Ha, is it too late to start PL?

I do project life monthly (meaning I don't sort things by week).

On the 31st of the month, I pull all my photos/things I have saved and grab a calendar. Then I make a list of what I want to include. Some months there are a bunch of things to add and others not so much.

It works for me and I am able to keep up with my album.

I did try documenting weekly and well, that was just too big a pain in the butt.

No, it's not too late to piece together the last month. How much really happens on January, anyway? Do you have goals or lists or hopes for the year ahead? Can you get pictures from Facebook and friends to fill in? Just put some pretty cards in pockets. No one will know you did it after the fact.

I could have written your post word for word and I'm kind of kicking myself for not thinking of starting sooner. Then the OCD part of me thinks I can't go backwards (even if I am the only one knows it was done in retrospect, I still know).

For those of you that do it monthly, how much of the "every day" stuff do you include? Do you tend to focus on the bigger events that happened during the month or is it a mix of the big and little moments?

Yeah, what everyone said. Just go back and write some notes about things/events you would like to include from January. Put together a bit of journaling with your pics and a few cards and you will be good to go. I'm starting a 9x12 pocket album for 2016, I've addressed about 8 things that happened with three or four more to add. I'm definitely not striving for a daily entry. Do it as it happens or at the end of the month. It will be easy to recap just a month. Do what makes you happy. I use some purchased cards, though not the Pl ones, and make some of my own. Enjoy!

For me, its a mixture of both. For instance, I was pulling my photos for January - not much has happened. SO I will include more everyday type stuff like picking kids up from school (selfie), photos of our thermometer for the weather, recipes we made. 

Now, I already know Feb is going to be busy - we have a trip to Vegas this weekend, my son gets his class ring, track meets, valentines, etc so I like probably have less everyday stuff. 

By December, I will have a good mix of everything. Remember to not look at each month as a 'whole' - it is only part of the year. By the time you document the whole year it will be a mix and will make your book complete. 

You can also take screen shots of your social media to add. I actually like to wait until the posts I do in Facebook has the date on them before I screen shot them.

I haven't started my 2016 PL yet. Or finished 2015

I'm still working on 2015 and haven't started 2016 yet. It's never too late. When I first found PL, I started in July 2012. I was able to cobble together stuff for Jan-Jun. Here's a link to a blog post about ideas to include if you have no pictures.
rukristin.com/blog/2013/02/project-life-weeks-4-5-what-to-do-when-you-dont-have-photos/

Maybe you could complete your page design, take a picture of it, then store it in a ziplock or envelope till you purchase the page protectors.

I always run a month behind so the year I did my first project life I decided I wasn't going to do it anymore. I thought how many pictures of what we had for dinner or a cluttered room do I need to take, of course it was more then that but that was my thought at the time. So in February, I had completed by first album of project life and had a huge smile on my face. I think it was so satisfying to have completed a scrapbook. I have done traditional scrapbooking for years but never really feel caught up. Project life had a beginning and an end and it felt amazing. Complete. Finished. Then my kids looked thru it and loved it. They said many times, "oh wow,I forgot about that" Then I was sad that I hadn't started another book in January. So, I decided to start on February 14. My first entries were cards written about how I wasn't going to do it a second year because I thought my everyday mundane life was boring, etc, then how much it meant to my family and my feeling of satisfaction of having a project that was complete. I don't regret not having January in that book, it's part of my story. I'm now on my fifth year! I also don't have any of this year's in page protects yet. I have written the cards out, and just store them in the box they came in. Once I have the pictures developed and page projectors in hand,I will assemble them. I also don't do anything fancy, just pictures and journaling cards. That's a long post just to say, start where you are, journal why you started when you did and you will have a big smile on your face at the end of the year!

Well this is one of those things that was probably obvious to everyone but me. As Gru from Despicable Me would say "light bulb".


I really like that about PL.

I've only done the weekly documentation once and I've done a couple of years of a one 8x8 spread for the month but this will be my first time combining the two to get a more complete picture of my life at this point. I pulled out some supplies last night and started playing so I guess now I'm in for the year.

I do it monthly and I just go with what ever I have for that month some months I have a ton of photos others not so much.

You can supplement your months with photo prompts there are tons of them on pinterest.

For January you could include a bucket list of things you want to accomplish/see/make. You could list the books you read that month, movies/shows you binge watched. Do a get to know you spread on everyone in your family including a photo and several facts about them. Your resolutions or goals for yourself and your family members. Take a photo of what gas cost/note how much groceries cost a gallon of milk/loaf of bread/ etc how much snow you have if you have snow.Things you have pinned on pinterest. All this stuff seems mundane but a year or several years from now it will be neat to look back on.

I am so glad you asked I was hoping to do it and then realized it was mid January and hadn't documented anything. I think I will try it after all and just modify it. I love all the ideas on here for extra pages and stories to tell. We tried several new recipes in January and they will go into the album especially since they were keepers.

I am hoping this will jump start my creativity as I have been in a major slump for months now .