Have you joined this year’s #The100DayProject? If so, how are you getting along with your respective projects? Mine was going well until I had some family emergency and then had to do a lot of catch ups. But I’m happy I got to the halfway mark in spite of the crazy days at work. So here is a look at 25 of my mini watercolour exercises. Thank you for looking. SaveSave SaveSaveSaveSave
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Pretty much before 2015 ended, a lot of people would already have clear idea on what choices they have made for their analogue system – planning and documenting. To be honest, I actually had a clear idea back in December. I started with this Stalogy for journaling… (#lifecapturedproject is not continuing in 2016 which is a real pity) But with life taking over most of my waking time, in between, not finding “the’ journal prompts I was inspired to use, this notebook sat empty…up until now… And then in January, I designed a quarterly insert for my regular size fauxdori when my 2015 passport size insert was used up. Still, I was…
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A last-minute decision to make a trip to my hometown to visit family was pretty much a blur from the time before we left and the time we came back. If you follow me on IG, I posted about moving to a new apartment, which in itself was a BIG STRESS. The unpacking and the crazy deadlines meant I did not have time to put a lot of time into how I was documenting my trip. I knew it had to be as minimal as possible and would be painless. So I ended up with the 1/2 Trip Traveler’s Factory insert (I had used one before on another trip last year)…
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You probably see from my photos not only here on the blog but also on my Project Life spreads that I hardly show books. This does not mean that I don’t read. I love to read and I would say one of my prized possessions apart from my albums are basically my books. It’s just that these days, reading books take me longer to finish. People who come to our apartment notice first our books. Books are everywhere in our apartment with rows of Billy bookcases dotting the living room area, kids’ bedrooms and entrance. Then of course, we have books on the bedside table and dining table which also doubles…
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Back in August, I posted this freebie to a Week in the Life notebook in the MTN regular size format. I documented our Week in the Life by Ali Edwards this year using this format but with less photos than I used. Like last year, having this portable size made documenting easier. I thought I’d share a few pages off my notebook. Here goes… Thanks for looking.
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A little bit of background history… In grade school, we had a very strict teacher/principal who was really particular about penmanship. If I may say so myself, I would say I had a pretty good penmanship. I also remember my sister who was my role model for writing neatly that I would try to copy her writing often and try to be like her. When I got to university, typography classes were my favourite and was proud to always get a perfect score. This was way before computers were prevalent and everything was hand-drawn or handwritten. I kept diaries and even diligently wrote one in Chinese as part of the…
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… has been a blur with a flurry of routine stuff + the preparations for the holidays all keeping us busy.
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… our days seem to go in a blur! … keeping a journal handy with my fauxdori (courtesy from the fantastic Happie Scrappie) and custom-made insert to document our Week in the Life … school homework takes a big part of our evenings … work has been hectic with deadlines all sort of happening at the same time … organizing a trick-or-treat for our entire apartment complex (4 buildings) at the last-minute; so far there is 60 kids registered and 25 apartments … some routines are changing almost everyday and some of those changes are a challenge and some are not too bad … on some nights, we only have time…
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It has been a while since the last blog post. Life has been full! Kids are in their last term of kindergarten before grade school. Finding the ‘right’ local school is on our to-do list. International schools in Shanghai are not affordable.
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End of last year, I found out about Project Life and the more I read about it, the more I got interested and after several attempts at ordering a copy, I started to get frustrated and decided to try out the digital version instead. But somehow wasn’t simply satisfied and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted the actual kit. So had to ask my uncle in California to help forward to me the Amazon order I placed.
