Originally published on January 25th, 2014

I'm starting a new weekly feature highlighting my Project Life pages. My goal is to stay on top of the weeks throughout 2014. Making these posts a weekly feature should hold me accountable. So here we go...

Many project lifers create a new album for each year with a title page, etc. I started PL in October with Arthur's birth, so mine is going to look a little different. I am hoping to keep Oct. - Dec. 2013 and all of 2014 in one album. We'll see how that goes. I decided to start my 2014 weekly spreads with the week of Dec. 30 - Jan. 5. Yes, I included Dec. 30th and 31st in Week 1's spread. I think it will help me stay organized.

Week 1

Family Album: It's another case of the missing photographs. Darn Walgreens! I hope to get them printed sometime this week, so I can add them in. For the left side, I went with a winter color scheme of gray, blue, and white. We were still in Indiana and there was almost 2 feet of snow on the ground; the colors seemed appropriate. I went back to the day by day journaling using the PL day stickers. For the right side, I wanted to highlight the start of 2014. I used three inserts from the Holiday mini kit and added some silver stars. The number chipboard stickers were from a Studio Calico kit I bought on Black Friday. I love their silhouettes. The "Explore" insert was a Google image that I downloaded. I chose "Explore" as my word for 2014, so I wanted to highlight it in this first week's spread.

I added two different inserts in this week. The first insert is my "State of the Blog" wrap up. I added journaling cards from the PL Sunshine kit and a screenshot of the home page of my blog. I love the bright colors and simplicity of the inserts.

The second insert highlights the rest of my Fat Mum Slim's Photo a Day December pictures. This was the first time I tried one of these challenges. I finished it, but learned a few lessons along the way. I used two PL Seafoam inserts as a title page and a journaling card. To designate each day's theme, I wrote on top of a washi tape swatch adhered to the photo. They look much better in person. Now I really need some more washi tape to use this technique more. (Side note: I'm missing the Dec. 31st picture. I have to get that one printed and inserted.)

Supplies:

PL Seafoam kit
PL Sunshine kit
PL Holiday mini kit
PL Day stickers
Random stickers from stash
Random paper from stash
Various washi tape

Arthur's Album

Week 2

Family Album: Another week of photos speaking for themselves. I wanted to get the rest of our vacation pictures into the album. To highlight the crazy Midwest weather, I cropped a picture from The Weather Channel.

Supplies:

PL Seafoam kit
PL Baby kit

Arthur's Album

Week 3

Family Album: This week I tried to incorporate some insert cards other than the Sunshine and Seafoam kits. I bought some random sets and partial sets online over the holidays. I love the lighter blue and orange color combinations. I also tried to play with pattern cards instead of using just simple designs. Finally I decided to add "Week __" to the date cards. (Note: I only did this for the family album.)

Supplies:

PL Seafoam kit
WRMK Tangerine kit
PL Day stickers

Arthur's Album: On the left side, I did a few journaling cards and a random insert all in yellow. I love the clean look. The right side is all about Arthur's 3 month pictures and inserts. The photo heavy right side balances the cleaner left side.

Supplies:

PL Baby kit