365 Book

I have been taking a photo of Amelia every single day, since day one.  I have been documenting these on my Instagram feed with the hashtag #365baby.  I love it.

I've been debating what to do with these photos at the end of 365 days.  Blurb books can not be made big enough to host 365 Instagrams.  Also, there didn't seem to be anything that fit what I was looking for on Etsy either.

I knew that I wanted something small in height and width but that needed to be FULL of pages, 365 pages to be exact.

Brilliantly, I remembered that my dad was a professional book binder :)

My dad was not going to let me get by that easy and he taught me how to make my dream "Amelia 365" journal, step by step.

It took me a whole day but it's totally worth it.

It's so fat.  It was so fat to begin with, like 5 inches thick.

Then, when I started adding the Instagram photos, it won't even come close to closing anymore :)

Each page has the date stamped on it and then the Instagram photo that I printed from Printstagram.  These were so cheap and the quality is fantastic.  I also love how you can print them to look like Instax photos.  So rad!

The book now holds photos from Day 1-Day 199.  You can see what that looks like :)

I plan on displaying the book like this:

Open and standing up for anyone to look at :)  I think it's definitely going to be something that we treasure. The fact that I made it with my dad, makes it even more of a treasure!!  

You can check out our whole book binding process right here.

Thank you dad!!

xo

janel

Project Life 2012

Merry Christmas Eve Eve!!

Tonight I thought I would share with you one of my 2012 goals.

Next year, I plan on completing a Project Life Binder. 

 I am "hoping" to take a photo a day, each day in 2012, and then documenting it with Project Life.

For those of you who aren't familiar with Project Life, here is a little video about if from Becky Higgin's site.

I received my kit today and I have already begun putting it all together and getting so excited about starting!!

I have been gathering inspiration over on Pinterest of course.  Here is the link to my Project Life pin board, it's where you can find the sources for all of these photos and many more.

I decided to go with the "Clementine" kit (side note: I loooove the name Clementine) which you can find here.

Although the Project Life binder is cute, I decided I wanted to go with something a little more plain since this will be something that will be sitting out all year. Instead, I picked up this binder; a Cloth D-Ring Album 12x12 by American Crafts at WalMart.

and, I also added a couple of supplemental pages into the mix as well which you can find in Becky Higgin's shop on Amazon.

I am really excited to work on this throughout the year.  I have a feeling that 2012 is going to be HUGE for us and I am hoping to have all of it documented in one place :)

Have any of you done a Project Life album before?  Are you any of you planning on doing one in 2012?

xo

janel

Would you like to know more about Project Life? You can read all about it here. You can also check out more of my Project Life pages right here!