Project 2012 ~ the beginning

In trying to decide on what I was going to do to keep me taking photos, scrapbooking and documenting our daily lives I have finally come up with a plan (cross fingers I stick with this). Its called Project 2012. It will be an album that consists of 52 layouts - one for each week. And for the first time ever I will be doing it completely DIGITAL! So excited about this.

To kick it off I finished my first layout for WEEK ONE. I used products from The Daily Digi membership that I have - so thankful for that because it was quick and simple.

Welcome 2012 - Week 1 Layout:

The journaling reads:

Oh the start to a new year ~ I love this time of year!  I love a fresh start - a time to reflect on the last year - all the highs and lows. And a time to plan out the new year! What can I say I love lists, planning, organizing and the start of something new!

Last year I did Project Life for the first time and it helped me get back into scrapbooking and reminded me how much I like to capture our daily lives. So this year I will be doing Project 2012 – documenting each week.

So Week #1 – Sunday, January 1^st to Saturday, January 7^th:

-         - Fred started the year off right with an amazing sermon that wrapped up our Christmas series called “A Gift in a Box”. Each Sunday Eric, Mark and Fred will pull something out of the box – Fred revealed a block of ice to remind us to build our foundations on Christ because everything else will melt away. Very powerful services and Fred’s best sermon yet! We were also thrilled when April surprised us with a visit – the three of us had lunch before heading home.

-         - Though it was a busy week of getting things back in order at work, taking down Christmas decorations and getting ready for my small group, I was able to enjoy a few sessions from the Passion Conference – Beth Moore, Francis Chan and Christine Cain were some of the speakers and I really enjoyed. I ended up order the digital pass so that we can put it in the library.

-         - On Saturday, Fred headed to Graham Lake for some ice fishing with his Dad and some friends from Kingston. They had the hut out on the lake and everyone already had their vehicles on the ice. It turned out to be a good day of fishing – as there was fried fish for supper!

 So now to keep up with this - I'm hoping it will be easy because the layouts are done each week and once I have a few done I can send them away to be printed. Unlike what I was doing with Project Life - taking pictures, sending them away after having several weeks (to save money and time) and then sitting down weeks later and working on each week. Since I still have to finish that project I looked at what didn't work for me and that was the main one.

In reading a lot of blogs on yearly projects I noticed a common thread - make sure to get a routine down, one that was simple and easy to keep up with, and stick with it. For me doing it once a week may prove to be a bit of a challenge but I wanted to give it a try. 

The bonus - doing the layout digitally I was able to do it in less then an hour (including writing the journalling and picking the photos) while watching a movie in our basement. Love it!