Project Life

I am totally digging this years project life. Instead of just keeping with the day by day pictures, I am also incorporating my layouts. My daughter just had her birthday last week so I inserted some layouts from her day also into my album...Only February, but I am already caught up with my scrapbook this year. What a great feeling!!!

a couple of 6 x 6 pages

My daughters birthday invite I wanted to include

A special card she received

A couple of layouts

 

sorry it is sideways...to lazy to fix it

Project Life 2011

Super excited to say that I am up and running on Project Life 2011...Thank you Mrs. Becky Higgins. I did not think she could do it, but this kit is better than the last one. I bought the turquoise edition, but there is an Amber edition too. If you have not seen or heard of it you need to! You can get all the information here .

As I was finishing up on my Project life 2010, I was amazed! To see a complete album done front to back in chronological order, is amazing. The kids really do change a lot in a year! This album is real life...not perfect pictures with the perfect clothes... Instead it is pictures of Cayden having croup in the hospital, my nephew James being life flighted to the hospital, Cailey learning how to ride her bike without training wheels and having the training wheels put back on, medicine bottles from both kids being sick at the same time, Cayden in his underwear and on the potty for a billionth times trying to get the potty training down, to the kids sleeping and playing together (yes they do love each other sometimes). Don't get me wrong, I still love to scrapbook, but now I don't feel like I have to document everything in those pages. Instead, I am going to choose only a couple special events out of the month and scrapbook those moments. Project Life has really let me let go of the overwhelming feeling of never being caught up in the kids' books!

So now I have put together my new book. This time I took a different approach and put the whole entire thing together. Now all I have to worry about it writing on the cards each day and dating them. At the end of each month I am going to print all my pictures from that month and then place them into my album.

Here is how I put my album together.

First, I distressed every card! It took an evening, but totally worth it!

Second, I place each stack of cards onto the counter and then placed them in order into the album

Third, journal...this is an ongoing daily project...

Fourth, insert pictures at the end of the month.

I am super excited to continue doing Project Life...It is quite contagious! My little Cailey Mae even asks to take pictures or put things into my album...I wonder how many more years I have until she asks for her very own????