Aimee's Armoire

for the love of photos:

A challenge to you for September. Here in the states September is the month harvest starts. What a great month for pictures {ok Arizona and so cal really don’t get that thing called harvest but you get my point} I found on a blog about a 30 day photo challenge, and thought wow that is so cool, right up a scrappers alley, you know the documenting thing and all. When I found/heard about it, we were already in august a few days so I decided I would start in September. Then I thought how would I ever make a layout with 30 photos? Then Amy Tan suggested the college print from snap fish, but you can pnly use 20 photos soooo you could do 2 colleges. Then Dear Lizzy posted her love for instagram {sorry as far as I know instagram is only for iphones} yesterday, and with that suggested a few sites that print the instagram. Well 1. site has a mini book that holds 48 or so photos {anyone who knows me knows I love a mini anything!} So I am gonna try them out I think the price was like $12 for 2 books sounds good to me since they are doing all the work. So if you are up for the challenge follow me on my blog for my daily photos.

Feel free to make your own rules, such as take a week’s worth of picture at once, or change the prompt. You choose what works best for you to get those 30 pictures documented!

 

Have fun with this… Here is the site I found the challenge along with the prompts.

 

 

Snap Fish college prints

 

Printstagram: mini books, stickers, poster

PostalPix: Prints your pictures onto photo paper & aluminum

Blurb: Photo books.

and this post wouldn't be complete without silly photos of me so here ya go

   

September starts on Friday have your cameras ready

right now {last night}:

Listening: to 106.5 the buzz
reading: Facebook
watching: the boats go by
eating: chicken Alfredo TGIF frozen
drinking: ice tea
wearing: what comfy tunic from Anthropologie
feeling: alone
weather: warm and breezy
playing: with lots of scraps
wanting: Internet at the house
needing: Internet at the house
waiting: for Kevin to come home
enjoying: time alone

Thankful: for this vacation spot

 

 

here are 2 more LO's that I have done:

 

we took a quick camping trip to ventura in July

 

 

Photos of produce I snapped at walmart in Chicago

 

 

here are a few of my completed pages from Big Picture-Big Idea Festival-Words to Live by

{ i have not finished this mini album, shame on me}

 

 

Cherish

 

 

enjoy

 

 

 

give

 

 

 

less

 

 

nest

 

 

 

share

 

Happy Sunday

 

5 LO's:

With a BIT of extra time n my hands I have made a few LO’s this week. I left home with out any supplies, ok I brought a few. I always end up being crafty when Im bored.  I visited quite a few scrappy stores on the road. I went to 3 in Washington, 2 in Oregon and here in Nor Cal I have been to 3.  2 of the stores here in Nor Cal are my absolute fave. I have one other that ties with them and it’s in Bakersfield.

Here’s a peek at the LO’s I have made this week:

 

 

made this one for a challenge on the crate paper blog

 

made this one with some scraps, and then I read on the Studio Calico blog a challenge for a vacation layout, awsome I have one

 

Next up a sketch challenge on the SC blog

 

Jager and me kayaking: just for fun

 

 

And this one is of my 2nd cousins 1st b-day

 

time to enter these into contest!

 

the past few weeks:

 

Ahhhh, finally got me some internet from the resort down the street. So I am back up, I will give you a quick slideshow of what’s been happening the last few weeks.

A quick trip to Ventura for a little camping

 

Kevin working on a Top Fuel Dragster

{this started the first weekend on the road}

 

 

The sun setting over Rio Vista

a view of the georgiana

 

the sun setting through the grass

 

this started our week in seattle: we are at Anthony's fish house

 

Snoqualmiae falls: breath taking

Kevin turned 40 in Seattle

 

so we had to celebrate in style!

 

the Kevin confetti was a huge hit

 

I think Jager was afarid we would leave him

 

 

 

back in Cali. Kevin gets attacked by a giant crawdad

 

 

bulding burning down in Isleton

 

 

Isleton Fire Department

 

Jager zonked out, it's tough being a little guy

 

 

my birthday lunch in Berkley

{crap cake melt yummm}

 

 

HELLO how do you use this phone?

 

 

went to frisco for my b-day

 

leaving frisco-he he

 

 

the property next door getting preped

 

 

the bradge bringing in the gravel

 

 

the farmer brought me some corn

 

 

they have the gratest radio stantion's here

 

 

 

visiting a friend and he's daughter, she fell in love with my ipad and photobooth!

  
 

Jager and I kayaking

 

proof that I kayaked

 

 

Jager loves being on the water

 

going by the big bradge

 

yeterday morning documenting my rounyine: crossing the bridge going to town

 

this is deffinetly part of my morning routine

 

along with emails, facebook, and bloging

 

 

a layout that I have made here

 

a mini baby journal for a friend {shhh don't tell her}

 

 

card 1 for a design team app

 

card 2 for a design team app!

 

wow that was exhausting! uploading all these pics!  hope you enjoyed my last 3 weeks...

 

and a shout out to my bff, hope everything goes well and youare taking it easy. you can always ship the kids to me-hehe

 

happy wednesday

hello there:

 It’s been awhile since I’ve blogged. When Internet connection is limited it’s hard. When I wrote last I was in Seattle, I started out in Sonoma Ca. for the weekend. Then drove to Seattle was there for a week then drove back to Cali. Currently I am in Isleton. Monday was my 33 birthday, wow to say that I am freakin old…. Kevin and I went to Berkeley so I could shop at a few of my favorite stores. Anthropologie, Paper source, and of course a scrapbooking store. So after the traffic on the way to they bay we figured it was a good trial run since Kevin was flying out of Oakland on Wednesday. So first up the scrapbook territory, wouldn’t you guess it, they were closed. Yep Mondays they are closed… So we went to the other stores and had lunch on 4th st. Then we drove into Frisco. I haven’t been there since I was 10 so it was pretty. I don’t thin k I can ever drive on the bay bridge again, freakin terrifying! I went back to Scrapbook Territory yesterday after I dropped off Kevin at the airport. OMG this store is defiantly is tied with green tangerine as my favorite store! This week started the Big Picture free workshop, words to live by. I will post pictures when I can. Sorry this is a pictureless post due to lack of time and available Internet. I think I will get some post written so next time I have Internet I can bring you a more exciting post!

cheating:

These pictures are all from this year and kinda recent!!! I know it’s cheating but I needed to play catch up! So here we go:

 

day 1: self portrait

originally taken 6/27/11

day 2: what i wore

 

 

originally taken 6/26/11 trying sweater on at anthro

 

day 3: clouds

originally taken 2/18 /11 arizona sunset

 

day 4: favorite color {as of right now}

originally taken 6/11/11

 

day 5: someone i love {today is his birthday}

 

originally taken 6/16/11

 

there you go the first five days haha

30 day photo challenge:

Ok Ok, so August already started. I just found this fun challenge yesterday and have been thinking about it non-stop! So I’m gonna cheat this month and fill in the blanks with pictures I already have… But I am gonna go all out come September. How awesome would a little mini be or even a layout. What a great way to document the month. Now my minds gotten a little ahead of myself but here’s another one.  I was trying to participate in one little word-FAIL. Last year I tried project life-FAIL. I just don’t have the dedication to follow along. But if all I had to do was take a simple picture and I had a prompt for each day, You know take the picture first thing in the am, or right before bed.

I just might have a chance following though on this one. So what do you say, are you on board? I will come up with 365 days of picture prompts and we can start anytime. I am gonna ask my swap group to join in with me too. This is simple and how cool will it be to see the year in pictures. I will think of some great way to put this together too. Let’s make this fun, Aimee

 

And a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to my BF Kevin Happy 40th babe!