Project Life Update
September 20, 2019
Yes, I still scrapbook! It's a much smaller part of my art life than it used to be, but I still looove looking through albums full of photos and journaling. Today I thought I'd share a peek into my current "Project Life" or pocket scrapbooking album. I have a few "rules" that I have kept to for the 7+ years I've been doing "Project Life." Here they are in practice:
Nothing has to match or coordinate. I don't design "pages," I simply go pocket by pocket.
My albums are part digital and part "real."
In the image above, the number "4" is a dimensional sticker and I hand wrote the date in the date box. Everything else is digital and was printed out as a single image.
Can you tell what's "real" and what's digital in the photo below:
"Date Night" and "Celebrate" are stickers, as is "go and live your dreams." Plus there's an actual cork star added as an embellishment. Just as I like to fool the eye in my paintings, I enjoy doing it in my pocket scrapbooking albums!
Photos are not sacred. Write on them. Put stickers on them!
I use a lot of screenshots to capture portions of my digital life -- texts, apps, etc.
I like for every single day of the week to be represented somehow, so when I don't have a photo, I will often look through my phone for other digital footprints from that day!
Just because there isn't a photo or a screenshot, doesn't mean an event can't be recorded.
In the photo above, I used a pie chart and some journaling to talk about some new ideas going on in my work life. In the photo below, I'm sharing a bit about a Game Night we had with friends. No photos, but it's still represented in my memories.
Same thing with the dinner talked about below and the diverted flight:
When I have extra "memory stuff," I like to use a page protector or two to include it in my album:
Or sometimes I simply take a photo of the ephemera instead:
You will forget people's names. Label, label, label.
Same with restaurants or favorite locations:
My album is unapologetically about me and from my perspective. My feelings.
I don't feel like I need to be the official memory keeper for anyone else.
My scrapbooks feature tons of non-pretty photos -- little snapshots of every day life:
Some weeks I have soooooo many photos that I can't fit even a quarter of them into a two-page spread. Other weeks, I'm a bit thin on photos and need to use fillers:
Both the Marimekko and Tomato cards were created digitally to take up an extra pocket.
I still love looking through my pocket scrapbooks. It's amazing what printing out a few photos and organizing them can do! This is a project that I hope to be able to keep up with after baby. Fingers crossed.
Thanks for stopping by!