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Documenting School Memories with Project Life®

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The Back to School Week fun continues and today I’m excited to share some simple solutions for documenting your child’s school year memories with Project Life® + Persnickety Prints.

We just started a Project Life® mini album to record my kindergartners first year of school and we’re having so much fun with it! My 5 year old thinks working on this together is the best thing in the world + I’m so thrilled to be starting her early on her Project Life® journey! We chose to use the Childhood Mini Kit – Mayfield Edition and one of these Project Life® Sunflower mini albums.

Come take a closer peek at some of the pages we’ve completed so far. We’re keeping things as simple as we can – just photos, journaling + some school memorabilia. No embellishments necessary, its all about the story or her kindergarten year. If you need some tips on capturing your child’s school year in photos, stop by this post from earlier in the week for some quick tips!

The first thing we did to get our little album started was order prints and we did this online with Persnickety Prints. This was my first time using them and I was so impressed with the quality of the prints, the colors and I really loved the convenience of getting my photos delivered straight to my door! I could go on and on about how much I love that I can order 3×4 size photos and that I can choose to have them done up with Project Life® rounded corners and everything, it’s is so great and just cuts down on one extra step for me!

Next we started adding some journaling to the album. The Childhood Mini Kits are really helpful in recording school memories, there’s so many great journaling prompts on the cards – its just a matter of filling in the blanks which makes it so easy! This is one of my favourite little cards…

Addie thinks it’s so special to be writing and recording her own history in this album. Since we started putting the album together she’s asked me several times afterschool if we can do more pages and add more to her scrapbook. She’s really loving it and I love doing it with her! We’re creating special memories while recording memories – it’s so great!

I wanted to include some of Addie’s school projects in this little album so I took photos of some things she’s made or drawn. For tips on photographing your child’s artwork visit this post. I simply cropped the photos I took to 4×6 size to fit into the mini album, uploaded to Persnickety Prints and ordered them printed on card stock. I just love how much these little pieces of art add to her album!

I’m so excited to continue adding to this mini album throughout the year. Project Life® continues to be my go to memory keeping system these days. It’s perfectly simple and doable and easy! I can’t wait to share more pages from our album as we continue to add to it!

A little bit more about Persnickety Prints:

Persnickety Prints is a full scale professional photo lab operated by color and memory keeping specialists. We are fussy about the small details, and take pride in our work. 

Simply upload your photos to your free online account at www.persnicketyprints.com and order prints. We’ve got square 3×3 instagram prints, Project Life 3×4’s and anything else up to 30×40 enlargements. 
Use coupon code Back2School for FREE shipping on orders of $20 or more // US only
Expires September 15th, 2013.
Enter to win a Back to School Project Life® Prize Package to help you get started documenting this school year with your child. Follow the prompts in the rafflecopter widget below to enter.

[1] Mayfield Childhood Edition
[1] Project Life Mini album of your choice
$25.00 in prints from Persnickety Prints
Giveaway open to US Residents only.

Rebecca

Rebecca

Rebecca Cooper is a 42-year-old wife and mother of four from Alberta, Canada. As a photographer, crafter, author, and blogger, she finds joy and fulfillment in celebrating everyday moments. She loves to read and eat chocolate, and is a firm believer in afternoon naps. Rebecca shares her family’s adventures, photo tips, simple craft projects + more right here at Simple as That.
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  2. Thank you for the chance to win. I love this post and want to get my 2nd grade daughter to do something like this too! My favorite of the mini albums is the Kiwi colored one!

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  5. What a great idea – memory books are the best. She willl love this when she is older. And bonus, the fact she’s into it is even better!

    .:Marta:.

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  18. It really is that easy @Stephanie!! 🙂 that’s what’s so great about Project Life! Just print your photos, write on the cards….slip them in your album! 🙂 you can get more creative with embellishments, etc but in its simplest form it’s just photos + stories! 🙂

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  21. Love this idea! I love love love your blog!! I would choose the blush mini album because in my daughter’s world everything is pink these days 😉
    Thanks for having this giveaway and sharing your great ideas!

