The project that was...

Once upon a time I started a project that I called Project 365.  Yes, and then suddenly, it was the end!  Yikes.  Here’s what it looked like when I started...

I was doing good keeping a decent mix of journaling and pictures.  Doing something to document each day.

There were a couple of spots I was going to pull blog journaling later...but I was keeping up.

I was excited when I made it to month #2, and so I had kind of a fresh rush with the project.

And then by mid-February I was playing some catch up again...

 

And it wasn't long after that that the wheels totally came off.  I started putting a sticky on each day so that I would remember what I wanted to do for that....but then it was just stickys...and then I just skipped a whole bunch all together...stuck in a random one for my birthday (bottom right corner) and the rest of the binder is blank.  Blast.

It’s actually really cool to go back and look at my entries for the days that I did.  I wih I had been better about keeping up on it. 

Ali Edwards has been doing this project (with the actual kit) this year too.  I've been paying more attention to how she has done it- and it looks like she collects over the course of the week and then works on it at the end of the week.  I'm thinking that maybe that would have worked better?  I was trying to be in my studio every day...but the reality is that it just didn't happen.  And then I was out of the groove. 

Ali also does an annual “Week in the Life” project, and a few weeks back I thought that maybe that would be something more up my alley.  Doing the project for a full year got lost…but for a week?  I managed 2 full months…I could do a week.  So I printed out these great little PDFs that she made to help with the project.  And then I didn’t think about it again.  And then as I was doing my usual blog tour (the blogs I try to hit with real regularity to see what’s new) I discovered that she started the project on Monday.  And it’s now ... it's Sunday and her week in the life documentation is over.  Urgh.  The beauty of it, of course, is that it can be started at any time.  I just have to find the motivation for it.  And I need to be ready for it so that I don't just let it peter out again.

So now the question is what do I do with the 3 months of my P365 that I started?  I may just have to incorporate the pieces into 12x12 scrapbook pages.  Then I can at least stick them into my albums....(which I am sooooo far behind in too!)  That or a mini album...but the format I had just doesn't make as much sense now that it's not full.  I suppose that I could also leave it in the dividers and put the 8.5x11 pages into a bigger scrapbook too...we shall see.

D keeps telling me I need to cut projects, not add them.  He says I have too many irons in the fire, I'm not quite able to do anything completely.  *sigh*  I refuse to believe that.  (Although I know he's right.  shhh.....don't tell).   But I can't stop trying new things.  Hello.  My name is Sarah and I'm a craft addict.

And stay tuned...because I found something else I want to do!  ;)  of course.

Comments

[Veena]

Amazing Project!