PL Chit Chat?

I'm totally stalking Becky Higgin's twitter because I NEED some of the new protectors. I think they'll be a size for inserts (specifically the 4x6 and 5x7s) when I just want one BIG pictures for impact. I'm also wanting the 4x6 grid cards as well, and MAYBE a pack of the 3x4 grid cards. I can't justify much else considering I've only used 5-6 of the cards from the Cobalt kit.....sad, I know.

 

Is it sad that I stopped doing weekly Project Life after Week 26, and I still want to buy some of the new 3x4 and 4x6 colored cardstock, blank white cards, and grid cards coming out? LOL. I must restrain myself. I will probably never use them.

 

Oh and there are two lines coming out that I totally think goes with or replaces the BH version of Project Life.

Simple Stories Sn@p Collection:
http://simplestories.typepad.com/simple_stories/2012/07/hell.html
http://simplestories.typepad.com/simple_stories/2012/07/more-snappy-reveals.html

And the new Studio Calico Handbooks:
http://studiocalico.typepad.com/studio_calico/2012/07/cha.html

 

Ooooh Christine you shouldn't give us this links...ooooh wow this new stuff is soooo beautiful!!!!
I would love to have everything (but I think as always I would have problems to get it to Germany...), it looks so so sweet!
But I'm not sure...I'm thinking about going back to digital next year...

 

LOL Christine, I am hoping you change your mind! I will miss seeing your beautiful pages!

 

omgosh, Christine! I love that Sn@p! system. 12x12 is so huge, BUT I think that size might be too small. When will the new line be available? Maybe we could get them to put up a digital line here at The Lilypad...

 

I'm pretty behind, between having a baby, going to Indonesia for ten days three weeks later and then moving two weeks after that...I'm feeling pretty good that I at least HAVE pictures for those weeks! I've got most of the weeks planned out, I just need to put them on cards. I think I'm going to take a much simpler approach; I really like to scrap my PL cards, but I love the more simple photo focused pages, too, and that's what I'm going with this time.

 

I just placed my order for the small plastics! Yay, perfect timing too since I'm working on a super long week with tons of inserts, and I was getting tired of Design G!

 

Yay Ang, thanks for pulling this up! I love to chat about my PL - I guess I like to chat about it since I don't have much to show because I'm so behind!

I'm working steadily on it. 10 full weeks behind, but who's counting, right?? A few weeks ago I strongly hinted to DH that I am disappointed that he doesn't care about the stuff I make - the PL album, of course, and other things too. For the past 20 months I've made him a card each week and I got the feeling he couldn't care less, so I asked him if it mattered to him. Obviously he said yes, but he's been rather more attentive since then, so I'm hoping he didn't just say it to make me happy. He even asked to look at my PL album, which was pretty awesome. He liked it, and his last comment was "is this it? Why are you so behind?".

I keep working in chronological order. I take daily notes about what happened and I don't feel like I'm forgetting much.

I am not sure what to do for 2013.. On one hand, I have a few plastics so I should use them up.. but on the other hand, if I remain so behind as I am now, it doesn't make much sense to continue. I will postpone the decision.

 

I just got a little inspired here reading this! I am actually current with mine but am just not feelin' the week by week approach for next year. Of course, if my daughter begs I might have to continue. It is still the first thing she does when she gets home from college after hugs and petting the animals. I am the holder of all of grandma's heritage photos. I went through them with my dad and have tons of notes about who and about when, using these plastics and cards could help me get them out of albums and in some semblance of order. I could even move stuff around before actually getting the cards going! I am officially motivated for that becoming next years project with a more haphazard when I feel like stuff with our day to day now.

 

Hi girls, saw this post updated again and I'm chiming in!

I stopped doing weekly PL at the end of June, after 26 consecutive weeks. I gave myself permission to stop documenting on a weekly basis. But I have to say I do miss it! Even though a lot of my creative time has been freed up to do whatever I want, which was the point of not doing weekly PL anymore.

Going forward my plan is to do Month-In-Review collages and journaling, and add to my new PL album (2nd one) as I feel like it. I also add any memorabilia, journaling, 12x12, 8x8, 6x6, or any pages I make in there. So it won't be a PL album per se, but a mixed album of my life. I feel like that's way more do-able for me right now.

I think what happened was I got caught up in the "good enough" game. I was showing my pages on my blog and people liked them. So I was spending too much time trying to make it too scrappy and complicated. I love my album but in the end it's for me and for Todd and not for anyone else. So the break I've had with weekly PL has given me a better perspective of why I did it, and how I want to continue on!

 

omgosh, I'm ten weeks behind too! I decided to do week 34 on one page, and that got me back in the swing of things. I've got each week mapped out, with the photo clipped in their spots for each of the ten weeks I am behind; I just need to make the spreads look pretty.

And my husband hasn't looked at my layouts (even when they're printed) since the FIRST YEAR I went digital, which was 2004. : ( But my kids love their albums, and even if no one else cared about them, I do so love them. That's sweet of him to ask about your creative stuff.

 

I'm gonna do digital again next year, but I'm not sure if I'll do weekly again or not... I guess it depends on how far behind I get now that homeschooling is starting up again and I have two kiddos I'm teaching now LOL... I'm not really behind right now... I'm working on the other half of week 34 so I'm pretty happy with where I'm at and still really enjoying it... I've found that I tend to spend the last week of every month catching up for that month LOL

 

I can't wait for this... totally going to use it for December Daily... WOOT!!!