Hop over to the Simple Stories blog for my blog post share up, Part 2 of 2 post for this month to document my "Week-in-the-Life" {Apr 23 - 29}. It was a pretty monumental & epic week of many emotions, discoveries, feelings...so to process-document-inhale it all, I broke up this blog post into 2 parts. Wellllllll, actually, there is a 6x8 Mix & Match design team blog hop happening June 4th and I'll actually bring in a Part 3/BONUS share in that hop because I simply can't share it all up in this post. But in this share you will see actual completed pages from my album, titled "Eat Pray Love", along with some closeups and creative tidbits that inspired me. As shared up in Part 2, I used a crazy mix of Simple Stories collections (and bare with me as I develop the supply list for ya...) -- Destinations, Life Documented, Generations, Awesome, Documented, Year.o.graphy...yes, those & moreeee -- but this just proves how amazingggggg how all the collections mix & match so well together!
You can check out Part 1 of 2 previously shared up here.
For now, let's continue & roll on to Part 2 of 2 (aka Part 2 of 3)....
Why did I choose the title, "Eat Pray Love"? Well, first, I absolutely LOVE the book (and the movie), but the movie lacks a bit of the humor & some of the beauty of the actual book. Second, on a personal note (which I usually don't do much in the blog world but I feel it's a big part of sharing this in understanding my journey for this album), I can so relate to Elizabeth's life along many parallels -- divorce from a marriage of 7 years (in my case, a husband who cheated), lost love, a 3 year period of healing, self-discovery, heartache, acceptance, recharging & rediscovering myself emotionally, staying optimistic, finding my strength in prayer, world travel (in my past job as an international auditor), always staying confident, independent, and opening my heart to love again in such a random way of love finding me.
(and throwing in some good food, makes for a beautiful journey too).
Beautiful.
So, with that bit of background put out there....I really drew on the quotes from the book that inspired my pages and paved my journey in the "week-in-the-life", so ironically, these quotes transpired into my book after I took the photos....sometimes things work artistically in this way. Also, to add, I didn't build my album in actual sequence - Day 1, Day 2, etc... - but really dove into the actual journey and not so much focus on the actual days of the week, know what I mean?
Can you believe I still have MORE pages to share?!!
Yep, and those will come in the
Simple Stories design team
Simple Stories design team
6x8 Mix & Match album blog hop happening June 4th!
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