Year long projects?

I am doing an album that contains pages that celebrate those wacky National day of.....(ie Dog Photo Day, or Vinegar day, etc, etc) There are a lot of food ones so hubby and I search out recipes and then we photograph the results and include the recipe. When there is not a wacky thing to celebrate then I look at On this Day in history and if something occurred that MEANS something to me then I scrap it. Like when Ben Franklin became the first postmaster. When I was young we collected stamps, and had huge albums filled with them. Due to unfortunate circumstances mine has been lost, but I love the memory of this hobby that I shared with my grandmother, aunt, cousin and sister. Now I take photos of every post office that I come across. So I could relate that day to another album project that I am doing. Our the date of the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. One of my favorite songs (obviously not my favorite event), and the song has meaning because it played over and over and over on the radio when I was sixteen and my sister moved me from my home in California to Albuquerque NM, when my mother left for a tour of Mexico for a year. Again a story that is interwoven with the photos my mother has of her trip to Mexico.

For a couple of years I did a "monthly" album. I would do a 2 page spread for each month. One page had a main photo I wanted to feature from the month and journaling telling what happened and what we did that month. The other page would have a picture collage or a few pictures from the month showing some of the highlights. Or whatever random things you wanted to show. It was a nice project and I enjoyed it when I was doing it. Granted it is only my husband and I. If you have children, this may not work but it is an idea. And, it was a nice way to remember little things that you may not want to scrap separately.