It's June 1, and I've already started working on my May Project Life pages! I'm hoping never to get as far behind as I did last year. Today's post is a bit longer than usual. March was a busy month for us; we were only home seven days the whole month. But April was quiet, so there's just one two-page spread. I thought I'd share them both today.
Since I ended February on a right-hand page, March begins with a one-page spread. I used a stamp from Papertrey Ink's "Get Lost" set to stamp a message on the calendar card. We'd had such an awful February weather-wise, and got stuck in a terrible winter storm on our way to Florida, so it seemed like the perfect sentiment! The Long Boat Key bumper sticker made a perfect filler card, and I finally managed to get some memorabilia on my page with a strip from the ticket to the Philadelphia Flower Show. Meeting up with Cheri was definitely the highlight of that stop!
Who knew fish had teeth? We came upon these Amish fishermen one morning and one of them had just caught a sheepshead. They have a set of very real teeth!
More memorabilia from two day trips–one to Spanish Point with a high school friend of Tracy's and her husband, and one to Sanibel where we met up with Tracy's mom and her two friends for a drive through the wildlife refuge and had lunch on Captiva Island.
High on our list of places we wanted to visit was the Ringling Museum. It's huge, and we spent the whole afternoon at the Circus Museum, never getting into the mansion or visiting the art gallery. We'll definitely be going back next year. More memorabilia: I cut my wrist band apart for the strip on the filler card and the elephant embellishment on the journaling card. I had saved a postage stamp that came in the mail just for this occasion! Everywhere we go, I pick up business cards from the restaurants where we eat. I never know what to do with them, so this time I made a pocket with an embellishment from Pink Paislee's Atlas collection and a stamp from their Sentiment Series.
All the photos on this page are from our last day in Florida. We visited the Selby Botanical Gardens in Sarasota (definitely worth a return trip), and took a selfie at our last meal out.
We were home for just four days before heading off to Chicago to visit Sarah, Adam, and Caleb for Holy Week. With two full-time pastors at two different churches, some babysitting, meal planning, cooking, and general help around the house was in order. Needless to say, we were happy to oblige. Although we were only there the beginning of April, my whole spread for this month documents that visit. Once we got home, we hunkered in. The weather was still very cool, and we had lots of projects on the back burners to attack.
There's a cute paper craft store about 20 minutes from Sarah's. I don't get there often, but made a quick run over there one afternoon. The cute Easter embellishments all came from one sheet of 12X12 paper by Echo Park.
Several of these photos were posted earlier for a Pairs post, but my favorite photo of the trip is this last one of Tracy and Caleb at brunch after the Easter service.
Hope your week gets off to a good start. My volunteer stint at the after school program in the inner city ends this week. They take off a few weeks before starting the summer program. We're gone so much this summer, that I can't participate in that. I have a committee meeting, some entertaining to plan for, and two lunches out with friends. There should be plenty of time to get to the gym, finish the May Project Life, do some decluttering, and keep up with some other ongoing projects.
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