Well, I’m caught up on my Project Life album!
Mostly, anyway.
I went on a “retreat” this weekend with a girlfriend and spent about twelve hours on Saturday working on my album. I got May – November pictures in the pages (which included sorting through a TON of memorabilia, school papers, etc. and photos) and I’m now in the process of catching up on the journaling.
The pages are not fancy – but they are done. And right now, I’m happy with that. I’ll be supplementing with some digital pages I’ve done so the “fancy” will come with that.
I have to say, though, every time I do a Project Life/Project 365 album (this is my third year) I get discouraged about mid-year and slack off. Then I pick up steam again whenever I get a scrapbook weekend to catch up and I remember why I love this concept so much.
I love being able to snap those everyday, mundane things that make up our lives and that I wouldn’t necessarily dedicate an entire scrapbook page (and subsequent supplies) to but that really capture what our life is like right now… what is important to us, what captures our fancy, where we are spending our time.
I’m also planning to add in some printouts of my blog posts that correspond with some of the pictures – why re-write all of that? Why not just include it here? After all, I figure my blog is my online scrapbook!
I also really love how QUICKLY it comes together (once I sit down and actually DO it!) I remarked on Sunday morning that I wish I had the discipline to actually do the work on a weekly basis when the memories are fresh and stay caught up. Alas, that never seems to happen. But, my current method of using an iris project holder to keep my memorabilia and ephemera works pretty well.
Last weekend, I just dug around in that, put things in chronological order, slipped it into the appropriate page protectors or pockets and then filled in with photos and journal boxes after that was done. It works well for me.
It also frees me from feeling like I have to do my “normal” scrapbooking chronologically. Now that I do that mostly digitally, I like being able to bounce around where the inspiration strikes and having my PL album chronological frees me from feeling like I might miss something by jumping around with my other pages.
I’ll share some more pages in the coming weeks – I didn’t want to post 100 pages today – that would be rather boring, I think. 
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I have been meaning to do this Project Life for a while now- I guess I just need to do it. This is awesome.
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This is one of my resolutions for next year — to start scrapbooking the lives of the boys and I. I would also love to start a blog….so many things to do and don’t even know where to start. I have decided (and even started) to carry my camera in my purse everyday. I have no idea what this project life is but I must find out more about it. The other thing I have tried to do is to take at least one picture of Luke and Owen and one together and then have been put them in a calendar so at the end of next year it will be easy to print. 🙂 Any suggestions you have are welcome!
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K-A, Go to BeckyHiggins.com and check out her links for Project Life. It is SO EASY and perfect for someone like you who is busy but wants to capture your life and memories for the future. Carrying your camera in your purse is a great idea. Between that and my camera phone, most of the pictures from last year were taken “on the go” just because I always have my camera on hand. It’s amazing how you capture the minutiae of life that way, but those are the things that show what your life was REALLY like when you look back years later.
We should plan our much-postponed lunch for sometime after the kids go back to school in January and we can add this to our list of things to talk about!!
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