month by month albums

I started working on the boys month by month albums a few years ago and I've finally finished Master W's album on his 7th birthday!

I had finished Master B's album last year. 

I had started with albums and 12x12 sleeves from the Warehouse but found they were not standing up to being used often with me using them and taking the 12x12 card stock pages in and out and all the opening and closing they were getting . I switched to Project Life albums. These of course now all match with my other albums I have. (They look pretty all lined up)

Master B's album with a few pages of the March- April layouts. I love seeing how much he changed over the years but also how much he still looks the same.

Master W's pages with the September- October layouts. They are both growing up so fast!

I have finished up the boys albums with their 5th Birthdays and starting school. Master B has a few extra pages but thankfully everything after these albums is covered in my 2014 Project Life Album.

So in total each album has a cover page, and then 60 pages - 1 page per month for 5 years and then a few extras for Master B. 

Its a proud feeling to have something you set out to do more than 8 years ago actually be finished!

I'm still undecided if I go back through and write a few thoughts and note milestones on each page.....I have left space on each layout for this but I will keep thinking on that one.

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7 years old!

Master W today you turn 7! 

It seems like a blink of an eye that 7 years has passed. 

You are so enthusiastic in helping where ever you can and willing to give anything a go

Your hugs brighten our day

You have a great sense of adventure 

You are growing so tall- your feet are already a size 3

I love to see you and your brother play so well together even if it is cars on the window sill

You love looking at our family photos

Family and friends are very important to you

You are always so gentle and kind

You are so very cheeky when ever there is a camera

Happy Birthday Master W 

Enjoy all your birthday lego 

We love you to the moon and back xxx

I love looking back over the past few years blog posts. 6 years,  5 years, 4 years 

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Mr B it's your birthday

Mr B you are my rock and my sunshine

Happy Birthday 

xxx

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Where I Am At Right Now- Winter thoughts

Making : lemon curd with Master B's help

Cooking : pizza for dinner

Drinking : water

Reading: library books

Wanting: to order more Project Life album pages

Looking: forward to the school holidays

Playing: cockroach poker with the family

Deciding: what movie to watch for movie night

Wishing: there were more sunshine hours in the day

Enjoying: how excited the boys are about bunny sitting

Waiting: for my #nerdymugrugswap to arrive in the post 

Liking: minions

Wondering: when minions will be on dvd

Loving: the heat of the fire

Pondering: why my bulbs are already up in the garden

Considering: starting another quilt

Watching: my boys play so wonderfully together

Hoping: we can make the most of the school holidays

Marvelling: the ice on our windscreen on mornings of -3

Needing: to wear woollen socks in the mornings

Smelling: lilies

Wearing: gumboots to soccer

Following: the weather forecast as we wait for snow this year

Noticing: the water on the windows

Knowing: we are past the shortest day of the year

Thinking: we need to see more shows

Feeling: so pleased we saw Brooke Fraser live 

Admiring: how beautiful the Isaac Theatre Royal ceilings are 

Buying: project life albums

Getting: impatient waiting for the warmer weather

Bookmarking: recipes for winter

Opening: the fire to put in more wood

Giggling: at the funny things my boys say

Feeling: glad our stormwater is FINALLY connected to the street

You can find the list here

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blank wall

At the end of last year I shared the joys of a new toilet. This of course has been a huge and very wonderful change to the house. We can no longer hear the toilet flush at the other end of the house nor does it take hours for it to fill.  

Its been 6 months since the new toilet was put in and I have spent that time searching for art for the toilet wall - the wall you look at every time you use the toilet.

It has been blank.

A very boring blank toilet wall.

I had a brain wave when I saw these wall decals or should I say wall confetti. A perfect low cost solution to a very blank toilet wall. 

Everyone wanted to see the progress of the wall confetti as the four of us and a chair tried to fit in this very small space not designed for 4 people and a chair.

I checked pintrest for inspiration but honestly I just started sticking the shapes on starting at the top.

Pretty coloured confetti shapes on the toilet wall. 

This is my new view from the laundry # happyplace

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Mint mini quilt

In January I signed up for a mini quilt club for 6 months. One pattern emailed each month for 6 months.  

February's pattern was a Sapphire Mini Quilt. 

I have lots of cushion fabric let over so I used those fabrics for the block with Kona ash for the grey.

I hand quilted it in teal, mint and grey

So fun to make! Its now on it way to a friend for her birthday. I hope she enjoys her new mini quilt.

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