Word of the Year for 2023

Ok, so I was going to skip this project but my FoMO is getting the best of me. 🤦🏼‍♀️
Thinking of Light being my word. I need to let my heart be light in the new year. Also thinking of joy or gratitude as possible words.

Anyway I kinda want to mix it up. Was thinking of trying a smaller format of 5x7 to keep it simple. But after watching the main kit video again I actually think 10x8 might be fun and that I haven’t tried the buildable albums yet.

linhaz I love the idea of using the Joy album for your project.

I finally got around to watching all the December videos and zooms. It sounds like the feedback they’ve gotten is people are having a hard time keeping up with all the content so cutting the Monday message for a year is a way to scale it back and see if it’s missed. I will say it’s a lot but it’s all good content. I don’t always watch the zooms in the same month but I find them all very valuable.

I plan to share my book in the new Peas OLW group. Might have to cover some journaling, but will share the design. 

I always use a 6x8 album. I planned on ordering a 6x8 album from Citrus Twist but then found a 6x8 album that I planned on using for something else and decided to use it. It was originally a 6x8 linen album from Ali, but I painted it yellow.

I will always fill up a 6x8 album, but never more than one. For me, 3x8 would be too small to get everything in. 

My MIL bought me the 2023 class for Christmas so I’m in. 2022 was such a bust for me with this project, worse than previous years. I think “Home” was just too loaded given moving across the country, not being able to find a “home”, and as of a week and a half ago, moving back after deciding the Pacific NW just wasn’t right for us/our family. Funnily enough though, I am ending the year with a new home, a whole new perspective about home (after spending years thinking the Pacific NW as my real home, turns out it isn’t anymore), and feeling optimistic about our future here so perhaps home was the right word after all. It’s funny to me how this project can come full circle like that. I’ll add something about that to my album and call it good.

So after the past year, my word for 2023 is “ease”. It showed up as a whisper this summer and has gotten louder. I want to ease into the transition, look for ease as a new mom, bring back my mediation practice to ease my anxiety, and ease into the smaller moments of joy in the everyday. I like the idea of going back to previous years if a prompt isn’t working for me. 

Love the idea of our own facebook group. Thanks mom for putting that together. 

Where did you see that? I just assumed there wouldn't be any 3x4 cards this time around.

Weird. I bought the class and just looked at the digital package included of the main kit. There aren't 3x4 cards in there, so she must be giving them out monthly maybe? 


The files included in the digital package are: 

4x6 monthly journal cards 
7x8.25 vellum sheet
11x8 papers
cardstock label quotes
cardstock page (looks like a cut file)
chipboard butterflies
die cut page dividers
Kraft pockets + cards
Plastic phrases
Prompt Pages
Tab Sticker Sheet

i am tossing around decluttering. My mind, my body, my house, my yard, I think it sums up where I want to be a year from now. Someone mentioned picking a 12 letter word, for concentrating on different areas each month. So I have been mulling over words for each letter that fit. Like D for digital E for electronic g for garden but I’m having trouble knowing what was really meant and I can’t find the post again. 

I hope so.  I really like those card prompts to start the Year.

I just bought the class yesterday. I thought I had my word picked out (light) but this morning a new word (time) has come to mind. Has anyone ever changed words this close to beginning the project?

I am going to jump in on this thread then catch up on reading it because I got a bit behind, whoops.

I have chosen a word every year since 2015 and this is one of my favorite projects. In 2022, my word was ENOUGH and it was a great word. I fell behind, though, on the project because some of the prompts didn't inspire me, I was working digitally which I think I struggle to stay motivated with because I can't see the physical progress, and I just had a super busy year. In addition to doing the monthly prompts, I added my own reflections page, a calendar + quote, and some project life style pages focused on my month from a more personal growth perspective. I usually just close the book on my project with whatever I had finished by December 31 and move onto the next year, but this year I really want to finish my album for ENOUGH but I just can't work on it until late January (currently working on class content for a class I'm teaching!).

For 2023, I've chosen the word FUN and I'm already super excited about it. I'm going to use the folio with the blank notebook that comes inside and I'm excited for a different format and already have some super fun ideas. I also am going to simplify and not do the project life style pages and really just do the prompts + monthly intro page + monthly reflections. I might add some other stuff here and there, but I'm not entirely sure yet. I am going to start this project in early January and will work on it alongside finishing up my 2022 project.

I really enjoyed the January prompt videos. I’m really loving the kit this year even the butterflies lol (I think it’s the gold). I really like how she changed up those prompt cards a little bit.
I think I’m always weary of change at first but end up liking it and Ali always seems way more inspired when she changes things up.

Not sure if anyone caught her IG Q&A but she talked a little bit about some upcoming non subscription mini kits including there only being one DITL mini kit this year.

Breathe was such a good word for me. It was the first word that I actually completed a OLW project with.

Sending you a message! Thanks!

How is everyone’s OLW journey going. I’m not on FB so I’m
just going to post here.
I liked the February prompt a lot but I am not really feeling this project this year. 😑

living my word is going well (CONTINUE) - I've been continuing to keep up on 2023 scrapping, I've been continuing to work on older projects, I've been continuing my health journey (currently working on physical therapy and managing my glucose), I've been continuing to work on genealogy and my books to be read pile. And I'm doing a good job so far at sticking to what I'm already doing rather than adding new projects and goals and getting side tracked.

I did some journalling in January and I may do some more as the year goes on but I don't think I'm going to do a project around my word, just see how it fits with my life and how focusing on it helps throughout the year. I did toss around the idea of a small scrapbook/notebook but so far...no.