Staying on top of MOC

I actually signed up this year and have done all challenges so far. Definitely a first for me. Not sure if I will do all 31 but I'm going to try!

I wondered why I hadn't see any layouts from you yet. Been looking for them.

 

I've scrapped half the challenges so far. I'm sorry January is busy for you Jennifer; I feel like mine is busier than usual too!

 

Like you I haven’t started yet. I have scrapped a bunch of pages, so that feels good. My goal is to start some tomorrow. We’ll see. Not feeling terribly motivated. Lol

 

I'm like you Jennifer, January has been a busy month this year for me too! I've only completed one challenge so far. But to be fair, I don't plan to finish all challenges because that'll give me so much anxiety just thinking about it. This year is very different from last year since I've just started freelance work, so I have very low expectations of myself for MOC.

 

Last year, I was right on top of MOC. We got to Florida on Jan 1 and I scrapped the challenge each day as a priority. It was fun! I actually missed it the first week of February.

This past year has been tough, emotionally, physically, and otherwise. I was organized to scrap, but our daughter made her first visit home in 4 1/2 years and was with us from 12/26 through today. Obviously, her visit was my priority. We also got to Florida on the 4th (with daughter in tow), so I'm just now, as I type, really getting started on the challenges for MOC11. I've gotten two or three done - but I'm still trying to "settle."

I hope you get into MOC, Jennifer! Your work is wonderful!

 

I'm continuing my routine of doing each page the day it's assigned. In the past, I've not let more than a day go by without scrapping. Except in 2018 when we had a family vacation for one week in January, and I had to catch up when I returned. If I didn't scrap daily or at least every other day, it would be too overwhelming. Rarely do I scrap more than two pages in a day any time of the year.

 

Sounds like a good plan!

I’ve given myself permission to not do every single challenge this year so that I’m not stressed about staying caught up.

 

I usually just scrap each day before end of day. If I get behind it's usually only a day or two and I use weekends when I have lots of time to play catch up.

I find that if I work each page in that day I may spend an hour at most of my time working on it. This works for me.

 

Yep that's where I'm at.

 

I have done 5 out of 8. It has a been quite a January for me. I am doing my best.

 

I've done all 8. But now routines are back to normal re work. Hoping I will keep it up, I'm only working 2 days per week, I probably won't be too busy. Working today, but I plan to make both chall 9 & 10 tomorrow.

 

I've managed all 8 so far. For me MOC is a priority. There is a reason. I used to dread the arrival of January, I used to be so depressed through it too. My first son was still born in January. When I discovered MOC after arriving at the Lilypad it gave me something to look forward to, something to focus on. It's been a tremendous help to me. So I'll keep going, and everything else, like cleaning whatever it is the teenagers have splashed up the back door will wait.

 

Hugs to you @Angela Toucan

 

7 out of 9, very happy with that. (Especially after a few years of absence!)
I’m really not feeling the heirloom challenge, I really don’t know where to start. It doesn’t help that I don’t like the colour brown and distressed papers (which I both associated with this challenge).

 

I only have 4 pages done. I've been sick with an upper respiratory thing & pink eye since before the New Year. My eyes are still bothering me. Definitely not how I planned on spending the beginning of January. I'm planning on pushing through and finishing by the end, though.