Hardest Part for you?

It's always the journaling to for me but since last year I kept it simple: just one 3x4 journal card with what happend that week and some word and hashtags on the pictures. It's easier for me and get a page finished.

 

Journal usually so so hard for me, but I went to word and wrote about a memory, and I amazed myself.

 

The hardest part for me is sitting down and doing it at all.

I love it when I do it. And I'm going to blame MOC for not starting yet. Discovering Lightroom smart collections made the photo process easier. And I'm a talker, so the journaling has never been a hard part for me. It's just making the time to sit down and put it all together.

So, what's your secret to making the time?

 

Usually having too few pictures or too many if something happens. So I am setting a goal of going out for a walk several times a week. Plus journaling although if I just do it, it's not that hard.

 

When I am doing PL pages it's the journaling! I love journaling in general too so it's weird! I feel weird and repititive..like here's a pic of the baby napping...we watched a movie...blah. It feels so mundane to me!

 

I use a little book that i jot notes in at the end of the day. I don't add journaling for every photo, some are obvious and i just want the picture in there. I try to give an overview of the week of write things my kids said. I have older kids so I screen shot text messages from them too.

 

For me it's finding a balance between the photos and the journaling. I always feel like I want to include so many photos, but then I'm out of space for writing everything I want to write.

 

Right now it's rounding up photos. I'm still waiting on my daughter to upload some photos from last week into our shared iCloud album so I use them for PL. She's normally good about it, but she's been sick all week. Picking a kit can slow me down... I like to use one kit per spread and sometimes it's hard finding something that coordinates with the bulk of my random photos.

 

for me its actually taking the photos - I'm on my own a lot so its harder to make it interesting. Think I'm going to just organize my stash then start once I am back at uni again so I can document my postgraduate study over the next year and a half

 

Yes taking enough photos is sometimes a real struggle but then other times it's choosing the right photos out of many.
I have decided that I want more focus on my journaling this year, so if I don't have many photos I'll just journal it and use pretty journal cards.

 

For me it's choosing the photos... I usually have so many that it's really hard to decide which ones I absolutely need to include. I love using journaling cards, so I always try to use some, too, but often there are just so many photos that there isn't any room left...

 

I struggle with journalling, sometimes wonder if my journalling is to boring as often just put little snippets of what has happened during the week. Also struggle getting my double page layouts to blend from one week to the following, using the same or similar colours but without using exactly the same kit on every single page.

 

I'm 13 behind, but I knew I would miss the first part of this month because of travel to CHA and a couple of large orders on the business side. Now I'm getting caught up a few layouts a day until the end of the month!

 

Journaling is the hardest part. Sometimes I'll get it done first and then I feel like I can relax while doing the rest of the page. Sometimes I save it for very last.

 

My layouts take HOURS which turn into DAYS to complete. I only work a little each night but struggle with the finishing touches. I like to have a little more than the pics and journaling. Without a few embellishments, I feel like my pages are incomplete.