Finally!!

[lmccandless]

@cookingmylife - For past years, I created Smart Collections by week since I did weekly spreads. For 2016, since I am doing a spread per month, I created a Smart Collection for each month then I flagged the photos I want to use. Nothing fancy

 

[cookingmylife]

Thanks Laura...that's what I thought you might be doing.

 

[scrappyjedi]

@cookingmylife - For past years, I created Smart Collections by week since I did weekly spreads. For 2016, since I am doing a spread per month, I created a Smart Collection for each month then I flagged the photos I want to use. Nothing fancy

That is exactly what I do, as well!

 

[berniek]

You do hybrid, right? So this might not work for you. When I decided to go back and "project life" a previous year, I just sat down and quickly put photos onto templates. It was pretty mindless and I could do it while watching tv. Before I knew it, I had 6 months on templates, ready to go. Then, as I had time, or fun new kits I wanted to play with were released, I finished up the pages with the fun stuff. Since everything was already on templates and labeled by week, I could even work out of order which was fun. I kept them fairly simple and they came together quickly. There was just something very overwhelming for me with thinking about doing week after week, start to finish, but doing one step at a time kept things manageable for me.

I've been doing this to catch up on my last 2+ months of PL too. I was feeling stressed but I really wanted to do at least something. So I selected photos, and put them onto my templates. It's not a lot of work, but it feels so much easier to finish those weeks now!