…whoa. I knew it had been a while, but until I took the photos of the finished spreads this morning and saved the slightly edited versions, I had no idea it had been eleven weeks. nearly three months. of course it seems like that long when I look back at each page, but still…

the first four of those weeks had been partially completed back in september; I had the photos in place, and most of the ephemera, but I needed to add a few more details and the journaling. thank goodness for post-it notes to remind me what I’d originally intended.

week 24 (august 26 – september 1)

week 25

week 26

week 27

these weeks look like the ones that preceeded them – a mix of photos and “stuff” and a few journaling cards thrown in. I did tweak cathy zielske’s life list cards to document things we did specifically for the new house.

 and then I got to the catchup phase. I shared a photo on instagram friday night of the mess of ephemera and notes that I started with.

it got worse before it got better 🙂  I decided on two three week spreads, pre-closing/move and post-closing/move with two 6×12 spreads in the middle to document our 2-day walk and my dad’s 75th birthday weekend. good thing marc was gone all weekend, because I had all the counters in my kitchen full of project life until about 9pm last night! here’s how those six weeks turned out.

weeks 28 – 30 (september 23 – october 12)

a close-up of the front of the 2-day walk page

and the back – and the front of my dad’s birthday page

and the back of the birthday page and the right side of the three-week spread

weeks 31 – 33

and one close-up. my pile of ephemera was impressive! the quotation in the lower right is written on an envelope I’d already embossed with my old address. and of course I LOVE the queen of hearts shopping list. (maybe they do project life, too?!)