Project Life | Week Nineteen
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Welcome to Project Life | Week Nineteen
First off, I'm still totally amazed that I've kept with this for nineteen weeks. I don't think I've every maintained a project like this consistently for anywhere close to this amount of time (except maybe this blog).
Do I still love it? Yes. Absolutely.
Lots of photos for Week Nineteen - including some cropped to fit the small pockets.
As some of you might have read in my big photo post last week, I go through phases with my photo taking. Lately I've been back "on" again - really loving seeing life through the lens. It feels good to be connecting with my eyes/head/heart again in that way.
The "put on your happy life" is cut from an Old Navy magazine ad. Totally tore that one out immediately.
That bottom photo of toast, strawberries and kiwi was taken with my iphone.
Little tabs are cut from tags from Bananafish Studio. Looks like she just recently updated her shop again - lots of goodies to be found.
This week I also included a photo and some words my Mom emailed me (the bottom yellow flowers). The journal card above includes text from Daily Word. My Mom emails me something related to my One Little Word "light" almost everyday. Love you Mom.
Project Life is a product created by Becky Higgins. It can be anything you want it to be. The album kit (similar to the one I’m using) 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 looking at these. I love how you document daily life. I love how willing you are to share your thoughts, processes, frustrations and what really inspires you at the moment. Mostly I love how you encourage everyone to be authentic to themselves. THANK YOU!
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CONGRATS on the 19 week mark!!
I had done PL (fka P365) in 2009 but didn't in 2010 and really missed it. So I purchased one of each kit and plan on doing both 2010 and 2011. My son was hospitalized for almost 3mo at the beginning of the year so that brought everything but the photo taking to a screeching halt. And guess what? I THINK I'M STILL GONNA MAKE IT!! By the end of this year I know that I'll have 2011 caught up and most, if not all, of 2010.
It's so darned gratifying.
'Caught my 8yo looking through the 2009 version the other day and she was MESMERIZED by it for hours. That alone is enough to keep me plugging away.
YAY FOR US!! :D
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Love looking at your PL posts. I did PL digitally both for 2010 and now 2011. I find taking the photos to be the easy part. The time consuming part is photo editing,selecting & journaling. I love how you balance every day life photos of things and family. Taking so many photos, I almost always have a photo of one of my children. I have a hard time not using those photos and instead using the object/thing photo. When looking at yours, I wish I would go your route more often. I find my journaling becomes my daily notes of what we did each day. Any recommendations on how to get away from this and realize that every little detail is not important. It's hard for me to step back and see the big picture. Also I've found that I don't have time for any other scrap projects other than keeping up on PL. Kind of miss that, but love knowing PL is always up to date.
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This is my first year with the "live" album, also known as the old fashioned scrapbook type. (The past two years I have done totally digital). I really, really love this method. It's a BIG book, but I love printing photos off every couple of days. My PL project has turned out to be mostly photos. I fill the 3x4 pockets with photos most of the time. Loving it! I am keeping up this my third year:)
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Ali,
I love your work. Thanks to your-keeping-up with-it and continuous posting, I've been inspired to work on mine. Finishing up last year's and catching up with this year's. I love your photos. What setting do you use on your camera to take pictures of objects? ie. the cupcakes and the side-by-side plant and flower photos?
Your breakfast looks good! What's on your toast?
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Peanut butter on the toast - a favorite. The camera is usually on AV (aperture priority mode) - I change the ISO depending on the light situations. I used to shoot just using the "running guy" but have moved on to AV :).
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Good job sticking with it!! I did it last year and I found it to be addidictive - I felt very in tune with all the little things I often overlooked. What I liked best was seeing how things changed - small example was my window boxes - filled with snow, then empty, filled with small plants, then overflowing with life and color, then dry, back to snow. After the year ended - I mourned it being over a bit - I had become so used to hunting for little treasures, stories, pictures. I knew I didn't want to keep going for another year because I didn't want it to turn into a "chore" - so now I do a month review but I already treasure what I captured last year and I know I will do it again in a few more years.
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Your posts are very inspiring, but I find that I'm still collecting stuff and not actually getting it into the album. I'm thinking that maybe I need to have a specific time set aside to just put it together and call it done. Maybe Mon. evenings? I don't know if I have any totally complete weeks. I think that maybe I should just start with this week, then go back at some other time.
How do you find the time to put it all together? Any advice is appreciated!
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I have a deadline each week of finishing the prior week on Monday to post here on Tuesday - that has definitely kept me accountable. I also try to work on it throughout the week - printing a photo or jotting down a story - all really trying to keep it as simple as possible.
Deborah, I'm typically running about two weeks behind in completing my weeks and I'm ok with that. A few weeks back I found myself getting overwhelmed because I felt like I needed to "fill up" the two page spread and I was stuck. What I realized (in a total 'duh' moment) was this was MY Project Life and who says I HAVE TO FILL UP TWO PAGES A WEEK? Not me :-) So every once in a while I only fill up one page and that lets me not get stressed about this very fun project. I find that if I'm struggling to finish a week it's probably because not a whole lot happened that I felt the need to document and one page will suffice....just a thought - happy scrapping!
I totally agree with Ali - keep it simple. If you have other people included in your project, try having them fill out just one card each week, less work for you and more input from them will make it even better! My daughter loves participating, you can check it out here http://sleepyhead922.blogspot.com/2011/04/project-life-week-3.html
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I love how willing you are to share your thoughts.They are so inspiring.I always see success in everything i do everyday.you put your words together,they make more sense.you just took me to another level of life,A level where success is the the first priority.
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I love how willing you are to share your thoughts.They are so inspiring.I always see success in everything i do everyday.you put your words together,they make more sense.you just took me to another level of life,A level where success is the the first priority.Please visit http://www.inspireweb.com for more interesting and inspiring words and stories.
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