While I was pregnant with Miss K, I took so many wonderful pictures of my growing bump that I had to scrapbook them all in a single album. The only challenge I gave myself was to use scrapbook supplies that I already had and I was pleased to use up some things that had been gathering dust for a while!

I chose an A4 pink album and protectors that I’d been holding onto from my very first Japan trip. They were originally going to be used to scrapbook my Japan album but there were too many photos. This would be the perfect scrapbooking project to use it for.

The majority of the papers are also from Japan and are wonderfully textured and painted. The photos really don’t do them justice. The rest are scraps from old scrapbooking projects. I didn’t really go for a theme or think about things too much. I just threw things together that I felt looked together, put some embellishments on and left it at that. It was a relatively quick and fun process.

While I was pregnant we went through some other major life changes including our move from Perth to Albury, so it’s great to look back on and remember all the craziness involved while heavily pregnant. I’m also glad that I was able to let go and use up scrapbooking supplies that I’d been ‘saving’. It’s such a bright and fun album and definitely one of my favourites so far!

The pictures above are only about half of the album. It was a fun way to document my pregnancy and I can’t wait to look through these photos with Miss K when she’s older.

Marie xo

Before Miss K was due, I had a few scrapbooking projects that I wanted to complete. One of them was from my now husband and I’s very first holiday together to Japan … back in 2010!

Back then I was still new to scrapbooking and had no idea where to start. I was initially overwhelmed by all of the photo’s that we took that needed sorting and editing. When I finally got around to printing them out online they were all out of order when I received them! For a long time I had all of my printed photos placed in a box and pulled them out every now and then to sort.

Months and eventually years passed by before I discovered Project Life and I started to have an idea of how I’d scrapbook our holiday. I bought a Pink Leather 12X12 Album, Project Life Page Projectors and various Project Life themed cards, and slowly put everything together. Finally, a few months before Miss K was born I finalised our album! It’s not perfect but it’s done and I love flipping through the photo’s and taking a trip down memory lane.

The moral of this sad scrapbooking tale is that no matter how long ago a holiday or event was, it’s never too late to scrapbook it!

There are too many pages to share the entire album so I’ve picked out some of my favourite layouts for you to take a look. I hope you enjoy!

Marie xo

With 2016 in full swing, I’ve been thinking about how best to document this year. In the last few years I’ve documented the year in some shape or form, and I’ve always loved going back through my old albums. It’s amazing how much a single photo can bring back such vivid memories and also so scary how easily I forget otherwise!

In saying that though, I’ve got a lot on my plate at the moment and I have last year’s failed attempt at documenting every day freshly in mind. With my goal to simplify everything this year, I’ve decided to stick to creating mini albums of key events such as holidays as they happen and create a photo book of my favourite moments/photos at the end of the year. With my goal of scrapbooking old holidays and 2015 as well, that should keep me busy!