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Honors and items of the week

Project Life App approach update

I'm doing fairly well keeping up with the Project Life App digital scrapbook pages, and documenting our photos and stories in this way [that is somewhat new to me] so far this month.  At one point I did change the design/theme/cards I'm using, so on the blog posts, the new ones don't match the first few I posted.  For years I have admired the Cherry Edition I started out with, but I decided the new Everyday Edition would be more neutral and fitting for our current photos, and since I was only a few pages in, I changed.

There are pros and cons for me about this new process, but I'm going to try to stick with it at least for this year and decide which outweighs the other. So far...

Cons:

• I'm having trouble thinking about journaling/card placement in relation to a 2-page spread while I can only look at 1 page at a time on my phone.
• I'm keeping it photo-heavy, because it will cost $1.99 per page to print, and it's making me feel limited to bullet-point journaling instead of story-telling like I usually do here on the blog. 
• I'm not sure if it will cost me more or less than printing pics and buying physical product in the end, and I keep reading Becky Higgins' social media posts and buying little $1.99 things like more page layouts in the app, and an awesome photo editing app that is worth the $1.99--PicTapGo.

Pros: 

• I am using "extra" time (riding in the car, waiting at kids' lessons/appointments, etc) to scrapbook!
• I'm "keeping up!"
• Blogging is quick!
• I'm enjoying a new challenge and goal.

I got off track towards the beginning of what will be our "book," so I put a bunch of the uplifting images I collect together for one page.  I always have a bunch of these kinds of things on my phone, computer, and digital folders...keeps me thinking!

4-Day Weekend

Great Grandma D

Snowy Weekend

Back to school after break

Lion King

Trying something new

I'm going to try a couple new time-saving things with our memory-keeping this year.  For many years, I've organized photos digitally, kept this blog, and also created physical scrapbooks.  I don't have time to do all of that anymore...at least not in the same way.  So, I'm trying out a new system.

Project Life (www.beckyhiggins.com) has a great app I'm learning to use to create digital scrapbook pages with my photos right on my phone--which I use to take almost all my photos now anyway.  So, I can simplify and do everything in one place and just add my pages with photos and stories right to the blog and save a lot of time--I hope!  Here goes...