summer twenty twelve // mini-book 2

IT'S HERE!

My summer twenty twelve mini-book finally arrived in the mail!

Everything about this book is cute, including the packaging it came in.  A smile came across my face when the post office employee placed the package in my hand.  I walked out the door and noticed the words 'get excited' stamped on the front of the package.  Get excited... GET EXCITED? Are you kidding me? I'm ECSTATIC!

This is my first mini-book project (can't you tell, by how goofily pumped I am?).  This is about a whole new form of memory keeping for me.  Gone are my days of 12x12 scrapbook layouts.  TOO MUCH WORK!  I'm not dismissing the idea of ever scrapbooking again.  No. That is certainly not the case. But by becoming a follower of a handful of different blogs (all written by incredibly talented memory keepers - Elise, Ali, Kelly, and Becky to name the few that I'm following right now), my eyes have been opened to the endless formats in which memories can be collected.

I really don't need to wait for a big vacation, or a big life event to scrapbook.  What I've learned over the past few weeks, is that you can collect memories (and craft the heck out of them) on a day-to-day basis.  I've also learned that sometimes daily life is the most exciting thing to watch unfold.

summer twenty twelve // mini-book 1

I've been patiently awaiting the arrival of my summer twenty twelve mini-book.  Tomorrow will be my first chance to get to the post office (during business hours), and I have all my fingers and toes crossed that it will be there!

June 1st, although it's come and gone... is my start date for this project, and I've been collecting papers, items, thoughts, notes and photgraphs since. 

I plan on spending a good portion of my weekend with my mini-book, and get caught up to a point where I can make additions to it on a semi-daily basis.

Further plans for this weekend off include:

• test out a lemon facial that a few friends have posted on pinterest
• visit our neighboring larger center, Brandon, MB, to get some shopping done
• play slo-pitch (weather permitting - it's been raining cats and dogs here for a week straight)
• make mojitos with home grown mint

**On a side note - when I say weekend, really I mean one of my four days off.  I work 10 days in a row, then have four off - So I have every second Thursday through Sunday off work.  That, is what I call my 'weekend'.