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Post by carolynhasacat on Aug 27, 2024 15:47:33 GMT
Peas, looking for some advice.
I was searching my email for something the other day and found, to my complete surprise, a Word document with notes for PL 2020.
I had no idea that I'd documented the WHOLE year. No memory of doing that at all. Not sure if it's COVID brain, or I moved on and wanted to forget that year existed.
WWYD? Take the journaling and create an album (would need to find corresponding photos)? Forget about it? Use the notes for something different?
The last time I did traditional PL was 2017 and I have an unfinished 9x12 from that year. Even though it's unfinished, I still like flipping through it. But PL is an awful lot of work. Torn on what to do. Would love your advice.
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Post by scrapcat on Aug 27, 2024 16:04:44 GMT
For me, PL (or any kind of everyday regular documenting) is more about in the moment. I am not big on going back and doing large projects or redoing/recreating things.
If I were you, I would make 1 2-page layout with all of the journaling and a sampling of significant photos for the year and call it good. Maybe divide it up by season.
I have quite a few layouts from 2020 due to having more time to scrapbook. I also printed other photos with intentions of documenting all the stay home things we did, but for some reason it's been hard to go back and actually document it. I ended up just filling in photos in divided page protectors and calling it good. I duno if it's something with reliving it or just feeling so detached from that time now.
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Post by grammadee on Aug 27, 2024 16:21:00 GMT
Don't know if I am the best person to give advice on this. I have an unfinished album from several years ago, and have yet to finish it...
If your notes are already on your computer, can you do a print document in Word or some other program? Find a few pic's and drop them in? Then you can just print off your document and you are done!
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Post by melanell on Aug 27, 2024 16:41:19 GMT
i would likely print up the notes and store them in a pocket in the same album as the rest of that year, but not actually change any existing album, nor make a whole new one.
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Post by Linda on Aug 27, 2024 17:47:54 GMT
I would suggest printing the journalling at a minimum and adding that to an existing album if you have one for 2020 (or putting at the end of 2019 or beginning of 2021 if you don't) or doing a monthly recap with a handful of photos from each month plus that month's journalling. I probably wouldn't do an indepth week by week PL album at this point.
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Post by mom on Aug 27, 2024 18:09:14 GMT
There's no way I would go back and do an entire album. I MIGHT do a recap album but that is all.
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Post by wordyphotogbabe on Aug 27, 2024 18:19:52 GMT
I created COVID-themed layouts during 2020 that are included in our regular family album but I also have them printed as a separate album. I think it's about 40 pages long? It includes the beginning of COVID through my youngest child receiving his first COVID shot the following year.
If it were me, I would at least use the COVID-related notes to create a few pages about the pandemic and your specific experience with it.
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Post by jenr on Aug 27, 2024 18:52:52 GMT
i would likely print up the notes and store them in a pocket in the same album as the rest of that year, but not actually change any existing album, nor make a whole new one. This^^^ |
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Post by Charwee on Aug 27, 2024 20:12:14 GMT
Could you create a book through Blurb using your journalling and adding some photos? I think you could even just make a magazine too. I'm going to tag joblackford because she has done some great memory keeping through trade books made in Blurb. |
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Post by infochick on Aug 27, 2024 20:50:53 GMT
Journaling is the part I struggle with the most, so I would probably try to do something with it...maybe I would do monthly pocket pages with a story-heavy focus? Lots of writing, some filler cards and any photos that are easy to find?
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Post by joblackford on Aug 27, 2024 21:56:38 GMT
My questions are: how did you feel about what you wrote? Did it make you feel a bit sick? or did you read through it with delight or wonder or some other relatively positive emotion?
And do you have any existing 2020 album that this could be added to?
Any ongoing journal of some kind from other years?
I kept a journal during the pandemic but I've put it away for way way in the future. It wasn't an especially tough time for my family, thank goodness, and my life wasn't all that different. But the journal brings up some anxiety even now, and I don't really enjoy looking at it. I don't regret doing the thing at the time but I don't think I could dig back into that year to re-do anything even 4 years later. (And yes, I am a person who goes back and re-does albums later).
I guess I would ask, do you really want to revisit documenting that year? Would that be fun or helpful?
I would probably file it away in a memory box or my journal and call it good.
