Project Life is the documenting that I do of our every day family life. I do Project Life consecutively (not weekly or monthly) and love it so much. I’ve been doing Project Life since 2012. It’s evolved a bit over the years, but now I’m at a place where I keep it super simple and focus on the photos + memories and not staying “caught up.” My Project Life albums are 12×12 and I use DESIGN A page protectors mainly – with some other random sizes thrown in from time to time depending on what I’m documenting.
Three things I think you should always remember about scrapbooking is:
1. KEEP IT SIMPLE. You don’t have to use all the things and do all of the things to document your stories + photographs. To me, less is more, when it comes to techniques, products and trends. The photographs and stories are what truly matters. No one is going to care if you’re not using the latest and greatest product or technique on your pages. Trust me.
2. MAKE IT WORK FOR YOU. Meaning – scrapbook the way that fits into YOUR life. We’re all in different seasons of life, so don’t compare what someone else is doing to what you’re not doing – just DO what you can right now where you are!
3. NO SUCH THING AS CAUGHT UP. Do you ever really want to be “caught up” if documenting your life + stories is about living? I don’t! LIVE your memories and these moments and then capture them in your albums, but don’t keep striving to be “caught up” because that doesn’t exist!
4. DON’T FORGET WHY YOU ARE DOING IT. I think so often we get caught up in other things that aren’t important when it comes to our memory keeping and so be sure to remember why you’re preserving these stories in the first place.
