Project Life® 2013 | Week Forty-Two

Your project life spreads are the most inspirational! It doesn't matter if you share a past week or a current week, I love them all. One of my favorite ideas from this spread is how you incorporated S & A's school pictures. What a fabulous idea.
Finding ways to use our supplies in different ways is also another favorite. Keep them coming!! Love your style!!

TRAVEL SCRAPBOOKS!!! I've done PL and it's not for me anymore but I'm glad it's working for you. I love your December Daily albums and I think your travel albums will be just as lovely. I loved your Halloween album from a few years ago too. I know this doesn't answer your questions about PL but I think everyone else has answered those! ;)

I would really like to see more traditional layouts. I do enjoy the PL but it is not for me. The date does not really matter!

Would love to see the art that you purchased too!

I don't think the week matters. Seeing any layout is inspiring.

I love all your PL posts...the date doesn't matter.Just happy to see you posting them again. We visited Nashville in Jan. and loved it! We need to go back and stay longer because there was a lot we didn't have time to see.

Yes I like to see catch up weeks. it reminds me we are all busy and sometimes fall behind and seeing yours lets me know that catching up is alright. I really enjoy seeing your layouts thank you for sharing.

I love to see all your PL posts. I don't think you're alone in catching up and your posts remind us that guilt and perfectionism have no place in memory keeping. Plus they are gorgeous and inspiring! Please keep sharing them.

Just keep them coming. Anything in any order is great and inspiring. I do love to see that even someone who makes their living in the industry isn't always "caught up" . Thank you for sharing.

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE all your project life posts and I really don't care what order you post them in! Would love to see your 2014 spreads so far but also love seeing you catch up on 2013. Please, please keep them coming, Ali!!

I like seeing the catch-up pages, and would LOVE to see your 2014 pages. I did Project Life in 2012, and still have 13 spreads to finish in those albums, so it is actually encouraging to see you playing catch-up -- LOL. I agree that I would like to hear more about how you are handling those weeks in terms of remembering what happened and storing/locating memorabilia. But I would also really like to see your 2014 pages!! I didn't realize that you felt you needed to have 2013 all shared before you could share this year's. If you're willing to share them, I'm eager to see. I always like hearing about your adventures, and then soon after seeing them reflected in your layouts. I took 2013 "off" from doing PL, and in some ways regret it, but what's done is done. It gave me time to work on completing my 2012 albums (though that is still a work in progress...). I didn't do PL in January this year, but finally decided I really had the urge to get life documented again, so I started with the first week of February. I love how it seems to stretch the weeks, as I "taste" them (as per Anais Nin...) yet again, so soon after they happened. :)

Like most, I enjoy seeing your PL layouts regardless of the date. I look at them for inspiration and ideas. I appreciate how you explain the techniques used for the layout. Thanks for sharing.
-Jacqui

Love the inspiration always - does not matter if it is last summer spread or last week. Keep me inspired, focused please :D

Thanks for sharing your PL with us! I don't care what week you share, I just love seeing them and always get inspiration from your pages. I would love to know how you organize your PL when you don't have time to work on the pages and how you catch up on the weeks that you have missed.

I love seeing all your PL pages-- whether current or from the past. I am always inspired! Thank you for sharing them!

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Your behind pages remind me that you are human too! Love that. It really helps me to keep going with my own because I also lost steam both in 2012 and 2013.

One specific thing I'd like to know is your thought process when playing catch up. I find my catch up sometimes stresses me out because I think I am taking too long, or I will leave out more journalling for fear it is out of the week order. Then, I stop myself and try to remember in a few years time it really won't matter that I recorded the twins' first bike ride in September instead of June. Get the story recorded! It's hard to listen to our own advice sometimes. :)

This year I am trying to let go more and if I get behind my plan is to do a month at a time if that means it will make it about the enjoyment of it instead of the stress.

All in all Ali, your honesty is why I keep coming back to your blog!

Yes.No.No. I would love to know if you feel that you need to stick to a colour scheme when your choosing your cards/embellishments. Sometimes I find that I spend too much time trying to figure that out. Also do you have a stash of products that are in reach that you constantly use for project life or do you just use what's on your desk at the time? I really to enjoy sticking my kids school work and art work in Project life, it fits so well with the day to day and its great to look back thru the albums and see their progression and I know that my kids love to talk about their work when they flip thru the album.

Doesn't matter to me if the layouts are current or not. I just love the inspiration I get from seeing them. Enjoy seeing Katie's too. Hard to keep up with all of the new products - I want them all! But alas...the budget won't let me get them all.

I completely agree with all the previous comments! I love seeing your PL spreads and the order doesn't matter to me.

The part of your process that I would love to see is how you keep your supplies together/ready for the catch up weeks (or any week for that matter!) and also how you assess and add to your spreads. My PL is mainly cards, patterned paper and photos but I love how you add embellishments, so this is something I'm trying to incorporate in. I'm just struggling with how to assess the spread for where to add embellishments and what to add, how much etc!! I hope that makes sense? I just have so many cool embellishments but I'm finding it hard to include them because I feel like I don't know how. So would love to learn how you do this part of your process :)

Thanks and keep on sharing all your awesome inspiration! :)

I don't want 2 miss A THING!! your creativity is just awesome & inspiring even if u think it is the
simple PL layouts