Welcome 2014! Tips for Project Life from the Polly Team

Good Evening! It's Ruth here to welcome the new year with you! Are you thinking of starting Project Life in 2014? Perhaps you are a seasoned Project Lifer for years thinking about how to evolve and adapt for the new year?

From the team we have the following advice and ideas:
Carol's tip is to let your instinct guide your layout. It's ok to mix traditional 12x12 or 8.5x11 into your album. I love Carol's advice, you should trust yourself!

Include photos and/or stories from your extended family in your Project Life album. With family all over the world, I like to include little snippets from their lives too. I think it's important for my kids to feel a part of a wider family & world, and our family love to see themselves included in our spreads. I call it our "meanwhile in" photos. It's easy to do - get your family to send you photos of occasions; grab some photos from Facebook; I even take photos when we use FaceTime to chat. I just add them in throughout the year - perhaps if it's been an uneventful week for us or something special has occurred in their lives. It's my favourite kind of "filler" to use!
Make time. Make time to scrapbook. Its one thing to capture all the events and record them in little books and have them all organised and ready to create but unless you set aside time each week/month ( even if it is only an hour), those memories are just going to remain in the filing cabinet and the photos on the hard drive. Make the time to sit down and actually present your memories.You don't have to be "up to date" I never am, just make a conscious effort to be regular in whatever project you are doing. I am making an effort to commit at least 2 hours a week to project life, actually scrapbooking!