standing at the epicenter of awesome

I have a new page up over at Lily Bee (using their gorgeous new Buttercup line):

This photo was taken the week before the Super Bowl when Todd and I went downtown to see Super Bowl Village and walk around.

This past week (Super Week!) and Super Bowl Sunday was just incredible here in Indianapolis.   Although i didn't have a second chance to go back downtown, my siblings, cousins, and many friends were there throughout the week.   it was amazing (or the "epicenter of awesome" as Al Roker said on the Today Show).

Every morning my Facebook feed was full of friends who had seen celebrities, been to VIP parties, were part of Madonna's half time performance, went to Jimmy Fallon's show, been on the Today Show- the list goes on and on.  Really, it was so fun.

I am so proud of my city and how "well we did the Super Bowl".  The compactness of downtown, the Super Bowl Village, the Zipline, our restaurants, and most of all our "Hoosier Hospitality" were all a pleasant surprise for everyone.  I think this Forbes article says it all-- the real winner of the Super Bowl was Indianapolis!

I made this layout simply to document this fun time for our city.  The journaling shares a bit of the Super Bowl excitement and festivities, and I used the title "Standing at the Epicenter of Awesome".

A mainly layered the journaling cards from Lily Bee's Buttercup and Double Dutch lines, added a few doilies, a date stamp, punched boarder, mist splatters, staples/paper clip, and called it done.

I think I am going to actually put this in my Project Life album!!  It's an 8.5 x 11-- perfect size for Project Life.

this will be my first layout in Project Life-- isn't it funny how i never thought of including something like before?   Total light bulb moment :)

hope you have a wonderful thursday!