And now I'm only three weeks behind!

As I knew it would, school has interfered with all the things I actually enjoy doing...project life included. After sorting through and selecting and printing around 50 photos and creating all the filler/journal cards I finally bring you weeks 10-13!

I decided to try journaling on top of the actual photos this time around so I picked up a package of white gel ink pens from Jo-ann's.  I really love the way it looks however the gel is not the best medium.  I had to go over a lot of my words and many look streaky.  So I am now on a hunt for the right type of pen.  Any suggestions?
My favorite element from week 10 is the connecting NY to FL hearts.  I free-handed an outline of each state on basic notebook paper, cut them out and pasted them to 3x4 brown filler cards.  The hearts were also drawn and cut out and then I used the gel pen to make the dashed lines.  That picture in the middle is one of my cousin's house being newly built.  We're all very excited for her but she's just so far away! We miss her!  She also creates awesome candles and soaps and such, which I'm hoping to feature here soon!

Week 11- the last one of summer! BOOOO... Anyways, nothing too wild about this week.  Got a lot of use out of my favorite little flag-pennant things, though! They've definitely been the golden find thus far.

And now for the big week! There was just so much happening here I needed a four page layout.  First of course was the arrival of my b-e-a-utiful new baby cousin Alivia!  The girl we've all been waiting for.  She got her own page altogether because I just could not stop taking pictures!  Or collecting all the ones that family took and posted to FB!

Also included in this week were apple-picking. My first week of school. Little bro's first day of first grade (excuse me while I go sob my eyes out).  Very very busy week!

Other things worth mentioning:

1. If you have multiple apple devices and don't use I-Cloud (or any devices and a shared storage space for that matter) DO IT!  I can't tell you how much time it saved me in all this.  I was originally taking all pictures with my I-phone and then emailing them to my I-pad to be edited and then printing them from there.   Now when I take one on my phone it's already on my tablet.  Ta-da!  I'm low on patience as it is so menial things like this are no good haha.

2. All the big numbers/letters you see in the title cards are the result of a super awesome bargain found at a barn thrift shop around here.  I got a big box of all kinds of letter and number stencils from the early 1950s (I love old things!) for like a dollar.  So I used them to trace onto coordinating papers and voila!  Now I don't have to spend an arm and a leg on alpha-stickers at craft stores.

3. For these weeks I played around with photo effects to give everything a little more of a uniform appearance.  I chose the Clyde effect from the I-pad photo editor app.  It made all the pcitures look old, which I liked of course, however they do look dull.  If you have pictures with really great color I'd suggest leaving them be.  Though I've noticed most of the photo effects mute the look of my pictures.  Maybe that's the point?  Or it's just me? Haha who knows.  I'm still learning here!

Are you all keeping up with your project life endeavors?