Project Life 2021 MEGAAA thread

I am all digital and late last year SC had digital kits for $1.00 so I bought all the kits that had month cards. It was worth the $12! Sample Kit

We are empty nesters and I scrap regular layouts, so I do PL monthly style now that our weeks are less busy (or at least less exciting).

I'm here and want to start January but I'm stuck with my normal problem of not printing photos out. I've done PL off and on since 2014 and would eventually like to catch up the months and months I've missed but again, I need to print out those damn photos!
Goal for this week is to edit and print January 2021 week 1 & 2.

I am so behind! I have been working on other projects and let PL slide. I still haven't finished 2020 but I have an album and supplies for 2021.

I do monthly pages, but last year was much bigger than usual with all the extra memes, Covid and politics stuff. Hoping it will still fit in one album.

I started out with great enthusiasm and was on top of it but have kind of slacked off a bit in the last 3 weeks or so, I do need to get into my room and spend some time on my album.
This is the first year that I have done an album, I have tried in the past but failed miserably and stopped at the end of January. I bought a Cannon Selphy at the start of our lock downs last year because I figured that I might be spending a quite a bit of time at home and I discovered the convenience of instant printing so it has made project life a much easier task.

Waiting on Costco to deliver photos has made my 2021 album very much more "digital" than I usually like. ie: Just type the words on the photos and skip embellishing when they arrive. I missed the process so forced myself to skip it a few weeks and it made me so happy. Anyway.

I am uber excited because Friday is the release of "Smoke and Bone" on Netflix AND MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAT on HBO. Not to mention wrapping up Falcon and the Winter Soldier... although it still is not as good as WandaVision. Listening to a mix of Taylor Swift's new Fearless and Disney tunes.

I do it monthly and have already completed Jan and Feb. I also like to include other things in my PL album, so for example, in early April I did a super-mini WITL and included that. I keep forgetting to take photos though and every day seems like the same, so yeah, not much motivation going on here.

I’ve never done it, but am interested in doing it - my problem is I can’t decide between digital 10x10 or pocket 9x12 or 6x8. So here it is April and I haven’t touched anything. 🙄

I have been much more aggressive about entering memories in Day One than I ws earlier in the pandemic, and I’m going back and entering 2014 from planner/journal pages at that time. It’s been interesting comparing the two years.



Is your PC a desktop or laptop? Adding RAM may be relatively inexpensive. Photoshop is a RAM hog, especially with 6+ photos, a template and embellishments all open.

What happened to your MacBook?

I'm several years behind. I need to find a better solution to editing and resizing the photos. I think that's what keeps me from working on it.

I do keep up with a diary app otherwise I wouldn't remember much of what happened when. I go back and forth from daily, weekly and then huge gaps of time in between.

I'm struggling with how much of covid I want to put in. Like do I need all these screen grabs of graphs? I probably have about 20.

Are we the same person? These are all my same issues right now. I haven't documented 2020 at all because I'm not sure what I want to do about covid, I have too many photos to edit and resize, and I do keep my daily diary up to date!

I'm starting with the first two weeks of January, I'm going to edit those photos and print them out here at home. Then, if I'm feeling sassy, I'll edit the rest of the month and maybe February and upload/send them to Persnickety since I have a million photo credits to use up (okay, not a million but quite a few).

I do 2 pages/week and so far this year . . . I am current. Thank goodness.

Can I poke my head in here if I’m still catching up on 2017?

I still have to finish up December in 2020 (slowly working through that) but I started 2021 back in January when I had the mojo. I ALWAYS start the new year in January, even if the previous year isn't done, and then play catch up on the older album when I feel like it. This keeps me from feeling overwhelmed by feeling super "behind."

For 2021 I am doing Project Life in a 12x12 with weekly spreads, same format I've used for years. I have completed through mid-March but I'm not worried about falling behind. I've been doing this project for so long it comes together more easily than other scrapbooking projects, so I tend to save it for when I'm feeling less creative and then work on traditional spreads or other projects when I'm feeling more inspired. I also simplify the process by using design formulas + working with kits. ETA: I also add an entry daily into the Day One app as part of my morning planning process (I journal about the day before) so I'm not worried about forgetting details. 

I am sharing my pages as I complete them over on my instagram and this year I am trying to share more process videos on IGTV, so I have a few over there from my project life (although not every week). Creating a process video definitely slows the process a bit (not the actual crafting, other than having to time it with the daylight, but the editing afterwards pretty much doubles the time it takes to create a spread). Now that I'm putting more time into regular videos I'm considering making a youtube also but that is probably going to be a project for a few months from now. If anyone is interested, though, my instagram is @lindalovescreating.

I haven’t done a thing yet this year except prep Jan & Feb pictures for printing. Haven’t printed them, but I prepped them!

ETA: I did finish 2020 and put it on the shelf though!