Tuesday 21 May 2013

Project Life 2008 | A backdated project.

When I fell in love with Project Life, I did so properly. To the extent that I want just about all of their kits (does it sound familiar?) And I want to put all our photo's in Project Life albums (an exuse to get all the kits?) Most of my photo's currently only exist on my computer on External hard drive. So somewhere last year I ordered an additional kit (love Clementine) and slowly started working on the year 2008.
Back in 2008 I was frequenting Flickr and got inspired, mostly by Maine Momma's amazing photo's to do a Project 365 (which is basically a photo a day for a year). So grateful for this. So grateful that I took those photo's in the blur that was motherhood to little ones. I probably would have forgotten most of those moments. And it really became an excercize in gratitude for me. Our lives has changed a lot since then. We moved, and moved again, to a new City and Province, away from the sea. The kids got bigger, started going to pre-school and school.  My photography style changed a bit. But these times are saved in a bottle...

I love the perspective of doing a backdated album. It made me realize that the photo's I now take and see as everyday, will later be something that links me back to a certain time in our lives. What is ordinary to me now, becomes so precious a few years later. I most love photo's of moments of affection. But I actually love all of them. Every one that shows me how small the kids were, what our days looked like, what our world looked like...

For example: Going to the beach used to be (a wonderful) ordinary thing for us, now it is not part of my everyday life at all (being about 7 hrs drive away). I also love the little projects we did, so glad I photographed and even kept some of them.

I thought I'd do ONE backdated PL a year. Right now I'm still busy with last year's backdated album. Not working at it consistantly. I do a few pages every now and then... But more and more (forgotten) photo's are being savoured over again, and given a life outside of my computer.

I usually just transfer what-ever I'm doing in my current album onto this PL. So, if I'm adding tabs, I'll also do it on these pages, if I'm adding printed out digital supplies, I'll do it here. Writing on photo's etc. (The word art on the top photo is from Ali at Designer Digitals, and so is "Everyday Beauty".)

I'm leaving spaces to add some words once I find the diary I kept for 2008. It is somewhere amongst (still) unpacked boxes in storage.

So have my eye on the Jade Edition for a 2009 Project. And then baby albums...  I'm looking forward.
Thanks for visiting, I'll share more backdated pages from time to time.

Linking up at The Mom Creative.

10 comments:

  1. Oh I love these! I make back dated photo books *have caught up 3 years up to now).

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    1. Thanks Cat! I've been playing with the idea of photobooks too (for my digital lay-outs). Would you mind telling me with who did you print them, and how is the quality?

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    2. I did all of mine at Qphoto with their Picasso photobooks program. The quality is great. Search Qphoto on my main (jugglingact ) blog and have a look

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  2. Wow, am very impressed that you're doing years passed! I am loving PL for the second year in a row - need to get focussed and perhaps do back dated!

    PS - found you via Cat!

    my PL blog is :scrappy-time.blogspot.com. A bit behind, need to get photographing and publishing.

    Glad to have found you and thanks for the freebie x

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    1. Hi Shayne, I'm so glad you popped in on my blog. Happy to find a second South African PL'er (Cat being the first one I came across after doing PL for my fourth year!) I had a look and love your beautiful pages!

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  3. Really inspiring to see you tackle years past Alida. Love how Project Life is encouraging people to get photos off hard drives and into albums :-)

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    1. Thanks Chrisy. It's so worth it! Especially seeing my boys pour over this older album.

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  4. I saw your comment on Shayne's blog and will def come black and read your posts. Your photos and the way you document your life is wonderful.
    Love seeing another SA blogger scrapbooker.
    Even though I don;t do PL but POTD and I am a digi girl, it's great to meet you.

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    1. Hi Stephanie, thanks for your wonderful comment. So exciting to be finding more SA blogger scrapbookers! I used to be a digi girl before PL took over things here. Loved it!

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