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Could someone please explain Project 52 to me?

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tkradtke

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I'm feeling a little silly for posting this, but I'm genuinely baffled. I've read the post about it on Becky Higgins' blog multiple times, but I'm not seeing what makes it different from project life. The only thing I'm seeing is that it's one page vs. a two page spread. Is there a more in-depth description of it somewhere? I feel like I must be missing something.

Anyway... just trying to figure it out. I love the concept of PL so much that I wanted to try to figure out this new thing as well to see if there were parts of it I would want to adopt for my upcoming books.
 
Hmmm ... I haven't read Becky Higgins' blog, but my understanding is that P52 is a photography project, taking one photo a week instead of one photo a day. I've decided to do the P52 at the My Four Hens photography blog. Each week, she posts a theme on her blog, and then you take a photo based on that theme. For me it's a lot easier than taking a photo every single day!

Off to read the Becky Higgins' blog ...
 
That's what I thought of too when I heard "project 52"... but when I read the blog post, I don't think that's it. But I'm not clear on what it is either :-/
 
Yeah, I just read through her blog post ... and I don't get it either. I agree with you that it seems like her concept is just one page instead of the usual 2-page spread. It would have helped if she had included photos of some completed pages!

Completely unrelated, I DID discover that FOUR Lilypad designers have designed official Project Life editions and other products! That's incredible! And it's because we have the best collection of designers anywhere! :carryon
 
I think project 52 is focusing on each week and creating a page (single page, double page, doesn't really matter) about that week. 52 = number of weeks in the year. So you would end up with 52 pages at the end of it. Many people take one or more photos a day, but the goal is to scrap each week as it comes.

Project 365 (a photo a day), then Project 52 (and then Project 12 -- scrapping one month at a time) came before Project Life, I believe. Project Life has just relaxed the rules a bit. The goal is still to capture everyday life but without the artificial requirement of having to scrap each and every day or each and every week.
 
Okay... I think I get it now. Is it more of a branding thing? Project Life is becoming more of a general term for her "brand" of pocket scrapping and project 52 is a subset of this (the new name for what I had originally thought was "project life"... the weekly pages). When I looked at her instagram post, she referenced doing two pages per week for her project 52 album. So maybe that's what this is... a new name for a subcategory of project life?
 
I believe her first ever kit was called Project 365, because she envisioned using it the way she did, to document a single photo every day. Originally, there was only one kind of pocket page and it accommodated one photo and one journal card every day, plus a title card for each two-page spread. Since then, Project Life became a whole line of products that are a lot more varied than that original set. This year, she is introducing a set of products called Project 52, so-named because she is switching the focus to weekly documentation rather than the daily photos that she started out with way back when.

In her blog post, as far as I can tell, she is using Project 365, Project Life, and Project 52 all in their strict, branded senses. They are products.
 
Makes total sense now. I kept trying to make project 52 a new way of doing PL. But it's just a new name for what I had always thought of as "project life".
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one confused by her post. I read it multiple times. I do think she's trying to bring it back to simple scrapping, which was her vision for Project Life to begin with. It is a beautiful core kit!
 
I guess I am doing a Project 52, I find it too stressful to keep up with taking a picture every day. Plus a lot of it would be the same thing, lol. I am taking pictures each week when I remember and scrapping one page per week with a couple photos sprinkled in but will journal the everyday stuff like weather, what went on, feelings etc. if that makes sense.
 
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