So... For the second year I am going to attempt Project life. Last year? Well... I only got to April, and it's not even complete for those months! I failed for many reasons.
*Not printing my photo's at home. I had good intentions of printing them out once a week at costco. I would forget, or put it off, etc.
*Not marking my pictures, or writing it down, etc. I would forget which picture was from what day, etc. I am a bit OCD, and not knowing the exact day I took a picture made me crazy.
*I was too obsessed with a picture every day.
*I was following PL as intended and felt creatively bored.
So, this is what I'm planning on doing differently this year.
*I've purchased a Epson Picturemate Charm (Hoping it arrives soon)
*I will be printing out my pictures daily, hopefully I will get into a good routine. I plan on setting an alert on my iphone for 10pm. Which is a good time for my shortly before bed, all the kids should be asleep and there should be no excuses to quickly edit a picture or two and print them.
*I think I'm going to do it in a per week style like Lisa has been doing. I'm hoping this will take the pressure off a bit and put my ocd guilt to rest if I miss a picture or two here or there.
*I'm going to use the PL page protectors for most of the album and sprinkling in bit of my left over Turquoise album into the mix, but for the most part I'll be using supplies I have on hand. My creative spirit is much happier about it.
I cut out this cute shape with my new Silhouette with a Pink Paislee grid paper. I then inked up the back of a PL card with distress ink and layered them together.
And this my friends is my finished title page. Certainly not perfect, but fun, and me. I am SO excited to embark on this journey again in hopefully a more successful manner. So many changes will be happening in our life this year including a move to a new city, and buying our first house! Recording those things will mean a lot to me :)
Happy New Year!!!!!!!!!!! :)
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11 comments:
Just lovely! :)
Looks awesome! I can't wait to see your progress!
I totally stopped around the same time when I was doing a picture a day too! I wasn't even doing Project Life then, just making my own layouts. I am starting with it this year too, and am really excited about it. Love your title page and can't wait to see what you do with your album.
Awesome layout! :-) Your PL plan sounds doable. Good luck in completing it. It will be beautiful! :-) Happy New Year!
Happy New Year Laura!! Long time since we last said hi! :D Hope all has been well. LOVE your PL title page! It is gorgeous! I hope to be starting that project this month, but it is already the 1st and I am super behind! LOL! Take care and talk to you again soon!
Looks awesome! Wishing you much luck this year!
Page looks great! Love the touches of red to the overlay! Good luck with making it to...and going past April! -Amanda
Great page and wonderful idea to do weekly, I am still not decided how to do this year so I'll be following your blog for inspiration.
gorgeous, gorgeous, gorgeous. I'm going to dig out my project life supplies and make my cover page :) I'm also taking a loose approach to it, no stress just fun.
thank you for that link, I hadn't seen it--I just finished reading it and feel rejuvenated! I did project life the way they described it--now this year I'm going to do it MY way! :) Thanks for the inspiration to make PL mine!
This Will be my first year taking on PL. Also looking forward to recording new changes (new baby, son starting school). Bought a Epson printer to print at home... But of course haven't even made the title page yet ;-) guess my excuse is that I stilll haven't Got the page protectors hi hi. Looking forward to seing your project - you are so super talented! Happy New Year
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