Working on Project Life Week in the Life - Step by Step

Step One: Gather supplies. Photos, journal cards, album, paper/photo trimmer, and beverage of choice.

Step Two: Turn on some music. Background music, something to entertain yourself with beyond trying to figure out matching colors. Or maybe that's just me.

Step Three: Realize you take too many tall photos, and not enough wide photos (think 4x6 photos, landscape versus portrait layout).

Step Four: Say *** it, it's for your own reasoning that you're doing this anyway, who cares if things are cropped a bit funny.

Step Five: Open Dropbox, to see what photos are from what day. For once, the goal is to scrapbook chronologically, so this is important!

Step Six: Try and cut down your photos without getting any crooked edges. The paper cutter blade needs replacing, and is also not *really* meant for photos, so is a hold-your-breath-and-hope-for-the-best endeavor.

Step Six-Point-Five: Begin plotting what kind of page protectors you'd use for each day, and realize that you're going to run out before this project is over. Only printed 38 pictures, but add in journal cards...maybe a whole new album is in order...

Step Seven: Sing with the music you put on for background noise in step two. This is indeed necessary.

Step Eight: Lament the fact that 80% of the photos you have are of the dogs. Yes, we love the dogs, but this is insane.

Step Nine: Start getting hungry. Is almost lunch time, and cutting photos is a lot of mental energy being used up.

Step Ten: Lament the fact that your desk is still too small for much of anything.

Step Eleven: Realize you wore the same shirt two days in a row. Hope that nobody will notice if they look through the album when it's all said and done. Realize they probably won't, but telling the Internet about it probably won't help.

Step Twelve: Finish cropping photos as best as you can. Be glad you've got a garbage receptacle to push photo scraps into - rounded corner bits always end up everywhere if handled more than once.

Step Thirteen: Think it's time for a nap. Create a new station on Pandora, since you ran out of skips on the one you were on. Sing along with a new song for a minute or two, trying to summon creative juices for photo-placing. Also, try and convince yourself that a nap is out of the question.

Step Fourteen: Think that using your new fountain pen for lettering would be a good ideal. Realize you cannot write straight on not-lined paper, and the journal cards you picked are plain. Use a ruler and hope for the best. Realize you are still not that great at lettering, yet do not dislike how it turned out. #Winning.

Step Fifteen: Continue assembly. Sing along to the music, because reasons. Find the perfect stickers for a journal card. Feel successful.

Step Sixteen: Use a hashtag on a journal card. Use part of a meme on another.

Step Seventeen: Be exhausted. Have a day and a half left of photos to get through. Deep sigh and keep on keepin' on.

Step Eighteen: Finish! Be happy! Then go have a celebratory lunch, because the starvation from step nine is super strong.

Step Nineteen: Realize that, while you are done, you now have to clean up your desk. In the words of The Witch of the West, "oh, what a world, what a world!"

Yay, it's done! Yay, it turned out pretty awesome!
Would you like to see? I've a video! Because reasons.

~Havok

P.S. I wrote this post in real time as I worked on all of this. I may have left out a bunch of singing breaks, but the process is very much so exactly how it happened - I assure you!