By that I mean a year-long photo centred project about our everyday life with some journaling. Most years I wait until I have a week or two of photos in January to play with before making a design For me, the more freedom I have in my set up, the more of a chore it becomes as the year goes by. 2. Not part of a longer, cohesive project. So that's where I am heading going in to the new year.

Not a lot going on this first week of January - really hot start to the year in Sydney so we haven't Notes & Products: I'm making my pages digitally in PSE using a simple grid template (blog post about my set up HERE) and plan to print an 8x10 photobook at Blurb at the end of the year. journaling cards (HERE); 3x4 photo templates (HERE), weekly number card (HERE); 2019 card (HERE); Happy New Year

I made a simple template in Photoshop Elements where I could add in the movie, year, director and actors

SCRAPBOOKING WITHOUT PHOTOS No matter the story, I can usually find, or take, a photo to go along with Changing sizes always re-energises me - I was a huge fan of 6x8 (HERE) and this year I am trying 5x8 SAYING GOODBYE TO PROJECTS It's OK to stop a project in the middle if it's no longer bringing you joy We've all started something with good intentions and gusto only to find that it's no longer working for Put it aside for another time, call it good and be happy with only half a year, or bin the whole thing

I've made about five WITL albums over the years and treasure them. I don't participate every year - happy to leave a year or two between them - but I love what I have. I was going to sit this one out (I made a cute 3x8 album last year) - to be honest, I just wasn't in this project I started to get some serious FOMO and tried to think of a way I could make it work this year

I'm excited to take part in the 100 Day Project (HERE) this year, which starts today. HERE) I started my project months after the actual 100 Days Project and just worked on it over the year I still have about 20-30 questions left and hope to finish it up this year (I've signed up again as a So I'm sticking to my new year's plan to make more photo books and will be making my project digitally won't be able to make a page a day - I will just make a couple at a time and I am fine if it takes me longer

I've had fun working on my little 4x6 Commonplace Book this year, but I've struggled a bit with the disposable As a reminder, this book is just a hodge-podge collection of my lists, TV shows, song lyrics, recipes After looking through last year's Blurb book one quiet Winter weekend recently, I decided to just bunker others I had to make from scratch but the whole project is simplistic and minimal so it didn't take that long use my old paper stash, letter stickers and ephemera from my day but I just know the book will last longer

This year I am simplifying this project way down and making a little 4x4 handmade album (here is a post These are the ones I've added to my collection this year: The December Daily Mini Kit by Paislee Press Day 02/ So happy to find this Harry Potter ornament in the tree stash - forgot I bought it last year.

Some are year-long and I'll add to them as we go, some are hangovers from last year (or the year before YEAR LONG PHOTOBOOK I wrote about this project last time. It's a year-long project with monthly prompts, guidance and group discussion. I'm a long-time list maker and have always wanted to join in with this community but this is my first The prompts are awesome. 7. #52weekends This was a year long project from last year that I haven't finished

This is the 5x8 book of all my scrapbook layouts for the year so far. I'll do another one July to December - fitting the whole year into one book just wasn't going to happen

It is perfect for beginners and even long-time digital scrapbookers. PSE is updated every year but you can keep using your current version through a few updates so it's not

I bought some Traveler's Notebooks last year and had no idea what to do with them. I think I tried stamping in one and had to tear it out (my stamping looks like a bird walked through I already had a few digital food themed kits so I coralled those along with some simple non-food kits When I'm finished, I print onto a thin, cheap matte photo paper I bought years ago by mistake and never