I am seriously amazed that I have managed to keep up with Project Life for this long. I was worried that I would get super behind and then be unable to come up with pictures or journaling for the days I’ve missed, but so far so good! I’m not going to lie, there are a few still life photos in there that I’ve fudged after the fact, but I have a photo *representing* each day even if it might not have been taken that day.
A few things that have helped me keep up:
1. I use pictures that my husband and I take on our iPhones. I take a ton of pictures with Michael’s DSLR, but even I don’t take photos every day with it (as evidenced by Kate’s blog, whoops.) I don’t carry the giant DSLR camera everywhere, but I do have my phone pretty much everywhere. Plus, taking a photo in the fabric store with your DSLR? Not super discrete. Snapping a quick photo with your phone? Easy pretty much anywhere. I love that these photos represent our everyday life. I even went so far as to take a picture of our groceries out on the conveyer belt at HEB. That will be neat to look back on it 10 years.
2. I keep Project Life in its box on our kitchen table. Michael works from home, which is awesome by the way, but since we share an office it means that I can’t get into my crafting area during Kate’s nap. Since I keep Project Life out in the kitchen, I can work on it if when Kate naps. My favorite thing to do though, is to work on it while Kate is doing stickers at the table with me. She is crazy about stickers.
Oh, and a sticker tip. Kate loves foam stickers, but the paper backings used to drive me nuts. Now I give Kate a bowl for trash and she happily keeps all of her trash contained. I thought it was going to take some time to get her to use the bowl correctly, but she took to it right away. Sometimes I don’t think we give kids enough credit.