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PL is going great for me. I still have a few weeks from this summer to catch up on, and I need to finish last week, but otherwise all is good. I will definitely be doing it again next year and the only thing I will change is my weekly recap 4x6 card. I like to change it up each year. So if any of the lovely designers want to make something for me that would be great...I like having the dates and week # on there with lots of room for journaling.

And for anyone that is behind...I totally recommend just starting with the current week and move forward. You can work on the missed weeks when you have time. It worked great for me this summer and feels much less overwhelming. Plus that way you aren't making a bigger hole for yourself to work out of...
 
i'm way behind. this is not a surprise. you guys know how not-so-great i am at these kind of projects.

i did just finish week 39, and am hoping to try to keep current and then work backwards as well. we'll see how this approach goes.

as for other projects, i do also want to get an album put together of our vacation... i think this will be VERY photo focused, with journal cards for explanations or story telling... no flair. i just want it DONE.
 
I have such a love/hate relationship with this project. I always start out so well but I never finish well. I get burned out usually around March or so. Not even sure if I made it that far this year. I love the idea of this project but I always find a way to make it so much more complicated than it needs to be. I try to go crazy with the embellishments and then if I ever get behind I think in my mind that I need to just throw in the towel.

Last week I thought I would revisit the project but this time I thought I would dip back into my paper scrapping days and finish out the year that way. Oh, I was so excited. I went to the local craft store and bought the album, PL kit, all kinds of goodie embellishments etc......only to find out after putting the first week together that I had just made the worst mistake ever. I hated it. I have tried going back to paper scrapping like a billion times since finding digital and each time it ends in the same way- A box full of supplies that get thrown to the garage and eventually to the trash. I just can't get past not being able to resize everything at the touch of a button.

So all that to say this LOL...... I found some very simple templates and I am now just picking up with last week and going from there. Not going to worry about all the weeks I missed and not gonna commit myself for the rest of the year. I hope to finish and just keep going but not going to sweat it if I don't. I'll just keep picking up where I leave off each time when I get burned out.
 
I am pretty sure I will keep the same format next year. I love this project so much, so I do want to keep doing it. I'm 8 weeks behind at the moment, this has been a crazy busy fall.. but hanging in there. :)
 
I've only been doing Project Life sporatically this year, a few weeks here and there. I do it paper & hybrid. I think I'm going to switch to monthly PL instead and just pick out my favorite photos from the month and do it that way. I can't do weekly anymore, it's too much.
 
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gracielou said:
I have such a love/hate relationship with this project. I always start out so well but I never finish well. I get burned out usually around March or so. Not even sure if I made it that far this year. I love the idea of this project but I always find a way to make it so much more complicated than it needs to be. I try to go crazy with the embellishments and then if I ever get behind I think in my mind that I need to just throw in the towel. Last week I thought I would revisit the project but this time I thought I would dip back into my paper scrapping days and finish out the year that way. Oh, I was so excited. I went to the local craft store and bought the album, PL kit, all kinds of goodie embellishments etc......only to find out after putting the first week together that I had just made the worst mistake ever. I hated it. I have tried going back to paper scrapping like a billion times since finding digital and each time it ends in the same way- A box full of supplies that get thrown to the garage and eventually to the trash. I just can't get past not being able to resize everything at the touch of a button. So all that to say this LOL...... I found some very simple templates and I am now just picking up with last week and going from there. Not going to worry about all the weeks I missed and not gonna commit myself for the rest of the year. I hope to finish and just keep going but not going to sweat it if I don't. I'll just keep picking up where I leave off each time when I get burned out.
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This is so me! My 2013 album started out digital, then went paper and fizzled out by March. I picked it back up in June and July and dropped the ball again starting with August. I bought a project life paper kit, and subscribed to studio calico project life kit, but that turned out to be a big mistake because I am not using any of it. I'm a digi girl no matter how much fun the paper version always looks. I'm not sure what I'll do for the rest of the year. Part of me would like to finish off digi with a simple grid/monthly format, but the other part of me has a love/hate relationship with this project because I always feel behind and stressed and it sucks the life and fun out of scrapbooking for me, and makes it a chore. I'm really not sure what I will do from this point forward. We shall see....
 
amyjaz;n499035 said:
I'm a digi girl no matter how much fun the paper version always looks.
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This is my exact thoughts. I also subscribed to the SC kit and got the first one and I was like, "What in the world do I do with this now?" It looks so fun on the site and those paper girls can do amazing things with it but after spending 30 minutes cleaning up all the mess I made putting one weeks spread together I realized I will never be the paper girl I was ever again. I am spoiled to my digi clean up, which consists on putting the chair back under the table when I am done LOL.
 
