This is one of our favorite restaurants despite a few items that I don’t care for here. The food is excellent and the service is usually pretty good. Two things I don’t like? 1. when we walk up to the host/hostess they ALWAYS ask us, are you visiting? No. we live here. in fact we come here about once a month and have been coming here for years. Are you visiting is not a polite way to greet a guest. How are you, How is your day are more appropriate greetings. 2. When the host/hostess walks you to your table, the put the menus on the table and stack the napkins and silverware on the table. They do not set the table, they do not pass out the menus. that’s just rude, in my opinion. I have mentioned it to the manager and he said it’s a style of service. I say, you mean lack of service? so then I shouldn’t leave a tip then? but the friendliness of the servers (tonight we had anthony-excellent) and quality of the food are so good, we do overlook it.

seriously, can you not tell we are from here?

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy :)

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Joscie, rhymes with Bossy :)

and two other faves from today.  Jalen and Jordan doing a magnet/compass experiment

and some yummy macarons we picked up after dinner today: coconut, vanilla, guava, mango, key lime.

the boys, on how to identify macarons:

Jalen- The coconut ones have little things on them.

Jordan- I hope it’s not bacteria!

those are so my boys. ha ha.

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Joscie, rhymes with bossy! :)

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MY GUY

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• Miss Mint’s He Loves Kit
• Miss Mint’s Messy Love Mats
• Photo by Marina Miller, used with Permission

Valentine’s Day Cards

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• Miss Mint’s Love Bird
• Miss Mint’s Love Bird Solids
• Miss Mint’s Funkdash Cocoa Stripe Alpha

I totally got this idea from pinterest.

I thought it looked pretty straight forward and I love how it turned out.

Love Gift Bag

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• Miss Mint’s Lovebird
• Miss Mint’s Scrabble Style Alphas

create 8.5×11 document in PS

print borderless on plain paper

add adhesive to one side, roll and create a tube.

Add a strip of decorative tape over the seam.

fold in half with design centered.

fold up bottom inch.

open folded part and fold in sides like a giftwrapping a present.

Fold in.

tape.

stand up, fill with goodies.

Fold over top, punch holes and add ribbon to close.

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Project Life Week 3

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Project Life Week 3 Left

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I included a gas pump receipt stapled to a journaling card.  I added my journaling by hand, added the orange stickers.   I had to include this shot of Jordan doing his math.  He always touches his fingers to his chin or nose when he counts. I think it is so cute. I also did this week’s dates on a white flag instead of a kraft flag. I am resisting going back to change it to match the previous weeks.Hambly Washi Tape.  Label from a treat we bought at Shirokiya: custard filled fish shaped waffles. super yum. also thickers numbers and smash date stamp in gray.
Date stamp right on the picture. Studio Calico Scrap Pads, machine stitching.  Jordan says: I bet Miso Soup would be really good at the North Pole.  He also called our breakfast Muff-funs.

Project Life Week 3 Right

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studio calico scrap pads, machine stitch, white vinyl thickers, white pen:

Project Life Clementine Cardstock cut down to 4×6. Blue Glitter Thickers, Studio Calico Scrap Pads, date stamp, white pen, Amy Tan Camera, PL remember sticker.

Also, in case you are wondering, bfdof is our family phrase: Big Fat Day Of Fun.  It is used like this: Are  you ready for a big fat day of fun?  or Oh, there is no whining on our big fat day of fun! OH! No arguing on a big fat day of fun! A big fat day of fun is any day where we are out all day on our adventures. this does not include shopping trips or that kind of thing. only stuff that could be considered fun by the majority of the family members. like the aquarium, zoo, museum, movies that kind of thing.  This week I really embraced the freedom of Project Life. I chose not to include some of my #p366 pics and chose more that had a story to go with. it makes me happy.

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this is my set up. Post its remind me of various things. Wacom front and center. Paper crafting stuff to the right (you can see some of my scissors, there are more).

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Project Life Title Page Part 1

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I have included an extra Christmas card in the top right corner. The picture for the Christmas card as well as the bikes and the converse picture are all from our family photo shoot with the fabulous Marina Miller of Red Heart Photography (used with permission). I cut the flags on my silhouette (new blades are #1) and used Paper Trey Ink Kraft Cardstock. Studio Calico wooden houses (two stacked) and circle graph paper and brown arrow sticky notes.  The red numbers are some I scored from a snack bar menu board (and i have a ton!) I trimmed the top off one everyday life journaling card and cut the edges to match my other flags. Red and blue washi tapes from Hambly. American Crafts Thickers (blue glitter). I used my sewing machine to stitch with black thread and my typewriter to type on some flags. some close ups, click any for a larger view:  

week 1 January 1-7

Week One January 1-7 (left)

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The circle numbers and little days are stickers from the Clementine kit.  I am pretty impressed with the white stickers, they seem to disappear enough that they look like they were added before printing the pictures.

some close ups, click any for a larger view:

Week One January 1-7 (right)

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because I had several portrait oriented photos (read * i didn’t plan well when I ordered prints at Target*) I added this page protector for the right side of week 1.  I used the bottom half of the Red everyday life journaling card to form a sort of pocket for the take out menu. I also added a strip of zigzag stitching for interest. Red Speech bubble sticky note is from Studio Calico. White 3 is vinyl thickers (really old) I added journaling on these grid cards from my Clementine Kit because they were the only landscape oriented journaling cards. I copied and pasted information on the photos from my blog and printed using this template from Paislee Press. You should get these templates too. FREE! I added a number sticker to each card and date stamped each card as well.  I also had extra spaces so I added some other photos. close ups, click to view larger:

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Week Two (left)

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I have to tell you, my ocd brain was not happy that I had to use this shape of page protector at the beginning of this week because chronologically my first picture was landscape AND it was already printed at full size. but I’m getting over it.  I had extra spaces for ephemera (fancy word for crap  memorabilia I hoarded in the name of this project) and truthfully, the kfc bag was actually from the first week, but you know what? I’m okay with that. AND it felt good to be guilt free in throwing out the other receipts that I had saved but ended up not using. win-win. When I was ready to add journaling, I figured that since I hadn’t added anything bulky to the grid journaling cards, I was able to run them through the printer again and use both sides. even more win. I use a strip of washi tape to hold the cards in place, it peels off nicely. If you don’t want to use washi tape, you can also use blue painters tape.

January 12 on 12

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these pages were printed on 6 x 12 and placed in a 6 x 12 page protector in the middle of week 2 spread.  This picture is obviously a composite picture of the front and back of the page.

Week Two (right)

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I stitched a little napkin roll paper from CPK onto my journaling card. I also stitched the number from the barber shop right on top of the picture. I added date stamps on everything. For the bottom right side I printed the journaling onto one card with a space in the middle so I could cut and paste appropriately. I also had a little space fora few extra photos and i just used my mini stapler from tim holtz for that.

whew! and that’s it for my first two weeks.  I have to tell you, I picked up some photo paper in both 4×6 and 8.5 x 11 to print at home.  I have an HP Photosmart printer. It’s not the best ever, but it’s good enough for me.  I realized that I have to think about what sizes I want to layout in my book before I make prints to minimize waste.  I am pretty happy with the results so far.  If you’re on the fence, I am glad I have started it.  I think I should have just ordered grid cards, page protectors in A and D and 6×12. I do like the number and day of the week stickers and the papers/journaling cards are cute.

Please feel free to leave any questions in the comments and I’ll get to them as I can.  I also plan to space out the future project life posts once a week or so.
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Joscie, rhymes with bossy :)