Another week in the Project Life Baby Book
Keeping with that idea of choosing two colours per week for Wonder Boy’s album, week three is blue and yellow. I started with the Dreamy collection from WRMK, which I think may be exclusive to Target. I picked it up there when I was at CHA and searching online, I don’t seem to see it in stock at any specialist scrapbook stores. It caught my eye because the colours weren’t particularly girly, but it wasn’t the standard baby blue either. Not that it’s baby themed in anyway, but it just seemed like a versatile set with a different colour scheme to my usual.
I knew when it came to scrapping this week, I would want to beat myself up about the photos, but I think I waited long enough to just have a bit of perspective about it. By this point in Wonder Boy’s life, he had plenty of energy, and I was trying to keep up with him but I was nowhere near back to health. I think I was only just starting to process what had happened, because although I knew our labour experience looked rather scary on paper, it felt relatively calm and collected. Just getting from one hour to the next kept me from realising how much strength I had really lost, and it just caught up with me. The evidence is how someone who photographs seemingly everything took remarkably few photos in this third week of Wonder Boy’s life. These things happen! This resulted in a week wherein the entire right side is just from the weekend, and indeed all but one photo there is from Saturday. As that was his first big night out, I think that really worked out okay in the space, and this week can just be a reminder to me that I’d like to take a few more shots of the everyday too.
That divided photo was the result of some tinkering with the Fuzel app on the iPhone. It has all sorts of templates (some plain squares and rectangles, some filled with fancier shapes) so I just picked one and filled it with my photos. To get the split image effect, I needed three copies of the photo in my library, so I edited it slightly to have a different colour cast to each section of the image. I’m not sure it’s a look I would use as a highlighted photo on a 12×12 page, but with so many photos going into this album, I like the idea of worrying a bit less and giving new things a whirl. The white text on the images on the right hand side was also done in the Fuzel app, under the ‘stickers’ tab.
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15 July 2014, 17:28
Thanks so much for continuing to share these album pages with us, they are really inspiring me to start to deal with my photos from the first year of my little grandson’s life.
15 July 2014, 18:19
Thank you for sharing Shimelle your pages are a delight and so is wonder boy x
15 July 2014, 20:53
I love how this album is coming together, your style still shows even though the format is so different.
16 July 2014, 01:35
Hi shimelle this looks fab. Can I ask where you got the album from please I’ve been trying to get one like this for years. I live in the uk so if you know any websites I would appreciate it. Thank you
16 July 2014, 04:02
He is just adorable! And I love that divided photo!
16 July 2014, 04:27
Looks amazing, sometimes I start to do my PL and realise that I have only taken about three photos. Eek, that’s when I love filler cards and embellishments.
16 July 2014, 08:22
I just love what you’ve been doing with this album and am glad its working for you! My worry with my son when I had him was that I wouldn’t have the time to get creative with my pages but you are making it work!
16 July 2014, 11:54
Love the split photo look. Cool app! Much appreciate you sharing your photo books while Wonder Boy is still so wee. He is positively adorable! Good Luck trying to turn his clock into a more realistic human existence. Aren’t kids so precious
16 July 2014, 15:59
Shim, lovely ideas – as always. Wonder Boy has a Wonder Yawn – love that photo of him. Not that I’m comparing my dogs to your wonderful little boy, but I look back and realise I have no pictures of them when they were puppies with me! All with other people!!! Got quite upset about that but there you go – no way to turn back time so we just have to do what we can! Thanks for sharing such lovely pages and pictures of himself with us! xxx
16 July 2014, 16:00
Shimelle, I always say about motherhood, “At the time when you need the most rest, is when you have the least.” Enjoy this time, but don’t put too much pressure on yourself to feel energetic. Mostly, you get used to being tired. Take care.
17 July 2014, 14:11
I had a question about your journaling. Have you been taking notes each week and then copying them (or excerpts) onto your scrapbook pages? Or do you just wait to journal until you’re putting your pages together? I know you are a big journaler so have you been keeping a whole separate journal as well as your scrapbook? I have a little one on the way and am curious about your approach. Thanks!
19 July 2014, 16:29
Love the colours in this section! In some countries the mother just lays in bed with the baby for the first 3 months so that she can heal and they can bond – everyone else does anything else that needs to be done. A bit extreme maybe but I would have liked 3 months to get my breath back after the birth that’s for sure!
26 July 2014, 04:40
Check out Simon Says Stamp. Some ot the items in the collection is made available there already ! I’m ready to make my purchase!