Project Life | Week Six

Ali, I'm totally following your lead on the idea of thinking of Project Life in terms of a week...that way I don't get stressed out about missing a day here or there! I have my kit, I have taken photos, I have collected daily type STUFF, I am just struggling to find the time to put it all together :( Could be because I have 2 sons in high school in the middle of basketball season! ha, ha! I do have a quick question: What corner rounder do you use??? I'm pretty sure you have told us already...but I just can't find that info! Thanks for sharing your Project Life!

I love the idea of this, and have been able to keep up (though I did fall behind for two weeks) :O) I take random shots and then pick out the ones that I think best represent our week over the weekend or when, like the moment, I can make some time. I am loving it, and Ali, thank you for the inspiration in letting us catch a glimpse as to how yours is going!!

Also, thanks for the DD. I just finished mine yesterday (still have to do the back cover, but it is all assembled). You are right, my creativity was not as nearly as good when Christmas passed, but I am so thrilled with the book. It is huge, and I hope you/we can find some big rings for next year! So happy :o)

Thanks for your creativity, inspiration and dedication.

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Thank you for sharing this with us every week. I have done this project for 2 years prior to this year and seeing yours has helped me "relax into" it. I have started grabbing other pieces of the week and finding a way to get them incorporated somehow. It's so fun to see it all come together.
Also, I love seeing all the Hanna Andersson Pajamas in your shots! We love those too! Unfortunately my tall ten-year-old girl is soon to be too big for them. So sad! :-)

I too am keeping my album and cards out for everyone, and taking pictures often. I am always mindful of this project, even if I am not actively working on it. I love being able to grab a card to jot a quick note, or saving bits of stuff that I will slip into the pockets. I have a bunch of photos to print, but I know they have a home, and I love that. So far no one else has decided to add anything to the book, but they can if they want. =)

Love your PL -- love that you encourage me by example to save the little things (gum wrappers) and include the big things (like report cards) I am doing a similar approach -- not addting to much and useing the kit -- usually work on the week all at once on the Sun or Mon of the following week -- working so far! I LOVE LOVE LOVE my PL!

Ali, thanks so much for onging inspiration and making available awesome tools. Just perfect to adjust the system from Becky to our own ones - and at least at time of sale from DD *ha ha*.
Love to see, how your project is going on and see stories from you and your lovely family. I'm working hard on mine also, hoping to get the first weeks done. Only the journaling is to accomplish. :-))
Will blog a special pic from our life with a digital title you did the next days. :-)))

Love your album, Ali. I also enjoy not having the daily pressure of making sure to take a picture. Looking at this project from a weekly perspective makes it a journey for me rather than a daily "to do".

I'm loving my Project Life too! I look for something each day that I photograph - the "little" things that typically wouldn't have a scrapbook page made for them. It's also helped me work on my journaling skills, since I'm writing a little tidbit about each day. Photo a day hasn't been a problem ... I love to take pictures.

I am doing my first Project Life even though my 3 sons are grown. I so wish I had this when they were young and still at home with me. From this prospective of looking back, I greatly encourage anyone who has little ones to capture the weeks in this way.

Mine is more a "What I see; Where I be" project that reminds me to pick up my camera at least for a few minutes each day. I am also hoping that by the end of the year, I will have learned much more about my camera and settings!

Thanks Ali for bringing PL to my attention and for sharing your PL with all of us. I also made my first December Daily in 2010 for my granddaughter's first Christmas. It was a wonderful experience and again, thanks Ali!
http://www.flickr.com/photos/deeanncummins/sets/72157625844945466/

I love looking at you PL every week! I'm also doing more of a weekly spread and not focusing on taking a picture every single day. so much more relaxing and enjoyable if you don't feel pressured.

I think the link to the tutorials is broken? I'd love to check them out since I'm a newbie at all this.

I know what you mean about how you're looking at it as a weekly look at life rather than worrying about taking a photo each day. The first couple of weeks I raced around taking photos of SOMETHING just to fill in the spots. Now that I've gotten into more of a rhythm with it, I'm just making it a look back at what happened during the week. Whether I have 7 photos using the Style A pages or a bunch others using the Style B pages or less than that, I am including business cards, 4x6 journaling boxes, etc and showing what our lives are all about. I haven't jumped into the extra pages yet, but I think as the year progresses and important events happen, I will look at doing that. Again, love, love, LOVE this project!! Thanks for sharing all your work with us!!

Hey Ali, I just wanted to let you know that the link to the report card day post isn't working. I think you have an extra 2011 in the actual link.

I love your approach on PL!

Hi Ali,
I have just splurged at the Designer Digital sale! The "10 Reasons I love You" books got me hooked! However, I am new at all this and was disappointed to see that I could not open up and change the date on the "Week in the life" templates... I did not realize that it was ONLY 2010. I thought that it was something you could add as part of your journaling. How can I change that???
THANKS!!!! i REALLY LOVE THE TEMPLATES! Maybe you can say how to just delete the "2010" text...?

I'm doing it, but on a daily basis. I'm crazy. But I'm keeping up with it well, and know I'll be thrilled to have it always.

I'm doing Project Life my way - and loving it. I love that I can spend 10 mins here and there on it and achieve something.
http://sharonmanning.blogspot.com/2011/02/inspiration-from-many.html I need to do an update though because I have done some more since then. :-)

I love to see your weekly PL updates, Ali! It spurs me on to get mine completed. Thanks for all you do!

I got my first Project Life album in late January and am love, love, loving it! I am not doing the daily or the weekly, but have been going crazy pulling together profiles of each person in our family, and themes (hands, we are readers, shoes to fill,finding and updating our home). At some point I'll probably start doing weekly layouts, but right now I'm having too much fun getting ideas that have been percolating for years into albums where they can be enjoyed. I still do some traditional scrapbooking as well, and will probably switch to 3-ring binder albums so I can mix the PL pages up with traditionally scrapped pages. Hoping to start learning the digital stuff, too! Thanks for all you inspiration.

Hey Ali and everyone...I am LOVING working on PL, I'm loosely doing it by the week and am trying mightily not to stress out if I don't take pix for a day...I am leaving the book and cards on my writing desk in the dining room so I can sit down and jot a note or tuck a piece of paper in the book to attach later. My girls (9yo twins) are having fun writing some of the cards and taking pix for the book as well. I just printed out pix for the last 4 weeks and tucked them in the album and we're writing and adding ephemera as we find it. I love that the girls are working on it with me and am hoping hubby will get involved once tax season is over(!)

I am trying to break out of the stress of "keeping up" with chronological scrapbooking the way I've been doing it. Spent the last 2 years freaked out because I was "only" on 2006. PL is allowing me to kind of scratch the "chronological itch" and getting everyday things documented leaving me free(er) to exapnd on other themes as I see fit and have time.

Thanks Ali for sharing your layouts and your stories, it's fun to see the things we (all) have in common and the places where we're different.

Is there a flickr group to share PL like you started with DD?