PROJECT LIFE 2024 Mega Thread

lasteve1 - Your process videos are so awesome! Thank you for sharing!

I also want to jump to June! May is just Ho hum. Nothing “wrong” with it just not very inspiring. Except I hate the suns (with faces) but I love the rest of the June kit.

My first week of May ends tomorrow. I just went through my stash and pulled out a few cards, papers, and embellishments to match.
I'm glad there are only 4 weeks. It's really tough to stretch these kits to 5.

Last year's WITL kit (or maybe it was the year before that) matches really well with the May kit. I had a lot of the cardstock die cuts leftover like a sun, a cloud, and a wine glass. All the same color scheme. I had some Felicity Jane stuff to match.

If I need alphas or labels, I know where to find those so I'm not pulling out any just yet.

The next few weeks in my album...

https://www.instagram.com/p/C6yYRNzNfv1

https://www.instagram.com/p/C68rbPNNSv7

And the last one on my youtube: youtu.be/9dJ8Bnwh44E

I have process videos for all of my spreads on youtube if you're interested.

I spent some time last weekend catching up in my album, so I have finished everything except last week/this week. I will share them on my instagram/youtube soon. Honestly, the editing to share process takes way longer than the creating process! I think because I've been doing this project for so long, it's easy for me to get a few spreads done in a short amount of time. How is everyone else's project going?

Embellishing help needed.

There is nothing small/consistent from the sbtm kit this month that I can use across several photos.
I'm going to put all my journaling in one 4X6 card. All the spots are full with something. I don't want to use label stickers.

What would you recommend I put on a few of the photos for a little somethin somethin?

I've already done half circles. I just am at a loss for ideas.

What about another small shape like a heart or star with maybe an enamel dot or a staple?

Awww thank you! Don't redo your pages though!

You can always switch your style spread to spread, though. I definitely adjust week to week depending on what I'm working with and who is inspiring me at the moment. Years ago when I was still working on my style in Project Life (although I'm always working on my style in project life!) I challenged myself to do a week inspired by a specific crafter and then would switch it up each week. I picked people with completely different styles and made them work for me. I remember I did Kelly Purkey and Julie Fei-Fan Balzer for two of them, and their styles couldn't be more opposite. 

I finally started my 2024 album this weekend. I’m a bit late, but I need to finish the previous year’s album before I start the new one and realized after cleaning up my 2023 supplies that I had almost all the monthly calendar pages from PP for 2023. So I figured I needed to do something with them! A little digital magic and I was able to make the missing month, then I added in all the important dates from my album and then I stamped to my hearts content. It was a lot of fun but time consuming, although I love the context it provides and I wish I had them for 2024 too! Add in a week-long trip, work amping up, and Week in the Life, and now it’s almost halfway through the year and I’m just starting!
I have a bunch of SC and PP kits from the past few years that I was working with for last year, then supplementing with my stamps and stash. However, none of them are for January and after a few years of working with kits, I feel like I’ve lost my ability to stash dive for this project! Does anyone else struggle with January and February without a kit? I usually pick up SC kits on sale after the fact but don’t have the January kit, PP is no more, and I’ve used up the January kits I had. I’ve had to be really creative which is fun, but means it’s taking me a lot longer to do a few spreads. I feel like a scrappy toddler learning to walk again! Anyone else feel like when January rolls around, you forget how to project life, even though you were working on December 2023 just a bit ago?
I do like the few spreads I have made so far but they are pretty minimal. Maybe it’s the pressure of a new album and a fresh start that makes me feel like I need to start strong. I think going through my stash and reminding myself of the products I have might be helpful. Any tips?

Just go for it. Remember that it's the whole, not the parts. Some weeks may be perfect and some you'll feel meh about but when you flip through it all, you will not mind what's not perfect, especially when it's done.

And thanks to everyone else for the tips.

I will try the word phrase stickers and maybe top it off with some dots. I have yet to bring those out for PL and I don't know why!

Still editing photos daily but not getting anything done in my PL. And now that the kid is home every day for summer break I doubt I'll get anything done. I'm hopeful but also keeping my expectations low so I won't be mad at myself.

I've mentioned before that this year I am not doing a week per double page spread - I am just doing one big run-on album. I love it because on the weeks that I have a ton of photos, I don't have to try to cram them onto two pages. And the weeks that I have hardly any photos, I don't have to try to find filler photos to try and fill two pages. This means I have to scrap chronologically for this album, which is both good and bad.

I have completed - or nearly completed - 8 double page spreads so far. That takes me through to the end of February. 

July 2 is the halfway point of the whole year.
Subtract December cause I am NOT doing project life and December Daily.

That leaves 335 days divided by 2. So my half of the year is June 15.
I am almost halfway done.

I don't like unfinished projects so I'm going to keep going with this.
I won't do it again. I don't think.

It's a lot. So I'm not doing anything else.

I love that I'm documenting the house progress. That's been great. I love documenting.
But it's just a lot.

So almost halfway there for me.

I just finished May 27 - June 2.

Excited to move on to a new kit. I like the June kit and I hope it will be easy to use.

Sorry I haven't been keeping up with posting updates here. I am fully caught up on creating but like to work a bit behind on sharing.

Here's week 17 which was also week in the life. I have a separate album documenting this week so I just did something simple in project life.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7bk9PDNbqX

Week 18 I traveled and was working with Cocoa Daisy.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7l4K2pPVOb

Week 19 I struggled and I guess I'm happy with the final spread but it's probably one of my least favorite spreads so far this year.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7ywIP6BG23

I hope you do it again because I love seeing your pages, however, if it's becoming too much of a burden instead of fun, maybe take a break and do monthly or smaller albums like lasteve1 suggested. I took a break from PL for about 3 years and changed the size of my album too and those have helped me get more pages done. Also, I don't work in real time, meaning I just work on spreads when I feel like it. I jot down what we do every day in the Day One app and add photos highlighting that day, and if I don't have photos for the day, I just journal. When I am ready to create a spread, I go to the week in the app I want to create and print the photos and make the page. I also am the queen of unfinished projects so I don't have a single completed PL album, just random layouts from years past. If that bothers you, don't follow my lead.