PL 2008 | More backdated pages.

Saying hello from a wintry, flu-y Jo'burg. What better time to share photo's from a wayback summertime. A while ago I shared in this post about a backdated PL album I'm doing. Here's some more pages from the 2008 album I'm working on...

Spread one: As you can see there's still some gaps where journaling can go. As soon as I find my 2008 Diary, co-incidentally pictured above, I will fill in more journaling and date periods. If I realize there's nothing to journal I'll add some quotes. 

Spread two: Miss those curls... And really love this album. Ps: The "good stuff" tab was added digitally, and then stapled to convince everybody that it's a seperate element.

Isn't that dog too cute? It was fingerpainted with mud. Life in Hillcrest... Loved that we lived with one foot in the countryside and yet just a small hop from the city & sea...But ahh, TWO in nappies, those were interesting times...

Spread three: What I also like about this backdated album, is that I feel more at liberty to go outside of the chronological Life Documenting, and, for example here, dedicate a full spread on one "photoshoot".

 Loved that I discovered those clothing labels amongst my scrap-booking stuff. I saved them from their actual clothes for "some" future project (little did I know). I have the last five months of Liam's first year pretty well covered in this album, and it might overlap with the Baby album I'm planning to do for him. But will figure that out when we get there.

I mostly used the Clementine kit in this album.

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.

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