Bring on the Sunshine!

Yesterday after work my friend Kathy cut and highlighted my hair. It's super convenient because its about two minutes from my house and she's wonderful :)

She also waxed my eyebrows for the first time ever. I have always plucked them but this was super fast, and only burned for about 30 seconds. But I love how they look - they are already going in this shape, but now they look better! :)




I feel like I look like the old Vanessa. The last time after I died my hair it just never really lightened up again. But now it did :)

Yay for a summer look -- bring on the sunshine!

Spring has Sprung

Spring is my FAVORITE! We have so enjoyed our new outdoor room and sit outside regularly. I found the cutest, brightest accessories to accent our furniture:

We also found some shade plants that will survive under the pergola (and I made that pot!)

And I found these sweet shade plants at WalMart -- perfect for our covered front porch. And they are pink. YAY!

And here is a wide-angled view of the finished project in our backyard! I am so thankful we have this new outdoor living space and I LOVE it!

Project Life: Check-in

Well, I've been sucked in. I bought the kit, started and got hooked. I have really gotten hooked on making DIGITAL core kit cards of my own (um hello cutesy fonts and fun colors and original ideas!) and I've gotten hooked on looking through it. The 4-ish pages I have finished I just flip back and forth through because I LOVE looking through them and remembering.

And that's what this is all about. Remembering those moments.

Like....

New Year's Eve - fun times with friends and confetti cannons messes 

Jack's first car (and ride in that car), Trip to ATL, losing my job (ha)

Close-up on my detail of NYE party :) I looove using cutesy font on PL (and only PL)

Valentine's Day & Baby Miller's early arrival!

Denim and Diamonds - FAVE non-profit event of the year.

I danced so much my shoes broke.

Yay for writing things down you want to remember -- like Miller's EARLY arrival!

These planner pages are AMAZING. My SIL Sarah (who I got hooked on PL - WOO!) found these babies online and they are AWESOME. You pick out your layout and print them and write in what goes where. This is much easier than the notebook I had been scribbling in.

And since I am OCD and like to have a design plan, this is GREAT!

 These Fiskars edge rounders are a MUST! I got the Large and medium sizes and they are perfect!

 And if you are doing it for a year, you NEED month dividers. :) You could probably make your own but I bought the ones that matched my book, of course. :)

In my next Project Life check-in: money-saving tips and layout tricks! And more pictures, of course!