Project Life {Jan 8-14 Layout & Jan 15-21 Photos} & More Catching Up

I tried to get this done before I lost all of the natural light, but I didn't make it. If I had realized how horribly this photo came out, I would have taken it again, because even with the light fading as fast as it was, I could still manage to supply a better quality photo than this!

I was hoping to add more embellies this week, but maybe I am still catching up from my month away. Ho hum! I do like how the colors came out across the two pages. It is hard to see with such bad photos.

I'm loving the Clementine Core Kit   . Such cool journaling cards and designs. I love all the little phrases. I hope I can do a better job in the future of making the most of the designs. That label on the bottom right photo is a Tim Holtz Glass Vial Label meant for one of his glass bottles. They come in a set of red & black together.

Here's a spread from September 2011. I'm slowly but surely getting that album complete. It is pretty amazing that the album is complete with photos, I only have to finish up with the journaling and memorabilia that I have slid in along the way. 

I have an incomplete insert in this one. The program is slid inside an 8.5x11 page protector. At some point I hope to sew it to its custom size but for the time being it stays as it is.

I've added one of the other page protectors as a possible insert. I have six vertical photos to fill the front and back but I do not have twelve 3x4" journaling cards, memorabilia or photos to put there. I may cut the page protector but I am not ready to do that yet. I'm waiting to see if I will need more page protectors since I can't easily get replacements.

I thought I would use more of the multi-pack of designs that I bought over Christmas. But so far, I am sticking to the traditional Design A. A couple of years ago only a few weeks into Project Life, I decided I prefered using all horizontal photos (no other page protector designs back then and I didn't like putting vertical photos on their sides), so I trained myself to take plenty of horizontal photos so I would have at least one for every day that I wanted to use. Old habits are hard to break. And it keeps the project simple.

I'm reminded of the additional page protector designs and inserts I have when I check out other peoples' pages and they look so nice. So, maybe one of these days I will experiement.

This post is getting really long, so I think I will post week 3 (Jan 15-21) photos tomorrow. I'm thinking maybe that is what I will do from now on - I'll publish weekly photos on Mondays and finished Project Life spreads on Tuesdays in time for Project Life Tuesday. What do you think?

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