I started off doing the paper version of PL 3 years ago and I absolutely loved it. This year I subscribed to the SC kit and I loved everything that came, but I was only using about half of what was in the box each month and I was getting burned out. I switched to digital in July for the second half of the year and love it. I do miss the paper but I don't think I'll switch from digital.
 
I wish I was as committed to P365 as you all are .... way to go!

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I wish I could do project life but I don't have enough interesting things to do on a daily basis. You all do such wonderful jobs scrapping your daily life. :)
 
And I can't agree more:
gracielou;n499308 said:
I realized I will never be the paper girl I was ever again. I am spoiled to my digi clean up, which consists on putting the chair back under the table when I am done LOL.
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I feel the same way LeeAndra re: hybrid/paper album, I love the idea of it, but I took a month where I used only the pockets protectors and printed out photos and stuff and it was pretty much a disaster!
 
I am struggling at the moment. I am about 5 weeks behind and it is feeling overwhelming. I have made an effort to at least do my weekly journaling card each week which totally saved me this summer when I was dreadfully behind. I am planning to spend an hour or so tonight working on at least editing pictures. I was doing so well staying on top of everything until my mom came for a visit and fall activities have kicked into full gear.

I do SO love the project though. I am well into my second album for the year, but I love having all our memory keeping in one place. I have been printing my PL spreads 12x12 and then have bought a variety of page protectors and layouts that I scrap from this year are printed 6x6 and placed in a Design D (I think) and then occasionally when we have gone on visits to friends/family's houses and I have tons of photos, I just print out a variety of 4x6 and 3x4 to slide in to a page protector, write up a little journaling and I am good. I also bought some cheaper 8.5x11 plastic page protectors that I can slide the occasional spelling page from the boys' schoolwork or a drawing that they do to add into the album.
 
I am 3-4 weeks behind and while I do love that all the memories are documented and here, I'm slightly bored with the system. I do think it's probably the best way to get all of our life documented, but the same design every week is getting a little boring. Although without that similar design, I know I would have fallen off the wagon a long time ago so I guess it's also a positive thing to use the same design. I'm a little unsure as to what I'll do next year.
 
I've just gotten caught back up. :) I would have quit long ago if it weren't for my iphone. I love it. This is my third year and am thinking about taking a break next year. Great job everyone!
 
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So I've been doing a lot of pondering on this, and I think I'm going to try to finish out the year in a digi 6x8 format, and I will use PL for the ho hum every day stuff, and do full spreads for the memories that I really want to document. I will probably never go back to the weekly format though. Just monthly for me. To much pressure for photos, and I end up documenting stupid crap like burning my toast.
 
I just TOTALLY changed my system again... I decided that I needed to find a method to get my pages printed, because I miss the experience of leafing through an album.To make this affordable, I switched to the A4 format, because this way, I can use the cheap albums you get everywhere here and don't have to order special scrapbooking albums which are very expensive- I hope this is the last adjustment i have to make and that everything works out now...
 
mlewis;n501052 said:
I am 3-4 weeks behind and while I do love that all the memories are documented and here, I'm slightly bored with the system. I do think it's probably the best way to get all of our life documented, but the same design every week is getting a little boring. Although without that similar design, I know I would have fallen off the wagon a long time ago so I guess it's also a positive thing to use the same design. I'm a little unsure as to what I'll do next year.
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Melissa, I'm right there with you! I think that boredom is one of the major reason I fall away from this project so quickly. I just CAN'T do the same thing all the time. My brain refuses to participate. :shrug What's a girl to d?
I have actually switched up my layout from week to week, and it helps. I don't feel SO pinned down to doing a pocket page layout, and generally speaking, I like my pages much better when they're not straight across in rows. Idunno. I love the concept of PL and getting everything documented. I just don't love the format so much.
 
Oh my goodness Amy, I couldn't stop laughing about the "burn my toast" comment! Seems like you have found a good system for you doing monthly though. That is what the project is all about. Finding what works for you!
 
I think that's the beauty of digi... you aren't confined to the pockets... for me I didn't like digi PL for that very reason... I got bored... I'm not sure why, but hybrid feels so different to me and I haven't gotten bored... I wonder if it's because through the year I've tried different techniques and trends and that helps me not get bored... but I could see that if I did them digitally it might still get boring... Rebecca, I've totally loved your pages and how you've done the project this year and not restricting yourself to the pockets but still keeping to the concept of recording the everyday in a weekly format
 
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