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Post by carolynhasacat on Aug 28, 2024 0:06:22 GMT
For me, PL (or any kind of everyday regular documenting) is more about in the moment. I am not big on going back and doing large projects or redoing/recreating things. If I were you, I would make 1 2-page layout with all of the journaling and a sampling of significant photos for the year and call it good. Maybe divide it up by season. I have quite a few layouts from 2020 due to having more time to scrapbook. I also printed other photos with intentions of documenting all the stay home things we did, but for some reason it's been hard to go back and actually document it. I ended up just filling in photos in divided page protectors and calling it good. I duno if it's something with reliving it or just feeling so detached from that time now. These are really good points. My hesitation is that I'm also feeling detached from that time and not really wanting to revisit it. I like the idea of one or two LOs and tuck away the rest of the journaling like melanell suggested. infochick - splitting it up into monthly story heavy LOs + a few photos might work, too if I do it digitally. That would be less time consuming. Something about this suggestion makes me think a timeline might be good as well, focused on the journaling with only a few photos. grammadee - this was my first thought, but I'm not sure I want to do that much hunting for photos. |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Aug 28, 2024 0:07:33 GMT
My questions are: how did you feel about what you wrote? Did it make you feel a bit sick? or did you read through it with delight or wonder or some other relatively positive emotion? And do you have any existing 2020 album that this could be added to? Any ongoing journal of some kind from other years? I kept a journal during the pandemic but I've put it away for way way in the future. It wasn't an especially tough time for my family, thank goodness, and my life wasn't all that different. But the journal brings up some anxiety even now, and I don't really enjoy looking at it. I don't regret doing the thing at the time but I don't think I could dig back into that year to re-do anything even 4 years later. (And yes, I am a person who goes back and re-does albums later). I guess I would ask, do you really want to revisit documenting that year? Would that be fun or helpful? I would probably file it away in a memory box or my journal and call it good. Yes it definitely makes me feel a bit sick. I like the idea of putting it away for now. Make I'll feel differently about it one day. |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Aug 28, 2024 0:08:57 GMT
I created COVID-themed layouts during 2020 that are included in our regular family album but I also have them printed as a separate album. I think it's about 40 pages long? It includes the beginning of COVID through my youngest child receiving his first COVID shot the following year. If it were me, I would at least use the COVID-related notes to create a few pages about the pandemic and your specific experience with it. Wow, 40 pages, that's amazing! |
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Post by carolynhasacat on Aug 28, 2024 0:12:16 GMT
Thanks for the suggestions, Peas!
I think you've all convinced me to print it so I have it but tuck it away until I have more distance from it. Maybe one day I'll feel compelled to scrap it properly as a few LOs.
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Post by AussieMeg on Aug 28, 2024 4:40:08 GMT
I'm glad that you've come up with a solution that works for you, and takes your feelings of that time into account.
I really wish that I had documented more about the details of COVID in 2020, and I would love to find a whole heap of journaling. I think that Project Life can be a clean and simple or as detailed and intricate as you want it to be, and I would definitely go back and make a whole PL album using the journaling. My digital photos are very well organised, so finding photos to match the journaling would be an easy task.
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Post by cbscrapper on Aug 28, 2024 11:01:28 GMT
I'm glad that you've come up with a solution that works for you, and takes your feelings of that time into account. I really wish that I had documented more about the details of COVID in 2020, and I would love to find a whole heap of journaling. I think that Project Life can be a clean and simple or as detailed and intricate as you want it to be, and I would definitely go back and make a whole PL album using the journaling. My digital photos are very well organised, so finding photos to match the journaling would be an easy task. ^^This. I would definitely make an album too, either PL or maybe a TN album. |
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Post by lasteve1 on Aug 28, 2024 15:54:09 GMT
Peas, looking for some advice. I was searching my email for something the other day and found, to my complete surprise, a Word document with notes for PL 2020. I had no idea that I'd documented the WHOLE year. No memory of doing that at all. Not sure if it's COVID brain, or I moved on and wanted to forget that year existed. WWYD? Take the journaling and create an album (would need to find corresponding photos)? Forget about it? Use the notes for something different? The last time I did traditional PL was 2017 and I have an unfinished 9x12 from that year. Even though it's unfinished, I still like flipping through it. But PL is an awful lot of work. Torn on what to do. Would love your advice. Omg I would def go back and create a PL album, what a gift to have that journaling! I wish I could go back and create albums for older years before I started PL (in 2013). If it feels like too much work, consider doing monthly spreads instead of weekly. I am doing this for my daughter's album and creating a monthly spread for each month of 2020 right now. I am making it manageable by using 2024 monthly kits from Cocoa Daisy. I create the corresponding month to the kit when it arrives, e.g. when I got the October 2024 kit, I documented October 2020. It's making the project manageable along with my current documenting and at the end of the year I'll have the full 2020 year documented in my daughter's album. |
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Post by Margie on Aug 28, 2024 16:52:07 GMT
I just went back to look through my 2020 PL album, and - surprise - I only worked on it through March. I had never given it a 2nd thought over the years.
I do have handwritten notes and some saved ephemera, and all my photos are in Google Photos, so I will go back and work on it someday. I'm an active retired empty nester, so I do a monthly PL and just add extra pages as needed. Even so, I'm sure it will be much thinner than other years, and I probably won't worry about making it pretty. Photos and words for a year there is really no words for.
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Post by LavenderLayoutLady on Sept 1, 2024 10:19:26 GMT
Word document with notes for PL 2020. If I did nothing else, I might just print the document, put it in a page protector, and put it in the album. You could always go back to it if it is something you want to elaborate on. |
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