Doing it my way.

I tried the Project Life thing last year.  I will be the first to say that I was a major failure at it.  Sure, I started out great, but somewhere mid-February I fell behind and never attempted to catch back up. So many of my friends are doing it again this year.  When I open Pinterest that is about all I see these days.  My Twitter feed is full of tweets to inspire.  Inspire me it does not.

I was reading my friend, Robin’s blog the other day and I noticed where she had posted her family’s 2011 book.  Robin says she doesn’t scrapbook anymore, but I would have to disagree.  She has started putting together a memory (some of us would call is scrapbook) book of her family each year.  She does a page from each month with a collage of photos from the events of that month.  Then she mixes in a few special pages. It’s a simple approach that documents their family life. Inspire me it did.

I opened one of Heather’s old quick fill pages and started putting together a page about last January.  As I started picking out photos, I knew that there were way too many of our snow storm last January to not dedicate on spread to it.  So,  I quickly put together a page about the big snow on Chris’ 40th birthday.

 

So this is my plan.  I am going to do at least one page highlighting each month.

Simple.

Quick.

Templates.

I will also include any scrapbook pages I might have done.  I’m going to try to get 2011 done, and keep up with each month through 2012.  At least that is my plan.  We shall see how well I do.

This year his birthday was a little different.  No snow, but we had fun anyway.

(photo taken with my phone)

This one will have to make it to the January page for sure. :-)

Comments

[Jennifer Woodbury]

That's awesome Brandi. I think figuring out a way to document your family's memories that works for you is what is key, whether it's Project Life or not! Your plan sound great.

[Brandi Barnes]



[Nancee]

Such a great idea. And your kiddos are sprouting up like little weeds, so fun watching them grow. :)