Project Life, weeks 6- 9

hi, guys!  mandie here with another project life installment.  how is everyone doing?  keeping up?  questions?  anyone?  beuller?  lol.  when do you work on project life?  i like to work on it on saturdays & sundays.  i know i've mentioned before that i make my pages "flat."  i use a little chipboard, sewing & my tiny attacher and that's here.  here is the reason why:

that's only weeks 1-8!  look at that already!  i anticipate using 2 albums this year, like i did last year.  hoping with all of the extra inserts i've been using this year, it doesn't up to 3!  yikes!  lol.

ANYHOO...  here are the spreads for weeks 6-9.

week 6:

week 7:

this week i added an insert.  (i seem to do that more often than not.  i finally got my hands on some of the "g" size pages from becky higgins.  love the size!)

week 8:

Lots of Dear Lizzy in this week...)

week 9:

                             

thanks for hanging in there with me!  have a great week!

m

Project Life

How is everyone doing on Project Life?  Keeping up?  I have to admit... I was 3 weeks behind.  But, I finished them up this weekend.  That is one of the things that I LOVE about this project.  If you keep notes, (or if, unlike me, you have a good memory!) it is easy to catch back up.  My philosophy on PL is to keep it simple!  For me, making it complicated makes it harder to keep up with...  So.... here goes with my 5 weeks of pages.  Are you ready?  (It's not that interesting, I promise!) And let me add.... Please bear with me on the photographs.  Photographing the page protectors is tricky.  I'm working on it!  hee hee.

WEEK ONE:

I used doilies again and more Farmhouse from October Afternoon.  I was trying to steer away from the same product as the title page, but it was just calling to me, I guess!  I don't know if I mentioned before, but I LOVE the calendars from Elle's Studio for each week.  (find them HERE) 

WEEK TWO:

This week, I had a TON of photos I wanted to incorporate from our hiking trip at Tomales Trail.  I used a We R Memory Keepers baseball card page and added extra pics in the middle.  

WEEK THREE:

The calendar on this spread is from Bananafish Studio 

WEEK FOUR: 

I know this week looks very spring-y despite it being January.  But, hey...  It's felt like spring.  So, why not? LOL!  

WEEK FIVE:

I absolutely loved the little boy sticker from the October Afternoon Sidewalks sticker sheet.  But, I was completely stumped as to what to do with it.  Enter Project Life.  Hee hee.  he made a cute opener for the week!  :)

There ya have it!  My 2012 Project Life so far.  I'd love to see yours!  Link me up!  Have a question?? Please ask!  I would love to do a Q & A post.  Until next month.... Happy Scrapping! 

M

Project Life 2012

Hi, there!  Mandie here blogging for the gals at Scrap Again.  This year, I am going to be doing a series of posts about Project Life for the Scrap Again blog.  So..  Project Life... Are you in? Are you out?  Are you wondering what in the heck it is?!

For those who don't know, Project Life is a concept developed by Becky Higgins a few years ago.  It is memory keeping at it's most basic.  There is not a right or a wrong way to go about it.  Some people use it to document a photo a day.  Some use it to document a month or a week at a time.  I did Project Life last year and loved it so much.  I didn't even have to think about whether I would be doing it again in 2012.  Last year, I used Becky Higgins' page protectors and journaling cards and my stash.  I will be doing the same this year.  For those looking for an even simpler approach can purchase the Project Life core kits.  They are fantastic.  If I didn't have so much stuff already, I would use one.  :) I take a weekly approach.  I think this will be such a wonderful thing to have years from now when the kids are all grown.

  Today, I am going to share my title page for this year's project life  This is much more detailed than I normally go in my Project Life book.  But, it's the title page... I wanted to make a statement.  HA!  

A Project Lifer (is that a word... I dunno???) I love is Lisa Truesdell (aka Gluestick Girl).  I pretty much love everything she does.  But she has done a great series on Project Life.  You can check them out HERE.  

Here is my question for you?  Are there any particular questions you would like answered?  A Project Life post you would like to see me write?  Leave a comment and let me know! I will be at the January crop and will be bringing one of my albums from last year, as well as what I have started for this year.  I hope to see you all there.  Until next post!  

M