Project Life Week 12: THEN

 Time to step back almost 25 years! This is the left side of my Week 12. We are at the wedding reception. Troy's mom and dad threw the reception for us, and it was so nice! We had a small wedding, but I thought it was perfect.

 I like to add vintage paper to most of my layouts. Here there is vintage sheet music and book paper. I love those little alphabet stickers! I can't remember who makes them, but you probably have them too, so what does it matter? I think that's Sassafrass paper on this layout.

 This is a vintage button and some glitter glue dots. I started with a piece of painted chipboard and just added layers, finishing with the mother of pearl button.

 DH and I, and a couple of dear relatives!

 Posing with the little girls, and cutting the cake!!

 A little layered die cut embellishment.

A final piece of book paper.

Day 6 of Whole30 went well. Today is W's birthday, so we are having steak, cucumbers with homemade mayo, and watermelon for dinner. That's AFTER Troy took the boys to DQ for ice cream. I stayed home to blog and watch old Murder, She Wrote episodes, because believe it or not, DQ is not Whole30 complaint.

New Hero Arts Stamp & Cut

 My sister has several of these. I was jealous. Yes. I considered stuffing them all into my suitcase the last time I was there. I mean, she loves me, it's not like we would become estranged over gorgeous stamps that come with matching dies. However, I found a couple of sets on sale, and elected not to steal hers. This set of Framelits is called Butterflies 3, and I think it's fabulous! I paired it with a Gina K. Designs stamp called Unforgettable, and some polished stone paper I made using Gina's method.

 This card was a theory that did not work as well as I thought. I colored the embossed image with an embossing pen and then embossed with different colors, working one color at a time. It's messy, but I elected to keep it, because I think it looks a bit like tile. I used Signs of Autumn from GKD, plus a K&Co. butterfly.

 GKD Spring Mix.

 GKD Spring Mix.

GKD Spring Mix.

I'm on Day 5 of Whole30. I have mostly felt absolutely horrible the whole time. I have stuck with it, though, and hope that soon I will adjust to the lack of my usual horrifyingly bad food choices. Other than the fact that I generally feel sick or have a pounding headache, it has not been too hard. I have been using recipes from Whole Family Strong, and on the first, I made Apple Bumbkin without the maple syrup, of course. The texture takes a little getting used to, but it tastes great. It's a good thing I like it, because Troy does not, and I have been stuck trying to polish off a 9x13 pan of it by myself. I've eaten two large servings a day, and I'm down to just one serving. I probably won't ever make this again, because it's just no fun having to eat the same thing five days in a row.

I would like to nominate myself for some kind of medal, though, because my 10yods has a sheet of Pillsbury Croissants in the oven right now, and I guarantee you that I won't eat a crumb.