Project Life (or Lack Thereof...)

If you've never heard of "Project Life", chances are you are not an avid scrapbooker nor do you troll paper-related blogs searching for ideas.  "Project Life" is a fairly simple concept.  You buy an album. You document your entire year (good, bad, & ugly) by taking pictures, snatching ticket stubs, etc. Then, you add all of your remnants to said photo album and throw in some journaling for good measure.  See?  Fairly simple concept.

Each year, come January, I spend days ooh-ing and ahh-ing over these albums.  There are pockets filled with pictures, and journaling and remnants, Oh my!  There are sites teaching you how to crop your picture just so in photoshop while others sell you the perfect journaling cards to fit your album.  And each year I drink the kool-aid.  Each year I say, this will be the year I create one of these masterpieces.  This is the year, I take more pictures and collect more "stuff" to add to my grand autobiography.  This January was no different.  Of course, like each year before, come January 7, I had decided my life was too mundane and documenting it was just a pain. (Hey!  I'm a poet and didn't know it!)

However, something changed a bit this year: I had what you might call, an epiphany.  It took until April for me to realize this. So here goes: My life is pretty mundane, but... I'm ok with it.  Yes the argument is to be made that I need adventure in my life (Exhibit A: The title of this blog) but I'm sure that these women that create these amazing scrapbooks aren't living the high life either.  They are moms, and wives and sisters.  When you look at the albums closely, you see recitals and notes from their husbands and trips with friends.  After all, if their life was 24/7 adventure, when would they have the time to scrapbook it?

Project Life isn't meant to be an autobiography of the most interesting woman in the world, nor is it meant to be a huge stressor.  These women do this because it's fun.  This, I guarantee you, would not be fun for me!  It would stress me out each and every day.  I just want one because they're pretty : )  Therefore, to save my sanity (and the sanity of those around me, truth be told) Project Life will not be invading my craft room any time soon.  This will not stop me from coveting others' albums and accessories each year come January, mind you, I'll  just be too busy living my newly-adventurous (fingers crossed) life to mind!