Guest Designer - Ali Moloney

Hello!  My name is Ali and I have had a blast working with the Polly! March Pocket Pages kit!  Amy Tangerine is up there with my favourites, and this kit featuring Plus One was perfect for a week that was not spectacular in terms of photos.  It was really, an average, busy week.  And that is why I love Project Life! 

I don't have a set process - I narrow down my photos and think about what I want or need to journal as well.  My title card was almost trashed - as you can see I have stamped the date a few times (Thanks Kellie from Give a Girl a Blog for the inspiration) as I actually messed up....and the '9' did not work!  So I have saved the gorgeous card, and am living with my mistake!

My photos are framed with the top of the 6 x 6 paper pad.  I have just ripped up the bits and stuck them down.  The photo's needed something, and I wanted to try to use as much of the kit as possible.

These photos are perfect reminders of how exhausted the kids are when I get them from Kindy.  They are still adjusting to being at Kindy and most days Brendan is almost always asleep at pick up time!

I love all the cork in this kit.  There is something so simple about it - and it goes with anything!

We have a retro gaming thingy - like an old arcade game, and the kids really do play Donkey Kong, and it really is a war some days!

Here is my RHS (is it right...or left...confused, but here is my first page..)

Onto the other side, and I have used lots of the gorgeous patterned paper as well as the bits and pieces from the 6 x 6 paper pad.  I love the designs of Plus One, it is really so very pretty, and the font of the script is gorgeous!

I take pictures of the kids artwork and use those, and use the artwork as wrapping paper for gifts.  I love that it is being used, but some are so precious I cannot bear to get rid of them - and I have a very large box full of pictures.  Caitlyn is our resident artist, and her picture this week is of a bunny (from stencil) and the rest is her handiwork, and I love it! People, flowers and butterflies!  She also is the most belligerent of children and is quite often photographed doing something naughty - her current favourite habit is stealing the peanut butter and just eating it from the jar!

Here is just a close up so you can see the gorgeous Amy Tan acrylics!  Oh I LOVE them!  You can even see that my pen ran out in this photo!  I am living on the edge by even allowing them to stay in my album - but that is what PL is about - documenting the every day, not the perfect choreographed moments!  Using this kit made me go against my neatness and need for perfection - and I love that I have.  This page is a true representation of the week - busy and chaotic, but still so incredibly worth remembering.  And I actually love that I made mistakes - because I learning that in PL, the mistakes are sometimes the best bit.  And really, who has never had a pen run out?  Or made a mistake with a stamp?  I dare you to leave one 'mistake' on your page this week - be a little crazy!

Hope you have enjoyed the little look into what I refer to as Moloney Mayhem.  You can check out my blog here (www.moloneystylestamping.wordpress.com) if you want to see more shenanigans!  I am feeling very special to have a guest post in Polly!  Thanks for the opportunity ladies!  Have a great day whatever you are doing :)

Ali

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I am a Mum, a wife, a nurse, a teacher, a wannabe writer and a total coffee snob :)