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bderby

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I am hopelessly behind in Project Life. As in, the last layout I completed was way back on Week 12--YIKES!!

Am I the only one?

I am planning on taking advantage of summertime to get caught up. I teach and the end of the school year always feels like things just snowball. I haven't decided if I am going to just print photos and just use the physical PL cards that I have and add in journaling where I can and or do them all digitally. Suggestions? I can do this, right?
 
Becky - no, you are not the only one! i am WAY behind too - and YES we can do this! :) (my pages are hybrid with PL and printed digital cards, plus a little glitter and/or stitching when i get a notion - i like that my PL album is quirky because i don't feel pressure to do it a certain way, and well - life is pretty quirky around here!)
 
I'm even worse off than you. LOL. I'm working on week 5 right now. I did a couple of newer weeks, but I'm going back to try to do the rest. Ugh.

You can totally do it. You are a rock star. Your pages are awesome. Just set aside some time each week to focus on it, and you'll be done in no time. :)
 
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Whatever you do, don't give up! I love your PL pages and you've always encouraged me with mine so don't yoi dare quit! lol! I'm always about 2-3 weeks behind. I find it sometimes helps to scrap the most current week and then go back and catch up. :)
 
I am behind but getting slowly caught up. You are definitely not alone. What works for me is to work on the most current week that I have photos and memories for and then in my free time (hahahaha) I go back and do fill in pages. ;)
 
I have an unfinished PL for 2012 and 2013 and for 2014 I'm in week 10...and I feel so bad and sad...:huh
I love looking at all the beautiful PL pages here in the forum and I admire all who are catched up!
I think I spend too much time looking at others' PL pages...:whistle:giggle
 
Becky, week 12 was also my last week. What IS it about that week? Why can we not seem to get over the hump and break through to week 13? The exact same thing happened to me last year. Buzzing right along through week 12, then WHAM!! hit a wall!
We CAN do this!
We WILL do this!
 
Besides, just imagine if all of us 'falling behind'ers got our acts together - how hoppin' the PL forum and the gallery would be around here!!
 
I'm currently caught up, but I'm already getting anxiety about summer. We have several trips planned (with one of them being a two weeker). I know I'm going to get overwhelmed with being behind and the sheer amount of photos I'm going to have from the trips. I'm trying to figure out a plan now so I can minimize the damage.

Too funny about the week 12 thing! That was the first time I was behind this year! I was moving right along and then week 13 was spring break. I got behind with doing week 12 and had a ton of photos from week 13 to figure out what to do with. It took me several weeks to recover! Did your spring break happen to be around the same time? :-)
 
tkradtke said:
Too funny about the week 12 thing! That was the first time I was behind this year! I was moving right along and then week 13 was spring break. I got behind with doing week 12 and had a ton of photos from week 13 to figure out what to do with. It took me several weeks to recover! Did your spring break happen to be around the same time? :-)
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Yes! Week 12 was actually spring break and we all ended up sick so we actually didn't have a ton of pictures, then the weeks following were crazy busy with school and the boys soccer schedule, then Easter was late this year, etc, etc, etc.

Thanks for the encouragement, ladies. I DID actually upload all of my photos from my phone and camera into Lightroom, now to get DH's photos from his phone because I had him documenting a few things that I didn't get to be at and then I am going to make myself start somewhere!

I am going to keep an eye out for a good sale on 4x6s either at Persnickety or Mpix and try to print out some that way so that I can just stick them in pockets with a few journaling cards thrown in for good measure. and then maybe I will start with PL for this week and get going again. We can do this!!
 
I just finished up to middle of March...and still have about half of 2012 and 2013 to do. I'm not stressing though..I really like having options of what to scrapbook with the products coming out any given week. Plus if I stress it turns it into work for me, and that is certainly not what I want with a project of this size.

Having said that if I manage to finish 2014 by the end of 2014 I would be thrilled..I really want to try a weekly approach, but I feel like weekly is one that I definitely would need to stay on top of and if it hasn't ever worked for me, then I would have no reason to believe that 2015 would be any different..lol.
 
I just finished March last night and started April. But I'm 6x8 and it's just my personal stuff, so I always feel more compelled to work on it. (How selfish is that?)

I'm like Sarah, I keep hoping to be done with 2014 at the end of 2014. I seem to stay consistently 2 months behind, though.
 
I had grand plans of doing PL this year. I made it one week. Yep, that counts as a fail I'd say.
 
Peppermint, i'm usually about 2 months behind as well. How to fix that?

Tracie, I'm thinking the same for vacation. We have a week of camping / hiking / horse back riding / etc coming up later this month. The scenery there is BEAUTIFUL, and I know i'll take more photos than I'll know what to do with! I really should try to come up with a plan to attack this before I get overwhelmed! Let me know if youcome up with anything
 
I'm a little behind... Not that bad, but Really want to get back on track, since I also need to finish my pregnancy album (senna is almost 12 weeks) and got about 14 pages to do for senna's first year album...I'm
Working on week 21 for PL right now!
 
RebeccaH said:
Tracie, I'm thinking the same for vacation. We have a week of camping / hiking / horse back riding / etc coming up later this month. The scenery there is BEAUTIFUL, and I know i'll take more photos than I'll know what to do with! I really should try to come up with a plan to attack this before I get overwhelmed! Let me know if youcome up with anything
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Maybe I should start a new topic about this?
 
i'm behind as well, slowly coming back on track, but still working on week 14 now.
 
I am 3 weeks behind... which makes me anxious as it's the first time since starting PL last year that I've been this behind.

I have taken the time to choose and place my photos & quickly jot down what I want to say/have in my 3x4 card slots, so that's something. I like to add little elements/wordart to my photos & JCs, so that's what's holding me up at the moment.

Dang baby needing to be held all the time... :giggle
 
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