Project Life

There’s a great quote that a friend and I keep reminding one another of:  “You can do anything, but you can’t do everything.” And it’s so true. Nonetheless, there are SO many things I want to learn, and I keep adding projects and even new hobbies to the list. This summer I decided it was finally time to bite the bullet and try to learn how to draw. It’s something I’ve always wanted to know how to do, but I had no art instruction growing up, and therefore, little to no experience. There’ll be more about this in a later post, but sketching and online sketching classes have consumed a lot of my time since July. All this to say, that I’m very behind in creating my Project Life pages. Like 8 months behind. Fortunately, I keep a daily journal, and my photos are pretty well-organized in Lightroom, so it’s not hard to recap the month. Just time consuming.

May was particularly time consuming, since I had over 100 hundred printed photos from Matt and Betsy’s wedding reception held on Memorial Day weekend. I ended up cropping some of the 4X6 photos to fit in the 4X3 windows which actually improved several of them. So here’s a long, photo-heavy post with the May Project Life pages.

The photo of our church in the page above was the HDR project, and it came out great. I should have printed it on better paper for the album, but everything else was being printed on Epson Premier Presentation Matte paper. It’s so much less expensive that the pearl photo paper I love from both Ilford and Canon, and usually works out just fine for Project Life. This was a fantastic class, and I learned a lot!

The photos with Betsy’s mom are so poignant. Sally felt good the day of the reception, and little did any of us know that within a month and a half, she’d be gone.  

One advantage, I suppose, of falling behind is finding some new product that works out perfectly. I recently picked up a pack of Heidi Swapp overlays that I just love on this page.

I scanned and resized the invitation so I could include it.

The cute typewriter on this card was a brush from a One Little Bird digital kit. The rest of the pages are just photo pages added to the back of the May spreads.

That spread finished my first Project Life album. I started the project in August 2013, and the album ends with May 2014. I have no problem with that which surprises the obsessive-compulsive streak in me to be orderly.

I’m hoping to get a good start on June today. We are truly snowed in. The big blizzard that’s crossing the country appeared to be going south of us, but turned north, and we’ve been getting steady snow for hours now. It’s beautiful, but like many people, I cancelled the appointment I had for this afternoon. All the schools are closed, and I’m guessing we have at least a foot of snow already–no end in sight. Maybe scrapping spring/summer photos will cheer me up!