Like I mentioned in this blog post I am still keeping a personal album this year but in a different format. I picked up a Yearbook (Jahrbuch) from Gretas Schwester. It has some fun illustrations which will be a great jumping off point for my stories.
When you work with page protectors and an album where you can add and remove pages it needs a lot less planning. But when you work with given pages you have to make sure that everything fits. There are possibilites to add more pages but you have to get creative.
With limited space you also have to limit the amount of photos to include. That part isn't always easy because I end up with so many photos each month. But this will help to just use those photos that tell the stories int he best possible way.
This is my title page. I added my name, the year and a text sticker (a year in review). Maybe I will add more to this page later on, but for now it stays this simple.
The first prompt was to include "my favorite photo". This is one I shared on Instagram. I'm holding a print from the Get To Work Book which sums up the main focus of my year (I share more about my One Little Word in this blog post ).
Last year I made 6x8" pages with 12 tiny photos on them. I really like those pages and will include something similar in my book this year as well.
Each month has a page where you can include tickets (here on the left). I didn't have any of those so I just covered up the text with my photo. Below I added my text on paper strips.
I love that there are some prompts you can answer each month (here it says "best moment" and "best message"). I covered the two prompts on the bottom with my photos.
On the right I included a card I received in January. The story about the card (which came with a great package of other stuff) is on the left side.
And that's it. I will share a video of my process on my Instagram accunt later today.
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