Project Life | Week Ten
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Welcome to Project Life | Week Ten.
One of the things I wanted to show this week was what my week looks like in-progress. I took this shot today before I brought the album upstairs to print a few more photos and crop/figure out what to do with the papers I had laid on top.
Some weeks it looks like this and some weeks I crop as I go (vs. waiting to crop at the end of the week). Since I was sick this past weekend I just decided to wait and do it all at once.
Not everything I set aside goes in to the album. Not all the instax photos make it in. Most of the papers are cropped or recycled. I don't take a lot of time choosing. I grab, crop and stick it in the album.
Here's what it ended up looking like for Week Ten (remember you can always click on an image to view larger):
The first page:
I flew to San Francisco for the day last week to visit Shutterfly (I've got a couple new photo books coming out) so I included my ticket here.
My 8.5x11 insert this week includes a painting from Anna on the front.
The back includes super cute invitations to my neice's second birthday that my sister sent.
My second page is mostly about our adventure to the art museum.
This week I used a couple cute cut-out elements from Elles Studio. Loving the whole Handmade Layers line.
As I was finishing up today, while Anna was napping and I was finally feeling a bit better, I was thinking that one of the things I'm thankful for is that this is a year-long album. Some weeks will be chock-full and others more sparse - a wonderful real-life look at our lives. Some weeks might have more words and others less. Some weeks will have more stuff and others less. Some weeks will have more photos and others less.
I think it's a good reminder that there's not right or wrong way for it to come together. I love it.
Project Life is a product created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. The album kit is available for purchase through Amazon. If you live outside the US check Becky’s site for more information on sources. View all my posts about Project Life here.
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I love the whole idea of this. There is so much that happens in a week, month, year. I really wish I had done this type of project when my kids were little.
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Hi Ali,
Thank you so much for posting your weekly PL updates. They are always so inspiring & sometimes enlightening!
My favorite part this week was the "in process" photo which is also what mine can tend to look like in the middle of the week. So fun to see the beginning of the weekly process!
This is my first year doing Project Life, so I may be a little gung-ho, but I am doing a daily photo with journaling. So far that is working for me, but I'll keep your weekly philosophy in mind for next year!
Excited about the upcoming Shutterfly books and very much hope you are feeling better! Have a great week!
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Hi Ali,
You never cease to inspire me!! I started compiling all of my momentos in a similar fashion. It can be quite overwhleming and it is a matter of randomly choosing sometimes or else the project will never blossom! I love all of your ideas. Journaling and photos are they key to telling the story- love your philosphy!
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Seeing that little instant oatmeal packet broke me! I have to get one of these now. It's things like wrappers and doodles that I so easily forget. Thanks for the inspiration always Ali!
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Hi Ali,
I love your commitment to your project. Its turning out great.
I was on my way to store all of the bday/anniversary/valentines etc cards my husband and I gave each other over the years. I bought an 8x8 album, but I am not sure how to insert them (don't just want to put them in the page protectors...looks ugly and some cards are bigger). Do you have a specific way of storing/scrapping cards?
Thanks so much.
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so, are you seriously using a corner rounder on every picture...'cause I did it for one front and back page and my thumb is in serious pain. Either you have another way to print them like that, or a lexus version corner rounder that I need to acquire. Love the look, hate the pain! LOL
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I sooooooo want to start a project like this. But I fear I am not into writing at all. And time passed by already to March and I haven't started.. I think I will start and have the first three months photos only... :(
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You definitely don't have to begin on January 1. What if you start on April 1? Or today?
Tonight, I got my 38 year old baby folders out of "sticky albums" and into photo safe divided protectors. Even though my mom did not journal, she DID date all the photos and put them in order. They were printed for me, and she captured all the "firsts" and then some, at pretty significant cost to them back then. I was so thankful -- she doesn't like to write either and hated her handwriting (a lefty). I plan to interview her and do the writing for her about things I want to know about the photos, but even without that, I just felt her love to preserve my history in some way. Hope that helps!
Tonight, I got my 38 year old baby folders out of "sticky albums" and into photo safe divided protectors. Even though my mom did not journal, she DID date all the photos and put them in order. They were printed for me, and she captured all the "firsts" at pretty significant cost to them back then. I was so thankful -- she doesn't like to write either and hated her handwriting (a lefty).
I plan to interview her and do the writing for her about things I might like to know about the photos, but even without that, it's a great record. I just felt her love to preserve my history in some way.
Life is too short to do anything you hate doing! Hope that helps!
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Ali - I too want to start my first PL.....feels strange starting late though??
And read your notes for this layout and it brought a smile hearing that Pegasus is still there ;-) my fave pizza place back in the 90s while going to school there!!
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