YAY I started my Project Life -Title pages & Week One!

Hi there! Happy Tuesday everyone! Today I wanted to share with you {one of} the creative journeys that I'll be taking over the course of this year - I've finally decided to bite the bullet and start my “Project Life” album!! I'm super excited about it :). I purchased the a PL binder and some page inserts the first week of January, but things have been so incredible busy, and honestly, I felt a bit intimidated by the whole thing.

However, I love the idea of Project Life {check out this link to Becky Higgins' Project Life website for more info and LOTS of inspiration!!}. I love the idea of daily documenting, documenting life as it’s happening. I can scrap weekly or daily, depending on how I feel or am inspired. Document those little things that I may miss when scrapbooking full layouts (because sometimes I'm scrapping a photo from yesterday, and other times I'm scrapping a photo from last year).

So, my thought process here is that I can keep up with the everyday and then later really scrap full layouts of events and things (if I choose to - which I'm sure I will) and the memory will have been documented and I think it will make the memory more real - the journaling more personal.

I have a really busy life {WHO DOESN'T} with kids, family, working full time. I don't know that I’ll get daily pictures in. I plan to try. But I really really do love the idea of Project Life. Most people {as far as I know} start the Project Life journey at the beginning of the year, however, being the rebel I am, I’ve started mine in February ;).

Ok, anyway - sorry - long drawn out post! I promise that the rest of my PL posts will not be like this one.

So, to help me on this journey, as I mentioned I purchased a Project Life Binder and some of the cool page inserts off of Amazon. As for supplies, I’m totally and exclusively using items from my own stash; which is, I’m gunna go a head and say it, embarrassingly extensive. I think part of my papercrafting “hobby” has been collecting/hoarding the goodies {not in a weird HOARDERS way, but in a neat organized OCD way. Patterned paper, embellishments, stamps, distress inks... well, the list is entirely too long to go through.

Also, I joined an online journal “OhLife” - which is really cool! Super easy and free :). I set it up so that every night at 9pm (after the kiddies are asleep and my day winds down) I get an email from OhLife that says “It’s *date* How did your day go?”. I simply reply to the email (which I receive on my phone - again, super easy) and there you go, the day is documented. I can log in to my PhLife account anytime and view my journaling to assist with Project Life. Easy Peasy.

Today I wanted to share my title page(s) AND my Week 1 layout. PSST - see how I incorporated some Lawn Fawn Stamps in there hee hee :).
{Title Page}

This is the second page. It's kind of a "getting to know us" page. With a open up pockety/folder which includes a letter to my family from me, as I start this journey of our 2012 year and my favorite e.e. cummings poem:



This page is about who we are right now. Mainly the kids:
Lastly these are the pages that make up {Week One - Jan 30 - Feb 5} and here is a closer look at the individual pages of week one:
As you can see, for these first few pages, I've used plenty of Crate Paper (which is always one of my faves!!!). I really love how they came out. I also love the shapes/sizes of the pockets. FUN!

I'm linking up with a few websites today {One Happy Mama & The Mom Creative} that make it a point to share Project Life Layouts. and You should totally check them out. Prepare to be inspired (and attached to the computer screen for a little while). It's only the beginning, and I'm still a bit intimidated, but I think this will be great fun!

Thanks for peekin' in on me. Tomorrow I'll be popping in to share my card for Lawnscaping's Sketch Challenge! I loved that sketch and honestly, couldn't wait to tear open my newest Lawn Fawn Stamps to play along!!! if you join in, please let me know so I can hop over and check your card out!!!