One thing that photographers struggle with (or at least I do) is documenting for their own family. We spend a ton of time and energy documenting, recording, and creating memories for other families and sometimes when it comes to our own family……it feels like too much work. Didn’t I just spend 60+ hours editing photos and designing albums and now you want to create something for myself? Sorry, I’m just too tired.
This is something I have really struggled with over the past few years. See, I used to scrapbook. I don’t mean I had a cute rolling case that I took to crops on the weekend. I mean I was a hardcore, know every product by manufacture name, have a dedicated room in my house, every spare moment was living and breathing scrapbooking-scrapbooker. I recently just donated my collection of 5 years of Creating Keepsakes magazine. Yes, I had EVERY issue and every single one of them had post-it notes and dog-eared pages. WOAH, that sounds a little cr-a-Z-y. I’m a little embarrassed to admit just how obsessed I actually was. As my photography business began to take off I just didn’t have time for it any more and to be honest it felt a little too much like work. So, sadly my family’s photos have been left undocumented. So, so sad.
Last year I vowed to change this. I tried, and failed. Well, I didn’t actually fail, because I did take WAY more photos for myself than I had the previous year so that was an accomplishment in itself. I still plan to have a simple album of all the photos printed very soon. Few words, mainly just photos. This year I would like to go a bit further and document some words with those photos. Enter Project Life…..
I’ve been reading about it and following a few of my favorites scrapbook designers over the last year and this year I’m going to give it a try myself. As much as I LOVE paper and all the fun details I decided that going the digital route would be the simplest for me this year. And in order to actually succeed I’m ALL ABOUT simple. I downloaded the Digital Project Life Kit: Clementine Edition from jessicasprague.com and I’m well on my way to documenting the bits and pieces of our life in 2012!
I can’t tell you how excited I am about this project and plan to keep you updated as I work through it this year. If you are interested in documenting your family I highly recommend heading over to the Project Life website and check it out. It’s super easy and there is a ton of information. Don’t think it’s important?!? Read this blog post about the importance of documenting. IT IS IMPORTANT. PERIOD. Life is fleeting…
The title page for my Project Life 2012 album. 🙂
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