I decided to do this year as my eldest DS will be 18 this year, DD 16 and DS2 13 - so a big year for us in the sense that it probably is our last year at home living as a normal family. Next year DS will hopefully be at uni and things will change. For this reason I wanted to take a closer look at our lives this year. Part of me is very regretful that I didn't know about PL when they were little.
Armed with an album and a load of page protectors - a big Becky Higgins variety pack - like this - and some other smaller ones I had spare. I'm hoping that one album will do me for the whole year but I may have got my maths wrong!
The only other thing I bought - mainly through sheer laziness - was two sets of gridded white cards - 6 x4 and 3x4 which will help me with the bulk of my journalling. Other than that I plan to use existing stash, printables and my trusty Silhouette.
Actually, it isn't the only other thing I bought - I did invest in a typewriter this week. Partly because I wanted to!, and partly because I'm hopeless at going to the computer and journalling, then printing it off, my printer doesn't particularly like cardstock, and I generally have to join a queue behind my children for the computer in the first place!! This way it sits on my desk and I can tap away as the mood takes me.
It's gone well so far, but I need to invest in some Tippex as I do make mistakes and they don't just disappear like they do on a screen :)
I can't quite get my head round the week thing though, I mean NewYear's day was a Tuesday, and I never know what number a week is anyway so I'm just going to add stuff as I please in more or less chronological order.
There are so many ideas out there it is hard to fit them all into one little life document, but I'm loving all the input and have a page on my Pinterest here if anyone is also doing PL. I have some stuff, but there are lots of links to other people who have loads more. There is also a board of printables and another of Silhouette files for additional interest.
I am still going to scrap in 12x12 for the momentous occasions of the year, but I'm also hoping to catch up on past years' scrapping as well.
Finally a big shout for Photobox who sent my photos so fast that they arrived this morning having only been ordered yesterday - my kind of service!
2 comments:
I'm looking forward to seeing how your album grows. I'm so looking forward to doing this.
I can't wait to see your pages come together. The typewriter is such a good idea x
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