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Year-in-Review Album

Today I wanted to share an album I made for a publication opportunity that didn't pan out.  (As a side note, I don't talk a lot about rejection, but be assured that I get rejected constantly.  And this project represents one of those many many many rejections.)

It's a Prima canvas purse album turned into a year-in-review album.

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I love, love, love this album!  I love this album because of the journaling.  Simple lists that tell the story of my year.  I had a lot of fun putting together these little photo/journaling cards:

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I typed up my journaling, added a photo, and then hand painted the months.  Totally love how it looks and how it reads and I am definitely going to do this again!  Of all the year-in-review stuff I've ever done this one is my fave!

If you'd like to gather a year's worth of memories and stuff them into an album may I suggest the following:

  • Decide whose year you're chronicling.  I chronicled my year.  Not our year as a family.  Just mine.  And this made it easy to decide which events were significant, because they only had to be significant to me.  Whatever you decide, just pick a point-of-view and stick with it!
  • Pick a favorite photo from each month that immediately brings a story to your mind.  Just by looking at the photo you know the location, the date, the activity, etc.
  • Go through your photos from the year and jot down the big events that happened.
  • Now go through your calendar and fill in the extra details (maybe events you don't have photos from, but are certainly worth remembering).
  • Look at that list of events and pick the few that really stand out in your mind as important.

That's how I came up with my lists.  It was easier (and quicker) than I thought.  I think I will make one of these albums every year from now on.  My husband read through the album and said, "Wow!  That's so cool.  I had forgotten a lot of that."  Precisely.

Thanks for stopping by!

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P.S. I'm doing Ali's Week in Life project.  Are you?

P.P.S. Live with Prima show is tonight at 8pm EST!

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