2020 Project Life check in

I’m complete for PL 2020 Jan-July I’m mostly enjoying it. I need to print August photos & get to work.

Going backwards I completed 2019 July - December and that’s 100% complete & on the LR shelf. Jan & Feb 2019 are also done. Pics thru June are printed and waiting for me to get in gear. April & May will include quite a few full scrapbook pages as opposed to PL though.

My goal is to be finished with both years by the end of the year & maybe just need to finish up Dec 2020 in January after it’s all printed. So far I seem to be on schedule.

I do not think I’ll go back prior to 2019 though. Prior to that I’ll just scrap randomly whatever pictures call to me or Won’t scrap it. 🤷‍♀️

I'm so glad I found this thread! I opened up the Becky Higgins thread thinking it would be about project life, and, oh my!!!

I do digital project life and love it. I'm about ready to print my 2019 album and believe it or not, I don't feel like I'm too far behind. (I'm usually about two years' behind).

I do a two page spread for every month and then at the end of the book, I usually do several pages covering trips and big events like graduations. 2019 was a banner year for travel and big events for us, so my project life album is going to be unusually thick this year. I'm hoping to finish my album this weekend so I can upload it for printing at Shutterfly. They are running a special for Labor Day-no charge for extra pages.

My problem is that when I'm ready to upload my album, instead of just quickly proofreading my journaling to make sure I don't have any grammatical mistakes, I end up totally rewriting things and moving pictures around. I never fell like it's really done and ready to be uploaded.

I’m up to date through August for 2020!

I started 2019 in January of this year and I’m 90% done! Need to tie up December, and that’s about it! I’m so pleased about this, feeling very accomplished!

I am caught up through July. But I always run one month behind, so I am not worried. I plan on printing a bunch out this week so I can get back to scrapping on the weekend.

Thanks! Those are great suggestions. I think I will give Day One a try. I like the way you keep it easy. 

I still haven’t started 2020. I’m usually current at this point. I can’t find any mojo.

August is done & in the book.

I'm doing 12x12, pairing a pocket page with a full 12x12 layout every week.

i work in a 12x12 binder but I use all sorts of pages That size & smaller. For example, March 2019 was 1 12x12 pockets & 1 6x12 pockets

When I used to scrapbook last time around years ago, I would never have done that. When I restarted 2 years ago I just threw caution to the wind and do whatever I want to do and put it in the binder. LOL it first started when I wanted space in my planner and I just inserted another page and I was like oh that was easy. 😁

I watched a lot of YouTube where people did that to get to that point, but it’s so freeing.

This is what I do, too!  12x12 but with tons of different sizes/inserts/etc.

For 2020 I’m doing 9x12. Album and page protectors from SC. (Come on Scrapbook.com I need more options!)

I think for the years I’m going to go back and complete, I’m going to use 6x8 since I have less photos and journaling. I need to find a come online inspiration for them.

we all have to work our own way. I tried digital back in the day and it didn’t stick. I missed playing with paper. I should probably learn a few things and do more hybrid.

If it's any consolation, the separate mini albums, TNs and other smaller projects for the pandemic were created mostly by people trying to compartmentalise these extraordinary times as they were unfolding. I know that's what happened to me and my separate pandemic mini albums. It was in real time documenting of something really difficult to get a grasp of while knowing that it was terrible, global and this immense unknown we were being thrown into.