Project Life 2012 | Week Eleven

I absolutely love your Project Life and the inspiration it provides me. Better yet - the motivation I get from it. Thank you!

Love the idea of no photos, all packaging (love your photos of your busy day too!). Love that it's okay if you have photos and okay if you don't. Thanks for sharing your PL.

Enjoy your weekly -PL- updates with inspiring ideas {week of pkging}.

This year I promised myself to follow through with -PL- for our family. Happy to say I've stayed true to my promise. Even the week I was sick... I kept calendar notes, took random photos, etc... worked out well for a mundane week.

Each weekly spread consists of B&W photos with the exception of the IMPORTANT thing(s) printed in color! We decide what was important as a family! FOOD is always in color too!

Appreciate the inspiration,
Anne

PS... SO wish you'd come out with a set of rubber stamps centered entirely around PROJECT LIFE to coordinate up with Becky Higgins concepts used within her core collections! Missed out on the Studio Calico ones last month. :(

Hey Ali..wondering what that basic font is you use on your pictures...the one with the Hello Today stamp...thanks!

I love the way you include your kids' school papers and the other bits of ephemera. Thanks for the inspiration. :-)

what a wonderful spread!!! I love that today card!!

I like your idea of a week of no pictures, just packaging and various finds from the week. Don't know if I could actually do it.

As always, your pages are inspiring.

I love Oregon...only visited once, but loved every minute of it. The next time you're in Portland go have breakfast at Mother's Cafe in downtown. It's not too far from the food trucks. I had crunchy french toast that I still think about 4 years later. Serious yum factor!

love it, ali, as always, and i totally agree with your philosophy - PL is love made visible. every word i include, every photo, every comment, every one of my children's drawings, they're there because of my love for them, my dedication to them, my belief that their lives, what they, and we, do on a daily basis is important (crying now...!). i actually often cry as i'm putting the weekly spreads together, just thinking how beautiful they both are, how much they bring to my lives, what amazing people they are. PL, for me, is a daily exercise in gratitude and appreciation. i think that's why i love it so much.

Another inspiring week and - agreeing with one of the above posters - motivating, too! Love the journaling right on the photos.. did a little of that last week and loved it. Can't wait for the new DD release this weekend, the Today card looks like tons of fun!

I do love this project for all the reasons you say. This is the 4th year I've done it and I am much more observant and thankful than ever before. And also when would you ever have just about 365 stories documented and remembered from any given year. It really is so nice.

So, will George be getting a kitten for his birthday? LOL

I'll be in Portland next week to visit my family. Can't wait. (wish I could visit with you, too! I have so much to ask you.)

Oh, really loving how you worked in that packaging, so many fun possibilities.

Great pages Ali, I agree with what you said on PL also. We just pulled out the last 3 of ours and read them during the weekend, it made me fall in love with PL again. So thankful for this way of documenting my family.

HOORAY FOR FAMILY DAYS!!

Hey Ali! Thank you for sharing so much of your life with us. Love these PL posts. I just thought it was interesting that you were considering doing a picture less week. I've been wanting to do a week with just words. Kind of an art journal feel - although that is far from my strength. I am doing "Week in the Life" this week. Two of my scrappy girl friends and I do it together, so we settled on this week. Last year I wasn't thrilled with the repetition of WITL and PL - it wasn't as fun to work on because of the monotonous feeling. It seemed natural to make this my "words" week because all my pics will be in WITL! You may like the same combo.

Thanks for all your inspiration!

Fantastic - always a life well lived.

Always love seeing what you come up with, Ali! I'm so glad you share your work with us - always provides lots of inspiration to me. A question for you . . . have you ever organized older (pre-digital age) photos in the PL system? If so, I was just wondering if you choose to scan in the old photos and then edit them (using the cute digital stamps, etc. for example), or if you just use the old photos themselves? I've been putting together a PL book from my childhood and have just been using the old photos so far (after all, the idea behind that was to get everything out of boxes and into albums, but my pages definitely aren't as cute as yours. Any ideas for sprucing up pages including the old school 35mm prints?

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