I have to be honest… over the last couple of years I’ve been slacking on my Project Life albums. There’s been a lot of changes in my life with my job, friends and home and I just haven’t had the mental or physical energy to stay on top of it. I started the year on a good note because I had finished my 2019 December Daily album but shortly after that I got off track.
This year we’ve all experienced a wide variety of changes to our normal routines because of COVID. For me those changes have been working from home, canceling vacation & travel plans and oddly spending more time with friends. Most of these changes have created a lot of stress in my life and to help deal with that stress I decided to get back to my scrapbooking, planning and design work and use it as art therapy.
In preparation for all the upcoming scrapbooking I decided to get some inspiration and re-join Hip Kit Club with the July Main Scrapbook, Pocket Life and Color Kits. I love having the variety of both 12×12 and pocket scrapbooking supplies. I don’t do as much 12×12 scrapbooking but I like having the supplies for when I do. Plus, you can cut down the 12×12 papers and get a lot of use for pocket scrapbooking out of them. Plus the color kit had that cool stencil from Echo Park that I can’t wait to use on some of my holiday cards. If you’d like to see what was in this kit check out my unboxing video.
I also went back through my old albums and made a list of all the pages that needed to be finished (or started) and set about a goal of getting caught up on ALL my Project Life albums by the end of the year. I want to start the new year fresh and be current. I’ve made a lot of progress on my past albums and I’ll be sharing some flip-throughs on YouTube.
As of today, I am completely caught up on my albums for 2015, 2016 and 2017. I have a few months to finish in 2018 and for my 2019 album the months are all finished, I just need to add my opening and closing pages. I’ve even been able to work on some of my 2020 album. I’m starting to make process videos again and have my first one up for week 23.
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Happy documenting,
Christina