Tuesday, January 8, 2013

PROJECT LIFE 2013...TITLE/FIRST PAGE DONE!!

HAPPY PROJECT LIFE 2013!! I am soooo hoping this works, my friend Tracey shared how to upload a different way since blogger is still down. I'm sooooo excited to be sharing these with you today!! The first thing you probably noticed is the big changes I've made, first it's not the typical normal PL style that your use to seeing and the size is smaller. I want to SHOUT out that I AM STILL 100% for PROJECT LIFE, ALL THE WAY AND AM STILL CALLING THIS MY MINI PROJECT LIFE!! As long as the photos and words are being put in and being told that is all that matters. The reasons for my change, it all happened because partly the late arrival of PL kits this year. I have had all week to think and rethink and look at my older PL albums and a couple things hit me. First some of my albums espcially last year's should have been split into 2 albums, they are packed. Second thing is that they are taking up more space then I really have. I will be ordering new albums and splitting them this year which will mean even more room taken up which I don't have much of. So I started thinking how can I make this work for me, be smaller and still LOVE IT!! The first thing that I started thinking of was doing a story a day, scrapping style. I've been inspired by my creative and sweet friend Angie Blom, she is changing her style this year too and I LOVE IT. Even her DD had me thinking about changing things this year back in December, love all her white space and simple format. So I thought yes, that is what I'd do a layout a day for the whole year. I still LOVE this idea and might start it SOON! Then I thought about scrapping the whole week like she's doing and that way my goal to scrap more this year will really happen and wouldn't take up as much space. Then I panicked at the work and the stress it might bring me, still keeping this on the back burner, Thanks Angie for talking with me these last few weeks and really INSPRIING ME!! So then another blog friend,actually my first online teacher at BPS, Karen Grunberg showed her new format for this year and guess what, THIS WAS IT BABY!! She is downsizing her album too and I love love filling up these cute little baseball protetors, have always loved them. So I saw her title page and fell in love right away! Then I emailed her and she shared a little peek at her first weeks pages which wont be on her blog till Thrusday. This made me love it even more. I worked on my pages over the weekend, stressing myself and worried and didn't sleep good that maybe this wasn't right and it wasn't PL and my style. Finally on Sunday afternoon, I had a little pep talk with myself and said IT WILL BE OK, JUST DO IT!! So I took it apart and started fresh and LOVED IT LOVED IT!! I like that it's smaller and I like all my picutres cropped and mostly that IT FELT HOMEMADE, FELT LIKE ME!! The title page was so much fun, love making it the way I want it and these happy colors. Oh and see the NUMBER 6 on there, yep there is 6 of us in this family even if the oldest is far away in Florida. Well, I finally finally convinced her to be a part of this, she has to send me a picture and story at least 2x a month and that will be put in here. LOVE LOVE THAT PART, THANKS KRISTIN. SHE JUST SENT ME HER FIRST PHOTO AND STORY, WILL BE POSTING THAT LATER FOR YOUTO SEE, SHE ROCKED IT!! I love that my snow/OLW are part of this first/beginning of the album too, will have to do this more. My hope is to only pick a few photos to share in the album, some weeks only being one page then scrapping the others while they are fresh in my head and ready to go. Last year I stuffed so many collages into my album and this resulted in me not thinking they needed scraped. So this year I will tell more stories thru my scrapping. I may change my mind and go back to the old way but for now I want to try this. Still happy about PL and all the other fun stuff and colors and NEW NEW KITS COMING TO THE STORES, YIPPPEE can't wait to get me some!! Did you hang in there for all this?? Thanks if you did and hoping to still inspire youwith my PL and keeping you motivated to keep doing yours!! DONT GIVE UP, JUST DO IT! Let me know what you think good/bad/questions/ANYTHING !!! p.s. the other thoughs on this was that I have so much leftovers from my other kits, will be using them and making them work for me. NO MORE LEFTOVERS ALLOWED,haha Happy first week of the New Year!! Crossing my fingers that this post works!!

