Photos are still very much a part of my daily life and for me are the keepers of our lives, our memories and our treasured moments - big, little, good and/or bad. One image can spark a world of memories and emotions - they are the lid to the Pandora's Box that is our life. But I stumbled on a new idea and system for recording our lives - Project Life by Becky Higgins. I umm'd and ahh'd for about 6 months as the products were not readily available, but the more I thought about it, the more I wanted to give it a go.
My Project Life journey started last year, and I am proud to say that my first year of this amazing project was a massive success!! It was a year of firsts, with the obvious one being my first year of doing Project Life and entering the world of pocket scrapbooking. It was also my first time working digitally and learning to use Photoshop Elements following enrolling in a class for digital Project Life via Jessica Sprague - something I highly recommend to anyone looking to do something similar. But perhaps the most awesome first was that it was the first time ever that I have managed to complete a project of this type and do so for the entire year!!! Having tried and failed in such projects as Project365, I still look at my 2013 album with amazement and am so proud that I did it...
So it is with this sense of achievement and success that I have embarked on 2014. I have never stopped enjoying this journey, and continue to enjoy it more and more with each week completed and each memory captured. This year I have decided to work a little differently, and have gone hybrid!! Doing so has allowed me to enjoy some of the more tactile elements of traditional scrapbooking, while continuing to work digitally and embracing everything I learned last year. Not to mention that I have both a physical and digital collection of papers, elements, embellishments, and other delicious goodies demanding to be used. Hybrid let's me at least attempt such an undertaking...
Although, it is coming to the end of Week 14 of this year and I am currently working in Week 11, I have decided to go back to the beginning and share my pages from Week 1.
Here is the page in all its glory:
I really love how it turned out and was even featured on the Peppermint Creative blog with my page being referred to as '...PL perfection...' and '... pocket page porn...' - a massive 15 seconds of fame and awesome accolades from one of my favourite designers.
Close ups of each of the left and right pages can be found in my Project Life 2014 Gallery. But for now I think I have raved on enough and simply taken up enough of your time - I did warn you in my inaugural post that I am a huge have-a-chat.
Thanks for visiting and hopefully getting to this point and I hope you come back soon.
Until then.....