Project Life 2011: Completed

I\’m so happy I stumbled across Project Life in December last year. For me, it\’s a simple way of documenting every day life and it can be as fancy or as simple as you want it to be. I have over 20,000 pictures but before Project Life I rarely printed out any photos. Now I print out at least one photo a day. It\’s been so fulfilling for me to photograph, print, and document our family. I know that boys aren\’t very sentimental and Quinn may never really be interested in these books, but I enjoy doing it and working on my photography skills. I hope to continue to improve my photography skills but also put an emphasis on my storytelling. Sometimes I\’m just a little too factual without conveying the feeling and emotions of the day.

Here\’s a look at the binders for 2011.

And the title page for 2011. I\’m so lucky to have found a network of women on the web that are willing to share digital designs and templates so I can personalize my storytelling.

This book is a great place to store not only pictures but all the other stuff that comes up in daily life, especially with a 4 year old. And would I ever remember the January 21, 2011 where I wrote \”It snowed again today. Quinn called the oven repair man Mister Grandpa. Quinn had strawberries in the morning and smelled sweet all day.\” When I\’m old and gray I will probably love looking through these books and reading the stories.

Sometimes I do a picture and story a day but I love that it allows me to go with the flow. Here I took two pages where I would normally document the full week and I just included pictures from Quinn\’s birthday party.