13 comments:

  1. IT WORKED IT WORKED!! YIPPEEE!! THANKS SO MUCH TRACEY!! THE ONLY THING IS IT DIDN'T SEPERATE IT INTO MY PARAGRAPHS THAT I HAD, HAHA LOOKS LIKE A LOT THIS WAY BUT IT WASN'T. SO HAPPY IT WORKED AND I COULD SHARE TODAY!!

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  2. It worked! I switched web browsers... was too tired if waiting! Haha!
    I think PL should be whatever works for YOU and I am loving your new format! It doesn't hurt to change things up a bit... keeps it interesting. I'm hoping to write more stories this year too... I guess in a way I am still finding my groove. Looking forward to seeing how your new style develops xxx

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  3. I am so glad you found a way of doing project life that works better for you...and that you could upload photos again ;-)

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  4. Oh gosh, looks so long, no seperation, cant wait to see kristins bit!! Lol dawn .. have fun with all the little moments it works out just fine!!!, watch space bar as you type

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  5. Thanks ladies, was so good to post this!! I'm glad your all happy with the changes too. So excited for this year and new adventures!

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  6. I checked out Becky's website and boy, so many pretty PL notes to play with. How you'd ever keep up with all things happening in life??. I'm absolutely stressed out thinking how to just keep up with these yummies and documenting life. LOL. But you're waaay ahead and get all things done on time :). I'm thrilled with the fun changes you made to PL, smaller photos simply means you could add many more little photos :). I LOVE the orange-blue combination, so zesty and energetic. Did you make these cutesies yourself? I did'nt recalled seeing any butterflies @ Becky's. Perfect thing, you could stitch, crochet, sequinne, doodle, collage hand-made embellishments for your PL notes!!. I'm already thinking about little things I could make for ya!. LOL. Great job, Dawn!!. HUGS.

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  7. Hello Shahrul, so happy to see you here. Becky has never had so many choices before, it's hard to pick just one of these now. Thanks so much for the support on changing up my PL style a bit. I do like this small size, also easier to take pictures of the full spread too.
    I did do the title page myself, that butterfly and hearts are from me, and I do plan on stitching on these when I get my machine up and running, YIPPEE!! The possiblities are endless to decorating the papers now, I know you love that part! Thanks again! HUGS!

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  8. I'm so so proud of you... yeap.. do it your way... and record the memories.. that is ultimately all that really matters. xo love to you.. your album is gonna rock!

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  9. Dawn your 2013 PL pages are awesome. I think in any project being practical and what we eventually want to see in our pages matter. Experimenting without worrying about success or failure is the best part in it and that is what you've done. I love that you're trying to bring in so much meaning into your pictures. Love the symbolic 6 number card.Karen's blog is very inspiring. I too follow her wonderful posts almost on a regular basis.
    Thank you so much for commenting on my blog and let me make this clear to you. When I said I've limited my computer time it didn't mean that i'm not going to visit my friends' and other inspiring blogs. I do a lot of mindless browsing; movies, recipes etc, etc. I want to consciously limit that, it's never about visiting your or my other blogger friends:)will be visiting you again and again and again...hehe
    Hugs
    Susan

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    1. Susan,
      Thanks so much for the visit and sweet comment. I's thrilled to be blog friends and am always inspired by your art. I think it's great your making more time for what's important. I need to quit mindlessly surfing too.
      Wow, you know Karen too, she is the best isn't she. Very soft and gentle like me, she inspired and opened up so much to me while taking her class.
      Thanks for enjoying my new pages!! Hope you can work on yours soon! HUGS!

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  10. I love the smaller version. I know what you mean by taking up so much space! Yikes. I now have 5 PL albums and am starting a 12x12 OLW album. Crazy me. I'm going to need a room dedicated to PL albums soon. ;)

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  11. Oh my goodness, Dawn! Your first pages look amazing. I am so happy that you found a way to make PL work for you! I love how you did your title page!!!! And I can't wait to see more! And OLW, too! Your enthusiasm is contagious, my friend!!!! I loved reading your post!

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  12. This is awesome! Your beginning pages look great. I really loved the smaller size when I did DD. I'm also tempted to switch it up but I have soooo many page protectors left (overbuy much?) it doesn't make a ton of sense for me. Thanks so much for your sweet comments on my new DT spot. Your encouragement over the year has been so nice. I've really enjoyed getting to know you too!

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