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  22. I love this idea and I love love love your blog!
    I would choose the blush mini album because it’s my daughter’s favorite color these days!
    Thanks for having this giveaway and sharing you great ideas!

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  26. Cherry! I hope that amidst all the homework this year, we can find time to do this. My daughter would be so excited to do Project Life like her mommy 🙂

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  31. I am really loving the Sunflower Album! I am getting ready to start my very first Project Life Album thanks to your wonderful posts about them 🙂 So excited!

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  34. This is such a great idea…thnaks so much!

    My last little one goes to school on Monday and I would love to do this with her! I will be using your great photo tips to gt some good shots, thanks!!

    Please be sure to share your progress too! I can’t wait to see what you put in it!

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  45. We are definitely going to have to start a Project Life book next year. I just love looking at yours and am so grateful that you are willing to share your ideas! And thank you for the Persnickety info!

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  93. Thank you for this amazing giveaway and for the coupon code for Persnickety Prints! So excited to place my first order with them. 😉 I love the blush mini album!

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  145. I have the blush, kiwi, and red already done for various events. They are such a perfect size and the cover feels amazing. I think blush is my favorite!

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  150. First time I have seen the beautiful yellow album!! Think I will have to get this one. Great job on her album, I have one starting PreK and one starting 1st so this would be a perfect prize to win. Thanks for the chance. 🙂

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  152. I have a brown/cinnamon colored album for all the love notes my boys write about our dog (he’s their favorite camera subject too), but I’d love that yellow one in your top photo as well as a Kiwi one.

    Love this idea!

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  156. Thank you so much for this giveaway and post! I love project life and am looking for ways to document my kids as they start school. Thank you for your wonderful blog!

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  161. thank you for the idea on how to use a mini album!! I felt stuck with the set pages that it comes with. Also, my fav color of the mini albums is rain!

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  164. I love Project Life and this is a fabulous idea to get my daughter involved. She’s always asking me to put her drawings “in the album.” She’d be thrilled to have her very own. 🙂

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  175. Blush, rain and kiwi are our favorites….We wanted to try this for our homeschool project this year…I could see this becoming a tradition. Really looking forward to using this with my 14,11,8 and 5 yr old. 3 girls and 1 boy. So leaning away from blush and one of the other two! THANKS for the chance to win! ~God bless~

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  188. Would love to win! My sister just gave my daughter the Childhood set so we are just getting started, so THAT is my favorite on so far! Would love another to get another child started. I have four kids so the task is daunting and I’m so far behind in my memory keeping!!

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  191. Everytime I see Project Life products, I get excited because I am THE world’s worst at dragging out my scrapbooking supplies and then I just don’t get to it! I’m planning to get some very soon so I can scrapbook with my teen starting with pictures from ‘the now’ that she can help me with, and move backwards. She has so many pictures on instagram and her phone that I know she would love to include them with pictures we’ve taken as a family.

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  192. The project Life products are something I am planning to do with my teen daughter. I want to get her instagram pictures printed so she can incorporate them into this easy system. THEN we can work backwards as we work on her ‘younger years’ books. Overall, I like that I can bring her into the process since she’s older and has been taking her own separate photos. 🙂 Love the colors in this set… luv teal!

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  220. School colors are Black/White but I think my fave is the CHERRY! Such a pretty color and fun too. 🙂

    I love this idea! My youngest starts school on Monday morning, Kindergarten. Recently we were looking through the scrapbooks and she kept asking why there weren’t as many pages with her on them. It was hard for her to understand it was because she hasn’t been in the family as long. This project is a wonderful idea and one I’d love to share with her. What a great give away!

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  222. I’ve wanted to get into Project Life for a while. I decided to start one with my first pregnancy, but we miscarried. I’m looking forward to hopefully getting PG again soon and starting a PL album!

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  234. I didnt realize everything the childhood editions had in them. What a great way to include my daughter in documenting her school year! We mostly use black for our family albums but I love the kiwi and the blush albums for her own personal albums

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  244. Hello! Would you mind if I share your blog with my facebook group?
    There’s a lot of people that I think would really enjoy your content.
    Please let me know. Thanks

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