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an archived personal and craft blog from Elise Blaha Cripe.

Junepl

As mentioned at the end of 2013, I am no longer completing my Project Life album on a weekly basis. I did that for two years. I enjoyed the process and I love my albums. This year I am taking a much more relaxed approach and playing more with this project. I don't have much of a plan other than to complete at least one (and sometimes many more) spread a month.

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The big win is that I can never be "behind" on this album. I also like that I don't have to worry about having seven horizontal 4×6 photos each week and can group photos by subject instead of date. I love that I will be under no "weekly deadlines" and will be blogging just once a month about my album.

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And guys, it finally happened. I created JUST ONE spread this month and it isn't even from June.

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Nope. It's from the last weekend of May when Paul and I headed to Palm Springs.

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When I got my Studio Calico kit for July the colors were PERFECT for our desert photos. I couldn't have planned it better if I tried. And I'm obsessed with those fun patterns and the HERE letterpressed card.

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I didn't even print extra photos (takes too long!), and just used some of the film photos that I recently had developed and cropped them down to 3×4.

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Here's the deal: I'm busy. Not in the "let's glorify busy!" way, but in the real life "this is all happening at once and I'm just going to roll with it" way. My "documenting" life is taking a major backseat to my "living" life this year. And that's OKAY. I'm happy and I've got an Instagram feed of memories. So one layout in 30 days? Feels like a massive accomplishment. 😉

Thank you so much for following along. See my title page for this album here and 2014 album progress here.

product sources: Studio Calico Penny Arcade kit, Design A pocket page, black sharpie.

all photos were from my film camera.

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19 responses to “project life 2014 : june.”

  1. Amanda Avatar

    Love all of the photos of the two of you!

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  2. Christen Avatar
    Christen

    I love this layout! Great pictures and colors.

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  3. lisa Avatar

    Fantastic! I love the “I’m busy” statement. You summed it up perfectly. Also, I definitely see Miss Ellerie celebrating her 2nd birthday flamingo style.

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  4. Jahaila @ Girl Nesting Avatar

    What a great keep sake!!!! LOVE this idea!!!
    XO! Girl Nesting

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  5. Margarita @ West Coast Mama Avatar

    It still looks gorgeous 🙂 I think these sorts of things are meant to ENJOY not force yourself to document your life 🙂

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  6. Kim B. Avatar
    Kim B.

    Well said Elise and well said Margarita!

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  7. Tracy Avatar

    This spread completely reminds me of your spreads before little E came along! As always, you are fantastic!

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  8. Christine K Avatar
    Christine K

    I love your PL layouts. Very creative. Love the mix of colors and pictures.

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  9. Brianna Avatar
    Brianna

    You are busy. I think everyone is busy in their own way. People like to tell me I’m not busy because I’m not married and don’t have children, but I have a very full career and school and that keeps me plenty busy.

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  10. Libbi M. Avatar
    Libbi M.

    So simple & so perfect! Go Elise!

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  11. Pink Ronnie Avatar

    Just beautiful. Love seeing photos of you and Paul.
    Ronnie xo

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  12. laura Avatar

    These pages just scream FUN!

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  13. Mari k. Avatar

    These are great pages, I think Ellerie will love looking at these photos when she’s older. I gave up on weekley spreads halfway through this year. With 5 kids I too am just busy, and each week seemed a lot like the one before. I’ve only done 4 pages in the last 6 weeks, a 2 page layout of my son’s baseball photos and a 2 page layout of my garden. And they’re by far my favorites of all the pages I’ve done recently. Sometimes you just have to change things up a bit.

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  14. MarionB. Avatar
    MarionB.

    I love seeing your project every month. It’s a great source of inspiration. I’m going to make my very first album ! I’m very excited but I have too many photos to print !
    Xo from France

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  15. lea lacoste Avatar

    awesome spread! i love the full 3×4 look!

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  16. Casie Avatar

    I am loving just doing monthly spreads instead of weekly commitments!
    Question for you – do you print your blog posts ever? Are they backed up anywhere? Do you plan to make them into a photo book?
    Seems like your blog is perfect daily documentation of your life!!!

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  17. Giuseppina Avatar
    Giuseppina

    I”m so loving your approach to this. Instead of feeling overwhelmed and behind you are just DOING it. Thanks for the inspiration!

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  18. Melissa Marie Avatar

    What type of film camera do you use? Is it the cannon?

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  19. J3SS1C4 Avatar

    I think this is one of my favourite layouts you’ve made. The photos have so much energy to them! You can feel the fun vibe of your holiday just by looking at this spread. Thanks for the inspiration 🙂

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