August 2017 Project Pages

Chugging right along...

 

I have to get back to my project life. Last year I did it in a traditional way and this year I can not. I started, but the result, I do not like. I feel like I do not have enough pictures. I would have to try digital.

 

I started with the first year of my twins in the traditional way and I'm still at week 9. This year we planned to move so I thought: this year I'm going to do it digital and next year the traditional way again. But you are so right, it takes to long, digital is so much easier and it is so much easier to combine elements because you can use them over and over again. So now I'm in doubt to keep doing it like this and use the papers only for some fun pages. I'm hooked on digital pocket pages!

Last week I received my first book! I'm so proud I did it! I found some mistakes in it (mostly text fails that belong to my daughter and are in my sons book) but still, I did it!

 

I'm working on the second book and I'm working on August. I'm behind but try to keep track on the current weeks.

 

@Rovanice I'm super impressed you're not just making 1, but 2 albums. The personalized albums for your children will be such an amazing thing to look at when they're older!

Are you also making a family album?

 

I started a new project yesterday, a travel album from a trip to London in 1994 for which I am scanning in all the photos and ephemera (I keep travel diaries wherever I go which comes in handy now). For things I have no photo of I am using stock photos (not on these two, but on later pages).

Here are the first two pages

 

I LOVE these pages!!! I'll definitely be following along as you work on your album! We just booked a family trip to London and Paris for over the Thanksgiving holiday.... can't wait! I'm looking for a travel diary to keep notes in... and a way to keep my ephemera organized.

 

I started travel diaries in 1980 and have done it ever since. It is so great to go through them and relive the trips. Of course back then I was relying on ephemera and postcards as I did it on the go. Nowadays the possibilities are endless. I hope you will post a few pictures of your diaries once you are back.

 

What special treasures those are for you! I wish I would have done that. I did do a version of this back when I blogged, I would blog the details of each day while on a trip (without photos) so I would have the information for later. I really appreciate having those details now.

You're so right... the possibilities are endless now! That's part of the problem I have done travel journals two different ways lately and I like them both for different reasons. One I did more "smash book" style... just writing in a journal and gluing photos (I used an instax printer on the trip) and ephemera in as we went. The other I did in a 6x8 snap album after I was home. I have another two Snap albums to finish. I do like the look of the snap albums the best and I like that my ephemera is more intact in order to scan it in later if I wanted to... but I don't like waiting until I get home to work on it. And the smash book style album got to be too much stuff to drag out each night of the trip. I'm going to work on marrying the two together... work on a snap album while on the trip. Like maybe a strict diary notebook to write in daily and a mini accordion file to keep the paper stuff organized. Then maybe on the long plane ride home, I'll start laying things out and transferring journaling to some journal cards I've pre-printed. (Those links go to my blog which is completely neglected and sad looking!)

 

@tkradtke I like the look of both. I don't know exactly what a snap album is but it looks like a PL album to me or at least very similar. Not sure what I would prefer though.
What I also really liked in order to keep ephemera intact but at the same time keep them where they belong is a paper bag album. It is so fun and just so nice to make your own album from scratch.

 

You are totally right, the traditional takes a lot of time and is really very bulky, especially if you want to put thick embellishments. So, I think that digital is more sympathetic. Plus, when I see your album print, I love it.

It will therefore be necessary that I continue my files with my photos to make my pages.

 

Almost done with May... almost.

 

Thanks to you I managed to catch up my delay in the sorts of my photos. Result, I'll be able to start. I gathered two weeks almost every time, because I did not have enough pictures.

 

Here's August so far. I'm feeling very blah about PL. I think maybe it's because I'm not taking very many everyday photos anymore so when I do PL & my regular pages, there's lots of overlap and makes PL feel like duplicating work I've already done. I will finish this year since I have more than half of the year done but I don't know if I will continue in 2018. Maybe if I can upgrade my phone by then...

 

I've made it to June!!

 

Thanks! I think they have to share already a lot so I wanted to give them their own album. My parents always made me and my brother our own album so I wanted to do the same for my kids. I'm not making a family album because I always forget to make pictures from my own life next to kids so I have nothing to show. Therefore my husband doesn't like to make pictures so it's already hard to have him make pictures of me and the children together. Maybe I want to try to make a family album next year, but then I will only make that one, it's already hard to keep up with these two.

 

@Rovanice
I think it would be interesting for your children to have a family album to see how their parents' lives were around them. Habits of the house, friends, the environment simply.

 

Next page for my London 1994 album. I am on a roll right now.