Michele Holcomb

the simple things:: week 2 and 3

week 2 - this is one of my favorite sights to see but i sure do miss reading to my baby girl at night. 

week 3 - this week was all about easing my body into being more active. after seven years of living in our community, i'm finally taking advantage of the awesome trail. it felt so good, and admittedly, a bit tiring, to get out early this morning. 

***This post is part of a weekly challenge to capture the simple things in life hosted by Rebecca Cooper. Click on the button below to see the wonderful entries***

bits of sunday

bits of sunday on 01.13.13

sunday morning errands to the farmers market and trader joes // glitter art // late breakfast and a little downton abbey, season 1 (i'm obsessed with this show) // teen magazines and listening to music makes anna extremely happy // a little corner that makes me smile everytime I enter the kitchen // lunch for the little one - melted turkey cheese sandwich with pesto sauce - a new favorite.

(linking up with amanda's weekending series from the habit of being)

simple scrapper:: january blog hop and giveaway

Happy Tuesday!

Welcome to the first Simple Scrapper blog hop of 2013. Here are my contributions for the month.

I came across this quote a couple of month's ago and remembered that I had the perfect photo to go with it; one that I had taken on my way to my parents house one morning. I love the color of the leaves against the gray sky and the faint light of the rainbow.

supplies here

My next layout...dare I say it...is an about me page. I'm not a fan of my photo being taken but I know how important it is for me to be seen and be present in the pages that I make. So...here I am!

supplies here

Want to win a one-month Simple Scrapper Premium Membership?

Visit the Simple Scrapper team member blogs and look for the entry link. Entries will be pooled and one winner selected at 11:59pm CST on Wednesday, January 9. You may enter from multiple blogs. 

Julie Aldridge

Jeryn Carlisi

Lisa Corbin-Polak

Ronnie Crowley

Kim Gehring

Michele Holcomb <-------- this is me

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Amy Kingsford

Samantha Landay

Pam Lozano

Aimee Maddern

Jean Manis

Melissa Priest

Sara Case Strickland

 

Thank you for visiting!

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping.

 

the simple things:: week 1

First week of the new year is in the books and the girls will be heading back to school after a long holiday break. With that comes planning, structure and keeping track of the many things that go on. I love new calendars and planners just for that purpose.

 

***This post is part of a weekly challenge to capture the simple things in life hosted by Rebecca Cooper. Click on the button below to see the wonderful entries***

a year of simple things:: looking back at 2012

The Simple Things. One photo. One memory.

I captured 1/2 year of short stories that made me happy.

I'm ready to do this again.

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The Simple Things project is hosted by one of my favorite bloggers, Rebecca Cooper. This photo project is a great compliment to a 365 project or Project Life.

My Simple Things posts are under the category "The Sweet Life." Looking back at 2011 post can be found here.

It's been a merry holiday

This holiday has been filled with so many memories that I just want to bottle up. Although, I'm ready to start clearing out corners of our home, I'm not yet ready to get back to the real world of work and school. Savoring this last day off with family and amazing food. Wishing you all the same!

Happy New Year! 

enjoying december

We're ten days in and I've been enjoying every bit of this month. No time for blogging...work, school and just plain living life are happening over here. We've had a mixture of everyday routines and merry making the past two weeks. It's a nice balance of business and pleasure. My december daily is coming along but a back log in supplies has me waiting to print and put it to together. I do, however, continue to take photos and document our days. My daily will be housed in a 6x8 simple stories binder and possibly a few of the grid page protectors. I like the size of of my pages from last year but never followed through. I'm definitely inspired to make this process as simple as possible.

simple scrapper:: december blog hop

Happy Monday!

Welcome to the December monthly blog hop. Here are my contributions for the month.

Love the colors in this first layout. Rather than use traditional holiday colors to tell the story of Nyna's Spirit of Hope Fairy, I looked to Paislee Press' This Much Collection and the pink in the photo to pull this layout together. 

supplies here

My second contribution is a layout about Anna. It's a little harder these days to get photos of her. At 17, she's not really keen on being in front of the camera. I find that many of the shots are of her looking far off and I'm okay with that. I want her to know that I see her and she is just so amazing. Black and white photos makes the layout a little more timeless.

supplies here

Hop on over to the rest of the team below for more ideas but before you leave, be sure to enter the giveaway for a one-month trial subscription to Simple Scrapper.

Sue Althouse

Lisa Corbin-Polak

Kate Christensen

Ronnie Crowley

Michele Holcomb <------- this is me

Margrethe Aas Johnsen

Amy Kingsford

Pam Lozano

Aimee Maddern

Jean Manis

Mandy Ross

Thank you for visiting!

The Premium Membership at Simple Scrapper provides skills and shortcuts to help you simplify and find more meaning in your memory keeping.

Simple Scrapper:: Guest Post & Design Team Call

Happy Tuesday!

I have a guest post up today over on Simple Scrapper on creating three different designs using one sketch template and limited supplies. I used one of my favorite digital kits from Paislee Press. You can check it out here.

Also, Simple Scrapper is having a design team call that ends this Friday. Not only do you get to work with the amazing templates, but there is also opportunity to work with the new line of mini book kits.

Check out all of the details here.

weekending

The weekend was a whirlwind of memories that involved two extra girls in the house. So much excitement for an impending sleepover had Nyna tidying up her room the best she can. It made no difference in the end as toys that have not seen the light of day emerged for their play. The CSI tape hanging down the hall is surely appropriate for the disaster that was her room. Luckily they know how to clean up after themselves if they wanted to move on to a different activity; and they did move from one activity to another in a flurry.

Our job was to simply let them be and feed them at the appropriate times.

I think we did pretty good.