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So, I'm pretty behind in my Project Life. Which, really, is no big surprise because the main subject of my scrapbook (Joseph) takes up a lot of my time. I'm still trying to hone my Project Life style, but there are a few spreads that I really like. And I thought I would share them with you.  Week 12. The nice thing about a baby being born on New Years Eve is that the weeks correspond with his age. So, yeah, this was when Joseph was a wee twelve week old. Almost all of my photos are taken with my iPhone because the best camera is the one you have with you. This was a low-photo week, so just a half spread. It was around this time that my addiction to Thickers began to blossom. My sweet friend Carrie and her husband Andrew stopped by while they were in town. Carrie brought us daffodils in a vase with this little card attached. I love saving things like this and PL gives me a place to put them!  Joseph's three-month photo shoot took up half the spread of week ...

I started scrapbooking when I was in high school. I had to put together a senior portfolio in which I basically scrapped several short personal stories that I had written over the year. I really enjoyed making it and I dove into scrapping. I have, I think, three scrapbooks from this time. But scrapbooking takes a LOT of time and I eventually stopped and got rid of all my scrapbooking supplies. I switched to photo albums, and while photo albums are functional and easy, they aren't nearly as pretty as scrapbooks. Eventually, I also stopped this and didn't print out any photos for a long time. I took up scrapbooking again when we got married. I wanted to make a wedding scrapbook, a reception guestbook/scrapbook, and then to start documenting our life together. Mike got me some really adorable scrapbooking supplies for our first Christmas together after we got married. My goal was to record the most important events in our lives (our wedding, honeymoon, holidays, vari...