the house and downloaded the photos before Emily woke from her sleep.

Mum and Dad S and Skib came over for tea – Thai from the local. Emily had fun playing with them and I tried to trick Skib’s new phone’s swype – on Supercalifragilistic could confuse it. Cool phone!

I also got my first rubber stamp (Hero arts!) all the way from the US from Skib Thanks!

Phill was a little later than expected due to the storms we’ve been having in Perth. In the end the pilot had to circle Perth airport for an hour, but he eventually got home around 11pm. (No photo – I didn’t think he’d appreciate it!)

Quote of the Day

Aunty Skib!

Favourite Photo

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here

Want to join in? You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing. Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life Posts here!

Join me again tomorrow!

Melissa

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An Unexpected Call: Day 4 #weekinthelife

What a day! A quick summary:

• Doctors to get on cancellation list
• Woollies (including playing on the fire engine
• Playgroup (Emily used the chalk with her left hand the whole time!)
• Working on One Little Word book
• Playdough dinosaurs
• Washing out and back in before the storm
• Writing several articles
• Finishing and uploading a scrapbook album

Today we were so excited to find out that Phill had internet access at the mine site and Emily was thrilled to see him on Skype! Phill gets back on Friday, so it will be great to see him then.

Quote of the Day

Hands are rainy! (Emily after wiping her hands over the condensation on the sliding door)

Favourite Photo

Video of the Day

Watch Emily singing to her dough-a-saurs

Emily just loved the dough-a-saurs I made for her.

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here

Want to join in? You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing. Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life Posts here!

Join me again tomorrow!

Melissa

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Week in the Life: Day 3 #weekinthelife

Emily stayed with the Okely’s while I was off to the dentist this morning. I’ve been going to that same dentist since I had teeth! Well the dentist has changed, as the one who treated the older two Kerr generations had retired. But it’s the same location.

I love that we have HBF so it only cost me about $20 to go. When Emily and I got home Phill was already there and we had a very early lunch. Emily was coughing in her sleep so I phoned a couple of Doctors to see if I could get her in.

Emily woke up at about 1:40 so we headed to the airport early. We were very happy to see that the new check-ins were working perfectly, with just a couple of swipes of the Q card. We ate a few snacks in the Qantas lounge and Emily was really enjoying watching the planes, but we decided to leave before Daddy boarded so that we wouldn’t be too long stuck in traffic. My shining moment of the day was snagging a couple of pieces of pizza straight out of the oven for Phill to eat (thanks Qantas lounge, the food was awesome!).

Emily watched playschool then we had a small bit of leftover butter chicken for tea, as we’d eaten a big afternoon tea at Q club.

I prepped for playgroup morning tea, spoke to Phill around 9pm from his 1 star hotel in Newman before heading to bed.

Quote of the Day

Mummy: “Where did you get that?”

Emily: “Melbourne” (she’s never been to Melbourne!)

Favourite Photo

My week in the life so far

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here

Want to join in? You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing!
Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life!

Join me again tomorrow!

Melissa

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Week in the Life: Day 2 #weekinthelife

Emily slept in this morning and ate breakfast with Daddy. Emily was not feeling too well and spent most of the morning on the couch watching television. Dumbo is quite a favourite since Aunty Skib brought her back the soft toy from the US.
I did some work on an upcoming guest blog post and prepped for Christmas in July at lunch time we heard our Kalgoorlie house finally had an offer put on it. After some negotiation we were thrilled with the outcome! Our house is under offer!
We have a celebratory dinner and enjoyed our last evening with Phill at home this week.

Quote of the Day

Creatures of the Rain and Sun, Mummy (Emily asking for a Justine Clarke song)

Favourite Photo

My week in the life so far

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here
Want to join in? You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing!
Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life!

Melissa

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Week in the Life: Day 1 #weekinthelife

I started a day early – on Sunday, since I like Sunday to be the first day of the week, plus Phill will be gone for several days this week and I wanted to include him in the photos. I was so excited to get going!

Sunday was a slow day as we’d been out late and Emily as a cold. But we all loved sitting in the sun

Quote of the Day

Tackle Daddy down!

Favourite Photo

My week in the life so far

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See all my Week in the Life Posts here

Want to join in? You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing!

Be sure to link me up to your blog in the comments – I’d love to see what you are doing for Week in the Life!

Melissa

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Tips for Week in the Life

I'm putting together my Week in the Life album right now.
I’m using this outline of what to do from Ali:

• Photos will be taken on our Sanyo Xacti – as our camera died in the move to Perth
• Photos will be processed in Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
• Journalling will come from my Memory Logbook
• Stuff of life will be stored in my Kikki-K magazine holder
• I’m going to photo pages digitally and then combine that with the paper stuff I’ve collected during the week.
• When I come to create the album, I’m thinking of creating a home made 8x8 album with my Bind-it-all haul
• Pop memorabilia onto the facing pages or just create a page with it!
• Have fun with the Cuttlebug my friend is lending me (thanks!)
• I’m going to get this album completed by August 31 (Having a dealine helps!)

Want to go more digi? Check out Jen’s digital tips for week in the life.
I’ve recently realised that square photo spots in templates don’t work for me, so I’ve shopping my stash to find some  with more traditional shape photos. I’m planning for4-6 photos a day. Honestly, I can’t see myself taking lots of photos this week – but let’s just see how we go! I’ll be back with the templates in another post soon!
I’ve not yet decided on which kit to use, but I’m thinking of going with one of the huge collab kits available for the Digi Game subscribers.



You can follow along on Ali’s blog, twitter or the Flickr group to see what others are doing!
Have you got plans in place for next week?

Melissa
PS want to get a hold of those kits?

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