Project Life 2013: The End

This is my story.

I love documenting my everyday life; here's how I'm doing it. 

This is the end of Project Life 2013. This project took a couple of different forms throughout the year, between full 12x12 double page spreads throughout the year to a smaller 8x6 size for the summer. I'm glad that I stuck with the 12x12 pages for the rest of 2013. I like the way the book came out in its entirety, but I also know that another year of 12x12 double page spreads is not in the immediate future.

Moving forward, I want to give myself more room to document the small things that are happening in my everyday life, but in a more separated manner. I want to create more mini-albums (my passion) and use smaller pocket page albums to document moments rather than weeks at a time.

I plan on sharing my pocket page album approximately once a month here on the blog, so look for those posts during the first week or so of each month. In those posts, I'll be sharing my pages, the supplies I used, and a few tips and tricks I used throughout the creative process. If there is ever anything that you'd like to see, please let me know by leaving a message in the comments, or shooting me an email at rukristinpapercrafts@gmail.com.

As always, thank you for reading -- and here's my last Project Life spread of 2013!

Date:

November 25th - 30th

Moments:

I was SO SICK. Ugh. The flu hit me so hard, 10 days with a fever. Thank god that we had family over for Practice Thanksgiving the week before, because I barely made it to the table for Thanksgiving dinner -- J wound up pretty much making all of the food, he's kind of the best.

I also had my Holiday Extravaganza blog party this week, which was an awesome success -- and lots of thanks to all the people who participated.

Favorite Part:

Obviously my favorite part of this spread is the arts and crafts turkey that J made for me at school. I had it hanging up in my studio until I put together this spread, now I can keep it forever.

Tip:

I had terrible pictures this week, so instead of being unhappy with full 3x4 and 4x6 photos, I printed the pictures extra small using a PicFrame collage and my Selphy printer. I completed the story with a lot of arrows and journaling.

I've found that the only way for me to be successful at this project is to realize that it's a lot of give and take. I have a routine, and a way that I like to start out, but I can't get caught up and frustrated if my normal routine isn't working for me right now. That causes me to back myself into a corner and never finish. If this is supposed to be a documentation of my everyday life, then it needs to fit into the way that I live my everyday life.

I'm so looking forward to playing around with this more in 2014!

Supplies: 

Sunshine Core Kit, Studio Calico Project Life kit,  Kelly Purkey alpha stickers, rukristin stamps

Tools: 

Design F page protectors, Sakura Microperm pen, Tonic paper trimmer, Selphy cp900 photo printer,

Be the author of your own adventure and take the time to document your own life.

I'm currently documenting my everyday life using a modified version of the the Project Life pocket page documenting system designed by Becky Higgins.  You can see recent project life posts here, or check out this page for older versions of this project.