Project Life 2014 {the book}

I still haven't finish Project Life 2013,

but an unfinished project has never stopped me from moving on to the next one before,

so here I go.

 

I decided this year I would change things up a bit.

I'm still using my own handmade journal without the pockets/page protectors,

but this time instead of a PL core kit I will be receiving Studio Calico's monthly Project Life kit.

I'm interested to see if it makes a difference with time management.

 

 

As I said, I'm housing 2014 in a book I put together.

This is a yearbook I picked up, I think early last fall, at an antique mall.

{I've gone back to the yearbook plan after all.}

 

 

First I set about making the signatures and sewing them in.

That took some brain power.

The plan was to used the diamond x binding stitch Mary Ann taught in her Ticket to Venice class.

I quickly realized that it wasn't going to work, because I had five signatures and my spine just didn't have the width to handle that many holes in one line and create a good looking stitch.

So with some finagling, and a whole lot of juggling, I came up with this.

 

 

When I got to the cover I found myself flabbergasted.

It's orange.

Not a coral,

{oh, how I love the color coral}

but tomato orange.  Wait...  I picked that out??  I don't do orange.

What was I going to do with that??

Well once again my need to buy things solely because they are pretty and not because I have an actual need for them came in handy.

I cut the cover off a Rifle Paper Co. journal, glued it down and added some letter stickers to it.

Perfect.  And evidently I can do tomato orange.

 

 

Inside for the intro page I used a combination of Kaisercraft, Studio Calico and My Mind's Eye from my paper stash, a bit of washi tape and a photo of the #noblesthree.

 

 

Now to get myself on a printing schedule, because setting aside a chunk of time to print out photos is what slows me down the most.

 

Are you documenting 2014?