I find it really helpful to use these trackers to list ideas for my stories. As others have continued to ask I'm happy to share in the hope that they continue to help you too! Enjoy!
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December Daily must be on the way because there's a tracker on my blog! ;) I find it really helpful to use these trackers to list ideas for my stories. As others have continued to ask I'm happy to share in the hope that they continue to help you too! Enjoy!
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Heading into year 14 of this wonderful project, there have been MANY stories told.
My albums span various seasons of my life. When I sat on my bedroom floor and created foundation pages for my first album, I was a single woman. I was teaching a class of grade 1/2 students and was living in a unit that I had bought. As the years rolled on I started dating my now husband. We got married and bought a house. My albums cover the years where we had no kids. There were pets, babies celebrating first Christmas's. They've been young kids and now, they are becoming more independent (but still young). There have been busy seasons and quieter ones, but regardless of my life stage, there have always been stories to tell. And looking back on my albums now, I love to see what has changed and what has stayed the same. What did I value in that season and chose to include in my album. I thought that it may be fun to make a list of some of the stories that have been told in my albums. This is by no means an exhaustive list, but just a snapshot of some topics that have featured repetitively in this project over the years. Here they are
I hope that these give you some ideas for where to start on your stories. I'm back again for another year of December Daily... even if I do still need to fill the many gaps in my 2020 album. That's what 18 months of COVID and home learning will do to me. ;) I've created these trackers once again to help myself and I'm sharing here if they may help you too. Here's to another year of documenting our Decembers and remembering the magic.
Merry December everyone! Yep, it's been mighty quiet around here I know. Most of my memory keeping sharing now happens over on instagram here but today I've got something to share with you. Part of me feeling on track with my Project Life for the last few years has included my memory keeping tracker. I've updated it ready to go for 2019. There are two versions. One with labelled tick boxes and one without. Feel free to print them off and enjoy them for your own personal use. I'd love you to tag me if you end up using them! I use these trackers in conjunction with my Project Life planner which can be downloaded a few posts before before this one. :) I might see you over on insta, or who knows, perhaps I'll post more here in 2019! ;)
After some chatting on the Project Life Australia Facebook Page, I went live on Instagram to talk about how I manage my Project Life workflow, when I'm up to date and also when I'm working backwards. I have recently extended my use of Lightroom from just editing and catalogue management to creating smart collections and quickly creating drag and drop templates. This enables me to quickly export my photos for the week ready to print. It has been revolutionary for me.
Remember that this is a very basic video recording from an instagram live so it's not great quality, but there's lots of information here for you if you're interested in that kind of thing! Let me know if you have any questions! x It's a new year and for me that gets me excited about establishing routines and ways that I can keep organised for the year ahead. Last year I did so very little Project Life. While I am not freaked out about keeping up or having so much to do, it does make me a little sad that I wasn't able to make time for myself to do this hobby that I love and so value. I'm committed this year to making time for me and also to working backwards to getting our stories told. I've realised that the years where I managed to stay on top of things, I planned my pages. This helps me to not print photos that don't get used, to know that every pocket is filled and where my journaling cards will go. It also means for me that when the photos are in my hand (I usually print my photos at the shops) that I know exactly where they need to go when I'm home. Occassionally I print my photos at home, and when I do so I find that I don't need to plan my layouts, but when I need to chose photos to print off site I find that planning my layouts works best for me. Another way that I have simplified my process this year is by pre-filling my entire album with the weekly card and 3x4 cards. I stamp the dates and write the week number on a 4x6 card and love the consistency of this throughout my albums since 2013. I have added the 3x4 cards with a mix of journal and graphic cards. I am well prepared to change them as needed, but it's a good start for me and already I find that I am going to my album during the week to write directly onto a card. It's been so great. The kits I am using this year come from my stash. I am committed to using what I have and also to sharing my stash and my love of Project Life! There will be LOTS of Coral kit with a little Happy and Better Together edition thrown in. In order to keep up and to work backwards, I have created a Memory Keeping Tracker that you can see below. I have created one for 2015, 2016 and 2017 as these are my albums that need attention is small and super big ways! Beneath this photo there is a link that you can click on which should allow you to download my Memory Keeper Tracker. Free for your personal use! I'd love to know if you've downloaded it and if you've found it helpful by leaving a comment below or tagging me on my instagram @beckholdermemorykeeping where I share all things Memory Keeping!
*** file updated 14/1/17 for end of 2016 *** I hope that you find some ideas or help from this share! Happy Memory Keeping to you!
All the joy! I LOVE how this spread has come together.
Today is all about our church family service. It is something that we do really well. There is an energy and enthusiasm around the place on this day that is unique to the community service. The kids from church and the programs that we facilitate throughout the week come together to perform and run the sercice. It is VERY cute! There is then a celebration- crafts, food, jumping castle, games... it's lots of fun. Today's layout is all Ali's kit with the little exception of the numeral 4 which comes from Heidi Swapp's Documenting December kit and the 'celebrate the season' stamp. I cut down some of the 6x8 pages into 2x2 squares and also got into the packaging box and cut that down too! :) I played for a little while with the layout to get it to how I wanted it. I stamped 2 of the Messy Circle stamps on white cardstock and adhered them to the typed paper. The green stickers are placed off of centre on the red paper. How is your project going? Day 3 was started at 11:10pm and completed by 11:30pm last night. A simple collection of photos from our day, not at all Christmas themed. That's completely ok by me.
This day has highlighted some tyical Saturday things for our family- Toby in the garden, planting out our beds for the Summer. Watering the garden as the kids play. At the moment, Tilly is trying to master some gymnastics on the swing set and Sam is very keen to follow daddy around with the watering. I went on a photo shoot too so the kids watched a movie with Toby in the heat of the day. Some sport and a drink on the street with our neighbours is also part of our new normal around here. Why hello there! It must be December because I have logged onto the blog again. ;) I'm not sure that I'll be blogging all of my December days. I'm posting regularly on Instagram as @beckholdermemorykeeping, so feel free to follow me there! This year has kept me busy with photography and teaching and sadly, not much Project Life... but as always, December Daily MUST happen! I LOVE this project and am committed to doing it again... for the 8th time. :) Just check out that bunch of albums! I gathered with my favourite local memory keepers in November to put together our albums and have an afternoon of playing. By the end of our time together I was feeling excited for the season to begin. My page protectors were in place, the cards from the Ali Edwards Main Kit and numbers from my stash had been slot in roughly where they would be used. My front page and opening thoughts page were also complete... And here were are... all of a sudden it's December 2! Here are my pages so far. Thanks for following along. You may see me here later but absolutely on instagram! x
It's now late Sunday night here which means that the collecting for WITL is officially over. Now comes the part where I upload to dropbox so that I can create a photobook with it all! We'll see how long that takes. ;) Rather than break it down day by day, I thought that I would just post my favourite photos from Thursday to Sunday here. If you're still going with your documenting, enjoy! I have loved capturing photos of my family like I do for so many other families. Once more, some of these photos are some new favourites.
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